The Passing of the Buffalo by Buckskin

by Andrew Sisk

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In the spring of 2011, Andrew Sisk scanned the stacks of a used bookstore and spotted the thin, aged spine of an antique book titled The Passing of the Buffalo. Published in 1916 in Vancouver, the prologue caught Sisk’s eye as it spoke of the fate of one of North America’s first natural resources, the wild buffalo. Through the book’s prologue, five acts and epilogue, the author details the rapid decline of the buffalo in a beautifully poetic and educated tone from behind the mysterious pen-name, Buckskin. It’s verses reveal a warning for our time and a beauty long forgotten.

Vividly narrating the quick destruction of the enormous herds, this forgotten piece of Canadian literature has never been more relevant than in our current era of climate change and debate on the use of our natural resources. Never re-published and with one of the only remaining copies, Sisk was inspired to celebrate its message by creating a musical score for the book in order to bring attention to a lost masterwork. Using country artist Ryan Cook as the narrator, the darkness and majesty of the extinction of the buffalo is illustrated using reverb soaked guitars and distorted tube amps. Sisk enlisted Pete Hall (A Northern Chorus, Blackburn) on lap steel to perform the orchestrations live off the floor with him at Andy Magoffin’s Cambridge, ON studio, The House of Miracles.

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released August 26, 2014

Words written by Buckskin
Music by Andrew Sisk

Andrew Sisk - Guitars
Ryan Cook - Narration
Pete Hall - Lap Steel

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at The House of Miracles (Cambridge, ON) by Andy Magoffin

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