Avriel & The Sequoias - The Summit Lyrics

I just.........WOW!!! <3

Pure, warm, elevating.... NIce of You to share it... TY :)

What if Peter Hollens and Tim Foust sang this with Avi?

Hell yeah I'd follow him to the mountain too but i wish he had more faster songs!

I'm hoping he gets to compose movie scores. He seems like an absolute natural for that and I would love to hear it.
Of course, I can't create any kind of music myself so all I can do is keep listening in amazement to people who can. 👍👍

MAN! WHAT!? WHY AM I CRYING BRO? JEEZ LOUISE... You're freaking awesome, God dang it!

XXXXXOOO ♡♡♡

some of the guitar work reminded me of days of the new. good song, happy avi is doing well and obviously found his fans

Another Awesome Song from Avi...unique and Empowering Yet Calming...Love it 💞

I hope he gets the fame he deserves.
Love his deep voice .😍

Am i reading Bible or listening to a music

I’d love to hear Abi sing Close The Door and Turn The Lights Down Low

Your man* by josh turner

Im sad you left ptx im miss yoy and i could tell ptx misses you

IDK who routes/dispatched, plans your tour schedule, as a efficiently mined and organizing person..
I have to applaud the schedule...it's in line,.
In terms of financial soundness and utilization of time and energy, it's something I like, and NOTICED!!
Ok I'm a virgo, are we like this!!
O, and Avi inspires me, in my delayed creative awakeness!! TY

(sentence to sentence you sound more and more like me omg hi fellow virgo 😂)

God damn. That outro stole my heart...

Sure, he may be a good bass. ...but this song reminds me of Frozen, (when they're gathering the ice).

They are both chants. It's a style used to convey a rhythmic forceful forward motion. That's what this song is all about. Plodding on against your will.
The use in Frozen is as a workers rhythmic chant, sort of like the rhythm scullers use when racing.
Very effective use in both songs.

Why is Avi like, my, idk, FAVORITE PERSON?

I find him a very calming individual, and I like his music!

How come his music isn't in Red Dead man?

Seriously one of the most talented singers and artists of this time. Thank you, God, for blessing this earth with Avi Kaplan.

Love this

Can you PLEASE collaborate with Teddy Swims!!!!???

That would be awesome!!

Yes!!!!

The WONDERFUL and DREADFUL day is soon to come brother.... WAIT WILL BE OVER SOON.

There are no words! His music is deeper than mere words.

He has such a powerful and emotion filled voice. You feel his music rather than just listening to it.

1,25 speed. :D

0:56 This be some of that Crosby, Stills, and Nash/Bon Iver shit and I am living for it

Muito bom,sua voz arrepia *-*

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

🔥🔥🔥

❤️ sigh

Je n'ai absolument aucunes idées de ce que je serais devenue sans ta musique, en solo. Je te remercie TELLEMENT, pour ton talent, et ton intelligence.. Merci.

My all male acapella group is making this into a piece and we will be performing it in the spring! I'm so excited! I'm the bass so I will have Avi's part! I'll be sure to post it if we record it!

Waiting

Good luck :)

(but you know that all part here is Avi right? 😁)

@Livu S Yes and I can hit all of the parts but I'm glad that there is so much diversity in his voice that there is a part for T1&2s Baritones and Basses!

Somebody needs to use this in some kinda bad ass western type game ad

Love the solo work. Really get to show off your full range. Love the mix and song composure.

I can feel ur artistry its spiritual, i used to think this is how art should be expressed. Thanks for this.

Art is the tool not the very thing to express & there is a thousand way to express sg, this is one of them.
However, one of my favourite as well 😁

This is my favorite of the new songs!

If mountains could sing this is the voice we’d hear... 😌😍

The world needed a bass lead.

This song makes me feel so powerful. Like nothing can keep me from reaching my own personal summit.

0:19.... I'm dead...too deep❤️
"Those voices in MY MIND"

It's great work music

Avi sir, if thou hast released ye's first album. Let ye say for thy must know that ye's piece is gold and ye's message is eternal and that us may buy and lavish the joy of thy art in our thine heart.

Why does his songs sonds like they could all be in a series ?

I like this one.

a v i !!!!!

