History Jon Brooks

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1 history

1.1 no mean city
1.2 ours , shepherds
1.3 moth nor rust
1.4 delicate cages
1.5 smiling , beautiful countryside





history
no mean city

brooks s first full-length offering no longer in print , available digitally on itunes. no mean city 13-song ode modern urban disaster , set in toronto s past , present. focusing on living on outskirts of approval , songs boldly layered biblical, literary, , historical allusion. idea no mean city inspired toronto architecture historian eric arthur s book of same name – accounts why songs devote equal attention characters surrounding architecture.


ours , shepherds

the title of brooks s second release, ours , shepherds (2007), taken dorothy day s response own reflection, fault it? s ours , shepherds. collection of canadian war stories dating world war current missions in afghanistan, 13 songs inspired lives of canadians including sen. romeo dallaire, padre william henry davis, john mcrae, sgt. tommy prince, , james loney. album earned brooks multiple awards, place in canadian war museum , john mcrae society, , first songwriter of year nomination @ 2007 canadian folk music awards.


moth nor rust

moth nor rust (2009) brooks s third release. songs inspired neither moth nor rust can touch – love, hope, trust, faith, memory, justice, inspiration, , gratitude. ten songs recorded live in studio, solo, , in first or second takes in effort amplify austere theme of human essentials. moth nor rust enjoyed international chart positions , worldwide airplay, second songwriter of year nomination @ 2009 canadian folk music awards. lyrics of songs published canada s foremost literary journal, exile editions.


delicate cages

delicate cages released independently in november 2011 formally re-released borealis records in may 2012. album earned brooks third songwriter of year nomination in 5 years canadian folk music awards. in 3 predecessors, 11 songs on delicate cages reflect common themes, in case love , fear , freedom , imprisonment. title taken robert bly poem taking hands : taking hands of love, / see delicate cages. similarity brooks s other releases wide-ranging, topical , controversial song subjects: alberta tar sands ( fort mcmurray ), bill 101 , quebec s language laws ( hudson girl ), palestinian suicide bombers ( son of hamas ), bosnian child soldier turned canadian mixed-martial-arts fighter ( cage fighter ), , so-called honour killing ( lonesome death of aqsa parvez ). morally , politically ambiguous, delicate cages offered brooks has since called necessary , alternative understandings of hope , grief neither sanitized, dumbed down, nor cheapened or degraded modern lie of closure .


the smiling , beautiful countryside

brooks s fifth album, released borealis records in november 2014, consists of murder ballads , recorded in toronto david travers-smith. draws on philosophical paradox, gallows humour, impossible love, titillating gore, serial killers, gun dealers, rampage killings, missing women, first nations injustice , catastrophe, necrophilia, shakespeare, , john milton. throughout record 2 distinct murderers terrorize society: overt , alienated human killer , psychotic double, corporation – individual baptized law . in regard, smiling , beautiful countryside brooks s overtly political , subversive album date. death count 75. nominated contemporary album of year, album earned brooks fourth songwriter of year nomination canadian folk music awards.







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