Description
Unseen Hands, the 35th album by multi-dimensional, award winning artist Ken Whiteley, explores where we are: from the microscopic look at soil teeming with life and where he lives in downtown Toronto to the sky, the moon, the stars and where we fit in this big universe. Collectively our refusal to look at this bigger picture leaves us sleep walking into the disaster of human induced climate change and environmental degradation. Using his twelve string guitar as a musical touchstone, Whiteley encourages and inspires us to raise our voices and hands together as the effective antidote to our daunting challenges.
Speaking of the new album Ken says, “When the younger generation asks me in the future what I did at this crucial time in our climate emergency I want to be able to say that I did the best I could. This new album is one piece of that effort.”
SONG LIST
- Hole In The Clouds 3:13
- Here I Stand 4:11
- Stars 3:37
- April In Paris 4:14
- Fast Freight Train 3:48
- That’s The Way I Feel About You 4:37
- New Growth 3:02
- Cosmic Course 2:49
- Mixed Up World 3:35
- Just So 4:35
- Night Is Coming 4:07
- So We Sing 4:49
Produced by Ken Whiteley
All songs composed by Ken Whiteley (SOCAN) except:
track 3. Tamara Lindeman (SOCAN);
track 4. Vernon Duke, E.Y. “Yip” Harburg;
track 5. Ken Whiteley / Bucky Berger (SOCAN);
track 6. Bobby Womack.
Recorded at Casa Wroxton Studio, Toronto, ON
Engineered by Nik Tjelios and Ken Whiteley
Mastered by Harris Newman, Grey Market Mastering
Design by David Wallace
Cover photos by Colin Medley
Musicians:
Ken Whiteley – 12 string guitar, lead & harmony vocals, tenor guitar, Hammond organ, vibraphone, el. bass, slide guitar, tenor mandolin
Ben Whiteley – electric and string bass
Bucky Berger – drums, percussion
Gord Mowat – string bass
Sundar Vishwanathan – sax, bansouri flute
Tom Sczesniak – accordion
Georgia Harmer – harmony vocals
Ciceal Levy, Adrienne Mackenzie – harmony vocals
Anna Pappas, Keith Kemps, Lia Pappas Kemps, Nastasia Pappas Kemps, Joel Archambault, Catherine Stockhausen, Daisy Archambault and Ellen Manney – group vocal