{"id":21809,"date":"2014-08-01T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21809"},"modified":"2014-08-01T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:18:21","slug":"watch-son-luxs-affecting-official-video-for-lanterns-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-08\/watch-son-luxs-affecting-official-video-for-lanterns-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Son Lux&#8217;s Affecting Official Video for &#8220;Lanterns Lit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2-650x365.jpg\" alt=\"SL2\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SL2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.sonluxmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Son Lux<\/strong> <\/a>is essentially Ryan Lott, a classically-trained musician and composer who has written music for various projects.\u00a0 But beginning in 2008 Lott also began to release music under his <em>nom de paix<\/em>, <strong><span class=\"il\">Son<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Lux.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"il\">In all candor, we somewhat missed the boat on <strong>Son Lux<\/strong> until recently when Lott collaborated with <strong>Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> and <strong>Serengeti<\/strong> on the worthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-02\/listen-to-new-song-rhythm-of-devotion-from-sufjan-stevens-sisyphus-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sisyphus<\/strong><\/a> project.\u00a0 Prior to Sisyphus, <\/span><span class=\"il\">Son<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Lux<\/span> released <a href=\"music.sonluxmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><span class=\"il\">Lanterns<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> last year, and many believe it his\/their best collection of songs yet. The album featured the likes of <strong>The Antlers&#8217; Peter Silberman<\/strong>, mandolin virtuoso <strong>Chris Thile<\/strong>, <strong>DM Stith<\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this week when <strong>Son Lux<\/strong> released the inspirational and affecting official video for the album&#8217;s <em><strong>Lanterns Lit<\/strong><\/em>, which you can watch below.\u00a0 The video was directed and produced by <strong>SJ Finlay<\/strong> who writes this about the video:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis music video was made while shooting a short film to help children at risk in South East Asia. To keep updated about the release of that film and the project, search for #ChildrenofChange.\u201d\u00a0 The song and video are perfectly matched.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, watch a sensational solo-piano rendering of the same song for <strong>Soundcheck<\/strong>.\u00a0 As you will hear, Lott&#8217;s perfect siren-singing makes his collaborations with the similar-sounding Sufjan Stevens and Peter Silberman make even more sense.\u00a0 The song and performance are beauty defined.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy <em><strong>Lanterns<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"%20http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hqLie6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGRCzfWa1_g\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRtDHXEiCZw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son Lux is essentially Ryan Lott, a classically-trained musician and composer who has written music for various projects.\u00a0 But beginning in 2008 Lott also began to release music under his nom de paix, Son Lux.\u00a0 In all candor, we somewhat missed the boat on Son Lux until recently when Lott collaborated with Sufjan Stevens and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}