23 March 2013

We are Pascha People: New Music

Just in time for Holy Week and Pascha I give a musical project called "We are Pascha People" recorded under the moniker Roodscreen. Recorded during Lent 2013, this album takes you into the contemplative desert of Lent, the institution of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday, mourning with Mary at the Cross, lamenting at the tomb, into Hades on Holy Saturday, then to the empty tomb on Easter Sunday.

Some of the songs will appear on the Roodscreen album "Calm of the Stormdriven" later this year. Like all Roodscreen projects, it will be a thematic album, this time about our Blessed Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.



Desert Darkness (words& music by David Samuel Thomas)
Ave Verum Corpus (translated by Edward Caswall, music by DST)
Mourn with Me (words by Fr. Frederick William Faber, music by DST)
The Earth was Cold, the Night was Dark (words & music DST)
He Descended to the Dead (assembled by DST)
We are Pascha People (words & music DST)
Regina Coeli (translated by Edward Caswall, music by DST)

Produced by David Samuel Thomas at Green Desk Studio--Ypsilanti, MI