Halcyon Phase is a collaboration between veteran singer-songwriter Frank Smith (Sills & Smith) and legendary producer/recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Phillip Victor Bova (Bova Sound).  The debut Halcyon Phase studio album Tendrils -- released on March 20th, 2021 -- features 13 diverse melodic tunes: dark, undulating rockers; gauzy pastoral ballads and trippy psychedelia. The physical edition of Tendrils comes in a beautiful full colour digipak CD, with photography and design by Grace Smith. 

The band's second album Critical Misunderstandings On The Precipice was released on September 20, 2024. Critical Misunderstandings On The Precipice, also produced and recorded at Bova Sound in Ottawa by Phillip Victor Bova is a tour de force. The songs address the state of the world, human relationships, actions and inaction, at a particularly perilous moment in our history. These are love songs, break-up songs; treatises and melodies that speak to social injustice/inequities, climate change, Artificial Intelligence (AI), struggles with mental illness and addiction. A thread lamenting the rapid passage of time and aging runs through it. 

This new collection of tunes also explores the role of the artist in society across mediums of artistic expression; the value and importance of pursuing art at all costs. Halcyon Phase leaders Frank Smith (words and music), Phillip Victor Bova (music) have crafted a compelling collection of powerful, melodic songs that are framed in genres including folk, indie rock and progressive rock, with distinct flavours of jazz. Session musicians and singers joined Phil and Frank in the studio to lend their talents to complete Critical Misunderstandings On The Precipice. 

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