“Coming From Inside the House (A Virtual SubCulture Concert), Jason Robert Brown’s first-ever album to be released on vinyl, was originally recorded for a one-night video streaming event on April 27, 2020. The concert was originally presented as a benefit for the SubCulture staff and musicians from the Jason Robert Brown Artist-in-Residence concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic,” (Concord.com). The musical theatre composer’s lyrics show the absolute depths of the worldwide crisis, at that time still in its opening stages.
From Brown’s website: “… And so began a feverish two weeks of singing, playing, recording, mixing, and editing, all of us learning how to turn our apartments into television studios and soundstages, moving lamps, hiding laundry, shooing the dogs out of the shot, getting our kids to hold the iPhone while we played, sweating through takes because the air conditioning was too loud, getting yelled at by neighbors for playing the drums all afternoon, frantically re-recording when we had to change one song’s key after everyone had already finished, apologizing to our wives and husbands and children for being lost in GarageBand and ProTools and Final Cut sessions, culminating in the broadcast on April 27th.”
“Sanctuary” features a first section that flips between E minor and its relative major, G — tied together by a constant, insistent G ostinato throughout all sections other than the choruses. 3:21 brings a feverish bridge in G. A new chorus, introduced at first by an a cappella choral section, this time in Bb major, enters at 4:04.
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