releasing music. animals in the wild

releasing music.   its so freaking hard.  well, its not really that hard to setup a microphone and capture instruments and beeps and boops and to make ‘songs’.  as we all know too well, anyone can slap together a sampled beat and a vocal these days… sometimes that can be just the thing.. but the hardest part of the process is letting go of the poems, prayers and melodies you’ve lost sleep over for months on end.  these precious little ideas that have become way to precious.  have to let it go.     

my prayer at this stage is that i would understand that the work is actually done.  these songs exist now.  but can i really experience them as acts of devotion to the Lord if no one ever hears them?  that’s a rhetorical, haunting question every artist, pray-er, human must answer.  can we trust that our offerings are pure, thorough and beautiful if no one is looking.. or listening?  

can we worship alone in a dark room.. no one around.  maybe thats the only way we can really worship.  like an animal beyond the lens of a camera.  who knows how the they really act in the wild?

just some thoughts my friends.  peace. 

eric