"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Last year at about this time I wrote a review of Alanna-Marie Boudreau’s album “Hints & Guesses”. Well, Alanna-Marie has clearly been busy since her next album, entitled “Hesychasm”, will be coming out through LoveGoodMusic.com very shortly:
The album “Hints & Guesses” is the first full-length album from Alanna-Marie Boudreau, a young musician from New York who was recently touring here in San Diego. About a month ago I received a copy of Alanna’s new album in advance of its release this September (iTunes, Website), so after a few weeks of listening to the album in my car, I wanted to share my impression of it.
The title of the album comes from a line in a TS Elliot poem, The Four Quartets, which speaks about the glimpses we get of something beautiful and awe-inspiring, but which hasn’t yet been fully revealed. In an interview on her YouTube channel, Alanna compared it to seeing the early morning sunlight before the sun itself has risen, explaining it as “the sense of home-sickness that you can’t really describe”. These are themes to which a restless pilgrim can certainly relate!
Do you love good music? Well, next month it’s coming to San Diego!
Last year I wrote about a concert that was being held in Pacific Beach. This concert was put together by Love Good Music, a community who, through crowd-funding, helps artists get their music out to the public. In June two such artists, Chris Cole and Alanna-Marie Boudreau (of Wise Words on Wednesday fame!) will be coming to San Diego and will be performing two concerts.
San Diego – St. Brigid (PDF Poster) | San Diego – Our Lady (PDF Poster)
The first concert will be at St. Brigid’s in Pacific Beach on June 12th and the second will be at Our Lady of Mount Carmel near Poway. Please click on the links above for details. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to be able to attend as I’ll be in Seattle for work :-(. You’ll have to go and enjoy it for me 🙂
In other “good music” news, did everyone else get Audrey Assad’s new EP last night?! 🙂
Today’s Wise Words on Wednesday come with a video! The quotation comes from a song by Alanna-Marie Boudreau, a theology and philosophy student alumni from Stubenville:
“In my short life the things I most regret have resulted from dissecting love”
– Alanna-Marie Boudreau