Young the Giant: Mind Over Matter (Album Stream)

Mind Over Matter

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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

Song of the week project, week 11. The first stanza is based on a fragment of a song from a few years back and built up from there. It's about learning.

Lovesick, Stuck in the Past (demo)

Ms. Jackson (COVER)

piano cover of Feist's A Man is not his Song from the album Pleasure

A Man is not his Song

Collection of Solo Guitar arrangements by Luke Bergman

Bicyble Built for Two was written by Harry Dacre, Darn That Dream was written by Jimmy Van Heusen, A Might Fortress Is Our God was written by Martin Luther, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight is Traditional via Mississippi John Hurt, The Days of Wine and Roses was written by Henry Mancini, Lush Life was written by Billy Strayhorn, In Christ There is No East or West is Traditional via John Fahey, Don't Talk was written by the Beach Boys, O Sacrum Convivium was written by Olivier Messiaen, Esme was written by Johnna Newsom

Hope you like it!!

The Days Of Wine And Roses

Luke Bergman

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