Uncertain Country Great Lake Swimmers

• 1 Uncertain Country 04:11
• 2 When The Storm Has Passed 04:39
• 3 I Tried To Reach You 04:28
• 4 Since January 00:20
• 5 Swimming Like Flying 03:24
• 6 On A Ship 00:15
• 7 Moonlight, Stay Above 04:14
• 8 Riverine 04:09
• 9 Quiet Before The Storm 04:35
• 10 Into It 00:12
• 11 Promise Of Spring 02:53
• 12 Think, Think 00:24
• 13 Respect For All Living Things 04:52
• 14 Flight Paths 03:27
• 15 Am I Floating In The Air 03:37
• Total Runtime 45:40

Info zu Uncertain Country

Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group led by songwriter/vocalist Tony Dekker with a revolving backing band. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the group emerged with a succession of heavily atmospheric albums recorded in old silos and rural country churches. The music has developed that pastoral warmth over subsequent albums through a continued vision to record and perform in acoustically unique and historical locales.

Great Lake Swimmers celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2023 with “Uncertain Country,” an album where doubts are followed by discovery, demos end up as finished tracks, and themes of new beginnings, rear-view reflections, and ruminations on the fluidity of time form the basis of the eleven new songs.

It follows a prolonged period of collective anxiety. Recorded in different locales—and with a variety of musicians—a theme of questioning runs throughout. Even before the world turned upside down, Dekker felt mired in uncertainty: from the climate crisis to the ever-changing political landscape. The “uncertain country” chosen as the album’s theme is not a specific place. Rather, it’s a territory we, as humans, inhabit in the 21st century — a world that, more often than not, is confusing, unfamiliar and unsettling.

“Moonlight, Stay Above” epitomizes what Great Lake Swimmers represents. A 10-voice strong women’s choir lifts the lonely-sounding and wistful song up. As with that addition, the band on each album is fluid and always evolving.

“A stunning variety of tones and textures... nothing less than both cerebral and sublime.”– American Songwriter, 4/5

“Dekker’s preoccupation with the Canadian state of mind flourishes in his lyrics. Few songwriters are able to convey the country’s harsh beauty as well. ... Canadian folk tradition personified in the 21st century.” – Exclaim!

“It floats from country to folk to indie rock and back again, painting a sharp-toothed but achingly beautiful portrait of both the natural world and the human condition.”– New Noise Magazine, Best Of 2023

“An ‘elsewhere’ where uncertainties and anxieties are often the most willing to make waves...Americana which strives to deal with traumas through padded atmospheres.”– Rolling Stone France

“This collection of songs examines the passage of time masterfully... 'Uncertain Country' stands as some of the strongest & most consistent work by one of Canada’s best bands.” – Great Dark Wonder

Tony Dekker, vocals, guitars, mandolin, piano, keyboards, bass, percussion
Bret Higgins, electric & upright bass, pump organ, insouciance
Marshall Bureau, drums
Joe Lapinski, keyboards, pedal steel
Serena Ryder, vocals (track 5)
Kelsey McNulty, keyboards, piano (track 5, 9)
Erik Arnesen, electric guitar (track 5)
Jake Zapotoczny, pump organ (track 7)
Minuscule (choral vocals) (track 7, 12)
Ryan Granville-Martin, drums (track 9)
Laurel Minnes, vocals (track 12), backing vocals (track 13)
Dr. Pee, piano (track 13)
Danielle Marconi, violin (track 9, 15)
Paolo Winterle, violin (track 9, 15)
Liam Calhoun, viola (track 9, 15)
Grace Snippe, cello (track 9, 15)
Tania Gill, string arrangement (track 9, 15)

Great Lake Swimmers
Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are an indie folk group led by songwriter/vocalist Tony Dekker. The group first appeared in 2003 with a haunting self-titled debut that was recorded in a grain silo and released by Weewerk Records, a small label based in the band's native Toronto. Misra Records picked up the record and released it stateside in April 2005. Recording sessions for Great Lake Swimmers' second album began that same year, with the band taking up residence in an old church in rural southern Ontario. The finished product, Bodies and Minds, was released toward the end of 2006, featuring another blend of homespun folk and lush, intimate Americana.

Ongiara Although already popular in Canada, the band began building a wider audience in 2007 by signing to a new label, Nettwerk, and releasing the well-received Ongiara. The album's first track, "Your Rocky Spine," topped the Canadian indie charts and appeared on the soundtrack to Showtime's Weeds. Such increased attention kept Great Lake Swimmers on tour for the better part of two years, but they still managed to take some time off to record a fourth album. Traveling between multiple locations in the Thousand Islands region and elsewhere in northern New York state, the group hit a creative high peak with Lost Channels, which was released in 2009. The Legion Sessions, an EP featuring live versions of several Lost Channels tunes, also appeared that year. In 2012 Great Lake Swimmers released New Wild Everywhere, their first album to be recorded in a traditional studio. For 2015's A Forest of Arms, the group recorded in studios, small music venues, and a variety of unconventional spaces, including Tyendinaga Cavern and Caves, the oldest natural cavern in Ontario.

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