Intimate chamber-pop, piano hymnal, about making peace with the the dark side of yourself.

Recorded live, in one take (piano & vocals), 100% analogue, at The Cabin recording studio.

Piano / Vocals: Michaela Betts
Producer & Mix Engineer: Jon Griffin
Mastering: Mobtown Studios

Photo: Ben Wulf

Requiem (Acoustic)

Made on a Sunday morning in Reno with my friend and fellow Rezidence DJ, Troy (https://soundcloud.com/planettroy) giving me encouragement along the way. This starts in the realm of jazzy house and 70's funk and then goes...elsewhere. Enjoy. 

1. Kind Of Latin Rhythm - Smoove Remix by The Juju Orchestra
2. Do What You Wanna - Mr. Scruff's Soul Party Remix by Ramsey Lewis
3. Faith - Deep Mix by Ministry Of Funk
4. Easy Jazz by Scruscru
5. Sunrise by Fendaheads
6. Hip Trumpets by Yolanda Be Cool, KVISION
7. Le Ghetto by Ks French
8. Chile Connection by Patiotic, Ramón Sanz
9. Shout Away - Original Mix by Oliver Dollar, Chuck Daniels
10. Original Sin by Sofi Tukker
11. Slow Burn (feat. Chuck Ellis) by Durante, Chuck Ellis
12. Hungover (Extended Mix) by Charlz, Zen Freeman, Latroit, Fred Falke
13. Can't Stay Away by Darin
14. Beat The Sunrise by SNBRN, Andrew Watt
15. Swing - Crush Club Remix by Sofi Tukker, Crush Club
16. Here We Go by Max Low
17. THE CARAVAN by DONT BLINK
18. The Crowd Said Dance by DJ Dan, Block & Crown
19. Get Up, Get Out by 3kelves, Dylan C. Greene
20. Higher - Supersavage Remix by Crazibiza, Supersavage
21. Don't Stop by Redfield
22. The Soul by NUMA A TFIVE

The Sunday Morning Service

A sacred chant by Hildegard von Bingen, juxtaposed with a Tibetan lullaby. This piece appears on my new album, The Space in Between, available on Bandcamp: https://bronwynkirkpatrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-in-between

Caritas Abundat by Hildegard von Bingen

Composer: Stephen Eisenhauer
Performance: The Kings Chamber Choir
Director: Joy Berg
Publisher: Cypress Choral Music

visit https://cypresschoral.com to study the score while you listen

To You I Lift My Voice - by Stephen Eisenhauer

“Jeff Linsky and Lisa Linsky have pulled the curtains back on something that is really fascinating, and thoroughly enjoyable.
…the Linsky’s have taken a much adored piece and offered an alternate style and it works superbly, the piano drives a steady and textured performance, whilst the acoustic guitar from Jeff adds a layer of lightness to the presentation that makes the composition all that more open and accessible. I can personally see this version going down well with listeners…”
~Steve Sheppard, One World Music Radio

Ave Maria

Ave Maria | Lisa Linsky & Jeff Linsky

Gently set for SATB choir and piano, this piece is readable and approachable, but still carries plenty of harmonic interest for the experienced chorister or listener. This recording features the East Tennessee Anglican Choir, under the direction of Josh Golden.

Lord, Make Me An Instrument Of Your Peace

This is just an occasional composition, a light and playful setting of the traditional Latin Magnificat text, written to get back to doing something creative again at all.
Live recording of the first performance by an ‘ad hoc’ chamber choir with students of the University of Protestant Church Music in Halle/Saale.

Magnificat for mixed choir (2022) (Live Recording)

Recessional hymn on All Saints' Sunday, 2023
Performed by choir and congregation of St. Stephen's, Sherman

Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones

St. Paul's Choir - Frank Boles Conducting

Unknown album (9/24/2020 1:55:14 PM)

Track 1 Introit (Requiem aeternam) - Kyrie

My setting of the Agnus Dei for Soprano, Baritone and Organ.
Kimberley Lynch, soprano
Tim Wilfong, baritone
Adrian Foster, organ
Joel Peters, mentor

Recorded on Nov 13, 2023, at Ascension of Our Lord Roman Catholic.

