"Jane's 2016 release marks her 14th studio album, featuring a diverse assortment of music with folk and pop elements, as she recounts the lives of ordinary people and shares her personal observations.
The album includes collaborations with Rebecca Jenkins, k.d. Lang, Ali Hughes, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ken Myhr and Kevin Breit."
This spoken word, folk rock album is the third part of the project dubbed the Three Queens Trilogy.
This album is structured almost like a play in multiple acts, visiting the lives of different people and recounting their experiences as "Magic" the dog guides the listener along.
Jane: vocals, main guitar and piano, other instruments by way of keyboards
vocals: Catherine Russell, Marlon Saunders
angels: Amy Ziff, Alyson Palmer, Sandy Kugelman, Jacob Switzer, Ingrid Veninger, Hallie Switzer, John Switzer, Paige Escoffery Stewart, Ruby Salvatore Palmer, Scarlet and Gracie Whitmarsh Schneider, Kristi Ambrosetti, Darren Waterston, Elaine Bradlwwwey, Catherine Russell, Marlon Saunders
on the song We Could Have Been Great Friends: Billy Jay Stein horns (on keyboard)
on the song Imagine A World: John MacArthur Ellis guitars, pedal steel Rich Brown bass Pauline Kim violin, viola Christine Kim cello Niko Friesen drums
i Dragon Dreams ii With What Shall I Keep Warm? iii Meschach Dreams Back
with full artwork booklet, lyrics, credits
i Tree (music for films and forests) ii Lips (music for sayin' it) ii Child (music for the holidays)
with full artwork booklet, lyrics, credits
Jane Siberry's Bound by the Beauty, released in 1989, is a classic pop album with country and jazz flavours. It bounces and rocks along like a train ride and feels like the kind of being in love that leads to empathy and universal love. In "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog": sunsets remind me of my dog/Gina go to your window/Einstein reminds me of my dog/I want to pet his fluffy head. In "Hockey", a Sunday game on the river is nostalgia, present and future, all at once: he'll have that scar on his chin forever/someday his girlfriend will say 'hey where?' "The Valley" offers comfort for a dark time: sometimes you feel all that you wanted/has been taken away/you will walk in good company. In "The Life Is The Red Wagon", Jane sings out that 'good company': but when the feet are dragging you pull for me/and I pull for you, you pull for me and I pull for you. The opening title song could serve as Jane's manifesto: I'm coming back in 500 years/and the first thing I'm gonna do/when I get back here/is to see these things I love/and they'd better be here, better be here.
Musicians Jane Siberry - guitars, piano, vocals Teddy Borowiecki - piano, accordion Ken Myhr - guitars John Switzer - bass, vocals Stich Wynston – drums
Additional Musicians
Wendell Ferguson - pedal steel guitar
David Piltch - acoustic bass
David Ramsden - vocals
Rebecca Jenkins – vocals
Anne Bourne – vocals
Gina Stepaniuk - vocals
Cherie Camp – vocals
Don Freed - vocals
Jane Siberry's The Walking, released in 1987, is a cinematic progressive pop album. Its setting is liminal space, an autumn between leaving a relationship and arriving elsewhere. The soundscapes lead us into our musical narrator's experience, grounded in the intimacy of Jane's poetry and voice. There are no conclusions but explorations. Seeking solace in parallels in The White Tent the Raft: and the tears streaming from the mind's eye / streaming back beyond the white sheets that flap and fly. Retelling a story over and over, in search of congruence, in The Lobby: and they say "this is your darkest hour" / this is my finest moment. In Ingrid and the Footman, it is reframing identity; our narrator creates a character, to fit the new story developing in her wake, and casts herself in the musical chorus rather than the lead. There is the chill of feeling incapable of taking the next decisive step in Lena is a White Table: well, maybe she should go to school / no, no. she's a table / Lena's a white table. The Bird in the Gravel offers eventual surrender: I love the bare branches / I love the healing bells / the bareness in the last sun /the greyness and the gold.
Musicians Jane Siberry - vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, backing vocals, bells Al Cross - drums, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals Anne Bourne - piano, organ, keyboards, backing vocals John Switzer - bass, tambourine, percussion, backing vocals Ken Myhr - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
Additional Musicians Rob Yale - keyboards Wendell Ferguson - electric guitar David MacVittie - backing vocals Bob Blumer - backing vocals Rebecca Jenkins - backing vocals Gina Stepaniuk - backing vocals Cherie Camp - backing vocals Sarah McElcheran - trumpet Steven Donald - trombone