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All proceeds from Luz de Vida sales & fundraising efforts will go toward services for advocacy, support, and emergency assistance for families impacted by homicide.
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The original Luz de Vida project began in the days after the January 8, 2011 shooting that took the lives of six people and injured 19 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and shook the Tucson community and nation. Luz de Vida – Spanish for Light of Life – is an expression of community, love, healing, grace and hope, a positive response from Tucson musicians and national artists. More than $20,000 was raised for what was then the Tucson Together Fund to provide aid and comfort to the victims and their families.
The original Tucson Together Fund ceased in 2013 and since then, funds have been donated to Tucson’s Homicide Survivors, Inc. For the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, members of the original Luz de Vida production team (a coalition of Tucson writers, recording engineers, musicians, and artists) are partnering with Homicide Survivors and JFCS of Southern Arizona to release a second compilation record. Again, featuring Tucson and national artists and released on Fort Lowell Records, Luz de Vida II will be released on November 5th to coincide with the All Soul’s Procession, an annual community ceremony in celebration and mourning of the lives of our loved ones and ancestors.
The original record sleeve included a quote from composer Leonard Bernstein, his November 1963 response to the assassination of President Kennedy, and Luz de Vida II continues in the same spirit: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
TRACK LIST
1. Calexico — “Wash (La Luz Brillante)”
2. Tracy Shedd — “Chasing Time”
3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — “Thousand Oaks (Luz de Vida)”
4. Juarez — “Ghosts in the Room”
5. L’Orange — “A Rich Life & Longing”
6. Dr. Dog — “Loneliness”
7. Gabriel Naïm Amor — “La Nuit Pour Nous Deux”
8. Acorn Bcorn — “Scraps”
9. XIXA — “Crystal Road (Luz de Vida)”
10. The Resonars — “It’s the Same”
11. Hannah Yeun — “All That Matters is the Wind”
12. Soda Sun — “Grape Juice”
13. Amos Lee — “El Camino (Solo Acoustic)”
RELEASE SCHEDULE (2021)
- September 10 – [single] – Gabriel Naïm Amor “La Nuit Pour Nous Deux” – premiered by Glide Magazine
- September 24 – [single] – Soda Sun “Grape Juice” – premiered by PopMatters
- October 8 – [single] – Juarez “Ghosts In The Room” – premiered by Rock and Roll Globe
- October 23 – [single] – Tracy Shedd “Chasing Time” – premiered by Under the Radar
- November 5 – Full Album Release Date
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- via Fort Lowell Records (international shipping is available!)
INTERVIEWS
Below is a list of artists and sponsors available for interviews regarding Luz de Vida:
- Artists: Tracy Shedd, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Soda Sun, Hanna Yuen, Gabriel Naïm Amor, The Resonars
- Fort Lowell Records: James Tritten, Tom Beach
- Homicide Survivors, Inc: James Gierke, Executive Director
Please contact Frank Keith to schedule all interviews
PHOTOS / BIOS / DIGITAL ASSETS
- Individual artists promo photos are available here
- Individual artist bios are available here
- Luz de Vida II album artwork is available here
VIDEOS
Gabriel Naïm Amor – “La Nuit Pour Nous Deux” Video – AVAILABLE TO POST/EMBED
Soda Sun – “Grape Juice” Video – AVAILABLE TO POST/EMBED
Juarez – “Ghosts In The Room” Video – AVAILABLE TO POST/EMBED
Tracy Shedd — “Chasing Time” Video — AVAILABLE TO POST/EMBED