Gord Downie - Introduce Yerself - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Deluxe limited two CD edition featuring the album in electric and acoustic versions. Gatefold jacket with 30-page booklet insert featuring Gord's handwritten lyrics and liner essay by Ben Rayner. Artwork by Clare and Willo Downie. Away Is Mine is Gord Downie's final solo recording, recorded at The Tragically Hip's studio in Bath, Ontario, in July 2017. A questing and idiosyncratic work steered to life by Inchmy oldest Toronto friend,Inch guitarist and co-writer Josh Finlayson, the last ten songs Gord wrote hold fast to his unwavering artistic spirit, deft hand with words and forever inscrutable sense of humour as he locks eyes head-on with the Great Inevitability. Away Is Mine highlights Gord's poetic mastery with vibrant yet haunting production by Nyles Spencer that casts each song in different otherworldly light. Like all of the music and poetry and the memories and the genius that Gord gifted us during his 53 years on our planet, it is immortal - and yet it took a fearless reckoning with his own mortality to get us here. Album Tracks 1. Hotel Worth 2. Useless Nights 3. I Am Lost 4. About Blank 5. River Don't Care 6. The Least Impossible 7. Traffic Is Magic 8. Away Is Mine 9. No Solace 10. Untitled 1. Hotel Worth (Acoustic) 2. Useless Nights (Acoustic) 3. I Am Lost (Acoustic) 4. About Blank (Acoustic) 5. River Don't Care (Acoustic) 6. The Least Impossible (Acoustic) 7. Traffic Is Magic (Acoustic) 8. Away Is Mine (Acoustic) 9. No Solace (Acoustic) 10. Untitled (Acoustic)

Album Tracks 1. Starpainters 2. Vancouver Divorce 3. SF Song 4. Trick Rider 5. Canada Geese 6. Chancellor 7. The Never-Ending Present 8. Nothing But Heartache in Your Social Life 9. Blackflies 10. Lofty Pines 11. Boy Bruised By Butterfly Chase 12. Mystery 13. Elaborate 14. Yer Possessed 15. Every Irrelevance 16. Insomniacs of the World, Good Night

Little is known about the life of Dietrich Steffkins. He worked during the apogee of solo music practice and was considered an extraordinary viola da gamba virtuoso. His compositions are collected in some funds together with the works of other musicians, and are still to be fully rediscovered. The purpose of this album is to testify to the compositional practice of an author who still offers great expressive possibilities through the research and use of the viola used in it's various forms. Album Tracks 1. Suite in D minor 2. Divisions for Gamba Solo 3. Suite in D Major 4. Suite in D Major 5. Sarabande 6. Hommage for Dietrich Steffkin's (2019)