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Lean on Me

I Still Have You

It's Gonna Be Alright

There'll Never Be

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Mit ihrem zweiten Studioalbum Scars and Flames führt Tess Harper die emotionale Linie ihres Debüts Ashes and Echoes konsequent weiter – aber tiefer, dunkler, mutiger.

Während das Erstlingswerk die Nachklänge verlorener Liebe und innerer Zerrissenheit erforschte, brennt Scars and Flames heller und heißer: Es geht nicht mehr nur ums Erinnern, sondern ums Überleben, Annehmen und Neugebären im Feuer.

“Ashes were the past. Flames are what I became.” – Tess Harper

Jeder Song ist ein Kapitel über Verwundbarkeit, Sehnsucht und Stärke. Die Texte zeigen eine reifere, kompromisslosere Künstlerin, die keine Angst mehr hat, ihre Narben zu zeigen – und sie zum Leuchten bringt.

Der Sound:

Organisch, roh, ehrlich.

Vintage-Gitarren und analoge Amps treffen auf druckvolle Drums und eine Stimme, die zwischen Soul, Wut und Zärtlichkeit oszilliert.

Mehr Dynamik, mehr Edge, mehr Live-Feeling als im Debüt.

Musikalisch schlägt das Album eine Brücke zwischen 70s Bluesrock und modernen Alternative-Einflüssen – irgendwo zwischen Beth Hart, Larkin Poe und Chris Cornell.

Without You, My World Don't Spin

Tomorrow

The Transformation

I Need Your Glory

Time – the continuum of experience in which events pass from the past through the present to the future. In one respect, time does not seem to define the career of critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, multi-Dove Award winner, and Grammy nominee Crystal Lewis. In a day and age where so many artists come and go, Crystal’s voice has withstood the test of time. Over the course of nearly 3 decades, Crystal has released more than 20 English albums (including two live albums, two Christmas albums and a children's album) as well as 7 albums in Spanish…and at 45 years of age, does not show any signs of slowing down.  Having recently released a 2-disc compilation entitled '25',  spanning her first 25 years in music, including 2 brand new remixes of the hit songs People Get Ready and Beauty for Ashes, and following up with a kickstarter-funded album of all new songs set to release mid-2015, she seems ready to charge into this next chapter with gusto… and grace.

Having performed in front of millions worldwide, and having worked with, and sung alongside, some of her musical heroes (including Bono, Mary J. Blige, Yolanda Adams, CeCe Winans, Andrae Crouch, David Foster, Michael W. Smith, Donna Summer,  Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael and Stormie Omartian and Kirk Franklin) there’s not much left for her to prove.  Not that Lewis has ever been out to prove anything, she’s always been more about expressing the joy of life in Christ through song than building a life in the limelight. The fact remains, however, that her life has been lived in said limelight… where she lets her light shine bright.

Lean on Me

Crystal Lewis

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