Amazing Love

This is a rewrite of a song that Simon wrote in Waihi some time back. It was recorded at our November 2010 Rumours of Worship. It was a hard time of worship – it felt like we were fighting for a breakthrough for the nation. We had Simon’s dad and his wife Jenny join us… Continue reading Amazing Love

More Of You

This song written in Waihi, still expresses the greater part of why I live. To taste and see that He is good is what life is all about.  Recorded at a Rumours session where no one but I knew that song. Mark on Bass, Dan the Man on drums, Ian on guitar and Andrew B… Continue reading More Of You

Be still and know – the effected vocal version

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

Distressed

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

Friend (Cheryl’s Song)

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)

Rongoa

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

We Are Thirsty

I’m thirsty, hungry, desperate and only God can quench my desire. This sums up me and this song

Mercy

I was playing around on electric and came up with this riff. This is the stripped down acoustic version though. Bits of Psalm 145 fitted nicely into the expression of my heart cry. May do this electric at the next rumours night.

Scooping fun

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