God gave Avi the best voice ever

this is good for homework

Love this. Reminds me of old Viking or Celtic music.

just one more of deep amazing songs , go one this Way dear Avi from Germany ;-)

Diferente pero hermoso

PURE TESTOSTERONE

he makes you love folk again

who got top see him in concert????

I have to tell you, I have seen a lot of really good artists in concert but this show topped them all.
I saw them in St.Louis. Tyler Ramsey opened, Avi' band is Jeremy Lister, Jonathon Lister, Kaleb Thomas Jones and Daniel Ellsworth. Every single one of them is amazing and you put them with Avi it's just unbelievable. So sorry I didn t go to more shows

@alma petry Damn I wished I had seen him.. He played the Troubadour on July 10...I only discovered him last week cuz I stumbled onto a Peter Hollens video (and he is AMAZING).. I did know PTX but didn't tune into them until recently..BUT AVI holy mother of gawd...next level

@Kristi Enigl yes, I listened to PTX to hear his voice. Then waited two years after he left just hoping he would come out with music. Then BAMM!!
His show is all original Avi except for one awesome cover. I forget how many songs but it's a good long show. It just doesn't seem possible that each piece is so good but they ARE! Here's a pretty good clip from NY. https://youtu.be/Eu8EvHg9LVw

@alma petry Thanks so much! I loved the music he did with the Sequoias, too.. all really beautiful. Made me want to visit the Sequoias for the first time in a loooong time, already booking a trip. I think his music is actually initiating a change for the better in me ... he is very special

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💖💖💖💖💖💖

So loving what your doing with your solo career. You have such a lovely voice and what you choose to sing about is usually rather inspiring. Thanks for all the great tunes!!

声に惚れた。

Omg cant get over the sound, love it and the guitar ❤❤❤

You are absolutely the best singer ever. Your voice is addicting. I could listen to you every day all day long. I feel sorry for all my past singers because since I heard you they never get my time. So, 8 hrs. later from my former comment I have been listening to you all day. See what you do to me. That voice, a gift from God.

Avi ❤️❤️❤️

Sublime

lol imma be honest.. im a screaming lil bi*ch over this song !

Grabs you by your soul to let you know this is real !!!!!!!

Nate Dogg?

I want more of this... Feels so baddass but at the same time so calm

You was the one I most like in pentatonix, now you made this masterpiece , I love you even more man

this voice makes me goosebumps! Thank you for your work and this magical velvet voice!

Wow Avi youre the greatest for the location you read voice wonderful
I ve a question
Why you leave pentatonix ? Maybe for the different style ? I can feel you're soul in this song greatest Avi

Does anyone else hear that *SUPER* low note at 0:10?




no? just me?

Yeah. I hear a bass guitar playing a note there.

Three Sisters, Cascade Range, Oregon in the background? I swear I can see those mountains from the hill above my house....at a VERY similar angle....




EDIT: Taken from the top of Mary's Peak, no?


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marys+Peak/@44.1930569,-122.1356256,10.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x54c035931ce43f87:0xb8d20d84001931ee!8m2!3d44.504287!4d-123.5512165

Wherever it was taken is absolutely gorgeous. You are so lucky to have such a magnificent view!!

WHAT A GREAT VOICE !!!
GREETINGS FROM CORVINIANA / GERMANY 💖

Yes, yes, and yes, Avi letting his hair down!!!!!
About time you did what you wanted to do, go the path you were made to go!!!
Love it!!!!!

NICE!!!!

Stunning and beautiful, another amazing song xxx

This shit is good! What a fucking groove man!

So nice to hear your bass front and center again!

"sighing" yes i need this...i need some Avi all the time

I thought I was a base, after listening to you solo I feel like a soprano...

Avi, are these songs available in a cd format, or just online ? I still prefer cd's !! If there's ever a tour stop in San Diego, please let us know !! I just found all this awesomeness, and Visalia and LA are too far, and now finished.. :(

I sure hope he creates one and offers it through his merch store!

Your voice and songs like this seem to resonate from a haunting of the wide open ranges, deep woods and ghosts of the past. It makes a chill tingle down the spine but leaves you feeling like you’ve been touched by something clean and powerful

All avid songs sound like they could be on movies their just so cinematic ugh I love this guy ❤️😭

Whatt!!!

