We're still working on the site, albeit not as much as we'd like. Lots to be done, certainly, but we've been pulled away by other pressing concerns. All the same, we'll update lyrics, new info, etc as time permits!
And, in the meantime, enjoy the clip below of "Automan" by the Young Canadians! (video by Rick Martin, Dave Cochrane, Ed Mowbray)
"Lost Art Bergmann" - a NEW release of DEMO recordings!
The "Lost Art Bergmannn" CD contains the demo tracks from 1986 that got Art a record deal with Duke Street Records. But, instead of using these tracks, the label brought in John Cale (Velvet Underground) to produce a re-recording, the results being basically neutered.
"Lost Art Bergmann" reveals the passion and intensity of those original recordings!
Ten tracks in all: five from the "Crawl With Me" demo tapes, four from a 1986 limited-edition cassette, and an unreleased studio track!The album is band-produced, engineered by Rolf Henneman (Heart, BTO), and mixed by Bob Rock (Metallica, Offspring, Payola$). Paul Hyde (also of the Payola$) co-produced the four tracks from the 1986 cassette. "Lost Art Bergmann"is available through Bearwood music, where a few sample tracks can be heard. It can also be purchased through itunes or Zunior.
...from the other side of Vancouver
This is anArt Bergmannfan site.
We hope this site will help people (re)discover Art's work and develop a new appreciation for what he has given to the history of rock music in Canada, especially out here on the West Coast.
Art is now living on a farm outside of Calgary with his wife - and hasnotbeen involved in the making of this site in any way. That said, he and his wife do know what we have been up to.
This site is entirely a DIY effort that has no commercial angle whatsoever. We would appreciate whateverfeedbackyou’d care to offer. (See "contact" in the menu.)
“Blood from needles, phonograph and otherwise, drip from
each primal and poetic track. No sweet songs for sale, these are Bergmann's tales of darkness culled from our deepest desires and dreams, bruised by life but still raging against the dying of the light. Since the late 1970s, his has been a gloriously gritty rock, the hissing cousin of Westerberg and Iggy, the soul shadow beside Neil and Cohen, a whirlpool of songs threatening to pull you under as they baptize. Not for safety seekers or those Bound For Vegas. For those who cling to rock so as not to sink into the depths. Art is salvation in a godless world.”
James Muretich, rock critic, Calgary Herald
(review of Sexual Roulette CD, 1990)
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