Canadian Arctic nearly loses e…
September 29, 2011
Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf – Yahoo! News http://t.co/2yR2FGsb
Want to be in the next MBD video?
September 27, 2011
If you live in the Detroit area and want to be in the next MBD video, please email us with a photo if possible!
mybrightestdiamond at gmail.com
We will be shooting on Saturday, Oct. 8th from 12:30-4:30 in Detroit.
Bring a friend! Bring your grandmother! (we need all ages, shapes and sizes!) Come join the fun!
Check out Part 1 of our making…
September 26, 2011
Check out Part 1 of our making-of documentary for #AllThingsWillUnwind http://t.co/EBB9Iq8C
Also read Edge interview. Good…
September 24, 2011
Also read Edge interview. Good questions. “@sciam: How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down http://t.co/rErZSRrN“
I find this tweet extremely en…
September 23, 2011
I find this tweet extremely endearing. “@nicomuhly: Ladies. Do not believe taxi TV. Do not get your nails *texturized* like snake skin!!!!!”
Freedom House needs 20K to kee…
September 23, 2011
Freedom House needs 20K to keep going. Its the place refugees & asylum seekers go for help. http://t.co/Jab2SoFD
YMusic record comes out Tuesda…
September 22, 2011
YMusic record comes out Tuesday @pitchforkmedia: New Composition by Shara http://t.co/JvjXYKmj“
Evidence of Faster-Than-Light …
September 22, 2011
Evidence of Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Puzzles Scientists: http://t.co/Fs8EZKeM
Lake Simons! :-) “@socialarts…
September 22, 2011
Lake Simons! :-) “@socialarts: Who made the gorgeous mask for @MyBrightestDmnd video “Be Brave” ? http://t.co/MUqys8mV“
New Sounds: New Sounds Live wi…
September 22, 2011
New Sounds: New Sounds Live with Shara Worden and yMusic – WNYC http://t.co/mDsnmpqG
silence.
September 21, 2011
silence.
Carlsbad here we come! @sksnid…
September 21, 2011
Carlsbad here we come! @sksnider
Be Brave
September 20, 2011
My Brightest Diamond – “Be Brave”
Be Brave video & Prefuse73 remixxxxx
September 20, 2011
The year 2010 was not the most joyous one for me to get a smart phone and start reading the news. Maybe I was sheltered before, or maybe I was recovering from my own tragedies, so that I couldn’t take in what was happening on a larger scale. But I broke down & traded in my old phone for a screen slider and started to look around. Environmental disasters were in the headlines everyday- a tsunami in Chile, an oil spill in the Gulf, a flood in Pakistan, an image of Adelie penguins hovering over their eggs which were submerged by snowmelt caused by global warming. Human injustices also seemed to increase. The numbers of child sex slavery were astounding. Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was held under house arrest and not allowed to take the prize awarded for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. In November, the great composer Gorecki died and I remember that weekend clearly, listening to the work and reading the lyrics in his beautiful Symphony No. 3, the lament of a mother who has lost her son in war. In listening to his music, I began weeping over human injustice. This was the context in which I started writing.
At first the song “Be Brave” began with a chant “I do dear Dodo I do dance for you”. Yes, a terrible lyric, but that was the sentiment I was reaching for. I wanted to make my own rain dance, a way of calling upon the gods to bring change. I started researching (and by “research” I mean, watching YouTube) the traditions of prayer dances, watching wise old Cherokee chiefs talk about nature, about our relationship to the earth and to one another. Finally, the lyrics started to come for the song- a lament, a lecture to myself for behavioral change, a demand for bravery and for hard work.
I am a bird in water, a whale on sand, I am the flood, the fire, the oil spill…
Be Brave | Single
September 20, 2011
Digital Single available via iTunes.
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The impending demise of the Adélie penguins. The death of composer Henryk Górecki. The bombing of South Korea. The house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Alarming increases in human trafficking and sexual slavery. Tsunami in Chili. Oil spills. The flood in Pakistan.
“Be Brave,” the first single from My Brightest Diamond’s third and forthcoming album All Things Will Unwind, is frontwoman Shara Worden’s response to a world unwinding. It is her rain dance, her attempt to influence and change things seemingly outside her control. But it’s also an inner dialogue, Shara to Shara, a blistering plea/lecture/pep talk to get her gameface on and do something tangible and real about injustice – including singing and dancing.
“In November,” says Worden, “the great composer Gorecki died and I remember that weekend clearly, listening to the work and reading the lyrics in his beautiful Symphony No. 3, the lament of a mother who has lost her son in war. This was the context in which I started writing [‘Be Brave’].”
Like the entirety of All Things Will Unwind, “Be Brave” features celebrated New York City chamber ensemble yMusic. DM Stith provides backing vocals. Jessica Dessner dances in the video. Pat Dillett, producer and engineer for David Bryne, Laurie Anderson, They Might be Giants, Mary J. Blige, The National, and many others, engineered and mixed the song in New York City.
Prefuse 73 provides a remix of “Be Brave” that expands the song’s foundation into an echoed chamber, like a parade through labyrinthian caves. The third track, an alternate version performed with Son Lux, is a reduced take; with the drums less pronounced, the song peeks around the corners and sometimes into mirrors.
The Prefuse 73 remix is available for free here:
My Brightest Diamond, “Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)” by My Brightest Diamond
Tracklisting for “Be Brave” digital single:
1. Be Brave [Album version]
2. Be Brave [Prefuse73 remix]
3. Be Brave [Alternate version, feat. Son Lux]
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