Lyrics:

LET'S BE ANYONE BUT US TONIGHT
TRADE THIS HEAVY CAGE OF BONES FOR FLIGHT

AND WHEN THE SIRENS REACH OUT FOR US,
WE'LL BE FAR AWAY

OH, WHAT A NOISE WE'LL MAKE
DROWNING OUT OUR MISTAKES
WE CAN'T ERASE
THIS IS THE CHANCE WE TAKE
WE SHOUT AND OUR BONES WILL BREAK
WE CAN'T REPLACE

ARE WE NOW WHAT WE'LL BE?
ARE WE FIXED OR FREE?

LET'S BE ANYONE BUT YOU & ME TODAY

About the track:
This was the last song to be completed on Bones, though it emerged from a couple small ideas began years ago. We wanted to evoke an urgent departure, running down the street, a longing for reckless abandon. There is an escapism here that is naive and ecstatic, but also serious doubt that change for the better is attainable. By the end, the guitar extends the voice's reach, yearning with greater violence and desperation.

Flight

Undeniable - Scott Orr

From the album, "Everything" - Out March 11th!

Everything

By the Way - Scott Orr

This is the live recording of the premiere of Stephanie Martin's "Babel: a choral symphony" on a text by Cori Martin. Lee Willingham conducts the Wilfrid Laurier University symphony and combined choirs on April 3rd, 2016 in the WLU Theatre Auditorium, Waterloo, Ontario, with soloists Sarah Amelard, Midori Marsh, Jamie Groote, River Guard and Dylan Langan, preparation by Paul Pulford and Gerard Yun. The full text of the poem is found on my blog:
http://www.stephaniemartinmusic.com/babel-the-poem-by-cori-martin/ 
and the score is available through the Canadian Music Centre.
http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/138861

The piece is scored for full orchestra (including extensive percussion) double choir, SSATB soloists. The poem is a masterful, modern reflection on the Biblical story of Babel, with marginalia in many languages.
The arc of the piece is like this:
1st mvt: Choir, Bass soloist, full orch  (The optimistic building of the first tower, its fall and the confusion of languages.)
2nd mvt (12:36) Choir, SS soloists, orch  (The people are confounded, and they lament their failures.)
3rd mvt (23:10) Tenor solo, strings, percussion, women's choir (An angry Britten-esque rant against a jealous God whose actions seem unfair)
4th mvt (28:45) Choir a cappella (A motet for art so beautiful it causes us pain)
5th mvt (31:07) Orch, mezzo solo (The turning point, when we resolve to build something better and lasting that finds favour with God)
6th mvt (35:45) Orch, choir, all soloists (A joyous conclusion, time will run back and fetch the age of gold)

Martin - Babel: A choral symphony

'O sacrum convivium' is the fourth of Four Motets by Stephanie Martin, published by Cypress Choral Music http://cypresschoral.com/Composers/Martin.html

Here it is exquisitely sung by the choir of Saint James' Cathedral, Toronto, conducted by Vicki St. Pierre, recorded by Rob Devito on January 10, 2015.

The text is in Latin and translates thus:
O sacred feast in which Christ is consumed. The memory of his passion is renewed in us, the mind is filled with grace and a pledge of future glory is given to us.

Like Tallis' piece on the same text, there is no final alleluia, so this motet can be sung during Lent.



Martin - O Sacrum Convivium

Official OST coming soon!
Hi everyone, here's a special sneak peek preview at one of the tracks on the upcoming soundtrack album release of the feature film "Quarries". I'm currently looking for anyone who might be interested in writing an album review upon release, just to help get the word out online. Let me know!

Also check out our "Behind the Score" video:
https://youtu.be/xk_Skpgzn4I

"Quarries" Soundtrack Preview

Pax Christi Chamber Choir of Toronto, conducted by Stephanie Martin, composer of this motet for SATB choir. Published by Cypress https://soundcloud.com/cypress-choral-music/rise-up-my-love

Words from the Song of Solomon.
Text: Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth and the time of the singing of birds is come, the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender fruit. My beloved is mine and I am his. He feedeth upon the lilies until the day break, and the shadows flee. Turn my beloved, and when the shadows flee, be thou like a deer upon the mountains.

Rise Up My Love - Martin

You Don't Own Me (feat. Hanna Benn)

Body Soul (DREAMSCAPE)

Reemerging in 2017 with four new tracks, Son Lux’s new EP 'Remedy' is the ferocious trio’s response to an ever-encroaching reality of social and political upheaval. Reflective but defiant, Ryan Lott, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Bhatia synthesize their signature unpredictable experimentation into an explosive examination of what it means to live, to create, and to resist in America today. These songs were born the week of the 2016 election, and they capture a band both mournful and refusing to accept the new normal. "How does it feel, to be your own deceiver," Lott whispers in our ears, just ahead of the steady approach of swarming, mechanized woodwinds and rising torrents of noise. "I watch you fall, hollow and depleted. A city razed/raised, to bury you beneath it.”

The EP's final statement is a plea, sung in unison with a crowd-sourced choir of more than 300 people. "Find your voice, in the sea of surging bodies and breath, to form a melody, to find a remedy."

In that spirit, Son Lux will donate all proceeds of the sales of 'Remedy' to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of American society.

Remedy

Dangerous

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"They that go down to the sea in ships", an anthem for SATB chorus a capella, was commissioned by St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Huron Street, in memory of Roland Andrews, the Rev. Mark Andrews's late father. The piece received its first performance on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, during the course of Solemn Evensong and Devotions, under the direction of Matthew Larkin. This is a recording of that performance. The piece is published by Renforth Music (Catalogue #: TM ACH 931): http://www.renforthmusic.com/works/rmach931.php

They that go down to the sea in ships,
These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep: their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
So they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivereth them from their distress.
For he maketh the storm to cease, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad, because they are at rest.

- Psalm 107: 23a; 24-30a

Op. 7: They that go down to the sea in ships (Published by Renforth Music)

J. Tomlinson is the composer of a number of award-winning and published choral works.

Most notably, his "Mass of St. Mary Magdalene" was the winning entry in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene’s international competition for a new choral setting of the Mass, held in celebration of the historic Toronto parish’s 125th anniversary, and his "How sweet the moonlight sleeps" was commissioned by Pax Christi Chorale for their 2014-2015 season.

More information about these and his other choral pieces is available by clicking on the tracks on this soundcloud page.

If you have any inquiries about his pieces, or would like to commission a new work, please send him a message.

He is a professional member of the Canadian League of Composers. http://www.composition.org

Op. 7: They that go down to the sea in ships (Published by Renforth Music)

J. Tomlinson - Composer

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