Oh Heart, Oh Highway - $20

Oh Heart, Oh Highway is the culmination of three years of traveling, searching, composing, sketching and writing. The conceptual approach emerges from Amy's last musical release, Architecture: Live at the Opera House. Architecture placed the performance of a song cycle in a particular space – the Lunenburg Opera House – as an acoustic exploration of the sound of one body and one instrument. Oh Heart, Oh Highway takes the notion of space and makes it dynamic; space becomes the distances, both real and imaginary, the artist must travel. The dynamism of this journey is reflected in the interplay of the media that together make Oh Heart, Oh Highway. For the first time, Amy brings together three facets of her artistic practice to create a work that weaves visual, melodic and lyrical elements into a single narrative. The audience is submerged in the story on several levels, simultaneously.

The music of Oh Heart, Oh Highway was written while touring Eastern and Central Canada, and the Northeast US. There are two main song cycles, each with two internal ‘chapters’. These musical cycles fall on either side of the print narrative; the latter represents a literary hiatus, a static moment of reflection between the journey of loss (expressed in the first musical cycle) and the journey of hope (found in the second). The final product is a postmodern Bildungsroman: multidimensional, fragmented – and ultimately, meaningful.

Sample:   This Poetry   Horizon   Sunrise

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Architecture: Live at the Opera House - $12

"...A tight seven song package, Architecture does transport you. Anyone who's ever been to a Campbell concert... will instantly recognize the awkwardly comfortable dialogue, melodically and rhythmically intriguing vocals and confident, finger-picked guitar playing...." –Chuck Teed