Slipstream of Your Mind

Joe Balazic (Slipstream of Your Mind) has been playing his original music live for over a decade. His influences include learning traditional Slovenian folk songs as a child and spending two years immersed in the Jamaican culture learning gospel spirituals known as choruses. For six years (2011-2017) Joe performed as a volunteer in the recreational music therapy program in a long-term care facility in Richmond Hill where his mom was a resident diagnosed with dementia. Inspired by his mom’s ability to remember lyrics, despite her condition, Joe produced two full length CDs of Slovenian folk songs with his mom singing harmony on each track; Dezela Rajsko Mila (Songs of Heart and Home), 2012 and Gje So Tiste Rozice (Fading Blossoms of Time) 2015. In 2018 Joe released a full-length album of contemporary folk music entitled The Sleeping Giant Sessions inspired by the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.