Long Ago Prophets Knew was featured on an Advent themed episode of Songs of Praise which I watched last night. I want to explore Advent themed songs for this week, at least. A relatively contemporary set of words authored by Fred Pratt Green, set to Gustav Holst’s arrangement of Personnet Hodie, the expectancy of the …
We’re not following Advent as a specific season at mgpc, but I have come to appreciate the benefit of balancing the ubiquitous and unavoidable exposure to sentimental expressions of the birth of Jesus to which Christians are exposed at this time of year with songs and material which ground Jesus first coming in redemptive history, …
December means Christmas music, and my favourite Christmas themed concept recording is Andrew Petersen’s album Behold The Lamb Of God. Follow this link to an online player where you can listen to the whole original album for free. Here’s my 2009 post about Behold The Lamb Of God. Different releases of the album can be …
Sometimes Christmas means the blues. Over The Rhine‘s 2006 album of original Christmas themed songs Snow Angels is smooth and softly jazz/blues infused, celebrating (if that’s the word) the fact that sometimes Christmas is not the happiest day of the year. I got it for free from Noisetrade. The Noisetrade notes suggest that folks who …
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