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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Self tuition and contacts with many musicians led him across the paths of varied styles to a distinct West-European sound pallet. Most of his music over the years has not been conserved and is gone with the wind of time.

Album comment: I listened to your music: beautiful! Haven’t been to Lake Wolderwijd, but while listening to your tracks I mentally saw reclaimed lands of the sea early in the morning. Rest alternated with tension through experiencing these reclaimed lands and here and there unexpectedly something that makes headway, something scaring up, and then rest again.

Track Listing:

1. Sneeuwlandschap I
2. Sneeuwlandschap II
3. Sneeuwlandschap III
4. Sneeuwlandschap IV
5. Sneeuwlandschap V
6. Sneeuwlandschap VI

Listen to some work by Peer Saer:

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Artist: Various Artists
Album: I AM (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Release Date: November 9th, 2010
Style: Various / Pop / Contemporary
Label: Chordant Records / EMI CMG

About the OST:

Inspired by the film, I AM, the I Am Official Motion Picture Soundtrack features songs from the movie, including the heart-stirring main theme song, “Say Goodbye,” performed by American Idol season 5 finisher, Katharine McPhee. The film takes place in the City of Angels… over time also known as the City of Lost Souls. Ten strangers entangle themselves in the spider web that is life in Los Angeles today. Unknowingly, they are living out the Ten Commandments one by one. As they struggle to solve their problems themselves, things only get worse their problems multiply, and spill over into the lives of so many others. Yet there is one presence that the never leaves. One lone voice of love, reason, and compassion in the midst of lives on fire: the great I AM, God Himself. It’s the ultimate love story that changes everything.

In addition to McPhee’s song, the soundtrack includes original, new tracks, selected music from the score, a hidden song and the “Say Goodbye” music video. Featured artists include Travis Ryan, Michael Johns, Mariner’s Church artist-in-residence Tim Timmons, Jesica Specht, Jetstream and Rasa 9.

About “I Am” the movie:

I AM is a movie that shows the heart of God for His people. I AM is the Biblical name of God, and the title character of a film in which God aids ten people in Los Angeles as they struggle with the effects of failing to follow the Ten Commandments in the modern day. It is most often described as a “Faith-based Crash.”

Katharine McPhee, “Say Goodbye” – I AM – The Movie [Music Video]

Track Listing:
1. City Of Lost Souls (Intro)
2. Say Goodbye – Katharine McPhee
3. Salvation is Here – Travis Ryan
4. Don’t Run Away – Tim Timmons
5. Fools Gold – Michael Johns
6. I Am -Jesica Specht
7. Sabbath Reflection – Christian Lundberg
8. On and On – Jetstream
9. By All Means Necessary – Christian Lundberg
10. Ripple Effect – Christian Lundberg
11. Say Goodbye – Rasa 9
12. In The End

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Artist: Alberto & Kimberly Rivera
Album: Peace
Release Date: 2003
Style: Instrumal
Label:
Location:

About:

This instrumental album is all keyboard music that was played LIVE in different ministry situations. It is very peaceful and great for praying or soaking in God’s presence.

Track Listing:
1.  I Love Your Life
2. Sing to the Lord
3. Playing with Angels
4. Prayer on Keys
5. Behold

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Artist: Michael W Smith 
Album: A New Hallelujah 
Release Date: October 28, 2008 
Style: Pop & Contemporary/Praise and Worship
Label: Reunion 
Location: Franklin, Tennessee, US

About:

Michael W. Smith was born on October 7, 1957. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of success in the mainstream music industry. Smith is a three-time Grammy Award winner, and has earned 40 Dove Awards. Over the course of his career, Michael W. Smith has sold more than 13 million albums and recorded 29 #1 Hit songs, fourteen gold albums, and five platinum albums. Smith is an American Music Award recipient; he was also named one of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People”.

Track Listing:
1.Intro 
2.Prepare Ye The Way
3.A New Hallelujah (with the African Children’s Choir)
4.When I Think Of You (with the African Children’s Choir)
5.Mighty To Save
6.Shout Unto God
7.Amazing Grace/My Chains Are Gone
8.Deep In Love With You
9.Healing Rain/Let It Rain
10.Majesty
11.I Surrender All (with special guest Coalo Zamorano)
12.Grace
13.Intro to Help Is On The Way
14.Help Is On The Way (with special guest Israel Houghton)
15.The River Is Rising
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Artist: VA
Album: Maranatha Top 25 Praise Songs
Release Date: Oct 19, 2010
Style: Instumental
Label: Maranatha Music
Location: US

About:

Maranatha! Music has become synonymous with Christian music today. The label is a pioneer in praise and worship music publishing. Each year, Maranatha! is dedicated to introducing new songs and promoting its classics to the church through song publishing, music in stores and church leadership training. Maranatha! Music shepherds the “Jesus Music” of today by serving the church with the song of faith. Best known for the Praise Series, Praise Band Series, and Top 25 Series; Maranatha! Music has sold more than 30 million records worldwide.