Agnus Dei 13112023

An historic Episcopal church in Sherman, Texas.

Michaela’s dramatic and haunting cinematic folk music has emerged from years of songwriting, theatre work, and perfecting her sound as a session singer and pianist. As well as recording two albums with art-pop band Theghostorchestra, she was the main vocalist on the feature film Slipstream and once taught Gina McKee to play the piano for BBC drama Mothertime.

Born in Antwerp, and raised in a rambling house in Yorkshire, Michaela was the daughter of travelling folk musicians. Her father David F Betts was a singer/songwriter and TV composer while her Swedish mother’s stepdad was the writer Bengt Nerman, and his father the journalist Ture Nerman, a famous Swedish socialist who met Lenin in 1917. 

The isolation and freedom of living in the middle of nowhere shaped Michaela and her writing growing up. The harshness and beauty of nature, and resisting but needing change, are recurring themes. In 2020 she took up Transcendental Meditation which had a huge impact on her state of mind and outlook.

Michaela lives with her partner and children in a rented farm workers cottage in Surrey. She records in a converted shipping container in the garden. ‘The house is small, so the container was brought down from Norfolk on a truck, and hoisted over the fence,’ she says. ‘My partner kitted it out with a live room and recording studio. We’re not the kind of people to have extravagant holidays, instead we spend what money we have on studio gear!’

Wonderful Choral Music from Canada for all types of choirs

Born July 16th 1973 in Crailsheim/Germany, living in Leipzig, working as a freelance composer and as a teacher of music theory at the University of Protestant Church Music in Halle/Saale and at the Latina "August Hermann Francke" in Halle/Saale. Most of the recordings of my music here are digital sound files from Sibelius/Note Performer. Unfortunately, it's only seldom that I get the chance to have my music performed and recorded live. Some pieces have never been performed (e.g. "Stabat Mater" or "Mädchen, zieht den Vorhang zu"), others by non professionals with a lot of mistakes, so that you can't really enjoy the recordings (e.g. "Feste Burg - weiter Raum"), others (like "Vier geistliche Abendlieder" or "Prélude à la memoire de A.C.D.") have been performed quite fine, but no recording at all or no technically satisfying recording has been taken of it. I hope that I will be able to add some new nice live recordings from time to time to my tracklist. Meanwhile some of the digital sound files and of course the few recordings with real musicians (e.g. "Ausgegrenzt", "Melancolia", "Ave Maris Stella") hopefully will serve to provide listeners with at least an idea of what my musical fantasy sounds like.

Bronwyn Kirkpatrick began her shakuhachi journey with Grand Master Riley Lee in 1997, after completing a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance. Captivated by the sound, Bronwyn has been immersed in the world of shakuhachi ever since. She has studied in Japan with Kaoru Kakizakai and Katsuya Yokoyama and teaches shakuhachi in the Blue Mountains, Sydney and around the world via Skype. https://bronwynkirkpatrick.bandcamp.com/follow_me

A Soundcloud channel dedicated to bringing you the best in instrumental piano music from some amazing best artists including Richard Anthony Bean, Karen Biehl, Annie Locke, Bill Whitfield, Scott Reich, Fiona Joy hawkins and Kerry Barnes

From New York City to Reno/Tahoe, The Acidic Rabbi spins a full spectrum of sound and rhythm to get you into your dancing groove, taking it down and through a kaleidoscope of genres—from House, Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Disco, R&B and Blues--bringing it all alongside of Progressive, Deep House, New Orleans influenced funk, some occasional sprinkles of classic rock and much more. 

It's all about frequency and it's all connected. 

One Love.

Pro photographer, videographer, writer, DJ and native New Yorker, currently residing in Reno, Nevada. (It's a story.) For gigs and events, email: ben@benlazar.com. 

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"There are simply two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind." -- Duke Ellington

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