COVENTRY CAROL

Performed by Ben Caplan, Graham Scott and Adam Saikaley
Produced and Arranged by Graham Scott
Engineered by Graham Scott, Jon Epworth and Lisa Patterson
Artwork by Jamie Kronick

This carol is about the death of innocent children. In recent months and years, hundreds of Indigenous children's graves have been 'discovered' at the sites of former residential schools across Canada. Recording this old carol felt like a poignant and solemn way to honour the lives lost to Canada's colonial project, and to spend a few moments in reflection.

Created by Ben Caplan, Graham Scott and Adam Saikaley, this treatment of Coventry Carol sets the melody amid a kinetic electroacoustic sound collage of live-performed and digitally processed period instruments (organ; harp; recorder; dulcimer) to create an immersive, gestural sonic poem. Recording took place in Graham’s living room in Brooklyn, NY and in Ben’s dressing room on tour in the Netherlands.

This work is offered for sale as a standalone digital-only EP, or bundled together with the Instrumental version and a 12x12” archival pigment print of Jamie Kronick’s artwork for the project: either the original photograph or a digital manipulation—each available from a hand-numbered, signed edition of 8.

All proceeds from this project will be donated to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund in support of their work building cultural understanding and creating a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

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COVENTRY CAROL PRINTS (LIMITED EDITION)