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Audible songs from Rockwood / as collected by Simone Carver ; arranged by Fiver.

by Fiver (Musician)

Idée Fixe Records, c2017.

782.42162 S354a

Songs -- Texts.

Songs, English -- Canada -- Texts.

Psychiatric hospitals -- History.

Kingston (Ont.) -- History.

27 p. : ill. (b & w); 30 cm + 1 CD.

"Songs collected from the case files of the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane 1856-1881"--Cover/Conatiner.

Waltz for one -- House of lost words -- Mouser -- Haldimand County -- Hair of the dead -- Worship the sun (not the golden boy) -- Carry on warm -- Pile your silver -- Yonder white mare -- Stable song -- Red bird (bonus track).

"Simone Schmidt, aka Fiver, is a Toronto-based musician working within the frame of traditional North American folk music. Her latest album Audible Songs From Rockwood is a series of eleven fictional field recordings, gathered from case files of patients at the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane between 1854-1881. The rigour of Schmidt’s writing process is shown through the work: Over the course of 2 years, Schmidt pored over the asylum's primary documents - patient files, architectural diagrams, superintendents' diaries - spinning her findings into historical fiction and, from there, into song. The voices on the record are crafty, witty, evasive, despondent, and lucid. Audible Songs of Rockwood shapes its subject matter as expertly as any old bluesman would, with wit, baseless optimism, sadness, and even joy. Using a strictly acoustic sonic pallet and working with some heavies in the Old Time folk tradition (John Showman, Max Heineman, Chris Coole, Kristine Schmidt) and odd ball instrumentalists (Cris Derksen, Alia O’brien of Blood Ceremony) the performances carry forward potent gateways to explore the tragedy and optimism that gives traditional roots music its soul, while also giving voice to people, living in the margins of History, out of sight and mind. The album is accompanied by a book written by fictional ethnomusicologist, Simone Carver, written in the style of the liner notes of Smithsonian Folkways compilations. It includes lyrics and supplemental information about the historical context of the inmates and their songs along with original artwork by Darby Milbraith, Geneva Hailey, Jennifer Castle, Jeff Bierk and Julianna Neufeld."-- ideefixerecords.com

Canadian music.

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