Sufjan Stevens released his new EP, yesterday! The title is, "All Delighted People," and contains 8 tracks. His sound is a bit different than former albums, but you can tell it is still Sufjan. Good stuff - give it a listen. Better yet, but the album!
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Alright, here is "Coming Up Close." IMHO, one of the best songs ever written.
I loved 'Till Tuesday - the name, the music, the look, the album covers. I've followed Aimee Mann long after the band broke up - have all her albums. She has been referred to as the "last of the tortured artists" and an "artist's artist". I remember in the mid-1980's sitting in the studio working on my graphic design projects listening to this album. "Coming Up Close" is easily the best song! New Wave, female vocalists with low voices... I had a platonic crush on Aimee Mann.
Well, she really needs to have a guitar in her hands in this video - not so good at free dancing. This was when MTV had "VJ's" and actually played videos - all day! Then, of course, there was the keyboardist.
This from The Very Rev Dr John Shepherd is Dean of Perth, Australia, in the TimesOnline (UK). In an article entitled, "Credo: Trite music blocks our ears to the divine in the liturgy," Dean Shepherd writes about the importance of art, and not just are but good art, within the Church, particularly when it comes to our music in the liturgy.
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It is in the liturgy that we are able to enter into another consciousness, probe a deeper reality, strive for a sense of transcendence which lifts us above the mundane, and in the words of psalmist, sets us on a rock that is higher than ourselves. Our worship enables us to enter another time and another dimension -- a realm of experience beyond our ordinary human experience, beyond all our known thoughts and understandings.The whole article is good to read!
In monastic terms, the liturgy is the path towards an exalted "ecstasy", a flight into the cloud of unknowing, the place where God is, and where the true contemplation of the creative stillness of God is possible.
And this is a reality which is beyond the ability of historians, theologians, linguists, biblical scholars or even pastoral liturgists to express. Their contributions may even hinder rather than help. The intensity and intangibility of this experience can only be expressed through the arts.
Continue reading Credo: Trite music blocks our ears.
I heard this song on the new "Stargate Universe" episode that premier on May 7th. It is entitled, "Only If You Run" by Julian Plenti - yet another singer/songwriter with connections to Brooklyn (where else?). This song is on his premier album, Skyscraper.
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Newsboys - Something Beautiful Lyrics
I wanna start it over
I wanna start again
I want a new a new beginning
One without any end
I feel it inside
Calling out to me
CHORUS
It's a voice that whispers my name
It's a kiss without any shame
Something beautiful
Like a song that stirs in my head
Singing love will take us where
Something's beautiful
I've heard it in the silence
Seen it on a face
I've felt it in a long hour
Like a sweet embrace
I know this is true
It's calling out to me
CHORUS
It's a voice that whispers my name
It's a kiss without any shame
Something beautiful
Like a song that stirs in my head
Singing love will take us where
Something's beautiful
It's the child on her wedding day
It's the daddy that gives her away--Father
Something beautiful
When we laugh so hard we cry
It's the love between you and I
Something beautiful
I first learned that song in 1990 while doing campus ministry with Studenten für Christus in Germany. Es klingt auf Deutsch besser, ich denke. (Someone mentioned it in Facebook and it got me thinking about it... memories!)
Herr, das Licht Deiner Liebe leuchtet auf,
strahlt inmitten der Finsternis für uns auf.
Jesus, Du Licht der Welt sende uns Dein Licht.
Mach uns frei durch die Wahrheit, die jetzt anbricht.
Sei mein Licht, sei mein Licht!
Jesus, Dein Licht
füll dies Land mit des Vaters Ehre.
Komm Heil`ger Geist,
setz die Herzen in Brand!
Fließ Gnadenstrom,
überflute dies Land mit Liebe!
Sende Dein Wort,
Herr, Dein Licht strahle auf.
Herr, voll Ehrfurcht komm`ich zu Deinem Thron,
aus dem Dunkel ins Licht des Gottessohns.
Durch Dein Blut kann ich nun vor Dir stehen.
Prüf mich, Herr, laß mein Dunkel vergehen.,
sei mein Licht, sei mein Licht!
Jesus, Dein Licht
füll dies Land mit des Vaters Ehre.
Komm Heil`ger Geist,
setz die Herzen in Brand!
Fließ Gnadenstrom,
überflute dies Land mit Liebe!
Sende Dein Wort,
Herr, Dein Licht strahle auf.
Schau`n wir, König, zu Deinem Glanze auf,
dann strahlt Dein Bild auf unserm Antlitz auf.
Du hast Gnade um Gnade gegeben.
Dich widerspiegelnd erzähl`unser Leben
von Deinem Licht, von Deinem Licht!
Jesus, Dein Licht
füll dies Land mit des Vaters Ehre.
Komm Heil`ger Geist,
setz die Herzen in Brand!
Fließ Gnadenstrom,
überflute dies Land mit Liebe!
Sende Dein Wort,
Herr, Dein Licht strahle auf.
Originaltitel: Shine Jesus Shine
Deutsch: Manfred Schmidt
Metric w/ front Emily Haines
Skott Freedman's new album, The Cottage Sessions, is just great. I started listening to him when he truly was just a little older than a kid (18 or 19). With this album, his voice, lyrics, and music in general have matured - but it is all still very much Skott Freedman.
I haven't done this in a very long time, but for a while there were several bloggers who posted their first 10 songs that randomly played when their iPods were put on "Shuffle."
So, here are my first 10 from today:
1. 30 Seconds to Mars, from album 30 Seconds to Mars, song - "End of the Beginning"
2. Eastmountainsouth, Eastmountainsouth, "The Ballad of Yong Alban and Amandy"
3. Sacha Sachet, Lovers & Leaders, "What You Are"
4. Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, "Mary"
5. Aimee Mann, Whatever, "Way Back When"
6. Coldplay, Parachutes, "Track2"
7. Norah Jones, Feels Like Home, "Don't Miss You at All"
8. Doug Barr, The Sickle & The Sheath, "Stranger in This Land"
9. Underworld, Beaucoup Fish, "Push Upstairs"
10. Welcome Wagon, Welcome to the World, "Sold! To The Nice Rich Man"
Listening to The Innocence Mission
Their MySpace Music
Moby's new album, "Wait for Me." Yeah!
NPR's piece. Said it is his best in 10 years!
NPR's All Music Considered - Listen
Bat for Lashes. She does some Kate Bush-esque performance kind of arty stuff. English.
Sleepyhead by Passion Pit
