landskapes is the new album from grace. it's been a long long time since the first grace album - 13 years?! but this is well worth the wait. it captures the electronic sounds of grace and journeys through ambient to electronica to DnB, dubstep and back to ambient. it flows from track to track with dubb's spoken word on two tracks creating a great contrast to the mainly instrumental feel. it follows in a line of classic alternative worship albums that have come out of people in the grace community over the years - grace, labyrinth meditations, eucharist, and spirit of the new. rather than the usual baker/birch creation it's grace DJ and producer matt stevenson's debut. in many ways it's is truer to the DJ'd soundscape you are likely to encounter at grace in the worship or in the café. various artists have contributed all of whom have contributed to grace at some point in the last few years. there's only one song which is actually a DnB remix of agents of the future track nothing in the way. i absolutely love it. i love it all the more because it has been people from grace other than me involved in its creation...
it's currently available through proost.co.uk but in a few weeks will appear on itunes, and in a couple of months there will be a special edition cd with 16 page booklet. there will be an album launch, tunes played at the next grace and hopefully a landskapes session at greenbelt in the wine bar or something...
the first grace album was such an inspiration, not purely because of the music but just because you did it and put it out there. it was a signal that we were all creators and the boundaries of how to 'do church' were within our curation. maybe you can get it down to 12 years for the next one? :-)
Posted by: adrian | March 01, 2010 at 09:42 AM