Jason Wilson - Sumach Roots (2020)
Artist: Jason Wilson
Title: Sumach Roots
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Wheel Records
Genre: World, Folk, Reggae
Quality: MP3 320 kbps; FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 39:39
Total Size: 93; 255 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Another folk-reggae epic from award-winning Canadian artist that surveys 400 years of Toronto history.Title: Sumach Roots
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Wheel Records
Genre: World, Folk, Reggae
Quality: MP3 320 kbps; FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 39:39
Total Size: 93; 255 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Sumach Roots (album and live play replete with stage actors) takes audiences on a bold and innovative exploration of Toronto's evolution over the past four hundred years. The brainchild of two-time JUNO nominee and best-selling historian Jason Wilson, Sumach Roots draws from a deep well of soundsfrom traditional British folk to bebop jazz and classic reggaein order to tell the stories of those who built Toronto, both literally and culturally. Wilson delves into the late eighteenth century diaries of Elizabeth Simcoe, the great Toronto fires of 1902 and 1904, the building of the CN Tower and other crucial moments that illuminate the host/immigrant experience in Toronto. The album follows Wilson's acclaimed 2016 album Perennials as the second part of his Valley Road Trilogy, a celebration of "place" and an invitation to bridge the various enclaves and ethnic borders that demarcate the city. One half of the Wilson & Swarbrick duo with the late Dave Swarbrick, Jason Wilson has performed and recorded with Jackie Mittoo, Martin Carthy, Pee Wee Ellis, Sly & Robbie, UB40, Ernest Ranglin and Alanis Morrissette.
01. Jason Wilson; Gabe Gaudet - We (2:31)
02. Jason Wilson - Posthuma (5:25)
03. Jason Wilson; The Toronto Fire Services Pipes & Drums - Lads of Lombard Hall (4:22)
04. Jason Wilson - KHAQQ (Hold On) (3:48)
05. Jason Wilson; Juli Genoa - Lynx Canadensis (3:39)
06. Jason Wilson; Carl Harvey; Rupert "Ojiji" Harvey - The Tall Tales of Lester Stuard (4:26)
07. Jason Wilson; Perry Joseph - The Night We Won the War / Op. 3: II. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor (3:42)
08. Jason Wilson - Happy Little Sisyphus (4:02)
09. Jason Wilson - Fort Rouille (3:17)
10. Jason Wilson - Eugene (No Fear of Flying) (4:28)