Remix of "Easy," the 2nd single from Lanterns, now available for pre-order at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux with Busdriver (http://busdriverse.com)

Rafiq Bhatia - Guitar
Saxophone - Steven Temme

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP)
© 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com

Lanterns on iTunes

Easy (Son Lux Remix) featuring Busdriver

This Is A Life

This Is A Life (feat. Mitski & David Byrne)

Everything Everywhere All at Once

I Love You (feat. Hanna Benn)

This Is A Life (Extended)

Waymond Cries

Your Day Will Come (Empathy Fight)

Come Recover (Empathy Fight)

This Is How I Fight

Clair de Lune (Pied au Piano) [feat. Chris Pattishall]

Wang Family Portrait

In Another Life

Opera Fight (feat. Surrija & yMusic)

Specks Of Time

Let Me Go

From the EP Alternate Worlds, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. http://smarturl.it/Alternate_Worlds

Vocals - Lily & Madeleine / Baritone Saxophones - Jack Bashkow, Steven Temme
Tenor, Alto Saxophones - Steven Temme / Flutes - Alex Sopp  


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Lost It To Trying (Mouths Only Lying)

From the EP Alternate Worlds, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. http://smarturl.it/Alternate_Worlds

Vocals - Lorde & Son Lux / Saxophones - Steven Temme / Guitar - Rafiq Bhatia

"Easy (Switch Screens)" by Son Lux & Lorde / Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor 
Songs Music Publishing LLC obo Songs of SMP (ASCAP)
Lorde appears courtesy of Universal Music New Zealand

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP)
© 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com




Easy (Switch Screens) feat. Lorde

Alternate World (Alternate Age)

Vocals - Ieva Berberian, Cameron Schenk, Aaron Strumpel, Shara Worden 
Mandolin - Chris Thile / Pedal Steel, Bass - Christopher Wray  


Alternate World (Alternate Age)

"Lanterns Lit", from the album Lanterns, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux

"Lanterns Lit" contains rehearsal recordings of the BBC radio choir, performing works of Mansel Thomas. These recordings are used with the kind permission of the Mansel Thomas Trust.

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP)
© 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com

"Listen for the choral stuff, which is fragments of recordings of the BBC Choir in Wales rehearsing music of Welsh composer Mansel Thomas. I join the singing light with super falsetto action on the Blowout. Happy & haunted listening..." - Ryan Lott


Lanterns Lit

Alternate Forms

Plan the Escape (Sirens and Tremors)

"Pyre", from the album Lanterns, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux

Additional Vocals - Cat Martino, Cameron Schenk, Aaron Strumpel

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP) © 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com

"This song developed slowly over many months, yielding and shedding many ideas. When it eventually articulated itself, it had a severe duality of tenderness and aggression, inspiring thoughts of a funeral pyre; The ceremony is tender in intent, but violent in action. The lyrics came last and quickly." - Ryan Lott

Pyre

Lanterns Lit (Among The Living)

Lanterns

Alternate World (Tear Me Away)

Pyre (In The Flames)

Lost It To Trying (Give In And Give Out)

"Alternate World", from the album Lanterns, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux

Vocals - Ieva Berberian, Cameron Schenk, Aaron Strumpel, Shara Worden
Mandolin - Chris Thile
Pedal Steel, Bass - Christopher Wray

Ryan Lott Music (ASCAP) administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP) © 2013 Joyful Noise Recordings + Son Lux / sonluxmusic.com

"The sound that kicks off this song, and the record, is the fluttering voice of Shara Worden combined with Chris Thile's tremolo mandolin. In order to create the vocal sound, I recorded Shara singing three short 'ah' sounds on every pitch in her range. I snipped them all up, and using a sampler, mapped them so that I could 'play' her voice from a keyboard. Then I used some fancy programming to make each 'ah' repeat as I hold down a key, or more specifically, to 'bounce' like a ball propelled by gravity... and then reverse itself. The result is that each 'ah' bounces rapidly and gradually smears into the next, creating the illusion of a held note, and then spreads out again. When 'playing' the voice this way, an extra-natural vocal articulation is achieved, but the sound of the instrument itself is entirely acoustic, and even human. This bit of technical geekery is a play on 'alternate world,' presenting the familiar in a strange new light." - Ryan Lott

Lyrics:
ALTERNATE WORLD
ALTERNATE AGE
ALTERNATE LIFE

OH OH, WE'LL SHED OUR SKIN
WE'LL WALK THE OTHER SIDE
OH OH, WE'LL BRACE FOR IT
AND CONQUER EVERYTHING
OH OH OH 
AND CONQUER EVERYTHING

OH OH, WE'RE MAGICAL
WE'LL WAKE THE DEAD FROM SLEEP
OH OH, WE'LL SHED OUR SKIN
WE'LL WALK THE OTHER SIDE
OH OH, WE'LL BRACE FOR IT
AND CONQUER EVERYTHING
OH OH OH

TEAR ME AWAY, FROM THIS FIGHT
TEAR ME AWAY, TAKE ME TO AN...
ALTERNATE WORLD
ALTERNATE AGE
ALTERNATE LIFE

ALTERNATE WORLD
ALTERNATE AGE
ALTERNATE LIFE

MAKE WHAT WE BELIEVE
DON'T WE MAKE WHAT WE CAN


Alternate World

From the album ORIGINAL SCORE & SONGS INSPIRED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY (Available Nov. 4 on Glassnote Records)

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LYRICS
If every dream
Awakes to you
Awake to you
If every clock
Turns back to you
Turn back to you

So what fate awaits me
Without you, without you?
So what fate awaits me
Without you, without you?

If every road
Comes back to me
Come back to you
If every road
Comes back to you
Come back to me

So no fate awaits me
Without you, without you
So no fate awaits you (me)
Without you (me), without you (me)

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No Fate Awaits Me (feat. Faux Fix)

From the album ORIGINAL SCORE & SONGS INSPIRED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY

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Let Me Follow

Bones

You Don't Know Me

Original Music from and Inspired By: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Lost It To Trying

Easy

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.

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From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and re-construct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring five recordings, including LPs Bones (2015) and Brighter Wounds (2018). A carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions.

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