Sara Groves to Release New Album 'Invisible Circus'
Christian recording artist Sara Groves will release her newest album “Invisible Empires,” her 10th record, Oct. 18.
Groves tells Breathecast.com, "Well, the name “Invisible Empires” comes from the song "Obsolete," which I think is the second song on the record. [In the song] I'm looking at these two skylines. One would be man-made, with fervor – the works that we do on our own apart from God.”
She stated, “We're striving and trying to put all these things together. We're creating – often living – literally in virtual worlds. We're online with virtual friendships and virtual worlds. In the meantime there are real people in our lives who ... want our love and want to love us.”
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“And I feel like we often turn to this man-made and this sort of frenetic life, this work apart from God, kind of like our own Babel, our own Tower of Babel," Groves added.
Her previous album, “Fireflies and Songs,” was named Christianity Today's 2009 "Album of the Year," and is looking for “Invisible Circus” to be even bigger.
Referring to “Fireflies” Groves said:
“Fireflies is very much like a girl and her piano and I knew this record was going to be a little bit bigger than a girl and her piano. When you're raising children you are keenly aware of how the times that you grew up in are vastly different from the times they are growing up in and a lot of this record is reflecting on those differences in an effort to identify what never changes, what will always be true.”
Groves has been nominated for three Dove Awards including 2002's "New Artist of the Year" and 2003's "Special Event Album of the Year," and her album 'Add to the Beauty' was 2005's "Album of the Year" for CCM Magazine.
In 2004 Sara Groves wrote a book of original stories and essays with a couple of contributors called "The Art of Being."
