karla adolphe

Songs which would be an excellent choice to TV/Film placement.  This set includes a video for Karla's song You Are Mine placed on the pilot episode of CW's Hart of Dixie.



Music for TV + Film

Enter the worship circle

Mar's Playlist

Piano cover of "Safe Place" by Enter The Worship Circle.  It's fun recording with my old-and-slightly-off piano.

Safe Place - Enter The Worship Circle

SHOVEL SONG #1 - DARKEST OCEAN - Psalm 33 - Worship@8500 - 6/25/2011

LYRICS: The darkest ocean set aside in jars//Defined in your words brighter than the stars//Your strength forms my heart (2x)
The tallest mountains pointing to the skies//Defined in your words, "My God, how they cry!"//Your strength forms my heart (2x)
Where could we go, where you are not with us?//Where could we go, where could we go?
Surrounded by//All you've made//In Your arms//Home I've gained

WRITERS: Justin &amp; Melissa Murphy, Mary Arnold, Bekah Smith, Scott Kavli, Renee Swick, Vince Ackerman, Bill &amp; Gayle O'Hair, Aaron Strumpel

PSALMIC CO-LAB #1: DARKEST OCEAN

Perfect Little Thing

Aaron Strumpel + Karla Adolphe form the American roots duo The Emporiums!  Lucy is a fun, catchy tune about a girl who can't receive love.

Lucy - The Emporiums

Grey blue morning shade
Fresh from my last dance
Night bird keeps me here
Heart sing your last

Sing heart your last song
When my bones begin to wane
Fall down gently let it lay down
Covering, covering

See the autumn parade
One more encore one more dance

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Autumn Parade

And the earth was filled with wonder
See the birds they are flying low, flying low
Ocean heaves and pulls me under
Wake up love, wake up love, wake up love

And the stars refuse to be under cover
Set the dimmer switch down to low, down to low
Sky splits open with crashing thunder
Wake up love, wake up love, wake up love

I know I'm alive
Raised from the dead inside
Breaking out of honeycomb tombs
Growing gardens out of my wounds

Flying Low

Graceland has no room left for me
No vacancy I can feel it
Pictures and memories are stolen or put away
I can feel it

This is a lonely crowd of people I am in
This is another bad day slowly setting in

Graveyards have no room left for me
Frozen and six feet deep  I can feel it
No I will never be the same
You refuse to be erased
I can feel it

You refuse to be erased


Graceland & Graveyards

Our misery started today but our roads did not go the same way
Yours to the left mine to the right
Our misery started today

Our hearts broke at the same time torn along invisible lines
Mine was still beating yours said goodnight
Our hearts broke at the same time

You are like the shoreline
Constant but fading at the same time
You are like the sky above
You cover me, cover me

Our wells are empty and dry poured out and measured for life
Yours from the inside mine from my eyes
Our wells are empty and dry



Invisible Lines

Winter is glass museum grade keeping me away from you
All I ask here in this place please stay a minute or two
With courage and fear here we can say all that we wanted to

Who can hold me
Who can wrap their arms around me and keep me from falling in

Come first frost all pale blue covering you in porcelain
Rattle and clap shutter and snap when breath became wind
This freezing rain, this stinging pain its what is getting me through

Every corner a memory every memory a wish
Every time I wake up I imagine this
When all color has left me left me staggering and blind
Is this what you were dreaming is this what you would find
A house without a heartbeat a heart without a prayer
A story to believe in a cry that you might hear
A tight separation a separate imagination
A clock counting seconds without time passing by


Who Can Hold Me

I watched my flowers wilt and wind away
Inside there is a heart tattered and frayed
Summer won't come back, winter just might stay
I wander grey and silver

Two cups of coffee wasted now cold
A glowing ember from flames once so bold
Believing won't come back
To a heart that is so old
I wander grey and silver

Stay away grave come back love

My hands to harvest under the setting sun
The final work collecting has begun
Color won't come back when my eyes begin to fade
I wander grey and silver



Grey & Silver

Sweet and whimsical, revealing and honest.

