You might have listened to this record for the last twenty years, and still not heard some of its finest details – that is the happenstance when onesome poetry is rightly crossed with collective improvisation. Maybe Downie was the genius orchestrator of this Goddamned Band, or perhaps he was just always prepared with the right thing to say. A snapshot of spontaneity, recorded but barely rehearsed – its arc of clandestine art pop clashing with the hum of collective stream-of-consciousness – Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow feels like a wild passage through listless places, burrowing in the magic of whatever delicate moment.
That Coke Machine Glow did not sound like a record by The Tragically Hip was both not a surprise, and is still in every way a surprising work: Downie’s oblique yet vicarious poetry undressed of its electricity, redressed in a glorious other voltage.
PREORDER COKE MACHINE GLOW 20th ANNIVERSARY ITEMS The Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Caballimited edition vinyl is expected to ship November 15, 2021. The album, audiobook, and songbook are out on August 27, 2021. In addition to the 3CD set, A&C is for the first time offering a Coke Machine Glow songbook for voice, guitar, and piano. The Songwriters’ Cabal 3LP vinyl is presented in a beautiful embossed triple-gatefold package, limited to a one-time pressing of 2000 hand-numbered copies. In poetry that is urban, gritty and political, romantic and nocturnal, nostalgic and whimsical, Downie allows us a glimpse inside his world, with loved ones carrying the gift of his words onwards.Īvailable via digital audiobook retailers, the Coke Machine Glow poetry collection will also be included on CD with A&C’s physical music editions.
CD WITH HALLELUJAH BY GORDON DOWNIE FULL
(See here for the full list of readers.) Ultimately a book Gord wrote about the distances that bridge and separate us, Coke Machine Glow is bound by the dedication of those he loved and was loved by – a rich, haunting collection that reveals both the public and private selves of Gordon Edgar Downie.
Produced by GD, Josh Finlayson, and Steven Drake, featuring Dale Morningstar, Julie Doiron, Kevin Hearn, Atom Egoyan, Dave Clark, Don Kerr, and more, Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters' Cabal is a document of Gord at the precipice of his illustrious solo career.Ĭoncurrently, Penguin Random House Canada announces the first ever Coke Machine Glow audiobook, a complete reading of Downie’s original book of poetry by family members, band members, and friends, like Sarah Harmer, Dan Aykroyd, Ron MacLean, Bruce McCulloch, Don Kerr, and many more, produced by Patrick Downie. Elegant alternate studio takes of classics like "Vancouver Divorce" and "Lofty Pines" express the fluidity of the family band that comprised the Gas Station recording sessions in Toronto, that May of 2000 while home recordings dated November 1999, Carlaw Avenue, of "SF Song," "Trick Rider," and "Chancellor," and more, spotlight Gord in close communion with his tape recorder and coffee machine. The in-all 28-song collection presents a portrait of Downie with a rarely before heard intimacy, unrefined and dripping in the wildness of the moment.
CD WITH HALLELUJAH BY GORDON DOWNIE PLUS
Entitled Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Cabal, the triple-album features the original two-disc set plus a bonus record of twelve unreleased demos, alternate versions, and never-before-heard outtakes – carefully curated by Gord’s “oldest Toronto friend” Josh Finlayson and brother Patrick Downie with Arts & Crafts’ Jonathan Shedletzky – including the ominous “I Stand Before The Songwriters’ Cabal” and two opposing versions of the mysterious “Contact.” Now, to mark its 20th anniversary, Arts & Crafts announces a special expanded reissue that posthumously revisits the songs and poetry of this prolific period of Downie’s career. Twenty years since its release, Coke Machine Glow remains a teetering, charming body of work, never static, shot across its canvas in brilliant glowing embers and warm honey tones. The first solo project by one of the world’s great wordsmiths, Coke Machine Glow’s sixteen painterly songs were released with an accompanying book of poetry, collectively emanating Downie’s heartrending stories, from the road as from home, in his signature quirk and complex, approachable wit. Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow was released in 2001, in between Music Work (2000) and In Violet Light (2002), the ninth and tenth albums by his mighty band of brothers in The Tragically Hip.
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