Transmission – the soundtrack
August 30, 2007
All right, so here it is, a year in the making.  The album will be available in a few weeks on Proost, a small London-based boutique label, and in a few months on iTunes.
Proost, by the way, is well worth checking out.  For about $120, you get access to their entire catalog (about 15 CDs, several movies, and a bajillion books) along with monthly updates for a year.  Well worth the price for any church, church plant, or church goer.
Also, for our Transmissioners and loyal readers, I’m pleased to give you a couple of pre-release singles from the Album.¬† All songs on the album were written by me and j. Snodgrass, whose smashing profile you can see on the cover of the album.¬† Enjoy!
First, we have The Stranger, which is a Eucharistic prayer (kind of).¬† If you listen closely, you’ll hear a preface, salvation history, sanctus, memorial acclamation, and the Lord’s prayer, but I also tried to include all my soap boxes about how Jesus has been misappropriated as a tool for oppression.
[audio:thestranger.mp3]
Second, we have a musical rendition of the Lukan Beattitudes.  Although the Beattitudes can come across as a little touchy-feely, I think they contain an extremely radical, subversive message (woe to the rich, etc).  So I threw in some riot noises, some police sirens, and generally tried to make the Sermon on the Mount sound as much like a protest rally as possible.
[audio:beattitude.mp3]
Finally, we’ve got a remix of a song you’ve heard on this site before, the Canticle of the Sun, which is based on a poem written by Francis of Assisi in 1224.¬† Basically, there were these guys called the Cathars who were running around telling everyone that the spiritual was good and the physical was evil, so Francis wrote this poem about how he could find God in his everyday surroundings.¬† It appeals to my hippy side.
[audio:canticleofthesun.mp3]
Enjoy!