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Artist: Hillsong
Album: This Is Our God

Track Listing:

01. Your Name High
02. Run
03. Desert Song
04. This Is Our God
05. He is Lord
06. High and Lifted Up
07. Stronger
08. Healer
09. You Are Here (The Same Power)
10. You Deserve
11. Across The Earth
12. Where We Belong
13. Sing to the Lord
14. You’ll Come
15. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
16. With Everything

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Artist: Saranya Songsermsawad
Album: I Love To Tell The Story
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Style: International/General/ Pop/General
Label: Dreammaker Records and Management
Lokation: Thailand

About:

Track Listing:
01. Amazing Grace
02. Great Is Thy Faithfulness
03. This Is My Father’S World
04. I Love To Tell The Story
05. Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
06. Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus
07. Be Thou My Vision
08. Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us
09. When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
10. I Surrender All

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Artist: Phil Driscoll 
Album: Songs In The Key Of Worship 
Release Date: 2008 
Style: Worship / Gospel
Label: Phil Driscoll Music Group 
Location: Eatonton, GA

About:

Phil Driscoll (born November 9, 1947 in Seattle, Washington), is a Contemporary Christian singer, composer, and (perhaps best known as) a trumpet player. He has a music and speaking ministry. Driscoll won a Best Gospel Performance Grammy for a duet with Debby Boone on “Keep the Fire Burning,” and has been nominated for two additional Grammy’s for Best Pop Album and Best Gospel/Pop Album. He also has won numerous other national awards for his music, including the Christian Country Music Association Award for Best Musician and Canadian Country Musical Association’s Musician of the Year.

Early years:

Driscoll grew up in a musical family and began taking music lessons in school when he was a fifth grade student at Lancaster, near Dallas, Texas. His family moved to Tulsa in 1959, where he began to study trumpet—both in classes at Bell Junior High School and as a private student of Roger Fenn (3rd trumpet with the Tulsa Philharmonic). While in high school, he won the Amsterdam World Music Festival and was offered numerous music scholarships to college, choosing Baylor University. In his sophomore year, he released his first album, “A Touch of Trumpet.” In his senior year, he entered a CBS television network national talent search competition and won.

Music career:

By the 1970s, Driscoll was touring and recording with major music acts, including Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Joe Cocker—as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra. After becoming increasingly involved with illegal drug use, Driscoll became a Christian on Christmas Day in 1977. He then gave up using drugs, and dedicated his musical efforts to furthering the Christian faith. In 1981, Driscoll recorded his first album, “Ten Years After,” sharing his new-found Christian beliefs. In 1983, he released “I Exalt Thee,” winning a GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. In the 1980s, Driscoll was affiliated with the ministry of Kenneth Copeland, playing and singing at many KCM Believers’ Conventions. In the ’90s, he toured with “Handel’s Young Messiah.” He has worked with top session musicians, such as Abraham Laboriel, Bill Maxwell, Justo Almario, and Greg Mathieson. Between 1999 and 2002, he recorded several albums that featured the organ playing of the late Billy Preston. He has performed for several United States presidents, and has played at many national events including: the dedication ceremony for Bill Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the memorial services following the Columbine High School massacre. Driscoll has recorded over two dozen albums in genres including gospel, classic rock, jazz, pop, patriotic, children’s (“Gabe and the Good news Gang”), hymns, and classical music. Some of his more recent albums include Spirit of America (2000), Classic Hymns (2004), and Vintage (2004). The album Vintage included Driscoll’s version of the rock classic single “Old Time Rock and Roll.”

