{"id":1025,"date":"2020-06-16T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2020-06-16T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:57:50","slug":"alyssa-hunt-ascending-music-poet-and-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/2020\/06\/16\/alyssa-hunt-ascending-music-poet-and-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Hunt: Ascending Music Poet and Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alyssa Hunt<\/a> is the songwriter, singer, composer and co-producer of all Ascending Music. Inspired by artists such as Steffany Gretzinger, Bj\u00f6rk and Sade, she allows her faith to reflect in her words, creating a sort of lounge effect. She also writes short stories under the pen name A. Renee Hunt<\/a>. Hailing from sunny California, she currently lives in the Midwest with her husband Scott, son Joshua and dog Magnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alyssa, I love to meet fellow author-musicians! How did you develop an interest in writing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you so much for the opportunity to share with your readers; I\u2019m thrilled. All my life, I\u2019ve been writing. As a military child, I found myself alone more than with actual friends. I found it easier to draw and write up a good character than to go out and say hello from time to time. Also, thanks to my parents being avid readers, I came to love books as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the fourth grade, I got my own typewriter and it took off. I wrote stories for my friends, and entered competitions whenever possible, at school, but at the time, publication wasn\u2019t as readily accessible. It wasn\u2019t until much later that I decided to take the plunge and write a complete novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations on your new album, <\/em>Venation, released this week. Can you tell us about your process for composing lyrics and music, as well as recording?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putting Venation together was the most amazing experience for me. I\u2019d attempted poetry several times, but thought I completely sucked until 2017. I went on a 29-day trip to Europe and found the most amazing places in England, Ireland, Scotland and even Wales, to express myself. I became inspired by all God had created- the views of mountainous landscapes, the lochs and people. I was truly blown away. It was the peaceful, quiet nature of it all that even gave me the title of the album, Venation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019d decided to place those words to music, I found I didn\u2019t anymore. LOL<\/em> I liked what I was doing, mostly because I didn\u2019t want to do what everyone else expected of me. Venation allowed me to breathe, but also to step into songs that were me, while still being faith-based. Not quite Gospel, nor Pop, just nice worship.  I\u2019m an 80\u2019s gal, so this began the journey on what I do every Sunday, but also where I want to go that\u2019s not traditional of your every day church. An up-coming song, Cinematic, shares that vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a strange way of putting things together, since I work virtually with a fabulous producer in Venezuela. Yes- another country! He\u2019s visionary and really understands what I want. I woke one morning with a tune in my head, recorded all the sounds and vocals and sent it to him. He then, in turn made it a beautiful masterpiece! I can\u2019t truly play any one instrument, but I vocally imitate them, allowing him to bring them to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the theme of your new album?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venation\u2019s theme is to Breathe. All my life I\u2019ve been taught that everything praises the Lord. So I used the veins of a leaf to share that. The leaf is God, who is everything as a whole. His son, Jesus, is the vein and main veins that stem away, but we are the venues; the body. As a people, I always loved using that imagery- we are nothing without Jesus, with God who\u2019s made us all whole. I hope that\u2019s not too preachy, because I try not to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n