Great Lake Swimmers

The Great Lake Swimmers are a Canadian folk-rock band from Toronto for the singer-songwriter Tony Dekker.

Band name

The band name Great Lake Swimmers refers to the Great Lakes Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron in Canada, where Tony Dekker grew up, and is intended " as a tribute to the marathon swimmers who swam through these lakes ," according to Dekker.

History

Initially a solo project of Tony Dekker, entered the Great Lake Swimmers as a band for the first time in 2003 with their eponymous debut album in appearance. The following years were marked by long tours throughout Canada, USA, Australia and Europe. 2004, the band the most popular Folk / Roots Band at the "Canadian Independent Music Awards" were chosen and awarded the 2005 "Galaxie Rising Star Award" from the Canadian television companies.

Followed in 2005 by the second album Bodies and Mind; Was released in 2007 the album Ongiara. The song contained on Your Rocky Spine was used in the third season of the television series Weeds. In March 2009, the Great Lake Swimmers release their fourth album Lost Channels. Choose for their recordings, the Great Lake Swimmers unusual and evocative places: historic buildings with natural reverb effect like old churches, unused grain silos or community halls, so those places which sound aesthetics, so Tony Dekker, the " historical and almost ... mythological aspects of can open up a place ".

For their fifth, published in 2012 album New Wild Everywhere, the musicians have gone for the first time in a studio. Only the song "The Great Exhale " was recorded in an abandoned subway station in Toronto. The protest song is also included on the album " Ballad of A Fisherman's Wife" is dedicated to off the coast of Louisiana the oil spill. The song was commissioned by the environmental organization " Lake Ontario Waterkeeper ."

Band Members

For fixed band members included at the beginning of Erik Arnesen ( banjo, electric guitar) and Colin Huebert (drums, percussion, glockenspiel ), the musical tour guide changed over the years. The current tour cast (as of April 2012) consists of Tony Dekker (vocals, guitar), Erik Arnesen ( banjo, electric guitar), Miranda Mulholland (chorus vocals, violin ), Greg Millson (drums) and Bret Higgins ( upright bass ).

Style

Tony Dekker's music is rooted in folk -1960s. His thoughtful lyrics speak of the spirituality of nature and are characterized by a pictorial, metaphorical language. The melodic warm tenor voice and the fragile melancholy vocal style Tony Dekker led some critics to compare with quieter works of Neil Young, Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens, and Red House Painters.

Discography

  • Great Lake Swimmers ( weewerk, 2003)
  • Bodies and Minds ( weewerk, 2005)
  • Hands in Dirty Ground (limited edition EP, weewerk, 2006)
  • Ongiara ( Nettwerk, 2007)
  • New Wild Everywhere ( Nettwerk, 2012)
Weeds (TV series)
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