There has been a renaissance for Beverly Glenn-Copeland with the reissue of the 1986 masterpiece, Keyboard Fantasies.
Today comes the release of Ghost House performed by Polaris Prize winning, Toronto-based composer, musicologist and vocalist Jeremy Dutcher.
The track is taken from Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined which comes out on December 10, 2021 via Transgressive.
The album is a collection of songs from the now legendary album, re-worked and re-imagined by a collection of creative kindred spirits.
Jeremy Dutcher’s performance is a haunting track that will give you goosebumps down your spine!
About the track:
Dutcher wrote the following about his connection to Glenn-Copeland and his music:
we are taught from a very young age to have a deep respect for our elders.
they have so much to share; in their experience, story and song.
we sit at their feet, and know ourselves as we hear what they have to tell us.
we are guided by their error and dreams
we, as they, are part of a great continuum,
oriented towards life, in perpetuity.
when i heard his music, it felt like i heard the past, present and future all at once
and that a pathway had been illuminated, musical or otherwise,
towards a new way of relating to each other
across all types of boundaries.
when i first met Glenn,
i understood instantly that we create music for the same reason.
for the same group of people we’d never know;
weckuwapasihtit (those yet to come);
a whole generation of rainbow children
who are not yet in it, but who have already changed the world.
now is the time when the gifts of the rainbow nation have come forward
to support the survival of our species.
when we tune ourselves to teachings of the ones who have gone before,
we become imbued with a certain resilience and bravery,
for our endurance on this difficult walk and
for our renewal.
we are ever new.
Ghost House (Performed by Jeremy Dutcher) gets:
/10.
