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Killing Sunday

from ShadowWalk by Art Bergmann by (weewerk)

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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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"died on a Sunday. I no longer recognize Sunday as a day of the week. This song is raw grief, anger and sorrow." - Art

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Now who takes our dead

We give them up

to priests and lawyers

Instead of shrunken heads

You get a bill

For dying

Come collect our dead

Take our money

While we’re crying

And what were you thinking of

When sleep took you home

I wish to never wake

Dream the glitter of The Sun

Behind your eyes

I guess you kindly folx

Can go safely down the road

Tales made in your empty heads

Sure makes for hungry souls

So you picked the carcass clean

And the souvenirs all sold

It’s one too many Sundays

My blood runs cold

So darkness stained the family name

It followed on like Jesus' lame

Stories 'bout our women as witches whores and men!

Our home wasn't the best, certainly wasn't the worst

If you come back now angel

We'll make the first godless home to outlast this curse

Killing Sunday (x4)

When she died, the family brayed

Not one true word was said

So we made a collective incision

Slashed some Christian throats instead

And “Sundays are no more”

Became Our Monday morning cheer

The cult was dead, food was shared,

And women were not scared

Killing Sunday (x4)

I guess you folx can go safely down the road

You can add how little you knew before,

to what you don’t know now

Though I am impressed by your great ignorance

… your feigned innocence

When they have you cloistered like an imprisoned sow

You won’t even question

Why or how

Killing Sundays (x8)

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from ShadowWalk by Art Bergmann, released September 22, 2023
Written by Art Bergmann /P.Kay
Vocals - Art Bergmann, Aidan Farrell
Guitars -Art Bergmann, Russell Broom
Bass - Owen Owen Owen
Drums - Adam Drake

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