~Sepia~ is a song written out of concern for the Earth, our shared home. We offer it as well for anyone suffering the loss of home for any reason, which happens all too often in our own community and around the world. We felt the wind in our sails with the musical arrangement - an intertwining banjo-mandolin duet and vocal harmonies at the core,

~Sepia~ is a song written out of concern for the Earth, our shared home. We offer it as well for anyone suffering the loss of home for any reason, which happens all too often in our own community and around the world. We felt the wind in our sails with the musical arrangement - an intertwining banjo-mandolin duet and vocal harmonies at the core, extending into electric guitar from Luke, deep, dark bass from jazz bassist Patrick Reid, and strings from Kaitlyn Raitz, and Ben Plotnick (The Fretless) bringing a kaleidoscopic range of colour and texture, all tied up in nostalgia and melancholy. Released on November 16, it truly feels like a November song. Thanks for listening, dear friends.

The full album "Dear Friend" is out January 13, 2023. <3

Huge thanks to Graeme Campbell (co-production, recording, mixing, and many-a heart-to-heart) and J. LaPointe (mastering). Your work is truly magnificent.

Cover art by Luke Fraser - a photo captured in Brooklyn years ago.

The Bombadils are: Sarah Frank and Luke Fraser

Sepia - CREDITS

Songwriter: Sarah Frank (SOCAN)

Vocals, banjo: Sarah Frank

Vocals, mandolin, electric guitar: Luke Fraser

Bass: Patrick Reid

Violin, Viola: Ben Plotnick

Cello: Kaitlyn Raitz

Recording, Mixing: Graeme Campbell

Mastering: J. LaPointe

ISRC: CA7W42200008

No matter who you are, life brings its struggles, worries, and conflict. Yet sun and leaves make dappled light, rivers flow, people heal, and forgive, and beauty has a way of nudging through the noise in a persistent whisper. "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming," inspired by The Bombadils’ time spent living by the St. Lawrence River in Montreal's borough of

No matter who you are, life brings its struggles, worries, and conflict. Yet sun and leaves make dappled light, rivers flow, people heal, and forgive, and beauty has a way of nudging through the noise in a persistent whisper. "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming," inspired by The Bombadils’ time spent living by the St. Lawrence River in Montreal's borough of Verdun, is about holding onto beauty in the small things, finding rest in it, wondering where it comes from, and hoping it's not all a dream.

In “Tell My I’m Not Dreaming,” The Bombadils’ Luke Fraser and Sarah Frank collaborate with Halifax harp-player Ellen Gibling, and Ethan Jodziewicz out of Nashville, on bass. This arrangement finds a sweet spot between Gibling’s harp and Fraser’s guitar, allowing the hopeful lyrics to rest on river-like waves of sound, sensitively captured and mixed by co-producer Graeme Campbell.