THROUGH JESUS
I am releasing these very rudimentary recordings I made in the year of 2012 through CD Baby. I made these recordings following 11 months of recovery from two hip replacements and a MRSA infection. Having tangoed (an interesting image considering I didn’t have a left hip for almost 6 months) with death from the MRSA infection, I began to look at the legacy of music I had composed over the years as a director of music and liturgy in the parish churches I had served. All of this music started out as settings for SATB choir and piano/organ and composed for the various feasts of the liturgical year.
No longer directing parish music and having the musicians at hand, with arthritis developing in my hands, compounded by an injury that took 40% of usage from my right hand, I wondered how I could document the vocal music I had composed.
My intent behind composing music for liturgy has always been twofold: 1) to give glory and praise to the God who created me; and, 2) the love of composing music. While the intent behind this music was not solely to make money, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to make a few cents off of them.
With my guitar in hand, and a microphone hooked up to my laptop computer, I ended up making the music heard on this CD. As stated above, the recordings are very rudimentary. I suppose in the terms of the music industry, they would be “demos”, rough recordings that a real recording studio could fashion into something much finer. I took music from the two CDs I made in 2012, reducing the total number of songs to the 8 best recorded songs and had the musical engineers at CD Baby master the recordings. All in all, it turned out pretty good (think the sound quality of early folk song albums from the 60’s).
This should be available on Amazon and iTunes fairly soon. I will then make a number of CDs to sell, too.
