Worship Circle: Village Thrift

Cleveland Heights, OH, US Electronica/Dance / Experimental / DJ

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- VT'08: Love Is the And
- VT'08: So Lead On
- VT'08: Left Left Right
- VT'08: He Only Is
- VT'08: They Don't Know You
- VT'08: Waiting For You (8 Pack ...
- Make Me Feel
- Be Still
- Simple
- Strong Weakness
- Wake Up Sleepy

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Just recorded vocals and completed the 8pack for God Is Building A City. Remixer 8pack download in the store at Entertheworshipcircle.com

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"for those curious about an electro-pop hybrid, Village Thrift offers experimentation with forms of electronica and worship."
- Justin Boyer, Relevant Magazine

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Members: Todd Berger and friends

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Label: Worship Circle Records

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8.02.2007

For Immediate Release
CALL FOR ENTRIES: New Circa Recording In Production

Todd Berger and several friends have begun writing new material for the next Village Thrift recording. These will be recorded as basic song elements (ie. lead vocal, basic instrumentation, musical hooks) that we would like, you and the greater EWC community, to have the opportunity to add their musical style, beats, arrangements to in order to complete each song. The basic song elements will be made available for download on this website and will need to be completed in a to-be-determined resolution to maintain quality and consistency for the entire project. We will soon determine the timeframe for you to submit your final tracks back. All creative mixing and additions will be done gratis, however, if we chose your song to be added to the next Village Thrift recording, you will be fully credited for your work both in all of the CD packaging and also throughout all print and web promotions of the recording. In the true sense of collaboration, we reserve the right to make artistic changes to your files for the final mix as well as determine which tracks will or will not be included in the final compilation. All submissions will be mixed and mastered for the recording.

If you would be interested in participating, please send an email to Todd Berger. IMPORTANT: write "THRIFTme" in the subject line of your email.

ARTIST: Enter the Worship Circle
ALBUM: Village Thrift: Circa 2005
(FEATURING: BEN & ROBIN PASLEY, TODD BERGER, RYAN LOTT, & DJ DOC)
2005

What happens when you revisit the foundation of the original Enter the Worship Circle series, but foster collaboration with artists who speak the musical languages of cultures outside the spectrum of tribal drums and acoustic guitars?

Village Thrift has been constructed from the existing foundation of it's sister Worship Circle recordings, and though sharing the name of it's predecessors, this sibling has opened a new doorway altogether for experimentation in techniques used in cultivating environments of worship. With collaborative songwriting and acoustic instrumentation interchanged with discovered (thrift) sounds manipulated electronically, Enter the Worship Circle has purposefully hijacked technologies that have up to this point been used exclusively by DJ's, Art-Rock, and Hip-Hop artists. Take a little pop melody work from Moby, a little ambient rhythm from the Telefon Tel Aviv, add some offbeat elements like sympohonic rock from the Art of Noise, and finish it off with the voices of Ben and Robin Pasley and newcomers Todd Berger and Ryan Lott and you are starting to feel the vibe of Village Thrift.

AUDIO SAMPLES
1. Simple	MP3
2. Make Me Feel	MP3
3. How Sweet	MP3
4. With Your Eyes	MP3
5. Understand	MP3
6. Twenty Two	MP3
7. All You Angels	MP3
8. Strong Weakness	MP3
9. First Hint	MP3
10. In This World	MP3
11. Wake Up Sleepy	MP3
12. Tambourines	MP3
13. Be Still	MP3

Circa 2005, the first in the Village Thrift series, is a wide-eyed journey that explores themes of doubt in our failure-prone humanity, and our absolute dependence on God's sufficiency in times when we find our faith to be thin. In the book of Psalms, King David has left a trail for us of abolute honesty and vulnerability in approaching the Holy One-- evidence of God's ability to receive all who will come as they are. These songs are inspired directly from those Psalms, and in keeping with the original Worship Circle series, this album is a "must have" for any Worship Circle fans.

ARTIST BIO: TODD BERGER Facebook | Blog

Todd discovered his deep connection with music as a first language and so began writing and performing original compositions at an early age when he was classically trained and then studied Jazz at Baldwin Wallace College. He then went on to explore the creative synergies between the creative processes of music composition and the visual arts, while earning his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. For over 15 years, Todd has collaborated and performed throughout the U.S. with resident artists from his hometown of Cleveland, OH. Today, Todd and his wife Laurel, enjoy creating multi-art events where a fusion of electronica, dance, turntablism and multimedia are combined during their concerts touring as the Village Thrift extension of Enter the Worship Circle. A recording artist with Worship Circle Records, he is pioneering a series of recordings under the name Village Thrift that create a cultural intersection to bring people together and foster creative collaborations between artists. Todd enjoys his local role as Worship Director at Fairmount in Cleveland Heights, OH and as missionaries with Wake Arts Collective, Todd and Laurel are pioneering a creative community in their hometown of Cleveland, OH.

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