Incarnate (live recording), by Robin McLaughlin

Incarnate (live recording)

by Robin McLaughlin

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1.	Creation 05:08	buy track
2.	out from the Garden 03:42	buy track
3.	Prophesy 01:40	buy track
4.	an Angel visits Mary 01:34	buy track
5.	the birth of Jesus 02:06	buy track
6.	shepherds & angels 02:11	buy track
7.	flight to Egypt 04:01	buy track
8.	here & now 01:26	buy track
9.	new creation 02:54	buy track

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Until January 6th, 2023, all donations for this album will be donated to Church World Services, an organization providing assistance to refugees right here in Greensboro. You can find out more info here: cwsgreensboro.org/about-us/

Live recording of the underscore music composed for the 2022 Lessons & Carols at Hope Chapel in Greensboro, North Carolina.

I wrote the music for Incarnate during a week in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge mountains last June, and while I was out there, I chose several quintessentially Appalachian elements to weave into the fabric of the music. The hush and calm of Aaron Copland’s America-inspired Appalachian Spring inspired the music of “Creation,” “the Birth of Jesus,” and “new creation.” Interspersed throughout the underscores are otherworldy-riffs that respond to the harmony of The Arcadian Wild’s “Spring: Wake.”

Most significantly, I used real-life fiddle tunes throughout the underscores whose titles remind me of different parts of the Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration narrative. I used the fiddle tune Snake Winder for “Out from the Garden” and “flight to Egypt,” because it reminds me of evil, and I used Wild Rose of the Mountain for “an Angel visits Mary” and “here & now” because it reminds me of Christ. I couldn’t find a fiddle tune called Incarnate, to use in “Creation” and “Shepherds and Angels,” so I wrote my own.

You don’t need to know the inner workings of the underscore music for it to be meaningful, but I hope you enjoy these thoughts about how I constructed the music.

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released December 23, 2022

Robin McLaughlin, Composer

Nathan Morrison, Banjo
Andy Hudson, Clarinet
Jared Matthews, Violin
Karl Ronnevik, Cello
Michael Van Patter, Pump Organ

Mixed and Mastered by Robin McLaughlin

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Robin McLaughlin Greensboro, North Carolina

Drawing inspiration from metaphor and the sacred, Robin McLaughlin writes music that is colorful and energetic. Classical Voice of North Carolina writes that her music is "sure to delight the most discerning of listeners." She recently released God With Us, an album of chamber music originally composed to underscore the scripture readings at Hope Chapel's 2019 Lessons and Carols Service. ... more