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A song a month in 2025
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A new song recorded to 4-track tape every month

Volume 1

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41:12
12 months, 12 tapes, 12 songs (Volume 1)
Listen now | Full album stream
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
2:38
New Year (Volume 1, Track 12)
A song a month in 2025
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
3:01
Blood (Volume 1, Track 11)
A song a month in 2025
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
3:23
Soulful Song (Volume 1, Track 10)
A song a month in 2025
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
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Soulful Song (Volume 1, Track 10)
A song a month in 2025
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Where Love Goes
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The Love that Moves the Sun and the Other Stars
A new studio recording and a concert to celebrate its existence.
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5pm (Volume 1, Track 9)
A Song a Month in 2025
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4:13
Why I've been Recording to Tape
Except it's also the one about internet addiction.
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Where You Are (Volume 1, Track 8)
A Song a Month in 2025
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Interviews with Canadian Singer Songwriters

The New Canadiana

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The New Canadiana #6: Princess Towers
Trying to find the place where music belongs
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The New Canadiana #5: Joel Brandt
Reflections on 15 years of writing, recording, and releasing music
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak and Joel Brandt
The New Canadiana #4: Andrea Cormier
Songwriting as an inner work of attention
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
The New Canadiana #3: Darrel Cameron
Inner landscape and the human being behind the song
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Essays on the Mysteries of Art-Making

Essays

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Why I've been Recording to Tape
Except it's also the one about internet addiction.
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
How I Stopped Trying to Quit Music
"Truth cannot fail to have an individual ring on each of its instruments" —Sertillanges
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Talking to Music
3 ways to access what is human in the music you love
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
How to Write a Song
Just be like compost
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Silence
Fr. Antonin Sertillanges on the conditions of thinking, writing, and poetry.
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
The Death and Resurrection of the Biopic
Bob Dylan, Robbie Williams, and Divine Inspiration
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Slowly
A resolution for creative work in 2025
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Turning
A poem and some choral music as the days become brighter
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
The Mystical Plowboy and his Sketchbook
On the Paintings and Practice of Tom Forrestall, pt. 2
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Trusting the Page
Finding a Way Forward in the Writing Life
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Realism and the True Vision of the World
On the Paintings and Practice of Tom Forrestall
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
Microcosms: The World and the Work of Art
A reflection on our project, "Bound", and its six handmade books of illustrated poetry
 • Matthew Joel Vanderkwaak
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