Thanks! I was thinking the summit was his home, but you are saying it's the peak of success??? And he got sidetracked into striving for that, when all he really wanted was something he already had, his home? Makes a big more sense now.

If all that is true, his experience with Pentatonix was probably very valuable in that it clarified what is truly valuable to him, something I think a lot of people don't realize until they're much older, and have wasted a lot of time. When I was VERY young (a loooong time ago!) I had a similar experience. People in the New York entertainment scene had observed I had some talent, and we're kind of grooming me to have success in that, but after living the lifestyle that goes with it, I knew I didn't want that kind of life. Like Avi, my family and friends were more important to me, I saw an awful lot of entertainers on that summit all alone.

Besides, what he's doing now is way better than being a base line.

This 👆🙌
My thoughts too about the song :)



And same experience. Of course on a muuuch smaller scale, but similar feelings :)

What a jewel of a song. I wish Avi had some interviews where a person could gain insight on what he was writing about. Having to guess about this song, I'd say it was about an uncomfortable period, adjusting to change, and striving for the discipline needed to overcome getting in your own way (which every last one of us does to varying degrees!) There also seems to be an element of, well, might I say, whining! All he wanted was his home, but dadgummitt! He has to go through all this other stuff too, to get to the beautiful summit.


Avi, it's worth it. We love what you are doing. Now, I'm going to Amazon to buy some of your work. I'm older, and can't make treks to live venues anymore, but I want to support you. And I urge everyone else to do the same.

He talks a great deal about his new music in his live shows.
In essence he says that the lifestyle PTX has to lead nearly took him down. He has a solitary side and needs to get out into the open to hike and camp. He also does a lot of nature photography now and spends much of his time writing. None of this was possible with the heavy schedule, workload, and city life they were all living.
As the stress was building his mother's long time battle with cancer began again. He would fly home after a concert overseas to be with her during surgeries and then go straight back to do the next concert.
He talks how those last years he felt like he carried a weight on his shoulders and it didn't go away until he could get to go home.
His lifestyle now is busy and immersed in music as well as his academy and the honors choirs he teaches but he makes his own schedule.
Yes the music is about escaping misery but it has a powerful and hopeful element to it also.

His voice sounds so much different wether it's high or low.

That voice pierced through my neck hahaha

A Tour in LAm Please.

Love Avis voice, not so much the other singers When you have a voice like you do. You do NOT need backup singers.

There are no other singers. It's all Avi. In his solo work he uses his complete range and harmonizes with himself.
If you listen carefully with earphones you can hear all the layers and his very wide vocal range especially in his last 4 releases and in Fields and Pier.

1:11 the knocks only in the right ear and my door is to the right, I got really confused

Is he sing the guitar's solo in a lower octave? 1:36

Yes there is a very low humm :) his new songs are full of
layering of course using his signature bass, but veeery subtle way :)

This song makes you wanna do all the things you thought you can't!

Keep walking keep talking keep climbing to the summit
Keep shaming keep taming those voices in my mind
Straight face same game I can't shake what I'm becoming
No pain and no gain yeah I've fallen out of line
Settling down settling down to the summit
Looking around over the clouds all alone
Waiting around waiting around all I wanted was my home
Oo I know it won't be long
Oo and I'll keep walking on
Air's thin I can't win but I still keep runnin
Can't breath can't see but I'm headed for that light
Settling down settling down to the summit
Looking around over the clouds all alone
Waiting around waiting around all I wanted was my home
Oo I know it won't be long
Oo and I'll keep walking on

Tim Foust and Avi Kaplan collab please

The best thing this man did was leave Pentatonix.

Pentatonix fans... Give Matt a chance, he's awesome. But Avi on his own is pure magic. LOVE his music. Eargasms all the way.

Truth! What an amazing talent!

We need more on that style!

MR AVI YOU ARE TRULY a blessing from God and I love your song's and the way you sing them with such beautiful heart

From about 0:56 there is a very Fleet Foxes feel to this part.

I'm so thankful YouTube exists for me to find remarkable, talented people to brighten my days.