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"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


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Lanterns Lit

"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

Written and Produced by Cathedrals (Johnny Hwin and Brodie Jenkins)
Engineering and Additional Production by Max Savage (www.noisysavage.com)
Mastering by Twin Peaks Studios
Additional Production by Harris MacDonald (@hcmmusic), William Payne (@RainierVanBlunt)
Additional Drums and Production by Sean Hutchinson 
Photography by Alex Ember (www.alexember.com)

Debut EP out now on Neon Gold—

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"No Crimes", from the album Lanterns, now available at Joyful Noise Recordings. bit.ly/14jPwRe

Written, Performed & Recorded by Son Lux

Vocals - Kate Davis, Cat Martino, Peter Silberman, David Stith
Additional Drums - Darren King
Flutes - Alex Sopp
Violin - Rob Moose
Viola - Nadia Sirota

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

"'No Crimes' is one of maybe only a couple songs on Lanterns that I began writing before pausing everything to write and record my second album, We Are Rising (http://music.sonluxmusic.com/album/we-are-rising). Read more about that album here (http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/133462581/rpm-challenge/). The song grew out of a small piece of guided improvisation I recorded with my good friend, drummer Darren King. I captured the kit traditionally, using several microphones at once, but then I displaced select mic images in time, offsetting them in rhythmic durations. The song evolved and took many forms, and I even played it live a few times, years before Lanterns." - Ryan Lott

Lyrics:
YOUR BRAND NEW HISTORY

FORGET, FORGET, FORGET, FORGET

LIGHT OF FOUR DAWNS COME
LIGHT OF FOUR DAWNS COME
IN THE GHOSTLY EMBRACE
MAKE OUT A FACE
WHEN THE FOUR DAWNS COME

WHATEVER YOU WERE

FORGET, FORGET, FORGET, FORGET

LIGHT OF FOUR DAWNS COME
LIGHT OF FOUR DAWNS COME
IN THE GHOSTLY EMBRACE
MAKE OUT A FACE
WHEN THE FOUR DAWNS COME

ALL YOU EVER WANTED
ALL YOU EVER NEED
YOUR BRAND NEW HISTORY 

NO CRIMES, NO MEMORY



No Crimes

"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

Young & Unafraid

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

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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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