NEW
ROCKHILL
CD
Songs from a
high-rise hideaway.
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THE VIDEO -
“STARVED”
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New Live Performance
Videos
Lyrics
Available now in HMV stores across Canada.
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ROCKHILL
The period between 1977
and 1978 was a time of turmoil in the music world.
Winds of change blew up punk storms to threaten the
music industry’s established order. Controversy raged
between dinosaurs and demigogs. The pounding waves
broke upon, and the hurricane’s fury barely rattled,
the windows of the ROCKHILL.
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None of it was important to Benjamin Russell.
Fed up with the radio in the mid-70’s, he and
Elyce turned it off and withdrew from the world
to recreate themselves far from the
madding crowd. On the edge of the
mountain in Montreal, living in a high-rise
hideaway known as the ROCKHILL, Russell wrote
at least 200 songs in the space of a year. Most
of these were put aside and languished when he
emerged to join the fray with his punk band,
“Madman”.
Featured guests include Russell’s video
collaborator and film composer, Sandra
Chechick, guitar virtuoso,
Peter Patrick, the talented
multi-intstrumentalist, Jean-François
Dumais, and drummer, Fred
Lemelin.
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Thirty years later, some of these songs have
emerged on this album, many startling
in their originality. There’s little
reference to the time or place in which they
were created, so they sound as fresh today as
they would have if they’d been immediately
loosed . The difference is that back then,
Russell would have needed a producer to help
him realize their potential. In the years
since, he’s become an accomplished producer in
his own right and the songs sound even more
original as a result.
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