Share - Touch - Live @ The Capital Bar

Halifax-based songwriter Share (Andrew Sisk) is a busy man. He's crossing the country via train to play in support of his new Can Can Missile album and, when not performing his hypnotic, experimental folk, he lends his musical talents to The Sleepless Nights.

"Once I get back to Halifax I'll have about a week until The Sleepless Nights go on tour," says Sisk. "This is the first time I've been out west.

"It's the whole Canadian experience being on the train."

While Sisk takes in the Rocky Mountains, rolling hills, giant hay bales, endless stretches of prairie and everything else in between, he finds comfort in railroad tracks but looks forward to reuniting with his fellow wide-eyed, nocturnal bandmate, Matt MacDonald (The Sleepless Nights, The Superfantastics). Just as Sisk's railroad pass runs out, he'll join MacDonald on the final leg of The Superfantastics tour.

"I'm that smalltown boy who never thought I would leave rural New Brunswick," Sisk says. "I get so excited seeing tall buildings. I wonder what's going on in there.

"A lot of my first album, Ukulele Tragic, was from the perspective of the country versus the city. I see the world that way, I guess everyone does, as we're all leaving the country to move into cities."

Share has ditched the ukulele and moved into far murkier territory with Can Can Missile. With the production expertise and help of Aaron Wallace, he recorded the album in a bedroom in downtown Halifax.

"Prior to creating this album I was in a bit of a car accident," Sisk says. "The concept of the album was someone having their life flash before their eyes.

"I'm not sure if translates or not, but you can dance to it."

One would assume, with the burgeoning Halifax music scene, that Sisk would find inspiration in his musical peers. But instead he finds it in Canadian poetry.

"I've been writing songs since I was 14, but I would never show them to anyone," Sisk explains. "I went through the early twenty-something stage of writing terrible poetry and then went back to writing songs. I'm far more influenced by poets like Al Purdy and Leonard Cohen than any other lyricist."

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