Tag Archive - music
Matt Redman + LZ7 // Twenty Seven Million
27 Million is part of the A21 Campaign. Find out more about it here.
Why are we surprised when awkward people can sing?
Paul Potts, Susan Boyle, Michael Collings and now Jonathan Antoine. Click here to watch his recent audition for Britain’s Got Talent with signing partner Charlotte.
I’m glad that he said he wouldn’t ditch the other half of his duo.
Hayden Calnin // Summer
Check out more amazing live acts at LARGE NOISES.
Brother // Matt Corby // Sin is Serious
Matt Corby’s song, Brother, has been buzzing around my head for the last couple of weeks. Serious themes; powerful performance. Here is a live version filmed at a recent Secret Garden Show in Rooty Hill (filmed by a young fella I know). Language Warning MA15+
My friend Jeremiah has a good blog post reflecting on how the song helps to demonstrate the nature of sin. Here’s a snippet:
We like to think of sin as minor, technical and inconsequential. In fact the whole notion of sin often as regarded as old fashioned and prudish. But Corby shows us that sin is just the opposite. It’s serious. It’s relational. It has real, painful consequences that we cannot escape. Consider the most painful moments of your life. Have they not involved others wronging you in some way? Or perhaps you were the perpetrator?
We Are The Outpost – AWAKEN – EP
We Are The Outpost have just launched a killer EP, AWAKEN. It’s seriously good, I’ve had it on repeat for the last week! Jesus-centred lyrics, solid tunes, well produced. The band was birthed out of the youth ministry of MBM Rooty Hill (Western Sydney, Australia).
I dig all 4 tracks, but the stand outs for me are 1 & 2.
(1) Anchored Hope – I was told by one of the younger guys at church that this song had a post-hardcore feel. I’m not sure what that means, but I guess it’s good! This song is jam packed with goodness from the New Testament book of Hebrews. The song begins with “burn your white flags, look up ahead” (this refrain is then repeated at the end). The idea of burning your white flag is all about not surrendering, not giving up, continuing to persevere and trust in Jesus until the end. This song will definitely be put on the playlist at SOULIES. It’s also got a good beat for exercise and running!
(2) Hallowed – Cliff Richard did an okay job back in 1999 with his Millennium Prayer hit in getting the words of The Lord’s Payer stuck in your head. We Are The Outpost do a much better job! I would love it if youth ministries all over the place got the words of The Lord’s Prayer stuck in their head through Hallowed. It’s got a little bit of a The Temper Trap feel to it. Tidy work.
If you’re part of making music happen in your youth ministry/church – get into this gear! If you’re not, get into it anyway – it will be good for your soul.
Props to Matt Sparks for running a sweet youth ministry. And BIG props to Steve Vassallo for writing & producing this EP and for his ongoing work with the band.
Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth (Gotye – Cover)
See the original from Gotye below:
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A River With No End // Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship are a rootsy/bluesy band from Mars Hill Church. I’ve had their recent EP on repeat for the last few weeks. I dig the opening track – One God – with its call to turn from idols and serve the True and Living God. My favourite track is The Revelation of Jesus Christ – it’s more or less straight from Revelation 21 with an accompanying banjo to boot.
You can listen to the whole EP for free on Bandcamp. You can also get free copies of lyrics and chord charts etc. I listened to it lots of times before purchasing it. Because I really liked it, I paid $6 instead of the asking price of $3. Generous, I know.
Free Download from LIVING DEVOTION
LIVING DEVOTION is the latest album from the St Paul’s Castle Hill music team. I like it. It’s a stripped back live recording, with some great tracks. They are currently offering a free download of the track TAKE OVER NOW via their Facebook Page.
Also check out the website for resources (guitar charts etc) and some videos of the songs from the recording.
Familiar with the album? What’s your favourite track? I think mine is So We Would Know Our God.
Missing Person – Mike McCarthy
‘Missing Person’ is the first video from Mike McCarthy’s single ‘In Ages’ (2011). Produced by Frederic Dickerson, on location in Alaska, the clip shows a beautiful sparsity that adds to the music and performance of the music. Download the audio at inages.bandcamp.com
I dig it, it’s beautiful. Personally, I think I like the rawness of the earlier film clip better:
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Music Appreciation Night – Song List
Row proposed that we have a night of square-dancing to finish our term together as a Small Group. Luckily we didn’t do square dancing. Instead we had a ‘Music Appreciation Night’. It was so much fun. Each person in our group had to have 2 songs prepared (with another 2 backups) to play for the rest of the group. It was cool to hear different songs and be introduced to music for the first time.
Before each song was played we introduced it to the group, made a few comments afterwards, took further questions or comments and then moved on to the next person. We basically did two laps of the room.
Here are the songs from each round:
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Gotye – State Of The Art
Gotye hasn’t had a mention on this blog for a while. It’s time. State Of The Art:
Good music keeps coming out of Melbourne!
Sideshow Alley // Indie Hipsters from Melbourne
What do you get when you combine Melbourne alleyways with tight indie folk musicians and killer video design skills? www.sideshowalley.tv It’s a tidy little project. Matty J linked to this vid from The Waifs:
I haven’t watched them all yet, but really enjoyed the ones I’ve seen. See below for a selection and/or browse the site:
Shine Music Conference 2011
‘SHINE’ is an annual, non-denominational music conference designed to equip & encourage Christian singers, musicians and technical volunteers. Pastors will also find the day most valuable. Each year St Paul’s Castle Hill hosts a guest speaker and professional workshop leaders to help build us up in Christ & to develop the gifts that God has given us.
I really like the work that St Paul’s are doing with their music ministry.
Check out their website for more details and for online rego.
Garage Hymnal – Fairest Lord Jesus
Garage Hymnal have a new album – Unity. I haven’t heard it yet, but they have a stack of the new song vids on their website. Here’s one:
OK Go – End Love – Official Video
OK Go make creative film clips. Here’s one. Here’s another. And another still:
Tech specs:
“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”
Before the Throne of God Above
In my Zechariah 3 sermon this weekend, I quoted from the 1863 hymn Before the Throne of God Above. Here is a link to the sermon. Check out the video of the song in full:
Here’s the bit I quoted:
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end of all my sin.Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free.
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me.
Amen.
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