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Joel Gibb and The Hidden Cameras

Joel Gibb is the lead singer, songwriter and choir captain of the band of folk art rockers The Hidden Cameras. Since forming in Toronto in 2001, Gibb and his gang of musical provocateurs have created music and live performances legendary for their raucous celebration of freedom, sexuality and sound.

Home on Native Land marks the beginning of new chapter for Gibb and The Hidden Cameras. It’s an ode to the country of Gibb’s birth and a return to Canadian soil physically and philosophically. Leaving adolescence behind, The Hidden Cameras pick up and head west to commune with musical ancestors and explore with the gentle folk sounds of the Canadian countryside. Gibb invokes the spirit of the lonesome cowboy as he plumbs the depths of musical memory and delivers an album of toe-tapping rhythms, twang and heartbreak.

With the first line of Home on Native Land, Gibb announces a departure. "I burned everything I own, left it in a pile smoldering,” begins “Day I Left Home.” He leads The Hidden Cameras on a search for something simpler, more beautiful and pure (“Down on knees, digging out the weeds, of all the years”), playing with genre and experimenting with old sounds.