Elation Pauls - Sustenance - Violin Music from Canada (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

SUSTENANCE marks a new life chapter born out of the days of isolation and silence of 2020. With the drastic and sudden all-encompassing change experienced, I was forced to spend much introspective time. Becoming deeply frustrated with the lack of societal contribution I was making as a violinist in the context of a new global crisis, I began exploring new avenues to provide beneficial offerings from within my artistic practice and calling.

With the encouragement of some close friends and colleagues, I gradually began to imagine a program of 21st century Canadian music for violin and piano based on the theme of sustenance, with the intention to commission new works that would augment the repertoire and express my desire to serve. In spring of 2023 I was awarded a Create and Explore grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and it is a great honour and privilege to work with the composers and pianists presented on my debut album. My hope is that in listening to and experiencing this music, you will re-imagine something old, contemplate something new and find an audible nugget of sustenance that you will want to share with others and hear again and again.

TRACKLIST

1. Elation Pauls - Habibi: Offering of Water: I. of life
2. Elation Pauls - Habibi: Offering of Water: II. yasna
3. Elation Pauls - Habibi: Offering of Water: III. purify
4. Elation Pauls - Habibi: Offering of Water: IV. it shall flow if from tears
5. Elation Pauls - Habibi: Offering of Water: V. to life
6. Elation Pauls - Braid: The Interior Castle
7. Elation Pauls - Murphy: FIRE-AND-ICE-BODIED-DOUBLED-UP-WITHDRAWAL-ANXIETY: I. Mellifluous, heart-rending
8. Elation Pauls - Murphy: FIRE-AND-ICE-BODIED-DOUBLED-UP-WITHDRAWAL-ANXIETY: II. Agitated and possessed
9. Elation Pauls - Braden: Foxy Fox’s Musical Games for Violin and Piano
10. Elation Pauls - Clouston, Sunabacka: Jack the Fiddler
11. Elation Pauls - Kradjian: Sari Aghtchig (Girl from the Mountain) for Violin and Piano
12. Elation Pauls - Derksen: Country Food for Violin and Tape
13. Elation Pauls - Braid: Without Words for Violin and Piano: I. Floating
14. Elation Pauls - Braid: Without Words for Violin and Piano: II. Prelude and Carmine
15. Elation Pauls - Kradjian: Tango Melancólico for Violin and Piano



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