Glad to be back.  Too long away from writing daily and I’ve missed it.  It’s always been a great chance to think – about life, work, creativity – Inspiration.

Live is so full now and so balance is key.  Not having this time to think is not smart and one thing is for sure: When we’re really busy, we must live smart.

We must give ourselves time to think.

So here goes …

Just after Christmas of 2012 I had an idea.  It was an idea that I hoped would stimulate record sales for Watchfire Music.  We all know it’s a weird world out there today regarding the sale of recorded music.  Music is fast becoming free and we musicians must figure out a way to contend with this change of world thought and somehow scrape through and be able to put food on the table.

Julia Wade, our number one artist on Watchfire Music, sells especially well when she records sacred music.  The more secular but still Inspirational part of her career is developing nicely and her CD, Silk Road, has done as well as expected.  But we thought it might be time to put out a CD for her fans that would continue our commitment to soloists in churches around the world.

So this next release, Deep Waters, will be a 3-song CD that will be optionally bundled with the sheet music from each song as well.  Additionally I wanted to do something special with this CD and offer more than what we did on her very successful Affirmations CD of a year ago that was also a 3-song CD.  You know – enhance the experience.

So I dove into this project with a great excitement and came out the other end with a Suite of 3 songs, each prefaced and separated by an orchestrated instrumental section that set up each song.  Though the instrumental sections are fully orchestrated, we made a decision to keep the songs with piano/keyboard only to help clarify the experience of singing these songs in church.

I’m grateful to announce that I believe this concept to be working beautifully.  It has a magical quality of evolution that, as a composer, I am very happy with and has stimulated me continually.

In the next few weeks before the release both Julia and I will talk at length about all this in both our Blogs – Sparks From The Fire and her Inspiratus.

If you’re interested in the development of this new concept, please stay tuned.  We hope this to be a landmark album in our work together and are already preparing several more of similar style.

The warm weather is coming, so get out that bathing suit and get ready to take the plunge.  We’re well on our way into Deep Waters.