Pigeon by Samson Wrote

After 8 years of songwriting, daydreaming, collapsing, and recollecting, Samson Wrote (the experimental folk project of Sam Boer) is overjoyed to share Pigeon, a collection of songs about how familial upbringing affects the most intimate moments of life. These are stories about camp counselling, substance abuse, sexual perplexity, New Year’s parties, hot chocolate, bandages, groping, and all the things we should have said. There are kisses overlooking the Speed river, dances along Yonge street, weeping on hardwood floors and sighs in bedsheets. The songs on Pigeon are in deference to young adulthood, and serve as an acceptant embrace of past selves.

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Recorded at Vapor Music (Toronto); Trinity United Church (Guelph); Ajay & Sheila’s house (Guelph); and several other places.

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Thank you to all the brilliant, beautiful people who contributed to the making of this album.

Special thanks to my family (mom, dad, J) for showing me love on our many adventures, and Anita for reminding me to celebrate life on this earth every day.

This album is dedicated to Loretta, Ronald, and Tony - we passed like ships in the night.

This project was funded in part by the Ontario Arts Council, an important organization supporting innovative art.

This project was recorded on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.

Unusual folk about usual feelings.

Bear River, NS via Guelph, ON.

“What does it mean to live a good life?”

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