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From @instagrej on ECMA and Lighthouse reflections

From @instagrej on ECMA and Lighthouse reflections
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Posted @withregram • @instagrej Reflecting this week on Lighthouse.

We holed ourselves up in a yoga studio in rural Nova Scotia for nine days where I set up a recording studio. By the ocean, gray and gloomy, sifting through grief journals; trying our best to make sense of Loss. Personal loss. Universal loss. We all lose someone or some thing. Maybe loss isn't the word, because they're never really gone. Ironically, I felt lost starting this process. I went into this without preparing a single note or concept. Maureen encouraged me that whatever it will be, will be and that's all that matters. Trying to ignore doubt, expectations and just "trust the process".
*gulp*
On Day 1 (a rare sunny morning); I quickly realized that the room wasn't quite ideal in terms of soundproofing. Distant lawn mowers and chainsaws. When that chilled out, I sat down to try to find some themes/motifs on piano and noticed sparrows were singing in the same key. Coincidence? Cliche? Don't care. Stuck a mic out the window and bam- there's the first piece written (the last track on the album). We immediately felt validated in our choices of how to make this composition. Clearly we were being guided - kind of like a lighthouse. More and more, nature wanted to be a part of this. So we welcomed it in. Waves, wind, birds, distant bells...all parts of nature that seem to directly correspond with the grieving process. It's cyclical. Dynamic. It never really ends. Just our relationship to it changes. A light always brings us back.

My heart went through a lot when we made this album. But in the end it was full. And I'm so glad people deeply resonate with it. And I'm even more proud that it won an ECMA for Classical Album of the Year and Classical Composer of the Year.

I'm grateful for this. Thank you Maureen.

@eastcoastmusicassoc

#ECMA35 roundup! 🚨Classical Composer of the Ye

#ECMA35 roundup!

🚨Classical Composer of the Year - @instagrej for “Lighthouse”🚨

Thank you @eastcoastmusicassoc @debutatlantic @cmcnational for a great weekend!

Thank you @factorcanada , @canada.council, and @artsnovascotia for supporting our album, Lighthouse!

Huge thank you to @leafmusicca for everything.

***MEGA*** congrats and thanks to @instagrej ❤
I knew from the very first moment that you were the composer for this project, Greg. It was never imagined any other way. I'm so grateful for you for so many reasons. And I'm just bursting with pride for your win and for this Lighthouse love. Thank you for giving me the space to be my most creative and to discover new and exciting things together through this project. Thank you, @thetombelding for your generosity and inspiration ♥️

It was so wonderful to meet before in real human life for the first time or for the first time in a while.

@jenniferkingpiano @paulkiemezzo @christinahaldanesoprano @india.yeshe @edwardenman @andrew_staniland @inuksoprano @shhhensemble @classicconcertsns @artsiepw @hollynimmons @sparks6847 @atlanticstringmachine

Tons of inspo to soak up and let steep.

Cheers!

A little musical business card 🎶 Excerpts fro

A little musical business card 🎶

Excerpts from the following works - a combo of commercial releases, music videos, and short opera films

1. Title track from Lighthouse
2. Love you forever plus a day (Lighthouse)
3. Pieces of You (Lighthouse)
4. A la una yo nasi (Durme, durme: Four Ladino Folk Songs)
5. December, short opera film with Essential Opera
6. Mirror, Mirror, short opera film with Essential Opera
7. Ave Maria (Lady of the Lake)
8. The Girls Are Still Laughing (Breathing in the Shadows)
9. Song of a Warrior Woman (Lady of the Lake)
10. Aunt Helen, short opera film

Works composed by:

1-3 Grej in collaboration with Maureen Batt
4. Elisha Denburg
5. Monica Pearce
6. Anna Pidgorna
7. Franz Schubert
8. Saman Shahi
9. Fiona Ryan
10. Monica Pearce

Artists featured:

1-3: Grej, Tania Breen, Michael Doherty
4. & 8. Tara Scott
5. Erin Bardua, Jennifer Jones, Anne Simons, Alexandra Bates, Hilary Brown
6. Erin Bardua
7, 9, 10. Simon Docking

Films and music videos by:

1-3, 6-7, 9. Tom Belding
4. & 8. Leaf Music
5. Halley Davies, Claire Fraser
10. Claire Fraser

Commercial releases on and with Leaf Music

Please visit maureenbatt.com/music for more info and full credits.

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