Black Schwartz
about
Songs for angels, ogres, lovers, and seekers.
Wayward souls and forgotten roads.
Hymns to the bewildered heart; tales of the mad passenger.
Singer-songwriter, Stephen Grant Schwartz,
has made indie folk and alt-country music
as Black Schwartz for over two decades in
Toronto, Canada and Istanbul, Turkey.
Songs for
angels, ogres, lovers, and seekers.
Wayward souls and forgotten roads.
Hymns to the bewildered heart;
tales of the mad passenger.
Singer-songwriter,
Stephen Grant Schwartz, has made
indie folk and alt-country music
as Black Schwartz for over
two decades in Toronto, Canada
and Istanbul, Turkey.
Releases
Little Meadow (2020)
By ballad and reverie, mockery and prayer,
Little Meadow is the debut album from Black Schwartz:
ten wintry folk songs born of grit, consolation,
and spiritual dust.
By ballad and reverie,
mockery and prayer,
Little Meadow is the
debut album from Black Schwartz:
ten wintry folk songs
born of grit, consolation,
and spiritual dust.
Album Credits
- Album
- Little Meadow — released August 21, 2020
- All Words and Music Written by
- Stephen Grant Schwartz (Black Schwartz) — SOCAN
- Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by
- Sandro Perri, in Toronto, Canada at 6 Nassau (2016) and West of Vinny's (2018 & 2020), except for “Little Meadow,” originally recorded by Black Schwartz in 2013
- Performed by
- BS — guitar, vocals, harmonica
SP — melodica on “Horse of the Wild” and “Close Up Shop” - Album Artwork by
- Black Schwartz
- Skull by
- Albrecht Dürer, 1521
News
A follow-up album to Little Meadow is in the works.
A follow-up album to Little Meadow is in the works.
Winter 2026/27
“Can all the hellebore in the Anticyrae cure these men?
No, sure, ‘an acre of hellebore will not do it.’”
— The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton, 1621
Black Hellebore Image Cutout from “Four poisonous plants: crowfoot, fly agaric fungus, foxglove, and hellebore.” Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855. Public Domain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
