By Will McGuirk

“are you afraid? Are you ready? Do you have any sense of what's to come?”

Loss, its nibbling around the edges, biting, stalking, looming, this global so local, this so many down to just one, one life lived in one time, each one begats one, each one regrets one, each one meets one, and each one repeats. . . until silence.

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“My grandmother, a grand storyteller her whole life, lost the ability to speak due to a severe stroke and has been living between the earthly and astral plane for some time. In this song I am coming to terms with this impending transition, loss. I am also asking my grandmother all the questions that I can't ask her in real life - are you afraid? Are you ready? Do you have any sense of what's to come? I am peeking into the future while keeping one eye on the past of my grandmother's storied life and reflecting on the profound impact her life has had on mine.” - Dana Sipos

Belle Tower · Fear

<a href="https://timkile.bandcamp.com/track/wasteland-2">Wasteland by Tim Kile</a>

Shane Ghostkeeper · One More Name

By Will McGuirk

“I was in Christchurch when the bombings occurred in the mosque, which of course was greatly mourned by all of New Zealand and the world. The aftermath of the 2010 earthquake was still very palpable and evident there. So ‘Light Around The Body’ is primarily about infusing oneself with the strange and beautiful and sometimes painful and strives to make sense of the senseless.” - Dana Sipos

“‘Time’s always right to fix what’s wrong’. That line felt like the open door to address the social climate we’ve all been surrounded by for nearly a year now & prompted the idea of transformation of one’s immediate & eventually global environment by looking inward first, to look in the mirror & realize that is where the change is going to begin.” - Josh Taylor, half-alive

“you're just a monster and I'm not scared” - Tom Odell

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Dana Sipos, Charlie Houston, Ariel Posen, Belle Tower, Conrad Bigknife, K.Flay, Tim Kile, Daysormay, Lipstick Jodi, and Shane Ghostkeeper

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Dana Sipos, half-alive, Tom Odell, Rich Aucoin, Steven Wilson, Nuela Charles, 404vincent, and Tim Delaney