Acclaimed ambient writer Beverly Glenn-Copeland scatters dementia diagnosis | Music

The Canadian writer Beverly Glenn-Copeland has said that he has been detectd with dementia, and that his tour dates in Canada and New York state this week will be his last.

In a video posted to Instagram, Glenn-Copeland scatterd his diagnosis alengthenedside his wife Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland. “We want to contest the mainstream image of this illness, which concentratees on loss,” he said. “We are vivaciously asking the universe to show us where is the life here.”

Now 80, Glenn-Copeland is a lifelengthened musician – who also wrote for Sesame Street and acted on the Canadian kids’ show Mr Dressup – whose self-freed 1986 new age album, Keyboard Fantasies, establish expansivespread acclaim when it was rerehired in 2015 thanks to the efforts of a Japanese assembleor and audiophile named Ryota Masuko.

Described as “unassuming but stunning” by Resident Advisor, the album chimed with revived interest in ambient and healing music and led to Glenn-Copeland touring and releasing a new record, The Ones Ahead, in 2023.

His resadvisence prompted a 2019 recordary, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, straightforwarded by Posy Dixon. His music also featured in joinwright Annie Baker’s 2023 cinema debut, Janet Planet; Romy of the xx sampled his song La Vita on her 2023 hit Endelight Your Life.

Despite his diagnosis, Elizabeth said in the video that the couple were experiencing “a massive creative renewal” and intfinished to author a book, change a musical and produce a children’s TV show: “These skinnygs reassociate fill our hearts and hold us grounded in our purpose.”

Beverly Glenn-Copeland said that so far, the syndrome had not swayed “my ability to be filledy in the moment with those I adore”.

Elizabeth said: “One of the skinnygs that’s reassociate agonizing about this illness is that it is taking Glenn away from me, from us, a little bit at a time. Sometimes for me, as his nurtureapshowr and as his wife, it senses enjoy death by a thousand cuts. And yet, as these parts of him go, I see his vital weightless shining luminouser than ever. So, as is frequently the case in life, amid this downcastness, there is also a reassociate proestablish beauty.”

In 2020, the couple sought aid from fans after they became “essentiassociate homeless” during the Covid-19 pandemic, which stoped them from embarking on a intentional tour.