Name: Exortation-Potomac River Sacred Harp Convention by Bridget Camden in new set list
Duration: 1 min 58 s
Description: Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention 2013

new set list

ShH 096b Leaning On Jesus' Breast

Purchase "Spectre" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spectre-single/id825607441

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

Design and layout by Scott Hansen
Photography by Reuben Wu

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Spectre

Tenor (Fynn Titford-Mock) and treble (Rachel Hall) parts from "Angels Songs" in James P. Carrell's Songs of Zion, 1821. Poetry by Charles Wesley, 1758.

He comes! he comes! the Judge severe,
The seventh trumpet speaks him near;
His lightnings flash, his thunders roll,
How welcome to the faithful soul!


SZ 27 Angels Songs

O Musgrove, he persuaded me,
Persuading me for to agree,
Persuading me, he thus did say,
Let's join and do some forgery.

O now in jail, where I do lay,
In heavy irons, cold as clay,
I soon the day shall shortly see,
That'll land my soul in eternity.

Song from the Social Harp (1855) sung from The Shenandoah Harmony, State College, Pa., July 27, 2014.

ShH 424t Musgrove

New shape-note compositions sung at the PNW Sacred Harp Convention composium, Oct 2014.

Tivey's Notebook By Steve Luttinen, 2014

Departure By Kevin Barrans, 2013

Election Hymn, by Jeremiah Ingalls, 1805, with alto by Myles Louis Dakan, 2012.  Words by Ezra Carter, 1805. Sung at the Second Annual Lehigh Valley All-Day Shenandoah Harmony Singing.

ShH 398 Election Hymn

Lisbon, by Henry F. Chandler, 1854, from The Social Harp (1855).  Sung at the Lehigh Valley All-Day Shenandoah Harmony Singing 2014.

ShH 053 Lisbon

The Traveling Singers

Newburgh [182] - Michael Walker

Recorded by ethnomusicologist Rolf Killius in 2001 in a Sora house, Tame Gorjang village, Orissa. 

The musical structure of the performance is interesting: the lead singer begins the song with the second singer following just seconds behind. This results in an 'echo' effect that seems unique to the Sora, though a similar style is used in forms of both North and South Indian classical music where the accompanist (sarangi or violin for example) follows the singer.

The full-length recording from the World and Traditional Music collection is on British Library sounds: 
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Music-from-India/025M-RKDATX0008XX-0100V0

Music from India: Sora ancestor song

I am Bound for the Promised  Land at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Parish Campus

A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight.

Before Eve is born, her mother goes to the circus. She buys a penny twist of coloured sugar and settles down to watch the heart-stopping main attraction: a lion, billed as a monster from the savage heart of Africa, forged in the heat of a merciless sun. Mama swears she hears the lion sigh, just before it leaps…and when Eve is born, the story goes, she didn’t cry – she meowed and licked her paws.

When Abel is pulled from the stinking Thames, the mudlarks are sure he is long dead. As they search his pockets to divvy up the treasure, his eyes crack open and he coughs up a stream of black water. But how has he survived a week in that thick stew of human waste?

Cast out by Victorian society, Eve and Abel find succour from an unlikely source. They soar to fame as The Lion Faced Girl and The Flayed Man, star performers in Professor Josiah Arroner’s Palace of Curiosities. And there begins a journey that will entwine their fates forever.

Buy this audiobook

The Palace of Curiosities written by Rosie Garland and read by Jane Copland

Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into the life and character of Prickly Nut Wood.

Having travelled to Papua New Guinea and the Amazon, observing age-old techniques for living in, working in and preserving forests and woodland, Ben Law felt compelled to return home and apply his learnings to a 400 year old plot of woodland near where he grew up – Prickly Nut Wood.

This is the story of how he came to know and love his woodland, how he lived off the land, how he coppiced and hedged and created charcoal, how he puddled and built shelter, and finally how he carved out his famous, characterful woodland home that Kevin McCloud has cited as his favourite ever Grand Design.

And it’s the story of the wood itself – how it lives and breathes and affects all those who encounter it, and how it’s developed over the twenty incredible years Ben has shared in its lifespan.

It’s an incredibly transporting tale that will make you long to hear the dawn chorus, and appreciate the beauty of Britain’s pockets of woodland.

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Woodsman written and read by Ben Law

An excerpt from the audiobook edition of THE DARK, by Lemony Snicket, read by Neil Gaiman. 

Laszlo is afraid of the dark.

The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.

This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark.

With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.

Hardcover and eBook, illustrated by Jon Klassen, available from Little, Brown and Company.

Audiobook - available online from Hachette Audio:
http://www.downpour.com/the-dark-117025
http://www.amazon.com/The-Dark/dp/B00BWWRNQE/ref=tmm_aud_title_0
https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-dark-unabridged/id624351928
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B00BWX39VQ&qid=1364911747&sr=1-2

THE DARK by Lemony Snicket, Read by Neil Gaiman - an audiobook excerpt

Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention 2013

Exortation-Potomac River Sacred Harp Convention

Bridget Camden

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