We realize that you've never heard of Richard Swift. We here at Secretly Canadian will change that. In

fact, Richard Swift will consume your life. "The Collection Vol. 1" is a great place to start. The Novelist —
Swift's highly acclaimed, succinct, eight song, nineteen minute and thirty-eight second-long, audiophile
archivist experiment — immediately ushers the listener deep into the recesses of Swift's creative core for a
kaleidoscopic trip aboard an intergalactic vaudevillian steamship with a speakeasy code-word. Yet, The Novelist
is only one small manifestation of Swift's entire musical manifesto and only one-half of this double-disc set.
Walking Without Effort — the second disc in the two-disc set — is the first, and perhaps most deceptively com-
plex, yet decisively understated, Swift release to date. A slight step eastward from the eclectic musings of The
Novelist, Walking Without Effort intentionally paints another image, and baptizes believers born-again into
Swift's unique brand of sonic schizophrenia. Gramophones are replaced by 8-tracks and Persian rugs are cov-
ered with shag, as Swift nods to the early 70's solo efforts of McCartney and Harrison, while waving to Burt
Bacharach and Van Dyke Parks. They're just passersby as he drives down main street in a Rolls Royce Silver
Shadow. Don't be scared, be excited that Swift intends on writing and releasing music until the day he dies and
intends to never make the same record twice... not even on a double-disc.

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Bloomington, Indiana 47403

www.secretlycanadian.com

RICHARD SWIFT

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THE NOVELIST / WALKING WITHOUT EFFORT

Label: Secretly Canadian • Cat. #: SC111 • Format: 2xCD • CD Box Lot: 10

Street Date: Sept. 6, 2005 • UPC #: 656605011127

The Novelist: Foreward • Lady Day • Lovely Night • Sadsong St. • Blues for Mother • The Novelist

Ballad of Clifford Swift • Looking Back, I Should Have Been Home More

Walking Without Effort:: Walking Without Effort Theme • Half Lit • In The Air • As I Go • Above & Beneath

Mexico (1977) • Losing Sleep • Not Wasting Time • Beautifulheart

Selling Points
1. There is a month-long tour in September with The
Walkmen, including a performance at the Secretly
Canadian CMJ Showcase. Has done past tours with
Earlimart, Okkervil River and Starflyer 59.

2. Up and coming music producer and filmmaker in
Los Angeles.

3. A series of four 7” singles over the past year and a
half have nurtured a loyal underground following.

4. For fans of Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann, Bruce
Springsteen, Jon Brion and Ron Sexsmith.

“Earnestness may be Swift's stock-in-trade... this qualifies as emotional investment of
the highest order... The first album, The Novelist, is densely arranged, with a bonhomie
that's missing from (Rufus) Wainwright's revisionist cabaret.”
Jon Caramanicia, SPIN magazine

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