Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars

Description

Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars is a 40-track album trilogy by the British singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Adrian Snell, independently released on Serious Music in March 2022. The album trilogy was engineered by Nigel Palmer with Adrian Snell producing.

With ‘Kintsugi: The Art of Precious Scars’ British singer-songwriter Adrian Snell presents a musical trilogy with stories that weave through our often broken lives in a variety of ways, offering a glimpse of a better tomorrow through the cracks.

Five years in the making, these three albums offer the listener a beautiful, moving and inspiring musical interpretation of this unique Japanese art form, Kintsugi, where a broken vessel is remade, using golden glue, resulting in a work of art often more beautiful than the original. And the final appearance is that of an object carrying precious scars, integral to the appearance, and story behind it.

Woven throughout the trilogy are solo piano pieces, representing the Kintsugi glue and recorded on Adrian’s own beautiful, originally 19th Century, Bluthner Grand Piano. And either side of these are the Kintsugi stories.

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3CD tracklist:

Disc One

1-01. I Believe in You – 7:00
1-02. In the Beginning – 3:42
1-03. Sing Before Talk, Dance Before Walk – 2:47
1-04. Come to Jesus – 2:05
1-05. Where There is Love There is Hope – 1:32
1-06. Maya Grace – 3:47
1-07. My Nights Are Sleepless Too – 1:48
1-08. I Love You Tracey Robinson – 4:35
1-09. The Cradle Rocked – 3:59
1-10. The Cradle Fell – 5:26
1-11. Lost At Sea – 3:50
1-12. Accident of Birth – 4:48
1-13. Meet Me on the Broken Bridge – 5:27

Disc Two

2-01. Call To Prayer: For Whom The Bells Toll – 2:17
2-02. Fallen Empire – 3:50
2-03. The Earth is Full of Sorrow – 5:10
2-04. Into the Night – 5:01
2-05. God Forsaken – 6:12
2-06. Unbearable, If True – 4:24
2-07. The World To Come – 1:52
2-08. Lord Have Mercy – 3:44
2-09. Long Ago, Far Away – 4:15
2-10. Kintsugi, Better Than New – 2:38
2-11. Don’t Give up, Don’t Give In – 4:08
2-12. Breathe, Believe – 4:08

Disc Three

3-01. Sanctuary, Pt.1 – 3:08
3-02. Sanctuary, Pt.2 – 4:25
3-03. Love Your Hurt Away – 4:14
3-04. All I Need – 4:53
3-05. Sorry – 3:56
3-06. Goibei Valley Choir – 3:06
3-07. Kintsugi: Your Scars Are Precious – 1:19
3-08. To My Children’s Children – 5:39
3-09. All Rivers Run to the Sea – 4:41
3-10. Kindness – 3:14
3-11. Kintsugi: Coming Home – 3:16
3-12. Come Soon – 4:36
3-13. It’s Never Easy – 4:07
3-14. Where there is love, there is hope – 2:20
3-15. Jesus Created the Whole Earth, Including Chickens – 1:32

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First single