Sings The Moon

Sings The Moon
Studio album by John Mark Nelson
Released	June 24, 2014
Recorded	The Library Recording Studio; First Covenant Church;
Producer	John Mark Nelson; Matt Patrick;
John Mark Nelson chronology

Sings The Moon is the third studio album released by the American artist John Mark Nelson on June 24, 2014. To fund the album production Nelson released a Kickstarter campaign and raised the goal on February 7, 2013.

Background

On August 12, 2012 Nelson released his second album Waiting and Waiting. After this was released he started to write and compose some songs for his upcoming album. Nelson said about the album "The next album will explore the idea of life, looking at the various seasons in which we find ourselves over the course of a lifetime. From the warm haze of childhood, to the bleak uncertainty of old age, this record explores the emotions we are faced with throughout our human lives". On the Kickstarter page, that was launched on January 17, 2013 and funded on February 7, 2013 with the goal of $16,735.[1] The album was produced by Matt Patrick in collaboration with Nelson.

To write and compose the sounds for Sings The Moon, Nelson used full-band arrangements, vignettes, guitar and piano, percussion, strings, horns, mandolin and accordion.

The album's first single "The Moon and the Stars" was released on MTV on 13 August 2013. The music video was directed by Will Keeler.[2] His second single "Boy",[3] was directed by Mairin Hart and released on October 22, 2014.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sings The Moon"	1:15
2.	"A Place Of My Own"	4:20
3.	"Drowned"	1:29
4.	"Shorebird"	5:10
5.	"When We Grow Old"	0:54
6.	"Boy"	3:57
7.	"To Belong"	0:56
8.	"The Moon and The Stars"	3:47
9.	"Awash"	1:44
10.	"Far From Here"	4:06
11.	"Oh, Light Within Us!"	2:45
12.	"All You Are"	6:01
13.	"Ernest"	2:08
14.	"Cigarettes & Postage Stamps"	6:26
15.	"Deep In The Night"	4:21

Personnel

John Mark Nelson – vocals, songwriting, guitar, co-producer
Matt Patrick – producer
Matt Patrick – mixing
Heather Weideman – artwork and Illustration
Matthew Custar – layout and design

Notes

"John Mark Nelson: A New Album!". Kickstarter. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
"John Mark Nelson - "The Moon and the Stars"". MTV. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
Songspace, American Songwriter (May 16, 2014). "Daily Discovery: John Mark Nelson, "Boy"". American Songwriter. ForASong Media, LLC. Retrieved 29 November 2014.

gollark: Neither, unless you count "running imagemagick" as A.

gollark: Video compression is very cool, though. It's basically how we have DVDs and streaming services and YouTube.

gollark: I guess so.

gollark: Videos aren't actually as big as equivalent image sequences because of very clever compression algorithms like H.264, VP9 and AV1, but still very large, especially 4K and such.

gollark: Images are *pretty* big, although new lossy compression stuff like AVIF can get really small sizes without horrible quality loss, and videos are gigantic since they're effectively images and audio stitched together at 60 frames a second (well, or 25, or various other ones).

External links

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[1] "John Mark Nelson: A New Album!". Kickstarter. Retrieved 29 November 2014.

[2] "John Mark Nelson - "The Moon and the Stars"". MTV. Retrieved 29 November 2014.

[3] Songspace, American Songwriter (May 16, 2014). "Daily Discovery: John Mark Nelson, "Boy"". American Songwriter. ForASong Media, LLC. Retrieved 29 November 2014.