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On wall street
I hear computers play
Ding Dong, Carry on
War and destruction
on prime time TV
Bang Bang Carry on
We send Major Tom to Mars
While the poor man sleeps
under the stars
It’s who you know not
who you are
The road is long but only goes so far
And we carry on
How did it come to this?
- Lynch & Knill
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Lynch & Knill
Eyes Wide Open
Eyes Wide Open was written and produced at Dream Maker Studio in North Vancouver. The recording studio is owned by partners, John Lynch and John Knill. This was the last CD they wrote and engineered together before John and his wife Jackie Knill went to Thailand on holidays. Sadly, they were both victims of the tsunami that struck Thailand and South East Asia on December 26.
The album has a full rich sound and an easy flow to the music and lyrics. The liner notes include pictures of both John Lynch and John Knill, working together and enjoying every minute in their studio as they wrote and recorded the album. The words of each song are also included in the album notes, along with pictures and other notes and some of them are poignant and almost prophetic such as “now memories are all, are all that are left behind.”
Tracks on the CD are Merry Go Round; Eyes Wide Open; Dead Crow; Morning Tide; In Your Eyes (The Heart It Burns); Eyes of the Storm; Love Sweet Love; Does Anybody Care; and Carry On.
Musicians are John Lynch on lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar and bass. John Knill on all keyboard synthesizers and drum programming. Terry Boyce on drums. Jonathan Woolf and Ross Colpitts on additional drums. David Jewer on rhythm guitar. John Lynch, Monique Lefebvre, Marie Cronin and John Knill on background vocals.
The graphic design on the CD was by David Jewer of Spin Digital Media which is three pyramids with rays of the setting desert sun and in the sky are mysterious blue eyes.
The cost of the CD is $20 and all proceeds from the sale of Eyes Wide Open will benefit the Knill Thailand Fund. This fund will go to an orphanage to help aid the many children who were orphaned after the tsunami. To purchase the CD or to inquire about recording your album at Dream Maker Studio, call John Lynch at (604) 980-7192, or cell: (604) 785-9022.
St. Patrick Regional Secondary Choirs
Spirit Alive! Gold
Artistic Director: Tony Araujo
Recorded live at Our Lady of Fatima Portuguese Church in Vancouver, Spirit Alive is the fourth CD project in the past six years and was recorded by the largest number of enrolled senior choir students to date at St. Patrick Regional Secondary School in Vancouver.
It was produced under the direction of Tony Araujo, who is the Director of Choral Activities at St. Patrick Regional Secondary, Artistic Director of the British Columbia Boys Choir, Founding Artistic Director of Corpus Christi College Chamber Choir and Spirit Alive Men’s Chorale.
Araujo has developed an award winning high school choral music program that includes five choirs, with over half the student body enrolled. His contributions to choral music education have been featured on CBC radio and television, newspaper, magazine and textbook publications, and in the documentary film, Spirit Alive: The Tony Araujo Story.
In addition to his work as a choral director, Araujo is an English teacher, spiritual retreat director, speaker and consultant. He was recently inducted as a lifetime Honorary Member of the Golden Key International Honours Society in recognition of his scholastic achievements, leadership and community service. He is also a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence.
Speaking about the impact of the choral music experience for the students and himself, Araujo said, “The choral music experience has engaged all of us in a ritual that encourages soulful connections rooted in the Spirit of singing rather than in the ego of the art.”
The choir is the recipient of numerous awards, including the George S. Mathieson Award for Most Outstanding Choral Performance at the B.C. Festival of the Arts. The concert choir has performed throughout North America and Europe and has sung in some of the world’s great concert halls and church’s, including the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts and Canterbury Cathedral. When the choir performs at concerts, the girls wear long dark green dresses and the men wear black tuxedos.
There are 19 tracks on Spirit Alive and the cost of the CD is $20. The choir has three other CD’s and a set of four can be purchased for $60. The money collected from the sale of the albums are used to defray the cost of the travel expenses and also for the recording of future albums.
For more information and to purchase the CD's, call, St. Patrick Regional Secondary School at (604) 874-6422.
The Best Of Sharon Shannon
Spellbound
Multi-talented and button accordionist extraordinary, Sharon Shannon has recently released Spellbound on Compass Records label. The CD features highlights from Shannon’s 1991 debut, which covers a variety of material and takes the listener to Jamaica, Finland, Portugal, Cape Breton and Ireland, and showcases her versatility as a musician.
Sharon Shannon hails from County Clare on the West Coast of Ireland, an area historically steeped in traditional music. She began playing music as a young child and while still in her teens, she was asked by director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, The Field) to provide the music for his stage production of Behan’s The Hostage.
She began her career as a recording artist in 1989 when the Waterboys’ producer John Dunford gathered together a wide variety of musicians to accompany the Waterboys frontman Mike Scott on the 1990, Room to Roam album. Sharon was asked to join the band by Mike Scott shortly after. Since then she has blazed a fearlessly eclectic path, collaborating with Bono, Steve Earle, classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, Alison Krause, and most recently, Sinead O’Connor.
On her own over the past few years, Sharon has toured extensively in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. Also, visiting Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan. She has played for former Irish President Mary Robinson, Leach Walesa in Warsaw, President Clinton in the White House and she accompanied President Mary McAleese on her Australian State visit.
Tracks on Spellbound are some of Sharon Shannon’s best and most well-loved pieces of music over the years which include: Blackbird; Bonnie Mulligan; The 3-Headed Monster; The Mighty Sparrow; Kids; Cavan Potholes; Tickle Her Leg; The Bungee Jumpers; Mouth of the Tobique; Sandy River Belle; The Bag of Cats; The Magic Foot; A Song of the Rosy Cross; Each Little Thing; Sparky; The Woodchoppers; Maguire & Patterson; The Munster Hop; Reel Beatrice; The Marguerita Suite; and Spellbound.
The liner notes give a background of each piece of music and who the musicians are on each track and in some cases how that particular piece of music came about. Very interesting reading. To order any of Sharon Shannon’s albums and to track her tour dates, visit: www.compassrecords.com.
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