Tuesday, September 19, 2017

LYON // Cosmic Trigger Records

I'm excited to announce digital distribution for my instrumental music project LYON via Cosmic Trigger Records of NYC to iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora coinciding with the release of new album TRAILS on the autumnal equinox.

LYON - FOUR SEASONS -- 14 November 2016 supermoon EP
LYON - VOYAGE TO SCOPRION ISLAND -- 2016 winter solstice single
LYON - LYON -- 2017 spring solstice album
LYON - NOCTURAMA -- 2017 summer solstice split EP
LYON - TRAILS -- 2017 autumnal equinox album
Twitter // Instagram: @lyonfrancemusic

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Portent

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“The earthquake did not help,” I thought, nerves still frayed from the 3am 6.0 magnitude event as heat lightning pulsed above the creepy little casino town on the Nevada-Utah border.  Below the sky, fields of flickering red lights and the words "you're headed in the wrong direction” fading in and out of reception on the radio.  Then, a savage, Biblical rain, momentary skid-outs in standing water, and just flat-out not being able to see.  At a dive motel in the desolate eastern part of the state, a black moth on the shower curtain and June bugs in the bed.

AM - Piano / Grandfather Clock

Recorded fall 2013, Leawood, Kansas.
Mixed and Mastered by Matt LaPoint.
Original Release Date: 4 January 2015 (Moorworks // Japan).

image: "15th St. and Blue Ridge Road" (from Thalman family archives).


Rising

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"But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age.  I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays and the soft tender gentle memories that come with them..."

      -Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Father Zosima speaking)

Kristina Dutton - Violin
Teddy Rankin-Parker - Cello

Recorded winter 2014, El Cerrito, California.
Mixed and Mastered by Matt LaPoint.
Original Release Date: 4 January 2015 (Moorworks // Japan).

image: unknown (from Thalman family archives).

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