Albums

1. Whiskey Jack Homage
2. Monsters. 
3. Flicker. 
4. Me and Pauline. 
5. Tough Girl. 
6. Kiyam.
7. If I Were a Bird.
8. Where'd You Go Joe. 
9. Sweet Memories


KIYAM - 2024
In Kiyam (pronounced kee-yam) Phyllis Sinclair leans toward an ancient Cree mantra. Loosely translated kiyam means “let it be” in her Cree language. She explains that while kiyam means let it be, it does not condone, nor excuse any disruption, offence or collapse. Rather, she says , kiyam means that for the moment we are willing to turn and face another direction while we stabilize to explore workable solutions. It’s a pause to reflect; a breath to restore, turning doubt to done, and fear to finished.                                 
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1. O Land
2. Unforgotten Lullaby.
3. Blankets and Stones.
4. Weathered Wings.
5. Ghost Bones.
6. Going Home Star.
7. Run Brother Run.
8. Wawatay eh Nimihitocik.
9. The Sail

GHOST BONES 2021
Suffused with prismatic cinematism, Ghost Bones pools a daring look at Indigenous realities ranging from social justice to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, juxtaposed with dancing northern lights, and going-home stars. Its spacious tribal atmospheric-ism subterfuges the hard-hitting depth of its topicality. While stars and northern lights may appear to divert from the album's ethos, on the contrary. These songs point to the power of her culture's spirituality, utilizing mythology, and astronomy to teach and sustain through centuries of deprivations and afflictions. 

*  CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATED
 * #1 CANADIAN FOLK, ROOTS, BLUES CHART

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1.Washerwoman's Lament
2. Another Single Day
3. Morning Laughter
4. Our Side of the Line
5. The Tenptress
6. Sunday Best
7. At The End of the Road
8. Finding Ontario
9. Where Time Stands Still

DREAMS OF THE WASHERWOMEN - 2016
Both tender and turbulent, Dreams of the Washerwomen is a ten song tribute album that pays homage to the two northern women who scraped out a meagre living as washerwomen to  teach, and to survive. Washerwoman's Lament is a day-in-the-life look at the mundane repetitiveness of the daily washing grind for two 1940's Cree washerwomen.

* CANADIAN ABORIGINAL MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATED


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1. Minoh Awasis

2. Snowflakes

3. Mary's Song for Joseph

4. Evergreen

5. Wishlist

6. A Lesson in Harmony

7. Handwritten Christmas Card

8. Christmas Detour

9. Merry Christmas

WISHLIST -2014
Wishlist is a Christmas album that even Scrooge would enjoy! This flavorful nine song collection of truly universal Holiday originals celebrates the intent of the season with zest, warmth and charm. From the fun and effervescent apologue, "Evergreen", a conversation with a Charley Brown Christmas tree overlooked for the more attractive conifers in a tree lot, to the jubilant arrival of a "Handwritten Christmas Card".  This album magically expresses the essence of Christmas; peace, goodwill, and understanding from an appealingly human perspective.   

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1. My Fishing Hole

2. Sayisi Song

3. The Manicure

4. Wreck of the Dictator

5. My Northern Town

6. Alberta Rose

7. Encinitas

8. Main Street

9. Jewels on the Crown of  Saint John

10. Lost for Words

11. Mary Jo

12. Four Days in Groningen

FATHOMLESS TALES FROM LEVIATHAN'S HOLE - 2011
Leviathan's hole is more than just a dark foreboding abyss. It's also an illuminated macrocosm of wonder. Leviathan's hole symbolizes all those human experiences that carve character into our otherwise boring souls: those unabashed admissions of humanness, acknowledgements of vulnerability, and confessions of fallibleness from everyday people who rose above to tell of it.

* CANADIAN ABORIGINAL MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATED

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1. The Saxophonist
2. The Old Nine
3. Off Music Row
4. One Track Mind
5. North Coast Fisher Wife's Prayer
6. Hard Time Hannah
7. Fence Posts and Stones
8. I Promise
9. When You Coming Back (to Medicine Hat)

FENCE POSTS AND STONES -  2021
Fence Posts and Stones takes us from the ocean to the prairie, introducing us to people and places that carve a certain dynamism on the seemingly benign landscape. This album exemplifies Canadiana, variegated mosaics of surprising paragons and narratives. The hauntingly captivating North Coast Fisher Wife's Prayer is just one of these.

*  Hard Time Hannah #1 NCI-FM Top 40 Countdown
*  North Coast Fisherwife's Prayer Featured Folk Song in Penguin Eggs Magazine

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