Comes in a lovely digipak, with artwork by Nicole Aline Legault and lyric booklet and layout by Jessica Rhaye.
Includes unlimited streaming of Storm
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" vinyl (gold) of my latest album. Vinyl sleeve has two images by Cherakee Andresen. The lyric insert includes a panorama of the single artwork on one side, and stunning artwork and lyrics on the other side. Artwork by Nicole Aline Legault, and layout by Jessica Rhaye.
Includes unlimited streaming of Storm
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$40CADor more
The 'Storm Temporary Tattoo Pack' was designed by Christina Martin and Nicole Aline Legault, and includes eight album-themed socially responsible temporary minimalist tattoos that last 2-4 days. The order comes with one hand written custom wildflower seed postcard from Christina.
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'Stay with Me' is Christina's first single from her imminent new album. The song launched with a music video in Fall 2021. The full-album 'Storm' will launch in Fall 2023.
The single artwork was a magical collaboration between Christina and Montreal based visual artist Nicole Aline Legault.
Each limited edition puzzle is 250 pieces, is the size of a traditional Vinyl cover (12 inches x 12 inches) and fits nicely inside an album cover frame!
Puzzles come with a personalized post card from Christina!
You can even have your puzzle box autographed.
If you'd like to order different puzzles within the same shipment, and save on shipping, please email Christina at christina@christinamartin.net to confirm availability of the other puzzles, confirm payment details and selections BEFORE placing your order.
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edition of 12
6 remaining
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In Control is is Christina's second single from her imminent new album. The song launched with a music video in Spring 2022. The full-album 'Storm' will launch in Fall 2023.
The single artwork was a magical collaboration between Christina and Montreal based visual artist Nicole Aline Legault.
Each limited edition puzzle is 250 pieces, is the size of a traditional Vinyl cover (12 inches x 12 inches) and fits nicely inside an album cover frame!
Puzzles come with a personalized post card from Christina!
You can even have your puzzle box autographed.
If you'd like to order different puzzles within the same shipment, and save on shipping, please email Christina at christina@christinamartin.net to confirm availability of the other puzzle selections BEFORE placing your order.
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edition of 12
8 remaining
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Little Princess is Christina's third single from her imminent new album. The song launches August 14, 2023 with a music video. The full-album 'Storm' will launch in Fall 2023.
The single artwork was a magical collaboration between Christina and Montreal based visual artist Nicole Aline Legault.
Each limited edition puzzle is 250 pieces, is the size of a traditional Vinyl cover (12 inches x 12 inches) and fits nicely inside an album cover frame!
Puzzles come with a personalized post card from Christina!
You can even have your puzzle box autographed.
If you'd like to order different puzzles within the same shipment, and save on shipping, please email Christina at christina@christinamartin.net to confirm availability of the other puzzle selections BEFORE placing your order.
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Storm is Christina's fourth single from her imminent new album. The single and music video launches in August 2023. The full-album 'Storm' will launch September 1, 2023.
The single artwork was a magical collaboration between Christina and Montreal based visual artist Nicole Aline Legault.
Each limited edition puzzle is 250 pieces, is the size of a traditional Vinyl cover (12 inches x 12 inches) and fits nicely inside an album cover frame!
Puzzles come with a personalized post card from Christina!
You can even have your puzzle autographed.
If you'd like to order different puzzles within the same shipment, and save on shipping, please email Christina at christina@christinamartin.net to confirm availability of the other puzzle selections BEFORE placing your order.
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edition of 12
6 remaining
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'Storm' is Christina's new album of 11 songs, launching September 1,2023.
The album cover artwork was a magical collaboration between Christina and Montreal based visual artist Nicole Aline Legault.
Each limited edition puzzle is 250 pieces, is the size of a traditional Vinyl cover (12 inches x 12 inches) and fits nicely inside an album cover frame!
Puzzles come with a personalized post card from Christina!
You can even have your puzzle autographed.
If you'd like to order different puzzles within the same shipment, and save on shipping, please email Christina at christina@christinamartin.net to confirm availability of the other puzzle selections BEFORE placing your order.
