Evan Freeman - Beyond the Stars (2019)

Evan’s latest release Beyond the Stars is a 13 song album, in 3 parts, that touches on spiritual connection, loss, love, grief and perseverance. The title refers to places and states that defy description: infinite space, waking dreams, visions and distant memories. Oceanic consciousness, the wandering spirit. A cosmic portal, timeless and mysterious.

This album was created in collaboration with Evan’s band: Darren Young (lead guitar, MD), Robin James Cillo (drums) & Jesse Aaron Shire (bass). The songs were developed as a group and the band’s sound is represented well on the album. A host of renowned collaborators sculpted and polished the record, including Charles Spearin (mix engineer, co-producer), Arran Fisher (recording engineer, co-producer), Josh Rob Gwilliam (recording engineer, co-producer) and Elisa Pangsaeng (mastering engineer).

Beyond the Stars is the followup to Evan’s debut album Luna, which was described in the Calgary Herald as “a masterfully sculpted piece of pop-informed shoegazing wonderment” (Mike Bell) and was listed on the CBC Key of A’s top ten albums of 2016.