Waterbound cover

Waterbound, the debut album of the Toronto string quartet The Fretless, came out in 2012 on the band’s own account; Discogs lists it as self-released. The group’s two fiddles, viola and cello play fiddle tunes and folk melodies in arranged form. Discogs credits Trent Freeman, Karrnnel Sawitsky and Ivonne Hernandez on violin and viola and Eric Wright on cello, with the four of them as producers and Joby Baker as co-producer and engineer. Ruth Moody is the featured vocalist on the title track, which Discogs credits to Dirk Powell as writer.

In 2012 the album won Instrumental Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, and the band took Instrumental Group of the Year and Ensemble of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards that year. The group’s later album Bird’s Nest, not Waterbound, won the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Box, Man 5:39
  2. 2 Beads At the Market 4:28
  3. 3 Waterbound alt version 3:26
  4. 4 The Northern Three 4:47
  5. 5 A Bunch of Time 4:37
  6. 6 Brigitte 4:38
  7. 7 As We Pray 3:11
  8. 8 Harder to Walk 3:56
  9. 9 Growlin' 3:46

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