Exciting Announcement!

I 'm thrilled to announce that I have been appointed as an Artist-in-Residence for the United Nations International Year of Glaciers' Preservation.

In the coming year I will be making art and music inspired by icefields and glaciers adorning the high places of the earth. Stay tuned for lots of exciting news to come!

This song is a meditation on my experience accompanying Dr. John Pomeroy, Maddie Harasyn and Kieren Lehan, as we climbed the Athabasca Glacier to do maintenance on some hydro-meteorological equipment that is monitoring the state of the glacier.  The glacier began forming a quarter million years ago, but now, sadly, it will likely be gone in 50 years time.  “Athabasca” is a warning for how the loss of the glaciers will affect the broader environment, and a lament for lost beauty.

The Red River crosses into Canada at Emerson, draining across the ancient bed of Lake Aggasiz northward to the great expanse of Lake Winnipeg. For many years I lived on Scotia Street in a house on the banks of this great river. As the quiet, muddy thing rolled by, I often reflected on how the river had, quite literally, come into my home during one of the great floods of the last century.

The river is a symbol of the natural world – broken and beautiful, ailing and powerful, it is bloodline and bathwater to all of us. Rivers are written into the consciousness of everyone who lives near them.  This song celebrates rivers in all their forms and the life that thrives along their banks. 

Athabasca

Sam Baardman

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    Riverborne 3:29
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    Still Life Town 3:47
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    Spring Song 3:52
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    Athabasca 4:15
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    Feel Good Factory 3:42
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