Legal troubles:

In 2006, Phil Driscoll and his wife Lynne Driscoll were the subjects of a U.S. Federal Court indictment which charged that the Driscoll’s had used their Cleveland, Tennessee-based Christian music ministry in an income-tax cheating scheme, failing to report more than $1 million in income and evading the payment of more than $300,000 in taxes from 1996 to 2000. Also indicted was Lynne Driscoll’s mother, bookkeeper Chris Blankenship, who died just before the trial. It was testified that their ministry took in as much as $2.8 million annually, and according to the prosecution, Phil Driscoll owned an airplane, drove a Porsche, and used money funneled through Mighty Horn Ministries (later renamed Phil Driscoll Ministries and relocated to Eatonton, Georgia), to buy and sell lake houses. Rick Blankenship, brother of Lynne Driscoll and former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, testified on behalf of the prosecution that he had worked for Mighty Horn Ministries until he became concerned that “there was little or no differentiation between personal and ministry expenses.” On June 8, 2006, Phil Driscoll was found guilty on 2 counts of tax evasion and one count of conspiracy, and was sentenced to serve one year in Federal prison, beginning on March 14, 2007. Lynn Driscoll was found not guilty on two out of three charges and the jury reached a deadlock on a third charge of tax evasion. Prosecutors elected to not retry the case.

Current:

Phil Driscoll is married to wife and partner, Lynne Driscoll. Phil has a son,Shawn Driscoll, by his previous marriage to Patti McDavitt. He and Lynne have two children: Jamie and Danielle. Phil had lived in Cleveland, Tennessee, since the early 1980s. He has moved to Georgia where he operates his Mighty Horn ministry. Driscoll is actively recording music in the fields of pop, gospel, country, classic rock, patriotic and classical under his own label, Phil Driscoll Music Group, including “Songs in the Key of Worship” and “Here and Now,” both released in 2008. Driscoll tours and performs concerts all around the world. – wikipedia

Track Listing:

1. Jesus,Jesus 
2. There is something about that name 
3. I enter in 
4. Emmanuel 
5. Open my eyes Lord i want to see Jesus 
6. Jesus is the sweetest name i know 
7. No one ever care for me like Jesus 
8. I worship you almighty God 
9. I surrender all

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Artist: Alberto & Kimberly Rivera
Album: Turn
Release Date: 2010
Style: Instrumental / Praise and Worship

About:

“Turn” features a collaboration between Kimberly & Alberto Rivera and Don Potter.  It contains a live flow of prophetic songs birthed out of both corporate and personal journeys with the Lord.

Track Listing:

1. Shalom
2. Moriah
3. We Yearn For You
4. So Beautiful To Me
5. Turn Toward Jesus
6. Prayer For The Church
7. Abba
8. Is Anybody Scared?
9. Come Lord
10. It’s You
11. Cover Us

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Artist: David Baroni
Album: A Quiet Place: Instrumental Songs of Worship Vol. II
Release Date: July 15th, 2010
Style: Instrumental / Ambient / Jazz / R&B
Label: Kingdomsongs

About:

David is a prolific songwriter, recording artist, producer and conference speaker. He lives with his wife Rita in Franklin, TN, just south of Nashville. A Grammy award winning songwriter, David has a passion to know Christ and make Him known. David’s songs have been recorded by Michael W. Smith,Selah, Don Moen, Ron Kenoly, Debby Boone, Nick Coetzee, Natalie Grant, Phil Driscoll, Alvin Slaughter, Kent Henry, Morris Chapman and many others. Davids own CDs are loved for the depth of lyric, fresh musicality, and what can only be described as the touch of God, Who breathes His inspiration through this gifted modern day psalmist. David and Rita are not afraid to speak of the pain and struggles that they, (like most of us,) have gone through in their marriage, finances, family dynamics, etc., yet they always point to the grace and love of God Who is the Redeemer.

Album Description:

After the wonderful success of Volume I, David has recorded another collection of these timeless favorite hymns and songs of worship. David draws from the deep musical well of his decades of experience as a traveling musician, songwriter, producer and arranger and music lover to give the listener a sense of taking a different journey with every song.

From the unearthly peace of “Sweet Hour of Prayer” to the unique and stirring arrangement of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” from the liliting “As We Behold You” to the tender “He is Strong;” this is music well worth hearing. “An oasis of peace in the desert of noise.”.

From David’s listeners:

“Great CDs- They will really encourage you as you meditate, pray, relax or just listen…lots of peace.”

“David has done a great job packaging familiar songs in a fresh new way. Not only was I really blessed by how tenderly these songs touched my heart, I also found myself thinking: “Wow, this guy can really play!”

You can order the “A Quiet Place: Instrumental Hymns Volume II!” and “A Quiet Place: Songs of Worship Volume II” CDs as a package for only $25! Or you can download the mp3′s.

Track Listing:
1. Fill This Place With Praise
2. I Will Worship
3. Bow Down
4. Liquid Love
5. He Is Strong
6. As We Behold You
7. Come To You
8. To The Lamb!
9. He’s Been Good
10. Glorify The Lord
11. Blessed Be The Lord God Almighty
12. No Ways Tired

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