The Line

Moon on a daylit sky/aaron embry COVER

E'nuff

Northwest Symphony Orchestra, dir. Anthony Spain
For Bern Herbolsheimer

A nun takes the veil

    I have desired to go	
      Where springs not fail,	
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail	
    And a few lilies blow.	
 
    And I have asked to be	        
      Where no storms come,	
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,	
    And out of the swing of the sea.	

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
 

Hanna Benn- Where Springs Not Fail

A composer, vocalist, and genre-spanning collaborator, Hanna Benn has been creating music for over a decade. Her multi-disciplinary approach incorporates dance, opera, and theater — submerging boundaries and discovering new sonic landscapes in the process. With roots in gospel and choral music, Benn began exploring music as both an intimate and collective experience at an early age.

Benn's voice carries the crispness of cathedral tones — the sensuality of her sacred sonic corpus mixes with a clarity that rushes ambiguity out through stained glass windows. Able to take clearly delineated genres, deconstruct them, and then unify them in her work, Benn creates pieces that are simultaneously accessible and profound, elevated and organic, sacred and common.

She wrote and recorded work on Son Lux's "Bones" album and toured with Boots (who has produced Beyoncé, FKA Twigs, and Run the Jewels). Her commissioned work and compositions have been performed across the country, from a five-hour opera and dance performance in collaboration with Alice Gosti and the Northwest Symphony Orchestra to a composition celebrating Black American composers with Davida Ingram and the North Chamber Orchestra. She recently completed a residency at Central State in Indianapolis where she wrote much of her debut EP.

Divide (Sing, Persist)

Light Body

A Guest House

Hanna Benn's multi-disciplinary approach incorporates dance, opera, and theater — submerging boundaries and discovering new sonic landscapes in the process. With roots in gospel and choral music, Benn began exploring music as both an intimate and collective experience at an early age. She now returns with her debut EP DIVIDE, out January 19, 2018 via This Is Meru.

The EP highlights Benn's voice that carries with it crispness of cathedral tones — the sensuality of her sacred sonic corpus mixes with a clarity that rushes ambiguity out through the stained glass windows. She is able to take clearly delineated genres, deconstruct them, and then unify them in her work — creating pieces that are simultaneously accessible and profound, elevated and organic, sacred and common. The exquisite textures and unfolding melodic mantras on Benn's debut DIVIDE convey a sense of confident patience throughout the EP's meditative, forward-marching movements.

Unfasten

Sankofa - Mov IV&V - Walks With An Offering - Joy Submits It Spins It Repeats

Sankofa - Mov I - Inward Gazes The Spirit

from the project Procession by Hanna Benn & Deantoni Parks

Opening is the first movement of the Procession cycle. This track features Leo Abrahams, Hanna Benn and Deantoni Parks.

Procession: Opening

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Hanna Benn

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