For the past decade, Gitga’at Ts’msyen musician Jeremy Pahl had been performing under the moniker Saltwater Hank, a known and beloved commodity in Canada’s blues and roots communities. A few years ago, he started yearning for something different, something heavier and harder. It was around that time that one day, mid-conversation, an elderly member of his community hit him with some blunt criticism: “You know, that name Saltwater Hank is kind of dumb.” Pahl’s friend reasoned that, since he was singing in Sm’algyax, their people’s language, he ought to have a name from the language, too. This “cousin-uncle” suggested a new name: G̱a̱mksimoon. Pronounced “gum-ksi-moan,” the word means “water spout” or “sea tornado.”