Everyone Gets to Play
Ever felt like you are waiting for something or someone? Life often seems to have many opportunities to hurry up and wait. This is my first recording, it began with a vague sense of a reflective sythn & keys pattern, that developed more form over time. Friends and whanau added their part of the conversation. … Continue reading Waiting
Before we recorded ‘Calling’ live, I did a quick rough version so everyone knew how the song went. This is the result. A simple acoustic version. I prefer the live version simply because I love being part of worshiping together with others and God being present. I normally do this in a dropped D tuning.… Continue reading Calling – Rough studio version
Several years ago I read Philip Yancey’s book ‘Rumours of Another World’. It led me to thinking about the stories we have heard, which have passed down through the generations about God’s very particular involvement in our world and the stories about another world, or a different place where there is no pain, tears or… Continue reading Rumours of Another World
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 another version of Simon’s original song…. enjoy. Same loop, same backing, but using his “real” voice.
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
I’m thirsty, hungry, desperate and only God can quench my desire. This sums up me and this song
