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Hamilton folk trio Elliott Brood. From left, Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin.

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ROCKINGHAM: Elliott Brood digging up songs from the past in 'Ghost Gardens'

Graham Rockingham Contributing Columnist
The Hamilton Spectator

Mon., Oct. 23, 2017 iv min. read

Article was updated Mar. 01, 2020

Moves tin be moments of rediscovery, uncovering grade school written report cards under the cobwebs in a ragged box, babyhood snapshots in a water-stained photo album.

For the three members of the Juno-winning countryfolk trio Elliott Brood, moving to Hamilton from Toronto meant rediscovering long-lost songs. Five to be exact, demos they had recorded almost 15 years ago and so forgotten about, never released on any of their five albums.

The demos were rough, but the songwriting potent, and fit surprisingly well with a batch of new ones they were working on. They were simply too good to go out undone, so they made fresh recordings of the quondam cloth.

Those five songs now make upwards the cadre of Elliott Brood's new album "Ghost Gardens."

"The whole thought backside 'Ghost Gardens' is something that is forgotten, much like old houses where somebody has moved on but perennial gardens keep coming upward twelvemonth after year fifty-fifty though the people who used to live there are gone," said Elliott Brood vocalizer Mark Sasso on tour terminate in Los Angeles where the group recently played The Bootleg Theatre.

"That'southward what those songs are. They were still there year after year, simply nosotros didn't really know almost them or recall about them because nosotros had moved on."

The move to Hamilton had come in stages for the members of Elliott Breed. Sasso first made the move in 2009, followed a couple of years later past drummer Stephen Pitkin, then by guitarist Casey Laforet. With all 3 in Hamilton, the band decided to hire a rehearsal/studio infinite downtown. The newly arrived Laforet brought all his gear to the new building and started to unpack.

"There had been gear in his identify in Toronto for a long time and in a bag nosotros found an sometime hard bulldoze," Sasso explained. "We had saved some demos on it that we had done, so nosotros gave them a listen. What nosotros found was that the demos weren't nifty but the songs were really good and deserved their fourth dimension in the sun."

Elliott Brood is known for the night places their songs tend to travel, and "Ghost Gardens" is no exception. The album starts out in an upbeat, country-jamboree way with "Til the Sun Comes Up Again." The upbeat tempo continues on "Dig a Petty Hole," simply the lyrical content turns dark and descends into a nightmarish story of a lost child in the wilderness.

Sasso says the theme derives from an old man the trio met several years agone while hiking in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. The man's name was T.Due south. Armstrong, which is the title of the ninth track of "Ghost Gardens."

"Nosotros met him at the top of a mount and I wrote a vocal about him that week," Sasso says. "It all had to practice with the wilderness that we were experiencing. He was lecturing us in a proficient way near bears and things similar that. And then I was playing with the idea of things that can happen to people in the wild . It was also about the same time (eight-year-old) Tori Stafford went missing in Woodstock."

The album's dark storyline is aided by a starkness of instrumentation - gentle banjo, guitar, piano and percussion.

"Our whole goal was to cut things back and be as minimalist as we could, to let the songs breathe and have their moment with just the correct instrumentation. I feel the space makes the dissimilarity that much better and allows the listener to focus on the essence of the song."

The anthology was recorded in Elliott Brood'southward Hamilton rehearsal spot, a place the group members now call the function.

"We'd drib our kids at school, meet there at 9:30 in the morning, take a coffee and hash out some stuff, so commencement to working, and by 2:30 p.m. finish upward and get pick our kids up from schoolhouse," Sasso said.

Elliott Breed is at present on a North American tour promoting "Ghost Gardens," with a stop at Waterloo's Starlight Social Society on Thursday, October. 26 and 2 shows at Hamilton'southward Mills Hardware on Nov. 9 and 10 (the Nov. 10 show is sold out).

Sasso says the experience of finding the lost songs of "Ghost Gardens," will forcefulness the ring to get back and look for other forgotten demos.

"Obviously this is going to button united states to go dorsum and revisit demos more oftentimes, expect for things," Sasso says. "You only don't know. Those songs just needed to ruminate for awhile and we needed to accept our separation and grow to do what those songs needed."

Waterloo: Thursday, Oct. 26, eight p.chiliad. Starlight Social Guild, 47 King St. North., Waterloo, with Odd Years, 8 p.m. $20.

Hamilton: Thursday, Nov. 9 and Friday, Nov. x (sold out), at Mills Hardware, 95 Rex St. Due east., with Odd Years, 9 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

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