Over the next few days I am going to be posting songs that I recorded in the past three years for an album of music I am calling “Where is Your Voice”. These are songs that were mostly self recorded (one song was recorded in a professional basement recording studio) with the gracious help of some musician friends of mine from my old church, First Lutheran in Towson, MD.
During my wedding in 2008, my wife and I labored to make an album of songs, “Our Only Hope” that I previously recorded in my apartment. During her summer teaching break, my wife Judy burned 200 copies of the cd (not the ideal way to do this) that we passed out as wedding favors in August of 2008. I received a lot of good feedback about the cd and was pretty happy about how it turned out, but I always thought that I could make a lot better album, even if I recorded it all myself. The drums I used were drum samples that I programmed through a program called FL Studio, and the album didn’t seem to have the feel of those recorded with live drums.
Shortly after our wedding, Judy and I moved to Baltimore, and we quickly met some very good friends at our church. I gradually started asking these friends to play on new tracks that I was recording. The tracks that I will be posting on here are the results of that collaboration. Some of you have probably heard these songs either at church or on this blog, but the songs I am posting on here are songs in their final version which hopefully is an improvement.
I have not made physical cds of these songs or prepared them to be released as a digital download. It is fairly easy to do both of these, but I did not want to put forth the expense until I knew that there were people who interested in purchasing them. If you would like to buy a physical cd or download a digital copy on itunes or amazon, leave a comment on this blog, on facebook, or send me an email at elarso@gmail.com. It may take about a month but I will able give you the album the way you want it. If you just want listen to them here that is fine too. My hope is that you enjoy them, and that they help you grow closer to our “Great Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”. Stay tuned.
