BraveWords Records is honored to release Greg Fraser’s instrumental guitar version of “O Canada”. The single can be streamed and purchased on Bandcamp or listened to on YouTube.

Greg Fraser is a founding member of Storm Force who are releasing their second album Truth, on August 14th via BraveWords Records.

Stream or Purchase “O Canada” :

https://bravewordsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/truth

“In celebration of Canada Day, I thought it would be fun to record my own instrumental guitar version of “O Canada”.

This is something I’ve wanted to do for the longest time. I’m old enough to remember back in the ’70s, when TV stations would actually sign off for the night. Around 11 or 12 o’clock, the national anthem would play, and after that… pretty much a blank screen.

Someone mentioned that recently, and it brought back a flashback of hearing that traditional version of “O Canada” in my head. It got me thinking — you really don’t hear too many rock versions of our national anthem. So I thought, what the heck, I’m going to give it a shot.

The only thing was, the background arrangement and orchestration felt pretty daunting to me. So I reached out to Storm Force’s touring keyboardist, Mike “Benny” Bedrosian, to see what he could come up with. When he sent me his ideas, I literally got goosebumps. I thought, wow… we might really be onto something here.

We finished the track together with a few tweaks here and there, and then I had Storm Force drummer Roger Banks add some wicked percussion to put the icing on the cake.

I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out.

Happy Canada Day, everyone. Hope you enjoy it!” - Greg Fraser