Michael Cloud Duguay’s Next Album Was Recorded on Seven Church Organs in Rural Newfoundland

Michael Cloud Duguay has announced “Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go,” an album built entirely around seven different pipe organs housed in rural Newfoundland churches. It follows his 2025 project “Wobbly Yonder,” but moves into a more site-specific, acoustic lineage. Each track is a direct encounter with an instrument and a room.

The recording happened in July 2024 over nine days, using The Scamper, a converted 1970s RV turned solar-powered mobile studio. Engineer Jake Nicoll, who owns The Scamper, traveled with Duguay to each location. No studios, no digital approximations. The organs themselves, their tunings, and the wood-and-stone acoustics shaped the work.

Lead single “Winterhouse” was captured at the Memorial United Church in Bonavista. It features vocals from Cormac Culkeen of Scions, a group Duguay also plays in. The track draws on a slow, breath-like organ pulse, with Culkeen’s voice carrying a folk melody that feels anchored to the place.

By fixing the process to a single region and its surviving church instruments, Duguay gives the album a documentary quality. The project doesn’t treat these organs as curiosities, but as living sound sources tied to specific communities. No release date has been set.