Oblivion, by Evan Redsky

Oblivion

by Evan Redsky

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1.	You Were Born 03:28	buy track
2.	Taking Shape 03:38	buy track
3.	Renata 04:36	buy track
4.	Blood Runs Like a River 03:21	buy track
5.	Oblivion 07:39	buy track
6.	Waiting in the Echo 04:21	buy track
7.	Now & Then 03:37	buy track
8.	Florabelle 03:49	buy track
9.	Reason to Celebrate 04:36	buy track
10.	Endless Feeling 06:32	buy track

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About four years ago, I didn’t think there was much reason to pursue music anymore. I was in the middle of a personal reckoning, and struggling to make sense of the life I had lived up until that point. Having spent several years on the road with a rock band had been my only endeavour. All right up until it self imploded. I was between leaving something important behind, and figuring out what the next step was.

That next step slowly revealed itself as I began writing about my own history. Started weaving my lived experiences into the music I grew up listening to. The highway songs and FM radio that covered northern Ontario, and the small reserve where I was raised.

It was a refuge for me to return to my own stories. A spiritual break from the weight of living in the city. But even those moments were still so few and far between because I was battling addiction in the process. Back and forth between pushing myself forward and falling back into a darker pattern. I still struggle with it no doubt, but it's been through this process of getting these stories out, that I have been able to finally find some balance.

Oblivion is a meditation on the struggle of the alcoholism and addiction I've dealt with throughout my life. It's the feeling of wanting to chase the night. Of searching for a way out. And It's the sentiment of the youth that I work with as an indigenous youth worker in Toronto. It's a reflection of not just myself, but of an entire community of young people who lack access to mental health resources, cultural resources, and positive role models - where young First Nations folks just want to escape their realities in exchange for Oblivion.

In a genre that is woefully white, and largely underrepresented. This is a record by me, for my people. An artifact and extension of our oral histories for the next seven generations to pickup. But it's also a record for those who may want to understand us better. Who may not know why some of us struggle to survive in a country that fights to see our own oblivion.

I'm super proud of this collection of songs. And am humbled by the distance that has gotten me here. It took a reckoning to push me down to the bottom, but it’ll be the art that will push me forward. So here’s to those who could not tell their stories. Who could not live to fight their way back out from Oblivion.

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released September 20, 2022

Recorded, produced, and mixed by John Dinsmore at Lincoln County Social Club
All songs were written by Evan Redsky
Mastered by Kristian Montano at Montano Mastering

Performance Credits: Erik Grik, Troy Snaterse, Lydia Persaud, Jill Harris, Jasper Smith, Micheal Bright, Gary Rugala, Wyatt Best

Artwork by Laura Ste. Amant
Design by Erik Grice

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Evan Redsky Toronto, Ontario

Evan Redsky is an ojibway singer/songwriter from Blind River, ON by way of Toronto.

“Though the songs’ content is rooted in Redsky’s indigenous heritage, the sound is pure Americana, equal parts Springsteen and Petty…” - CBC

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