Five years after his death, a posthumous song that Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie did in collaboration with producer Bob Rock has just been released.
Updated yesterday at 3:15 p.m.
Perfect luster is one of 14 songs that the two “rock ‘n’ roll brothers”, as Downie’s label Arts & Crafts describes them, created together over a period of ten years. It is the first to be unveiled, while a “first EP” is announced for November.
Bob Rock is known, among other things, for having produced the Black Album by Metallica. The two began collaborating in 2006, when Bob Rock worked on the album WorldContainer Tragically Hip. A collaboration that stretched until 2016, a year before the Canadian singer-songwriter succumbed to brain cancer on October 17, 2017.
In a press release that can be read on the site Under RadarBob Rock says that Gord Downie was “first and foremost a friend”.
“Working with him on these songs was one of the most important events in my professional life. I am grateful to have been able to witness his genius so closely. »