ChangingWorship

O Gracious Dwelling | Epiphany Music to Use Online

We’re quickly (I am on annual leave) putting together an online service for Epiphany. Over in Sanctum Connect, Fr Eddie shared an Epiphany hymn set to plain chant by Adam Michael Wood. We decided to set it to O Come O Come Emmanuel. Robb and Ruth Sutherland playing O Gracious Dwelling. It is under a creative commons license. Feel free to download our version from YouTube and use it in your…

Mary’s Lullaby 2020 | Free to Use Christmas Carol

It is all in the vlog. And there is the song itself. But if you’d just like the audio… https://soundcloud.com/changingworship/maryslullaby And of course if you want the lyrics…. Mary’s Lullaby (Away in a Manger)Away in a manger, asleep on the hay,I will watch over you at the end of the day,The stars in the bright sky shine down where you lie,As angels sing ‘Glory be to God on high’.My spirit…

Advent Music | Free to Use

I said it all in this video:

Here are the four weeks of music:

We See the Fruitful Harvest

We did a simple version of We See the Fruitful Harvest by Sam Hargreaves. It is a wonderful set of words for the modern world to the tune of We Plough The Fields and Scatter.

We have done a lot of more complicated recordings since…

They say time flies when you are having fun. I’m not sure whether anyone would categorise 2020 as fun but it is certainly flying.

In the last few months, Ruth and I have been 99.99999% confined to each other’s company. It has given us opportunities as well as time to pause for thought. One of the things we have not been able to do is play music live. But it has given us chance to take writing…

Liturgy Recording | Help Needed

Last week we had so many responses to our request for Lamentations I thought I’d try again.

Metanoia (Our band) and the Rock Mass have been asked to contribute to Sanctum’s online conference. We are leading an act of worship on the Thursday Night based around the sacrament of reconcilliaion (confession). We really want to have a corporate voice to some bits of the service.

I want you all…

Lamentations Recording | Help Needed

I need your help and I need it quite quickly!

Metanoia (Our band) and the Rock Mass have been asked to contribute to Sanctum’s online conference. We are leading an act of worship on the Thursday Night based around the sacrament of reconcilliaion (confession). We could really do with a myriad of voices reading from Lamentations.

I will then stitch them together and use them as you take…

SEND THE FIRE!!

Lockdown has given us the impetus to do some serious recording. With a heavy live gigging schedule with both Silverthorn and Metanoia, Ruth and I talk about “finding the time to record” but in reality, you need an extended period of time to do it.

This week we took our favourite hymn* and did a full on Metanoia production of it.

With a distinct lack of drummers in our house, we created them from scratch ourselves one afternoon in software. Then guitars, bass and vocals and the addition of a crowd shouting faintly in the background.

I think we successfully channeled the spirit of Britain in 1977.

We’ve been talking on messenger about our next lockdown project. We think we can work out how to get CJ on drums and Bex singing backing vocals all through the power of the internet. Watch this space!

*favourite hymn is a movable feast.