Produced, recorded and mixed by Colin Linden
Production assistance: Janice Powers
All compositions by Bruce Cockburn and Published by Holy Drone Corp. (SOCAN) © Holy Drone Corp.
Bardo Rush: bc guitar; Bo Carper shakers; Janice Powers keyboards
Easter: bc guitar. Conceived Easter Sunday 2018
April In Memphis: bc guitar, chimes. Composed MLK Day 2019
Blind Willie: bc guitar; Colin Linden dobro; Bo Carper shakers. Named for Blind Willie Johnson
Seven Daggers: bc 12-string, kalimba, sansula, charango, dulcimer, chimes, little-ass bells; Colin Linden baritone guitar. Constructed at the Firehouse. Nearby is a chapel maintained by the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, in which there is a statue of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, which gave the piece its title
The Mt Lefroy Waltz: bc guitar; Ron Miles cornet; Roberto Occhipinti bass; Gary Craig drums. Linda Manzer requested that I write something to go with the "Lawren Harris" guitar she built for her Group of Seven guitar project. This is it.
Sweetness And Light: bc guitar. A gift...there was nothing else to call this
Angels In The Half Light: bc guitar. In a dream, angels were girding me for battle against some sweeping darkness. They wanted to be honoured.
The Groan: bc guitar, drum; Colin Linden mandolin; bc, Colin, Janice Powers, Daniel Keebler, Celia Shacklett, Iona Cockburn handclaps. Les Stroud asked me to compose a score for his documentary La Loche. The first idea that came was this. We didn't use it in the film, but it seemed to have its own life.
Pibroch: The Wind In The Valley: bc guitar, dulcimer; Janice Powers keyboards. Pibroch is the trance-inducing classical bagpipe music of Scotland. Whenever I hear it, somewhere deep in my being I'm on some rocky, windswept headland, sipping whisky from a scallop shell
Bells Of Gethsemane: bc baritone guitar, singing bowls, Tibetan cymbals, gong, chimes. Born in the Firehouse. Dark anticipation in a dark garden. Dawn looms, humming with trauma, pain and ecstasy
Recorded at the Firehouse, San Francisco, March 17 through 23, 2019.
Mixed at Pinhead Recorders, Nashville, April 14 through 18, 2019.
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, Nashville, April 19, 2019
Album photography by Daniel Keebler
Art Direction design & layout by A Man Called Wrycraft www.wrycraft.com
Direction: Bernie Finkelstein bernie@finkelsteinmanagement.com
Thanks go out to Anne Germanacos, Colin and Janice, Boucher guitars, Linda Manzer, Les Stroud, Geoff Kulawick, Bernie Finkelstein, Daniel Keebler, Michael Wrycraft, Mike Stankiewicz, Celia Shacklett,
MJ and Iona,
and, above all, the Boundless
Bruce on the web: www.brucecockburn.com
Released 20 September 2019.
Album Note:
In the murky depths of time gone by, back when the Cockburn clan had chiefs, a chief of the Cockburn clan came up with the motto which adorns the family crest: Accendit Cantu. It's Latin, and has been rendered in English as "Music excites" and "He arouses us by crowing", among other variations. Having a hazy recollection of high school Latin classes, those seemed to me to be worthy approximations, but not exactly translations. When I looked up the original words, the phrase came out "Crowing Ignites". Energetic. Blunt. Scottish as can be...
The catalogue #TND737
https://www.discogs.com/Bruce-Cockburn-Crowing-Ignites/release/14181038