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This single, the fourth of the album, is a triumphant and graceful anthem, rising from delicate beginnings to stratospheric heights, and showing Martin’s trademark ability of taking the personal, and making it universal.
“I chose Storm as the title track for this album because it represents the failures and hard times that help me become a better person.”
The single’s origins lie many years ago, sparked on the night Hurricane Juan hit the coast of Nova Scotia in 2004. Initially inspired by walking home through the storm-lashed streets, it was many years before the song ran to completion. By that time, it’d evolved into a heartfelt musing on hindsight. A reflection on how all the experiences we go through, the good and the bad, the sunny days and the storms, all contribute to the person we become. As ever, Christina Martin wields her unique talent to take her own personal experiences, and deliver them in a way that can speak profoundly to so many.
Storm is well named. The first minute of the track is unashamedly fragile - Martin’s voice breezes lullaby-gentle over sparse, sonorous piano chords, with synthesized soundscapes churning in the distant background, like we’re caught in the tranquil eye of a raging tempest. Then as the song progresses, the wind picks up and we’re carried away. Steady drums, surging guitars, and the album’s trademark sweeping strings all join the party, raising us up on a rousing crest of emotion.
Minors and majors battle it out, fitting the core theme of good and bad experiences all mixing together to forge onwards. Then at our halfway mark, Dale Murray’s lead guitar flies in to lift us off our feet, a soaring arena-rock eruption to really take the song into the stratosphere. By the end, all these sonic elements are blended in together, jostling against one another yet perfectly in harmony. A titanic musical maelstrom all spinning in the same direction, with Martin mantra-like refrain of “Storm, thank you for coming along” echoing over and over above it all.
The lyrics are tastefully uncomplicated, better to grapple with the key themes. Using the imagery of storms, gales and lightning, Martin muses on memory and past trauma. “I sifted through debris and now appreciate the view” she sings, reflecting on how the bad experiences of our past are still part of who we are, and our feelings can change through the lens of hindsight.
The song, as a title track, works as the perfect cornerstone to the wider album. Reflective, elegant, it speaks of trauma and upheaval, the album’s central spars, yet comes out as ultimately optimistic. It unites all the album’s key sounds - Martin’s songbird vocals, chiming pianos, growling guitars, that thumping heartbeat percussion, and those ever-present euphoric strings. An anthem about discovering your own strength, and the power of your past, it’s a regal unifying centerpiece.
lyrics
We walked right through her eye
We dragged lines of electricity
Water up to our knees
I closed my eyes, held on, and believed
Storm, thank you for coming along
Storm, came to shake up what I thought was strong
The storm took us away
With pieces of a love that was tame
It muddied up and screwed
I sifted through debris, and now appreciate the view
Storm, thank you for coming along
Storm, came to shake up what I thought was strong
Though I hated how it felt
How she took our breath away
I knew that she was right
It took years for me to see
Clear she came for you and me
Yeah I know I had to go
Storm, thank you for coming along
Oh storm, came to shake up what I thought was strong
Storm, thank you for coming along
Storm, came to shake up what I thought was strong
Thank you for coming along
Thank you for coming along
Thank you for coming along
Storm, thank you for coming along
credits
from Storm,
track released August 4, 2023
Music and Lyrics by Christina Martin
Produced by Christina Martin & Dale Murray
Engineered and Mixed by Dale Murray
Mastered by Dave McNair
Grand Piano – Ian Bent
Drums – Jordi Comstock
Bass Guitar – Jason Vautour
Violins – Karen Graves
Guitars – Dale Murray
Sonic Delights – Christina Martin & Dale Murray
Christina Martin is a powerhouse musician, songsmith, and performer hailing from the windswept East Coast of Canada. Her
music dances effortlessly through Pop, Rock, Folk and Americana traditions but stays deftly unchained by any one label, refusing to be pigeon-holed and unafraid to dip into stranger waters. Martin is an artist who is constantly shifting, and constantly evolving....more
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