Category Archives: The Noël Project
Noël Project Now on iTunes
Yep, that’s right. If you’ve been waiting for the Project to be available in the digital marketplace, well, wait no further. You can get it on iTunes, as well as CDBaby and Amazon. Here are all the wonderful links. Of course, there are still a very small number of CDs left in stock until we order… Continue Reading
Noël Project Vid #3
Here’s the final promo video for The Noël Project. This one features short clips from all the songs on the Project. Enjoy!
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Finale: Adore
And this “bring us back to Doe”. On this song, I wanted it to be everything the intro arrangement was not. Real drums, an actual bass player playing the bass, lots of power guitars, a more fleshed out theme, and enough cinematic power to make this truly a finale. Yeah there’s some arpeggiated synth bits… Continue Reading
That Silent Night
When I asked Carl Kelley to sing on this record, I left the song suggestion up to him. He came up with a song written by a friend of his, Debbie Owens, who he worked with at a church in southern California. The original recorded version of it was very pretty, and Debbie has a very… Continue Reading
The Coventry Carol
I love the melody of this song and when I decided to record it, in my mind I heard my friend Jackson Rice play flugelhorn on it, and he did a fabulous job. I don’t remember exactly how I came up with the feel. Most of the time, I’ll sit at the piano and something… Continue Reading
Jingle This
This song started out as a fun little groove thing I came up with about a year ago, basically the toy piano intro atop a hip-hop beat, the synth bass line, and a horn hook reminiscent of the 60s. The idea gathered dust until it occurred to me to include this somehow on the Noël… Continue Reading
Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Merrilyn (my wife) suggested that we come up with something for Carina Lewis to sing on this project. I knew I wanted at least two vocal songs on this record, and I already had Carl Kelley in mind for one of them, so with Merrilyn’s suggestion, I felt Carina’s sultry jazzy style would provide a… Continue Reading
Dreaming of Snow
This started out as a bridge idea for Jesu, Joy, but once I realized there were already enough bridges, I decided to make this a separate song. Besides, not only was it incompatible feel-wise with the other arrangement, but since it’s actually an original piece of mine, it made sense to me to make this… Continue Reading
The Holly and the Ivy
The idea of doing a latin bossa nova thing in 7/4 came early. The very first idea was the piano intro and then things fell into place from there. I would call this my “GRP” tune on the record because it reminds me of the two jazzy holiday releases that GRP came out with in… Continue Reading
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
One of my all time favorite Bach songs, it is not typically used as a Christmas piece, but since I have heard a number of other Christmas records include it, I figured “why not”? This song evolved stylistically as I was working on it, and I decided to keep much of that evolution in place,… Continue Reading