Friends, it has been a wild 36 hours!
Long story short: The recent sudden popularity of sea shanties on TikTok spurred us to finally start posting on that platform, and on Friday morning, Jeremy put up a clip of us singing a Corsican Stabat Mater at Mont Saint-Michel. (We posted the full video for you on Patreon last year: Patreon.com/posts/34859491 )
Within a few hours, it had several hundred thousand views, and people began clamoring for the full track. As of this post on Saturday evening, the TikTok video has 1.3 MILLION views (!!!) and we just got the track up on our Bandcamp page and website (it will eventually be up on Spotify and other streaming services, but that process takes a little while). Of course, you all can listen and download it here!
If you’re on TikTok, you can find us at @WindborneSingers and even if you’re not on TikTok, you can see the viral video here: vm.tiktok.com/ZMeFjywcs/
And if you’re interested in listening to more Corsican music, we highly recommend the groups A Filetta and Tavagna (our Corsican teacher, Jean-Etienne Langianni, is a member of Tavagna). You can find Tavagna’s music here (normally we wouldn’t send you to Amazon, but Tavagna doesn’t have much of a web presence) and visit A Filetta’s website: AFiletta.com
We’re excited to see where this leads, and glad to have you along for the ride.
In song and solidarity,
Lauren, Jeremy, Lynn, and Will
STABAT MATER (from Nebbiu, Corsica)
Stabat Mater dolorosa
Iuxta crucem lacrimosa
Dum pendebat Filius
Cuius animam gementem
Contristatam et dolentem
Pertransivit gladius
Quando corpus morietur,
Fac, ut animae donetur
Paradisi gloria. Amen
