Geoff Ash Performs Rock Instrumental of “How Great Thou Art”
By burt | September 23, 2009
NEW! Here’s a wonderful arrangement played and arranged by Geoff Ash and used as the music for a photographic video he put together. We thank Geoff for allowing us to share his talent on our Hymns Unleashed Project.
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Jerome Madigan Joins Hymns Unleashed
By burt | November 3, 2008
We are pleased to announce that Jerome Madigan has joined The Hymns Unleashed Project with his version of “I Surrender All.” His arrangment is titled “Surrender” and is one of the cuts on his newly released full length solo album, “Instructions for Destruction.”
Jerome Madigan has been writing, recording and performing Christian music for over 13 years. He is a Bay Area native and is excited to be ministering on the San Francisco Peninsula with Central Peninsula Church. He spent 8 years traveling, writing and recording with the Christian rock band Nifty Tom 50. He recently released his first full length solo album, “Instructions for Deconstruction,” on Eden Records. More info and music can be found at www.jeromemadigan.com.
Thanks for the song Jerome. It is exactly what we were hoping for with this project. To hear it, check out the Current Submission link under Project Info.
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The Parenthesis Project
By burt | October 27, 2008
While trying to drum up some interest for our new launch of The Hymns Unleashed Project, I dropped a line to the founder of The Parenthesis Project, a blog we find particularly appealing in the music arena. I encourage anyone with interest in music and other media to give his site a read. Reading his About page quickly revealed that the founder shares some of the same thoughts we have about music and faith. He was kind enough to post an announcement about our effort on his blog, so…Thank you Parenthesis Project.
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Welcome to The Hymns Unleashed Project
By burt | October 24, 2008
A while back, we realized some of the old fashioned hymns had some beautiful melodies, but alas, they seldom connect on an emotional level with younger people, or anyone for that matter that’s looking for a more upbeat musical worship style. I’m a “boomer” who grew up in the 60s and 70s, and I still love some of that good old, electric guitar from that era.
That’s when it occurred to us that we might “rearrange” some of them into a more contemporary style. Fortunately, we have a great friend who happens to be one terrific guitarist. We asked him to arrange an electric guitar version of “It Is Well With My Soul.” WOW! Were we blown away at what he came up with. We liked it so much, we did a video of it so people could appreciate just how good it is.
Now, we’re on a mission to do more. We’d like others to take a crack at it too, so we’re inviting anyone with the musical talent to see what they can do. We ask only that they choose hymns with no copyright.
Time will tell what we do with it all, but we’d like to collect a dozen or so of these.
See Jesse’s arrangment in our About link.
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