Everyone Gets to Play
I actually wrote this piece some time back and meant to go back and finish it off. Any which way, it will now be used in an original production that a friend of mine has written for the school where I have the privilege of teaching. Bethany and Ian fixed up some of the rough… Continue reading Calling My Name
Background: When I heard that my lovely sister was soon to be married I wanted to contribute something to the wedding. I had been messing around on my nylon string guitar. I figured out a little kind of light jazz piece and thought it had something going for it. I realised it needed a bit more and… Continue reading Two in One
Here is the studio version of ‘This is You (Bethany’s Song)’. As I said on the live version, I wrote this for Bethany a while back, but wanted to do the song justice by having other musos play on it. On this version, Simon is playing bass, Ian is on acoustic guitar, I am playing… Continue reading This is you (Bethany’s song) – Studio version
I woke up one Sunday morning at the end of last year and felt that I really needed to write a song for my son, Andrew. It was one of those moments where the words literally plopped onto the page. There were a whole lot of images and ideas that surrounded the writing of this… Continue reading Cross the Line (Andrew’s Song)
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
Well, this is the first song of Ian’s on the site…… they don’t let me out much. Sometimes I find a quiet moment and this song is the kind of thing that can happen. So, we were away in Auckland and I had our little mac and Garage band and my Godin and some time… Continue reading Scooping fun
This is the studio version of You Alone. Ian is on electric and acoustic guitar, Simon on bass and Tanya (me) on keys, vocals and drums (I always wanted to be a drummer and play in time), compliments of Garage Band. I started recording it some time back and just needed the guits and bass… Continue reading You alone – studio version
An original song recorded on Ian’s Mac in his lounge. We had fun with the weird effects. Simon is singing and playing acoustic. No overdubs just playing to a loop. Simon couldn’t play to the metronome
