Everyone Gets to Play
‘Now choose life’…. (Deut 30:19). Choosing life doesn’t meant we can choose everything about life to be the way we want. This songs about the most important choice we make every day, even when there are aspects of life that can’t be chosen we can ‘choose life itself’. Cheryl and I went to see someone… Continue reading Choose Life
So…. what does ‘you’re my everything mean’? Different things to different people for sure, this songs about ‘everything’ being ‘wholehearted’, its a live track in a camp setting with some tricky technical & equipment challenges, we went for it anyway in the spirit of wholeheartedness. The whole bands in on this one, Ian, Tanya, Carl,… Continue reading You’re My Everything
This is the same song that Simon recorded “live” directly into the mac (playing with a loop), except that we played with the vocals and pitch-shifted it downwards! Quite fun. We found it was quite hard for him to hear the pitch, so I think in the end we recorded it without the pitch-shifting and… Continue reading Be still and know – the effected vocal version
This is from our “Rumours of worship” time in August 2010. It’s a song that Simon felt we should sing after “How great is our God” and before “Dwell” – both not original – so we are not putting them on the site (yet). The “Psalm” that Simon and Cheryl did was a bit later… Continue reading Praise Awaits
This is another version of Simon’s original song…. enjoy. Same loop, same backing, but using his “real” voice.
This bird has a more distinctive call than many others. One of the things we feel is that it speaks of the voice of God; distinctive from all others. We feel the need to quiet all the other “voices” so that we can hear the Father’s voice and be obedient to Him. We want to… Continue reading The call of the Tui
When I asked Andrew what he wanted to say about this song, he said “Wow, isn’t this amazing!”… and it is. You will have to ask him why it’s called “distressed”, but it may relate to his upcoming NCEA exams… or not…. This is a song that Andrew wrote in Auckland, with one guitar, several… Continue reading Distressed
Now here is a love worth dying for. dedicated to God, and Cheryl, and those I love
I wrote this song a while ago for a musical, for which I wrote the music. I loved the song so much that I wanted to use it in other contexts. Originally two girls sang the song as an expression of their friendship towards each other. However, I have come to realize that the friend… Continue reading Friend (Cheryl’s Song)
A couple of years ago a colleague and I were presenting some partnership work at an overseas conference. We were keen to include the value of building effective relationships, an easy thing to talk about, but in much of life the reality of messages getting confused in the ‘scrambulator’ is common. For me I so… Continue reading Rongoa
