November 10, 2011
I had a good recording session yesterday. It looks like Volume IV is finally moving out of the mud. Really, I'd been stuck for a year, spinning my wheels with various genres / recording techniques that seemed to go nowhere. But yesterday, working on Horatio Bonar's I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say (local Edinburgh boy!), all the seemingly disparate and distracting elements came together. Should have something to show for it soon.
October 27, 2011
Great set at the Love Oliver fundraiser. We're doing another one on November 26 at the Rothes Halls in Fife, Scotland ==>
http://www.onfife.com/events/loveoliver-charity-fundraising-concert
July 12, 2011
No No No No No, two years in the making, is now available. It better not be lousy, eh? You can get it here.
July 01, 2011
Working on new stuff. Inspired by the below bit:
--The mixed response [Radiohead's] Kid A garnered in the UK revealed how the Britpop era has weakened the rock audience's (or more likely, the rock media's) ability to handle anything not blatantly singalong. At its lowliest--Oasis--Britpop was barely more than amplified busking, disregarding the studio's sound-sculpting potential and relegating rhythm to a menial timekeeping role.--
Within hymnody (both corporate and devotional) certainly "singalongs" are an integral living out of body of Christ united, but when hymnody is limited to this role, the songs will become stale arena rock.
Also, back up on Facebook.
June 30, 2011
Yesterday I quit Facebook, which means that temporarily the JG HYMNS page on Facebook is gone. There will be a new one set up soon.
JG
January 27, 2011
the Eric Liddell Centre
15 Morningside Road
Edinburgh
EH10 4DP
11 February
8 pm
£8 / 5 concessions
http://www.jghymns.bandcamp.com
http://www.alexjmacdonald.co.uk