Stranger Still - The Songs Which Are (2023)

The sophomore record from Stranger Still, which consists of musical settings by composer Pete Johnston of poems by Canadian poet Alden Nowlan (1933-1983). Johnston and Nowlan share a birthplace of Hants County, Nova Scotia, and the poems tell stories of the people, seasons, and landscape of the Atlantic coast of Canada.

“Pete Johnston’s song project Stranger Still plays music profoundly rooted in the culture of his native Nova Scotia... [the] pieces are honed to a warm evocation of Nowlan’s work, suggesting medieval chant, minimalism, and folk music in a lucid rendering of hard-edged struggles suspended between vision and loss.” — Stuart Broomer, Musicworks

Mim Adams - vocals
Randi Helmers - vocals
Rob Clutton - string bass, vocals
Pete Johnston - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, vocals
with Andrew Killawee vocals, organ

Tracklist:
1.01 - Stranger Still - Snapshot (3:51)
1.02 - Stranger Still - Five Days in Hospital (4:26)
1.03 - Stranger Still - I, Icarus (4:09)
1.04 - Stranger Still - Biography (2:56)
1.05 - Stranger Still - The Bhikku (3:34)
1.06 - Stranger Still - A Dog Barking at Night (6:22)
1.07 - Stranger Still - Sparrow Come in My Door (3:38)
1.08 - Stranger Still - Friends (2:30)
1.09 - Stranger Still - Exile (1:45)
1.10 - Stranger Still - Reunion (1:08)
1.11 - Stranger Still - Nancy (5:02)