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    Member of the Order of Canada, Juno Award winner, two-time Polaris Music Prize long listed artist... Art Bergmann has been honoured by his home country in a multitude of ways. But behind the accolades is still a man coping with the unforgiving realities of life as he enters his seventies.

    ShadowWalk -- released Sept. 29 via (weewerk) -- is Bergmann’s ode to Sherri Decembrini, his beloved wife of 30 years who passed away unexpectedly in March 2022. The album’s 12 songs capture the darkness, grief and desolation that comes from such a soul crushing loss, while also offering genuine hope that life will go on.

    Recorded at Turtle Sound South Surrey and IDIO Studio in Surrey, BC, ShadowWalk is an album for everyone who has loved, lost, and continues to live. Many of the songs were co-written with B.C. poet Patricia Kay, while Art’s longtime friend and fellow songwriter Donna Kerbel penned one track. Produced by Russell Broom and Wes Smith, Broom also contributed much of the music and soundscapes for the album as well.

    Additional contributors to ShadowWalk include Paul Rigby (pedal steel), Aidan Farrell (vocals), Owen Owen Owen (bass), Adam Drake (drums), Sunny Matharu (tabla) and Katie Mosehauer & the Glass Heart String Orchestra (strings). The album has been mastered by Greg Reely and will be released on vinyl, as well as on all digital platforms.

    The album recording was supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia. Special Thanks to all our generous GoFundMe donors for helping make this album possible. Utmost gratitude to Stephen Rioux, Jay Smales and (weewerk) for financing the vinyl pressing. All photography by P. Kay except back cover photo by Sherri. All layouts and graphics by Art and Marc Floyd. Eternal gratitude to TeamArt members Colin Smith, Jason Schneider, Gord Withers and Gordon Celesta. Executive Producer Phil Klygo (weewerk).

    By Sherri's Grace Naomi and Zoe are forever. Thank you Patricia Kay for life itself. Thanks to Hans and Sharon Bergmann for their sheltering kindness.

    Now back in Vancouver, where in the late 1970s he was a driving force behind the city's punk rock scene, Bergmann will launch ShadowWalk with a show at The Rickshaw Theatre, on Friday Sept. 29. The night will also include a group discussion about his 2022 authorized biography, The Longest Suicide, with its author Jason Schneider along with moderator Aaron Chapman. Art will also have a Toronto release show at The Horseshoe Tavern on Thursday November 2nd.

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"A snapshot of my mindset before finally deciding life was liveable." - Art

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This the light oblique

The time between where we meet

'Tis the evening calm

Where we melt all night long

Here in the pause inside

In night's connect to day-I hide

From the sad,the deep dolour

The great hard sorrow

On bright warm days I turn to the storm within

Committing every mortal sin

I have forgotten how to live

To walk the world in this same skin

Engage in small vulgarities

Mumble strange inanities

I am not here at all

My shade awaits in my hell

Built by my mind, it long endures

All incursions sent from here

For a moment, I relent

Dream small cessations of torment

But back I slide, importunate

Embrace myself, in descent

The guilt, the grief, it's my prize

To leave it would be compromise

In this commitment to before

I shall remain behind this door

The hallowing for me alone

In this my tomb, I will atone

The pain and ache I cannot shrug

For what I have professed to love

These horrors take shape in the night

Slide inside, to jab and bite

In lilac shadows that persist

My waking mind all violent mist

I refuse to say I did not fall, or

Pretend I stumbled not at all

I must not repress how close I came

To make this world forget my name

This is the light oblique

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from ShadowWalk by Art Bergmann, released September 22, 2023
Written by P.Kay
Vocals - Art Bergmann
Soundscapes - Russell Broom

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