Artist: Rend Collective Experiment
Album: Homemade Worship By Handmade People
Release Date: January 10th, 2012
Style: Folk / Rock / Inspirational / Worship
Label/Publisher:  Independent / Survivor, Kingsway Records
Location: Bangor, Ireland

About:

The buzz that greeted Rend Collective Experiment’s debut release, Organic Family Hymnal, included a viral “iPhone worship” video, UK tours with Francis Chan and Shane Claibourne, and a US tour with Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio. Now the next audio assault from Northern Ireland’s Rend Collective Experiment is about to launch.

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Artist: Peer Saer
Album: Sneeuwlandschap
Release Date: March 19th, 2011
Style: Improvisation / Outsider / Acoustic
Label: Unsigned
Location: Harderwijk, The Netherlands

About:

Peer Saer plays independant instrumental work – mostly acoustic guitar – with a major role for improvisation. This album contains 6 tracks of almost 30 minutes of desolate finger-picking in free form: wordless tales about anonymous pilgrims and musical prayers in the 21st century in praise of God and with love for life.

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Artist: Son Lux
Album: We Are Rising
Release Date: April 26th, 2011
Style: Electronic / Pop / Experimental
Label: Anticon Records
Location: New York City, New York

About:

For his second album as Son Lux, New York’s Ryan Lott did a very un-Son Lux thing. He recorded “We Are Rising” in a month the shortest month of the year, actually while NPR tracked his every move. This, as opposed to the making of his lauded 2008 debut, “At War With Walls And Mazes”, which he slowly built in complete privacy over nearly three years. Of course, he didn’t plan it this way. He simply awoke one late January morning to find a message from All Songs Considered titled, “You busy?” The annual RPM Challenge, an international open call to create an album in 28 days, had been issued and Lott had been tapped. How could he say no?

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Artist: Spirit Spine
Album: Glossolalia
Release Date: February 1st, 2011
Style: Ambient / Shoegaze / Pop
Label: Lovegiraffe Records (unsigned)
Location: Bloomington, IN

About:

After a year of writing and recording in his bedroom and his parents’ basement, Spirit Spine (the recording name of Indiana-native Joseph Denney) returns with his third album, Glossolalia. Meaning “the religious practice of speaking in tongues,” Glossolalia leaves behind the synths and samplers of previous albums in order to craft the soundtrack to an imaginary desert epic.

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Artist: Farukh Mamadaliyev
Album: Moving Forward
Release Date: January 1st, 2011
Style: Miscellaneous / Techno / Pop
Label: Independent / Unsigned
Location: N/A, United States

Reviews & Opinions:

“Been waiting a a long while for this album to come out. Farukh is so creative and talented and God is using him and his music in a very powerful way. Do not miss what God has for you!!!” - mag1cjuan

“I have been waiting for a new album from Farukh for a while and this one was finally released. It’s an awesome album and it has a song for everybody’s liking! ” - raytagle

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