Mercy Seat » Ben Kyle http://www.nemercy.org Minneapolis, Minnesota Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:41:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Minneapolis, Minnesota Mercy Seat no Minneapolis, Minnesota Mercy Seat » Ben Kyle http://www.nemercy.org/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.nemercy.org/category/composer/ben-kyle/ Ben Kyle http://www.nemercy.org/ben-kyle/ http://www.nemercy.org/ben-kyle/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:13:51 +0000 admin http://www.nemercy.org/?p=71 Minnesotan via Belfast, Ben Kyle (whether he likes it or not) is a fixture of the Twin Cities music scene. With his band Romantica, he’s shared the stage with Ryan Adams (including a haunting duet of a Romantica song) and toured the country. Their two records, It’s Your Weakness That I Want and America have been critically acclaimed by the likes of Village Voice and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Ben’s Massa liturgy takes his alt-country roots and mines them for an immigrants walk through the traditional Lutheran liturgy.

]]> http://www.nemercy.org/ben-kyle/feed/ 0 Massa http://www.nemercy.org/massa/ http://www.nemercy.org/massa/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:38:08 +0000 admin http://www.nemercy.org/?p=18 One of Mercy Seat’s first adventures into pop liturgies, Massa is an alt-country take on the Lutheran Mass. Taken right out of Ben Kyle’s playbook, it combines a soaring pedal steel, soulful harmonies, and fantastic melodies. This liturgy is performed by James Orvis and “Lucky” Luke Jacobs of Romantica, Jimmy Osterholt of The Small Cities, Jayanthi Kyle of Black Audience, and Marty Martinson of the Martinson Family Singers.

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