Beverly Glenn-Copeland | Transmissions [Sackville Edition]

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Transmissions [Sackville Edition]

London, England/Sackville, Canada: Transgressive Records/Struts Gallery, 2021

12” LP w/7” single, gatefold sleeve

Edition of 200 signed and numbered copies

Transmissions is a career retrospective 12” LP in a gatefold sleeve housing an additional 7” single. The Sackville Edition contains a letter-pressed statement by the artist that is signed and numbered. 

The album presents Glenn-Copeland’s work in a non-chronological order, featuring music from throughout his five decade-long career. It also includes his first new song in fifteen years, “River Dreams”, which Pitchfork cited as one of the best 100 songs of 2020. 

Yesterday, Glenn-Copeland announced a forthcoming album, the first record of all new music from the 79-year-old musician in two decades. Titled The Ones Ahead, the LP is to be released on July 28th, on Transgressive Records, the label who released the above retrospective.

The album's opener and lead single is titled “Africa Calling”. 

"In the ’80s, I had the honor of performing with an incredible artist named Dido, a master of the drums indigenous to West Africa. The beauty of this drumming tradition is explored in “Africa Calling.” Over the years, in many conversations, I have come to understand that I share an undefinable, unnamed feeling—a calling—with many other members of the African diaspora, a bone-deep need to explore and express our heritage. Alongside the grief, there is a longing to know our roots, hidden from us as family lines were torn apart in the terrible days of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In a world still caught in the ties of colonialism, I know I am not alone in needing to heed the call of this generations-old longing."

- Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Signed copies of Transmissions [Sackville Edition] are available from the Struts store, here, for $35.00 CDN.