Dana Sipos is an ethereal Canadian folkist who weaves fragments of stories, myths and dreams into songs that map heart and country and the spaces between.

Morningside

Holy People

Numi Numi

OLD BLUE
Dana Sipos with Maarten Rischen (Dutch producer) and Sean Harold (American contemporary composer) featuring Malcolm Aiken, Kevin Romain and Kaitlyn Raitz. Composed and recorded at the Banff Centre 2015 for Fringe Sound Records compilation release Songs from City Earth Vol.1

OLD BLUE

Written / Produced by Owen Steel & Dana Sipos during a Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, March 2017, Canada.
Recorded by O with two SM-57's & Tascam 424 Portastudio.
Lisa's vocals, tape to digital transfer, and mix by Christopher Braun.
Mastered by Jake Nicoll.

Dana Sipos: Vocals
Owen Steel: Piano / Vibraphone
Lisa Crawley: BG Vox

(SOCAN 2017)

artwork by Nicole Kagan

Sleeping Buffalo

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

If you listen you will hear,
from the inner drum to the heart of the matter,
press your ear to the ground, hear the river’s lonesome sound.

If you listen you will know,
why the lucky ones sing to the valley below, 
all the secrets of the hollows are in the echoes.

I want to sing an old time tune, I want to sing ’til the hills are singing too.
though my body’s not from this place,
though I’ve had lord, but a taste, I long for the blue ridge.

Blue Ridge

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

Now we’re living off the vapours and keeping up our holy work
Of putting one goddamn foot front of the other
In the meantime, in these lean times, you can find me behind some old ribcage

Lean Times

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

Do you hold a lonesome in your heart? 
Do you drink from the bottom? 
Don’t forget those lighthouse nights
When the moon for you comes a calling.

Lighthouse Nights

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

I want to be a good man, mama, when I travel
Can I stand the lure of the beautiful
If the tide of your heart does turn in the middle of the night
You're under a gibbous moon in the shallows

Tides

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

May the road rise up to meet you
May your still house be still 
Though those summer storms been shaking the floorboards 
Where your secrets are held.

Fine Line

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

Daughter of the stars
You've been wandering child
But don't you wander far
And I don't have no home
But when Shenandoah calls
You know I go

Shenandoah

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

They say the storm be a coming
So batten down the hatches baby
Come running to me
You can seek shelter from the weather 
In my vessels and my veins and the threads of my sweater

Lily in the Window

Trick of the Light I 2018 I  Roaring Girl Records
written by Dana Sipos and Cecil Castellucci 

When the body breaks 
there will be ruins

I was built for this 
For this I was built

Walking in the wake 
Walking when the body breaks

When the Body Breaks ft. Mary Margaret O'Hara

Trick of the Light I 2018 I  Roaring Girl Records

It was a desert sort of day 
Heard the windsong through the sound
Heard a stillness so wide and low
Sweep deep through the straight
Blew us all off course

Windsong

Trick of the Light I 2018 I Roaring Girl Records

A hush fell over the room as he started to sing
Sing out all the dust and the stains from your scaffolding
Devil tried to make a getaway out through the right speaker into his halo-
Light your cigarette out back, unplug your darling's fiddle
Cause you know better than anyone it's the words that make the man
Not the scars that line your paper back

Do You Good

Hypnotic Folk from Turtle Island (Canada)
www.danasipos.com
new album THE ASTRAL PLANE spring 2021 on ROARING GIRL RECORDS

There is no denying she is one of the most incredible songwriting talents out there. ~ Folk Radio UK

Dana Sipos is an acclaimed Canadian songwriter whose nuanced songs are filled with a haunting surrealism and a wild wind. She toured her 2018 release, Trick of the Light, throughout Canada, the US, Europe and Australia and received an English Songwriter of the Year nod at the 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards.  A new album, The Astral Plane, produced by Sandro Perri, explores the imprints of memory, cycles of grief and the parallels between inherited trauma and the ecological crisis of our time.

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