David Leask - Fire & Ice (Live Performance)

“Fire & Ice” is from David Leask’s concept record, “Voyageur In Song” http://www.davidleask.com/voyageur - songs inspired by pieces in the Six String Nation guitar, an instrument that is unique in the world, comprised of 64 pieces of Canadian history and culture from every province and territory. The live performance of “Fire & Ice” features David Leask on vocals and acoustic guitar and Justin Abedin on electric guitar. David Leask talks with Jowi Taylor about the origin of the piece of the Labradorite used on the inlay of Voyageur’s 3rd and 9th frets and the inspiring legends behind the song, the unusual time signature and how it’s voiced from the point of view of the billion year old piece of rock. A couple of strange synchronicities happened around "Fire & Ice”. The first was when I was returning the Six String Nation guitar to Jowi Taylor after having written this song in a crazy 5/4 time signature.  Jowi told me about a poem he had commissioned by renowned poet Robert Dickson  about Voyageur called “Générations”.  He proceeded to play it for me and to my amazement I heard Robert recite these words: “This playing is work this work is playing with time space laughter friendship all shared and shored up with crazy love from 5/4 time to immemorial” It was as if Voyageur had sent out a request for a song in 5/4 time and it had been delivered.  The second synchronicity happened after writing the song and discovering that a piece of “Rocket Richard’s” Stanley cup ring had been inlaid into one of the pieces of Labradorite in the guitar. “Fire & Ice” could have been just as good a title for a song about Canada’s iconic hockey legend Maurice Richard! Words & Music written by David Leask & Published by Power Of Song Recorded at Catherine North Studios; engineered by Will Crann; mixed by Dave Vanderploeg at Naturally Digital. Filmmaking by Big Red Oak. Learn more about the David Leask at https://davidleask.com/ and the Six String Nation guitar at https://www.sixstringnation.com/ This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.