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4in1 # 2 / LISA BOZIKOVIC - This is How We Swim (2012)

Artist: Lisa Bozikovic
Accompanying Artists: Lisa Conway (Del Bel) & Laura C.Bates
Location: Dundonald Park in Ottawa, Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundonald_Park
Song: This is How We Swim
Artist Info: http://lisabozikovic.ca/news http://lauracbates.com/ delbelmusic.com/site
Video Info: partusfilms.com
Gatekeeper: photogmusic.com

ARTIST
Bozikovic is a Toronto singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who "maps out introspective narratives with clear, evocative turns of phrase, then uses her nuanced delivery to magnify each emotional dip and swerve" (Sarah Liss CBC). Her songs ebb and flow with quietly ornate moments - a riot of strings here, a whimsical Moog solo there. On both her debut Lost August (Dec 2009) and her upcoming release This is How we Swim (Fall 2012), she worked with co-producer Sandro Perri and Heather Kirby (Ohbijou) to embellish her keys arrangements with experimental techniques and lush orchestration. Following the wave of critical acclaim surrounding the release of Lost August, CBC named her as one of the top artists to watch in 2010.

DUNDONALD PARK
The park commemorates the Soviet Defector Igor Gouzenko who was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.

Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War.

It was from this park that Royal Canadian Mounted Police agents monitored Gouzenko's apartment across the street on the night men from the Soviet embassy came looking for Gouzenko. The memorial plaques are the result of four years of effort by history enthusiast Andrew Kavchak, who first came across Gouzenko's case, and decided that "the first major international event of the Cold War" deserved a memorial.