Michael Cloud Duguay - Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go (2026) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Michael Cloud Duguay
- Title: Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Watch That Ends The Night Records
- Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Field-Recordings
- Quality: FLAC 24/48000; 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:44:54
- Total Size: 218; 481 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Canadian composer and producer Michael Cloud Duguay, based in Ontario, spent nine days in July 2024 driving "the Scamper" — a solar-powered 1970s RV converted into a mobile studio — roughly 1,500 kilometres up the eastern coastline of Newfoundland. His goal was to find and record seven historic church organs in remote, sparsely populated communities, from the islands of Greenspond and Fogo up to the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula and across to the island's west coast. Some of the instruments hadn't been serviced in over a century — one had to be dug out from beneath a pile of rubble in the upper gallery of a decommissioned church — while others had been fitted with digital keyboards and amplification.
He was joined on the trip by longtime collaborator Jake Nicoll (engineering, flute, voice), Andrew MacKelvie (organ, saxophones, flute, piano, compositions), and Dave Grenon (field recordings, co-production), with photographer Noah Bender documenting the journey. Duguay had little prior experience playing organ, and none of the compositions were written at the instrument itself — a constraint that gave the record a sense of genuine discovery rather than limitation. The experience later led him to study organ formally through a scholarship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists, who also supported the recording.
Newfoundland's churches are typically isolated and have almost no digital footprint, so Duguay spent months trying to reach parish representatives, explaining he wanted to record each organ exactly as it was. That hands-on process led to unexpected common ground with congregants — like the brothers in Cupids who proudly showed off their new geothermal heating system while marveling at the solar-powered Scamper in turn. Many of the churches, originally built to hold up to 2,000 worshippers, now hold as few as five — mostly elderly congregants maintaining the buildings in steady faith that the community will return, even as the fate of the organs suggests otherwise.
Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go unfolds less like a conventional organ record and more like a layered sonic document: alongside the organ music itself are creaking bellows, wooden clunks, wind whistling through bell towers, and muffled voices of local ministers, wardens, and congregants reflecting on faith, church attendance, and personal experience. A climate thread runs through the project too — organs are highly sensitive to temperature and humidity, and centuries of tuning logs turn out to be an inadvertent record of a changing climate. Each of the seven organs was also sampled individually, becoming an electronic resource for other musicians; virtual instrument packs are set to be released for free after the album's release, extending the project into preservation.
The album is out via Watch That Ends the Night Records. Lead single "Winterhouse," built around the breathing drone of a century-old church organ and featuring spectral vocals from Cormac Culkeen of Scions, drifts between folk ritual and devotional grandeur, setting the tone for the record.
Tracklist:
1-1 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 1 [2:59]
1-2 Michael Cloud Duguay - River of Ponds [4:58]
1-3 Michael Cloud Duguay - Greenspond Tickle [3:23]
1-4 Michael Cloud Duguay;Scions - Winterhouse [5:22]
1-5 Michael Cloud Duguay - Little Seldom [5:35]
1-6 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 2 [0:51]
1-7 Michael Cloud Duguay;Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Tilting [2:15]
1-8 Michael Cloud Duguay;Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Change Islands [5:15]
1-9 Michael Cloud Duguay - Damnable Island [6:28]
1-10 Michael Cloud Duguay;Georges E. Sioui - Settlement [6:28]
1-11 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 3 [1:18]
He was joined on the trip by longtime collaborator Jake Nicoll (engineering, flute, voice), Andrew MacKelvie (organ, saxophones, flute, piano, compositions), and Dave Grenon (field recordings, co-production), with photographer Noah Bender documenting the journey. Duguay had little prior experience playing organ, and none of the compositions were written at the instrument itself — a constraint that gave the record a sense of genuine discovery rather than limitation. The experience later led him to study organ formally through a scholarship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists, who also supported the recording.
Newfoundland's churches are typically isolated and have almost no digital footprint, so Duguay spent months trying to reach parish representatives, explaining he wanted to record each organ exactly as it was. That hands-on process led to unexpected common ground with congregants — like the brothers in Cupids who proudly showed off their new geothermal heating system while marveling at the solar-powered Scamper in turn. Many of the churches, originally built to hold up to 2,000 worshippers, now hold as few as five — mostly elderly congregants maintaining the buildings in steady faith that the community will return, even as the fate of the organs suggests otherwise.
Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go unfolds less like a conventional organ record and more like a layered sonic document: alongside the organ music itself are creaking bellows, wooden clunks, wind whistling through bell towers, and muffled voices of local ministers, wardens, and congregants reflecting on faith, church attendance, and personal experience. A climate thread runs through the project too — organs are highly sensitive to temperature and humidity, and centuries of tuning logs turn out to be an inadvertent record of a changing climate. Each of the seven organs was also sampled individually, becoming an electronic resource for other musicians; virtual instrument packs are set to be released for free after the album's release, extending the project into preservation.
The album is out via Watch That Ends the Night Records. Lead single "Winterhouse," built around the breathing drone of a century-old church organ and featuring spectral vocals from Cormac Culkeen of Scions, drifts between folk ritual and devotional grandeur, setting the tone for the record.
Tracklist:
1-1 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 1 [2:59]
1-2 Michael Cloud Duguay - River of Ponds [4:58]
1-3 Michael Cloud Duguay - Greenspond Tickle [3:23]
1-4 Michael Cloud Duguay;Scions - Winterhouse [5:22]
1-5 Michael Cloud Duguay - Little Seldom [5:35]
1-6 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 2 [0:51]
1-7 Michael Cloud Duguay;Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Tilting [2:15]
1-8 Michael Cloud Duguay;Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Change Islands [5:15]
1-9 Michael Cloud Duguay - Damnable Island [6:28]
1-10 Michael Cloud Duguay;Georges E. Sioui - Settlement [6:28]
1-11 Michael Cloud Duguay - Pond 3 [1:18]
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