Open Heart Symphony

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Open Heart Symphony
Studio album by Spirit of the West
Released 1996
Recorded 1995
Genre Folk rock
Label Warner Music Canada
Producer Spirit of the West
Spirit of the West chronology

Two Headed
(1995)		 Open Heart Symphony
(1996)		 Weights and Measures
(1997)
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Allmusic [1]

Open Heart Symphony is a 1996 album by Spirit of the West, in collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

The band recorded two shows with the orchestra on May 12 and May 13, 1995 at the Orpheum Theatre.[2] The shows included several renditions of the band's best known songs, and an entire album's worth of songs written specifically for the symphony shows. The new songs were compiled on the album Open Heart Symphony; several of the hits performed at the shows appear on the band's 1999 compilation Hit Parade.

The shows were also taped for broadcast on the Canadian arts channel Bravo!.

Song notes

A studio version of "Kiss and Tell" appeared on the 1997 soundtrack album to the film The Hanging Garden. "Let the Ass Bray" was reportedly written after Mann and Kelly attended a Radiohead concert at which Thom Yorke angrily refused an audience member's request to play "Creep" even though it was Radiohead's only notable hit single at the time.

Cover art

The photo used on the album cover was taken in the "Confederation Lounge" at the Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, Alberta. The large painting hanging above the band members' heads is a reproduction by Frederick Challener of the famous "Fathers of Confederation" portrait originally painted by Robert Harris. As the original Harris painting was lost in the Parliament fire of 1916, this reproduction is one of only two versions depecting an historic event in Canadian history.[3]

Reissue

The album was reissued in 2008 on Rhino Records, concurrently with the release of the band's career retrospective Spirituality 1983-2008: The Consummate Compendium.

Track listing

All songs by John Mann and Geoffrey Kelly, except where noted.

  1. "Williamson's Garage"
  2. "Daisy's Dead"
  3. "Frankfurt, I'm Sorry"
  4. "Christmas Eve" (traditional)
  5. "Resurrection"
  6. "The Miller's Daughter" (Kelly)
  7. "Bare Branches"
  8. "Strange Bedfellows"
  9. "Kiss and Tell"
  10. "Milk, Tea and Oranges"
  11. "Let the Ass Bray"

References

  1. ↑ Badgley, Aaron. Open Heart Symphony at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Open Heart Symphony". Spirit of the West. Retrieved 25 January 2014. 
  3. ↑ "The Confederation Lounge, Hotel Macdonald". Retrieved 2012-08-14. 
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