Download the new version Downie 41/17/2024 Recorded in snatches between 20 whenever the pair’s paths crossed, Bob Rock's Grammy Award-winning flair lights up Gord Downie's peerless lyricism and incendiary heart on each of the album’s fourteen songs. More than a decade in the making, Lustre Parfait is charged with the newfangled energy of two restless talents pushing each other further, testing the limits of their creativity in lockstep. “The Moment Is A Wild Place” is a centerpiece of Lustre Parfait, the long-mythologized fourteen-song double-album that will finally see the light of day in its entirety on via Arts & Crafts. It's one of Gord’s finest moments.” LISTEN & SHARE "THE MOMENT IS A WILD PLACE" HERE ‘They say you gotta live in the moment.’ It causes you to look back – and I get choked up every time I hear it still. “The lyric was written before Gord was diagnosed with the sickness that he had. “It's special because of what he talks about,” Rock reflects. The late frontman of legendary rock band The Tragically Hip – treasured beyond his lifetime for bestowing timeless songs like "Ahead By A Century,” “Courage (for Hugh MacLellan"), and "Bobcaygeon” to name only a few – Downie today offers amongst his most indelible performances, in collaboration with iconic producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, Michael Bublé) – the shimmering and cathartic seven-and-a-half minute "The Moment Is A Wild Place." Shot with Rock's wall of guitar sound, Gord sings to the heights of his agility, his voice hearkening back to halcyon days, his lyrics as simple yet profound as any he wrote during his time – "They keep saying, ‘Just live in the moment / What they don't say / Is the moment / Is a wild place.” A beacon in defiance to the paradox of being alive, now, "The Moment Is A Wild Place" is a magical gift from the collision of rock n' roll giants, and a heartrending artifact of Downie’s singular ability to capture a moment. "The Moment Is A Wild Place" is an epic ballad that will contend with the greatest songs in the eternal canon of Gord Downie.
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