Yesterday I spent much of the day down at the church with our mobile recording studio for a recording session with a great singer called Jennifer Douglas, who was recording her first single with Sheer Joy Music, and also Alan Watson, (pictured above), who was laying down the first five tracks for his next CD. One of the tracks is a new song that I have written called Anniversary Serenade, with music by Andrew Millinchip. Andrew, who is the Director of Music at The Grange School, which is in Hartford, Cheshire (UK), has composed several pieces of music previously for some of my hymns, and is an extremely gifted composer. He also sings bass with the choral ensemble, Cantoris, who record on the Sheer Joy Music label. 
I first heard Jennifer Douglas when she sang at a Young Life meeting at my church a couple of months ago. (You can find out about Young Life, Runcorn on Facebook.) Jennifer Douglas is a bright, zappy, 21-year old, from Manchester, and she has a voice that definitely has the X-Factor. The track that she laid down yesterday is a Christian New Wave song called Love Away the Hate, with lyrics penned by me and music by Rob Beaton. I really feel that this will be a song that can chart on the Christian charts, so watch out for more info on it in the very near future. I will be collaborating with Rob when time permits over the coming months to put together an 11-track CD with Jennifer. Rob is also going to be releasing his own album with us in the near future.
Both recording sessions were filmed by freelance photographer and TV cameraman Paul Walker, who is part of the Sheer Joy Music team. Paul will be producing a video which will be uploaded to Youtube and also to Tangle (previously known as Godtube.) We already have a video on Tangle which features Susan Marrs singing one of my love songs, When I'm With You. If you haven't already seen and listened to it then why not take a visit now by clicking here.
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