Secret Path | ||||
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Studio album by Gord Downie | ||||
Released | October 18, 2016 | |||
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Recorded and Mixed at The Bathouse Recording Studios, Bath, ON, Canada November 3–10, 2013 November 27 - December 2, 2013 |
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Label | Arts & Crafts | |||
Producer | Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin | |||
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Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10) [1] |
Recorded and Mixed at The Bathouse Recording Studios, Bath, ON, Canada November 3–10, 2013
Secret Path is the fifth studio album by Gord Downie, released on October 18, 2016. The album was accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name, written by Downie and illustrated by Jeff Lemire, as well as an animated television film to air on CBC Television on October 23.
The project is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy from the Marten Falls First Nation who died in 1966 while trying to return home after escaping from an Indian residential school. All proceeds from the album and book are being donated to the University of Manitoba's National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation project.
All tracks written by Gord Downie unless otherwise noted.