02 Just Let Me Go

03 I Can't Say No

For more information visit: http://www.klassikakzente.de/recomposed/home 

Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.” Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.”Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist, Daniel Hope. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. Daniel is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge. I think he did a wonderful job. He brought to it a deep engagement with the original, but he was fully prepared to cut this new swathe through the text.”


Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Winter 1 (2012)

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SHOVEL SONG #7 - Among the Gods - Psalm 86 - 8.10.11 - Worship Team, Ellensburg, WA

*This one and Shovel Song #6 both came from the same session, using the same chorus.  It was cool to see the team write different verses to frame the chorus in different ways!

capo v: C-G-Am-F
ch. Among the gods theres none like you
Deep compassion thru and thru
There's none like you

v.1 You stand by me on the riverside
Skipping stones, singing poems when I cry
You comfort me, you comfort me

v.2 You sing to me by and by
Making melodies sweet friend of mine
You comfort me, you comfort me

v.3 You'll walk with me through my last days
Fulfilling dreams, renewing strength
You comfort me, you comfort me

Justin Rogers, Micah Hammond, Nate Weller, James and Robin Acree, Mal Stewman, John Reeves, Sky Street

PSALMIC CO-LAB #7: AMONG THE GODS

SHOVEL SONG #8 - Psalm 77 - I Am Yours - Worship Team, Salt Lake City, UT - 10.23.2011

*We worshipped with this song the night we wrote it and it was awesome.  We combined it with one of our favorites by the United Pursuit Band, "Nothing I Hold Onto" and were thrilled with it.  One of the song-writers in that session was none other than Asher Seevinck from Loud Harp.  Good Times!

Chords: G-Em-C-G
LYRICS: Am I yours
Am I really yours God
Have you forgotten me
Am I yours

Too troubled to speak
Too tired to dream
I groaned, I mused
Refused to be comforted

Am I yours
Am I really yours God
Have you forgotten me
Am I yours

To this I'll appeal
To this I will hold
You were with me
In the darkest of storms

Waters writhed, the depths convulsed
The clouds poured down
You called them forth
I’ll remember you (2x)
Lightning crashed, thunder shook
Mountains fell
Right under foot
I’ll remember you (2x)

I am yours
I am really yours God
You have remembered me
I am yours

WRITERS: Tate McCallum-Law, Lawrence Camfield, Dave White, Asher Seevinck, Aaron Strumpel

PSALMIC CO-LAB #8: I AM YOURS

SHOVEL SONG #10 - High Place - Psalm 18 - Village Gathering, Woodland Park, CO - 6.29.2012

*This brilliant group of people had more talent than most small nations.  It's not always like those nor does it have to be, but I really love this song and these folks - long live Matchy-Matchy.

LYRICS: You have delivered me with your strong right hand
You have set me upon the rock and made me strong

He sets me on a high place and makes my way blameless
He sets me on a high place and makes me blameless in my ways

The Lord is my strength, I will rejoice
The Lord is my strength

WRITERS: Lauren Taylor, Anthony Ashley	, Jessica Smith, Danny Churchill, Ben Hall, Matt Axelson, Julie Presley, Abbie Troyanek

PSALMIC CO-LAB #10: HIGH PLACE

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Just Let It Go

With a voice that leaves you breathless and songs that spark and ignite in your soul Karla Adolphe is a deep thinking and tangibly emotive artist. She deftly combines her powerful voice, lyrical words, and curated storytelling into a transcendent experience for her devoted audiences.

Over the past 13 years, Karla Adolphe has created a diverse career for herself touring North America in a 40ft RV performing as a solo artist, in the roots duo Jacob and Lily, and in the Colorado duo The Emporiums and with Colorado gospel outfit Enter The Worship Circle. Karla's 2012 release Honeycomb Tombs, is a stand-alone album inspired by and devoted to the subject of grief. With over 30,000 downloads this album has been a balm to listeners worldwide.

In 2013, Karla and her family lost there home in the great Southern Alberta Floods, needless to say, there have been many years of personal growth, healing and dormancy leading to 3 new songs being released in 2020. The new work dives deep into topics of suffering, overcoming, and resilience as Karla explores what it is to find one’s true voice.