I am the Night

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Year 2005
Label IMNH 105
Format CD
Genre Spoken Word Poetry & Prose
Keywords Unknown
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I am the Night

By: Norm Hacking

Origin: Toronto, Ontario

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33 tracks

  • I Am the Night (for Kimberly)

    Track 1

  • My Dear (for Isabella)

    Track 2

  • Crashing Unfixedly Broken

    Track 3

  • Dinner with Marilyn (for Norma Jean)

    Track 4

  • Equine Valentine (for Joanne and Dancing Minstrel)

    Track 5

  • This One's the Dreamer

    Track 6

  • I Curse My Generation (for Michael Laderoute and his song "Old Soldiers")

    Track 7

  • The Legend of Wiarton Willie

    Track 8

  • It's Golf That Takes Guts

    Track 9

  • Birthday Poem

    Track 10

  • Intimate Conversations (for Michael Peter Smith)

    Track 11

  • Skysongs

    Track 12

  • Maybe One More (for Ella, the Keeper of Christmas)

    Track 13

  • My Boy (for Ben)

    Track 14

  • Richer for the Time (for Steve Goodman)

    Track 15

  • My Spirit's Whisper

    Track 16

  • The Cheshire Vulture (for T-Pot)

    Track 17

  • I Have Imagined You (for Kate)

    Track 18

  • A Stranger's Prayer

    Track 19

  • Smeed Sets Buggles (for Corby)

    Track 20

  • Janine at The Silver Dollar

    Track 21

  • Cemetary Clowns

    Track 22

  • A Teardrop on My Palm (for Kitty)

    Track 23

  • Same Dream (for Holmes Hooke, Kevin Fulbrook & the "Ghosts of the Belvedere")

    Track 24

  • The Game Never Ends (for Bower & Mahovlich, Keon & Horton, & for Ed Mulvihill)

    Track 25

  • The Prize

    Track 26

  • Jimmy Don't Cry (for McCuaig)

    Track 27

  • The Robot Road

    Track 28

  • Using Your Head

    Track 29

  • Valentine for a Politician (for Mike Harris and his ilk)

    Track 30

  • Valentine for the Ex Who Still Wants to Be Friends

    Track 31

  • We Live (for Red, and for "one breathless moment")

    Track 32

  • Olya Katarina (for Kathy O.)

    Track 33

Insight

Norm Hacking's debut spoken word CD I Am the Night includes 33 original poetry and prose selections from this Toronto-based independent songwriter, poet, columnist and performer. For more than 30 years, he has been winning loyal fans and critical acclaim for his beautifully crafted songs, with their moving and often humorous insights into life, love, songwriting - and cats! Recently his performances have incorporated more spoken word. Phil Ball of Toronto's Iridescent Music invited Norm to his studio to record some of these works.

Norm chose some of his favourites - ranging from inspiring to humourous reflections on a variety of subjects, from full length columns to very short - poetry, prose and three song lyrics as spoken word.

It was Norm's favoured style of recording, as the studio time was brief - most was done in one long day! Then he carefully considered the order for the tracks. And multi-talented Phil quickly designed the graphics and organized adding the CD to Iridescent Music's fine catalogue of indie CDs.

As fans who attend Norm's concerts know, his readings are expressive and engaging, reflecting his acting experience (but never over-acting). As with his songs, his spoken word pieces are worth hearing many times. Norm left his guitar at home, and no instrumental backgrounds were added - so these tracks are just as you hear them in his concert performances.

The CD release was marked with a concert Monday December 19, 2005 at the Renaissance Cafe (1938 Danforth, just west of the Woodbine subway in Toronto), roots-friendly site of many of Norm's concerts. Launch details are are archived on Norm's past events of 2005 page.

In the list below, direct links are given to works posted on this website. The two longer pieces (tracks 4 and 13) are prose first published in Taxi News as monthly "Race Track Hack" columns, which Norm has written since February 1992. Tracks 6, 15 and 33 are readings of song lyrics. To sample more writings, go to the list of Norm's lyrics and prose on this website.

Executive Producer: Phil Ball
Recorded by Charlie Agnello
Mixed and Mastered by Steve Grisbrook
at Iridescent Music Studio, Toronto

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