{"id":2342,"date":"2013-01-28T00:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:24:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-28T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:24:05","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"Onward Chariots stream new track, Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Onward Chariots is the brainchild of Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist and self professed music geek whose journey to This Is My Confession is peppered with eclecticism. In a life filled with music, Morss has toured the world, played with the California acid-jazz group 11:11 at festivals such as NXNW and SXSW, conducted orchestras, played gospel in African-American churches, arranged and played on albums for artists like Cake, and immersed himself in the works of Peter Bjorn &#038; John, Belle &#038; Sebastian, Yo La Tengo and The Beatles. <\/p>\n<p>Taken from the forthcoming album This Is My Confession (Jan 29th), the band now make the track Mama available for streaming and sharing: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F57239041\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Morss had this to say about the track: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shimmering, tragic, Sufjan Stevens-esque, minimalism-influenced chamber pop composition sung by an unhappy baby to his emotionally inappropriate mother. Trumpets, oboes, strings, and synthesizers swirl as the child sings in chiming three-syllable sentences \u2013 \u2018I am me. Can&#8217;t you see?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The song marks the beginning of the journey of the album, one man&#8217;s struggle with love from birth to maturity, wrapped in the story of a doomed love affair.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This Is My Confession is released on January 29th on Skipping Stones Records. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on Onward Chariots please visit:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BXKMj4Oo87\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/onwardchariots.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cHome\u201d \u2014 Onward Chariots\" src=\"https:\/\/onwardchariots.com\/embed\/#?secret=JK2b1um9Ue#?secret=BXKMj4Oo87\" data-secret=\"BXKMj4Oo87\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/onwardchariots.bandcamp.com<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onwardchariots<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"720\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OnwardChariots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Posts by OnwardChariots<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onward Chariots is the brainchild of Ben Morss, a multi-instrumentalist and self professed music geek whose journey to This Is My Confession is peppered with eclecticism. 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