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Where The Rivers Do

by Sam Singer

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    Pre-order of Where The Rivers Do. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases June 4, 2024

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1.
The Deal
2.
Traitor Birds
3.
Golden Day
4.
Two Trees 02:28 video
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All dressed in new clothes The ones of another Get lost in some way there Collect all the old bones Two trees have become one Forgotten that old song They grow on together And then they were cut off Move to the old skies As ancient as paper Thoughts are confounded I could never hate her You’re remembered in highways And a note in your doorframe Connect all the pieces Bound by the hearsay Here’s to your dreams when The floodgates all open In that endless river Forever my old friend
5.
Born in June
6.
Mirror in the Sunrise
7.
Eve of the Morning
8.
For a Second
9.
So, It Is 02:07
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A faceless soul from long ago Told me I was looking on The years I wade In timeless tongues And speaking of Forbidden love When I was young But I’m old enough For that longing star To burn brightly on And so they did And so it is And there they are Call me by my Hebrew name If you get the chance again The wind is cold And the view is few If your sights are set Then I’d leave with you To this place I dreamt So far removed I was told of this Sometime in school And so they did And so it is And there they are
10.
Midnight Horse
11.
It Is The Next Time

about

Where The Rivers Do, set to be released independently on June 4, 2024, is the 25-year-old Singer’s first collection of new music since his 2022 EP From the Hills, Beaten Roads, Down to the Trees. The album was recorded live in a cabin in Matlock, Manitoba in a single day – July 4, 2023 – with Micah Erenberg (The Secret Beach) engineering and producing. “We just really love America,” Singer says.

Written throughout 2022 during travels to Vancouver and Los Angeles, and at home in Winnipeg, Where The Rivers Do is music inspired by distance, as always an exploration of Singer’s relationship to the vocabulary of classical folk traditions: wandering, searching, and finding.

“I saw a video of Bob Dylan talking about how he was born very far from his home, and that in his music and his travels, all he was trying to do was to make it back to wherever it was that he came from,” says Singer, who is also an actor. “I found myself at the beginning of my own mini odyssey, going to SXSW for a film I was in. It was a great excuse to visit my aunt in Los Angeles, and to take the time to write this album.

“I had this idea in my head of seeing every person I knew in the collage of my memory, and so I took with me a folder filled with everything anyone has ever written me, old family photos, and anything else I felt needed to be kept close to during this two-month odyssey, if you’ll allow the use of that term,” he adds.

The album title, he says, came about as the result of another personal songwriting trick, asking himself how Leonard Cohen would say something otherwise quotidian. In this case, Singer wondered how the legendary Canadian songwriter would invite someone to The Forks, the ancient meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.

That’s how Sam Singer got Where The Rivers Do. Meet him there on June 4.

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releases June 4, 2024

Recorded by Micah Erenberg with Sam Singer, Holly Stratton, Ben Stokes, and Sam Fournier on July 4th 2023 in a cabin in Matlock, Manitoba.

Live overdubs recorded by J Riley Hill at No Fun Club in Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 9th, 2023.

Mixed and Mastered by Micah Erenberg
Songs written by Sam Singer
Produced by Sam Fournier & Sam Singer

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