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Hi all!
There seems to be a new video course that's being made by Michael Hyatt. As I watched the first video, my mind went to CAM. Indeed, this is exactly what CAM needs to hear.
We at CAM have a message and a passion to get our music out there, and we are often held back due to gatekeepers (music publishers, record companies, the dearth of Catholic radio opportunities), along with our desire to juggle our personal and family lives along with our dream.
Check out the results of Nick Alexander's Top Lenten Hymns:
1. Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days
2. I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
3. Adoramus Te, Christe
4. There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy
5. The Glory of These Forty Days
6. Forty Days and Forty Nights
7. Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
8. Attende Domine (tie)
9. Rock of Ages (tie)
10. Take Up Thy Cross (tie)
Recommended article: Beyond Ashes by Simcha Fisher:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/beyond-ashes
Adam Miller of the metal band Katholicus sent admin Richard Schletty info about this groundbreaking project:
Via Crucis is a collaborative project with Catholic Metal artists providing a unique musical setting for the Way of the Cross. The album consists of 14 songs of varying styles of metal from eight Catholic artists. Each song corresponds to one of the fourteen stations of the Way of the Cross devotion. The listener will journey with Jesus from His condemnation to His death on the cross to His burial in the tomb. Each song is unique in its style and interpretation of the particular station. In between each song, a stanza of the Stabat Mater is performed in imitation of the traditional devotion of the Way of the Cross. The Stabat Mater is a hymn to the Sorrowful Mother (Mary) and is often sung by stanza between each meditation of the particular event or station of the Way of the Cross.
The contributing Catholic Metal artists on the album:
Katholicus: Infectious power rock/metal with passages of soaring guitars
Cradle Catholic: Latin prayer metal band with gothic and death metal overtones
Last Rites: Progressive thrash metal band with classical music underpinnings
Seven Sorrows: High energy blend of punk and metal
Dave Flitton: Composer and guitarist for Catholic rock band,
Critical Mass: Dedicated to bringing the Good News of Christ to the youth and young-at-heart.
Malchus: Progressive Death metal band from Poland
Divine Blood: Young industrial metal band from Canada
Theandric: Progressive heavy metal. For this project, provided a reflective acoustic track.
The concept of the album was based on the writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori on the Way of the Cross. This album is a great companion during Lent or anytime to center oneself to Christ while living in the world. The CD makes a great gift to anyone who loves metal and wants to live life more fully in their faith. This is a great Catholic alternative to secular metal bands.
Preview and purchase here:
CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/viacrucies
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/via-crucis-the-way-of-the-cross/id516386694
Mark at St. James Music Press writes:
Since Holy Week and Easter is just a whistle away, we've just put some new music up on the site. But more than that - our good friend and cohort, Robert Lehman, has composed two short anthems for Holy Week that are yours for the downloading. FREE. (Yes, free.)
The Mandatum - A simple and stunning setting of the text traditionally used for the anthems sung at the footwashing service on Maundy Thursday. If you don't have a footwashing service, still consider these for your Maundy Thursday/Holy Week services. You can sing them at communion as well.
Crux Fidelis (anthem for Good Friday)
https://www.sjmp.com/catalog/music/two-short-anthems-holy-week
And, of course, these are FREE! No charge! Yes, it's true.
You do have to log-in to your account.
Peruse the music and a give them a listen (using the "preview" icon on the right). If you like them, go ahead and download the PDF file, print them out, make as many copies as you need, and use them in good health!
So if you haven't given up good music for Lent, head on over to the site and take a look.
Other NEW Offerings
This Joyful Eastertide - J. William Greene
For Organ - based on the hymn tune Vreuchten. Great for a prelude or postlude anytime during the Easter season.
Good Friday Reproaches - Richard Shephard
Traditionally done during the Good Friday service, here is a new setting with new language from Common Worship (UK). Easily accomplished by a good choir, since everything repeats a number of times. Heart rending and especially effective.
And twenty-five new 2014 offerings for Lent, Palm Sunday, and Easter.
Give us a look. You won't be sorry! A subscription that includes EVERYTHING on the site is still just $139 per year. Yes, everything!
Our best wishes for a Holy Ash Wednesday.
Your friends at St. James Music Press
PS. If you are a user of Facebook, please "like" us: https://www.facebook.com/StJamesMusicPress. We can get a lot of information about new and upcoming works, free music, and events on this page. And, quite frankly, we're very likable!
Contact Us
phone: 877.822.0304
mark@sjmp.com
The world needs positive music to help offset the negativity and false values which infect our lives. How can we write about sin and cultural death in an engaging and affirming way? I have tried to do this in my own lyrics. Here are samples of my lyrics:
Leaving Flesh
Leaving flesh gates the soul,
like a bird that soars with grace,
like a worm that leaves the hole,
taken to an extraordinary place.
Give your all until the dawn.
Take what little stuff you need.
Smile until the shades are drawn,
knowing well that you've planted the seed.
Gift of knowing, gift of feeling.
Golden orb, precious sight.
Life's abrasions the sun is healing
for those who simply step out into the light.
What is money? What is power?
Lust and vengeance, blood and bile?
Selfless motives don't devour.
Look for treasure in a neighbor's smile.
Music ©2006 Hendrik Steiner and Karl Anselm. Lyrics ©2006 Richard C. Schletty
You Are
See the light that streams from the darkness
from a soul who is weeping.
Hear their silent lips,
the shuffle of tired feet.
Bring your gifts to the doorstep
of a heart in a sling.
Bring your juice pressed from fruit
both sour and sweet.
You are the poet, you are the clown,
you are the artist able to fashion
a new smile on someone draggled by despair.
Take the lead, plant the seed of hope with compassion.
Help a shattered spirit find repair.
Rain, tears and fears, the falling and the rising:
necessary grayness for the whetting of new growth.
Life and death in circles ever flowing.
Inspiration, expiration -- not one but both.
Music ©2006 Hendrik Steiner and Karl Anselm. Lyrics ©2006 Richard C. Schletty
Please feel free to comment below. Thank you!
[This note came to me from my friend Luiz in Belem, Brazil. - creative admin R. Schletty]
From: Richard at holysouls.com
Dear Friend of the Holy Souls,
Just wished to share with you a wonderful discovery I recently made. These 22 very talented and devoted young women (average age in the convent is 28) in Missouri at the Benedictine Priory of "Our Lady of Ephesus". They sing together about 3 hours a day always a capella - without any instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSZQceNbZLA&list=PLx4wNcRxFifyfcK6s2-FBeG...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhfQwxnYw0&list=RDtMF04ErFVaE
...can also search for "Benedictines of Mary"
They are very talented singers, and in 2012 they were number one on national billboards in the category of "Classical Traditional Artist" ! Of course they give all the credit to God the Saints and the Angels !
I sit and listen to them as I work on the Purgatory Project each day and hoped you would be as blessed by their singing as I have been.
May God Bless you and keep you in His perfect peace,
Richard
http://www.holysouls.com/enter.htm to enter your souls living or deceased.
We are happy to announce our new single, "Bring It Back to Soul" - now available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and other sources. Check out this song and our other releases on iTunes:
Streets of Rome Contemporary Catholic/Christian Rock
© 2004, Edward Patrick Mooney
Released: 2014
More songs at https://music.apple.com/us/artist/streets-of-rome/675866674