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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 12:00AM 
Today I drove to Surrey, BC (near Langley) where I met producer Brian Thiessen to start with tracking vocals and guitar for the project. To be honest, I was pretty nervous on this first day and I woke up early because of that. It turned out to be a good day, but I was exhausted earlier than in the day because I had gotten up so early.
We worked on singing the vocals for a new song "All Of Me For All Of You" that was the first "hymn" I have written. A new original song, it has some co-writing with Don Moen who helped with some of the lyrics.
After that we had a great treat when Andy Park arrived in the studio to track vocals for the song "Holy Holy". Andy has been a friend and mentor for many years, and he graciously agreed to contribute guest vocals to this new song of mine, written as a script and melody to express the worship described in the book of the Revelation throne room scene of chapters 4 and 5. Andy laid down some great vocals and really expressed worship in a wonderful way.
After lunch, we moved on to the vocals for the song "I Was Made To Worship" an upbeat song about our lives being living sacrifices and God's purpose in making us living praise to His name.
The day ended with tracking vocals for the pensive chorus "Only Jesus", the only song on the new album that I did not write. I added my guitar to layer some soft acoustic sound into the song and we were done for the day. By this time it was after 6pm and I was exhausted. It was a fun, tiring and good first day of recording.
kim gentes, music, praise, project, recording, songwriting, studio, worship in CD, Praise and Worship Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 10:50PM 
Over the months of March, April and May, producer Brian Thiessen and I have worked on song selection, writing, arrangements, reference tracking and musician selection for the recording project. Most of the work was done remotely via phone and internet with myself in Arizona, and Brian in Langley, BC, Canada.
Recording of drums was with Calum Rees, drummer originally from UK. Calum has been involved in some wonderful worship projects, including Hungry, Dwell and many others. Brian T recruited Calum to track drums for the project and we are very excited to have him contributing.
Working on lyrics for a co-write.
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