I’ve mentioned Gurrumul’s The Gospel Album before. This duet of Amazing Grace with Paul Kelly is a standout. I found this commentary on the track from Rolling Stone Australia a bit bemusing: “The duo breathe new life into the well-known Christian hymn, Gurrumul’s adaption of verses into his own Yolngu language giving the immediate distinction, …

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I’ve posted about Matt Searles previous albums of songs based on Psalms here and here. Matt has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a third album, Tumbling Sky. The album will seek to mine the Psalms and produce ‘songs for miserable Christians’ – ‘weary souls’, that will help listeners avail themselves of the pathway to …

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