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“You Are Not Far” Young Oceans | Eric Marshall

Being Human, Being the Church.

Eric Marshall | Young Oceans
Being human, a follower and a leader in God's Church.

Is it OK to not be perfect? Is it just totally un-human, or even un-Christian to be broken? To experience hardship, loss and to suffer is being human, even as a child of God. With our present 2020 era, it's not hard to see the present challenges we face; but for the follower of Jesus, we can be assured that He is our peace and refuge. How can we pass on this hope to others, and to be the Church as He has called us to be?

Join us with special guest: Eric Marshall of the band Young Oceans. Understand what it means to be human, a follower and a leader in God's church. He is right here with us; He is not far.

"Young Oceans push the furthest edges of the indie meditative genre with densely layered Eno-atmospherics of equal appeal to the devoted believer, meditative transcendentalist, and discerning artrock fan." (Noisetrade).  Initially, a studio-only project of songwriter Eric Marshall, the band’s SELF-TITLED debut was named Top 10 album of the year for 2012 by RELEVANT Magazine and spawned the companion instrumental collection BEFORE THE BEGINNING and a follow-up EP title ADVENT.

The second full-length effort, I MUST FIND YOU (2014), proved a more complete realization of the sound vision, “a complete mastery of space....the ship that “Achtung Baby” and “Raising Sand” built finds a shimmering harbor in Young Oceans" (Kevin Ott).  Companion instrumental album STEADY THE STARS followed in 2015.

VOICES, Vol. I, revisiting songs across the band’s catalog and featuring a number of notable outside vocalists (Harvest, Leeland, Evan Wickham, Ellie Holcomb, All Sons & Daughters, Sarah Macintosh, and Mike Donehey of Tenth Avenue North) proved an interim collection ahead of the 3rd studio album.

SUDDENLY (Or The Nuclear Sunburst of The Truth Revealed) released in October 2017 and saw the band’s first-ever tour with a handful of club and universities gigs in North America in late 2017 and early 2018.  Enjoying the live setting, the band recorded the wholly live film and album AMONG THE RUINS as a representation of the Young Oceans live experience.  After previewing two of those tracks in Fall 2018 the band released the new SONGS OF CHRISTMAS album in November 2018 as a holiday interlude ahead of the ‘Ruins" release in Spring 2019.

Young Oceans’ fourth studio album, to be released in late 2020 (YOU ARE FULLNESS PART 1 and 2) is the most intimate collection of prayer and worship songs to date.  Forced into an unconventional workflow during the Covid-19 lockdown, the soundscape that emerged is more terse, more immediate, more vocal-focused and perhaps more honest than any work they’ve done to date.     
 

Current Band Members:
Mason Ingram: Drums
Matt Baile: Bass
Rob Ritchie: Guitar
Brian Sanders: Cello
Kanene Pipkin: Vocals
Eric Marshall: Vocals, guitars, keys, producer
You Are Not Far

 


In my (relatively) short life, I’ve never known a time when it has been harder to separate a truth from a lie.  My mind, my gut, my families’ little world has been turned upside down this year.  Just like most everyone else’s.  And honestly, only the crushing, ancient, waterfall truths of scripture have brought me back to life again and again.  Maybe we’re all being reset… re-born… if we’re willing.Almost two millennia ago, the apostle Paul spoke to the people of Athens, Greece.  He said that, “[God] is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘in Him we live and move and have our being’.  He went on to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people.  It says that some believed and some mocked.I want to be a person that believes.Our new song ‘You Are Not Far’ is the first off our brand new album which will be released in two parts over the next few months.  Never have I written worship songs that are more simple, more brutal, more intimate than these ones.  And more hopeful.  I hope this new music will bring you some healing.  I pray that we (every human) would discover or re-discover who we are.  His beloved.  His children.  His light in this world.  We have nothing to fear.  Nothing to lose… Fix your gaze on the God who delights in being sought.  He is not far from us. He is right here.


 


Website:


https://www.youngoceans.com


Social media:


https://www.instagram.com/youngoceans


https://www.facebook.com/youngoceans

Guest Bio

'I write and sing songs for this thing called Young Oceans. The two rules of this project have always been that we won’t sing anything we don’t truly believe and we won’t make music we wouldn’t want to lay on the floor and listen to ourselves.' - Eric Marshall / Visit: https://www.youngoceans.com

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