Inspired by the history and landscapes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, Jack Wilkins collaborated with visual design artists from the Banff Centre of the Arts in Banff Canada and with filmmaker Edwin Dennis (North Carolina) to create films for each piece in a series of original music compositions.
Contents
Disc 1: Films: Castle Mountain. -- Banff highway. -- Bow River. -- Lake Louise reflections. -- Panoramamelodica. -- Swingin' at the Banff Springs Hotel.
Disc 2: Music: Castle Mountain. -- Banff highway. -- Bow River. -- Lake Louise reflections. -- Panoramamelodica. -- Swingin' at the Banff Springs hotel. -- Banffshire suite : the Highlands, Moray Firth, westward reels
Notes
Includes archival photographs from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
All songs written by Cori Brewster Shadow Lake Music, except for "My familiar sky" and "Diamond hitch" by John Wort Hannam; "Take me back to Ireland" written with John Capek Kaisongs Music; "William Twin" written with Bob Remington; "Buffalo Street" written with Murray Pulver Monster Music; "The lonesome kind" written by Mark Koenig King Style Music; "Across the Great Divide" written by Kate Wolf Another Sundown Publishing
Contents: Side 1: Phyllis Webb, Earle Birney; Side 2: John Newlove, Alfred Purdy; Side 3: Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen; Side 4: George Bowering, Gwendolyn MacEwen