Worship Musician August 2019 | Page 34

Drew are stepping into a more passive role over for the songs on the album. The more they of the most beautiful choral worship recordings the worship community just to make sure that would talk about the visual music videos that that I’ve ever heard. Tell us about that song and those two parties are seamless. they were imagining the more we were realizing recording. that each of the individual videos had a theme [WM] I’m going to switch gears a bit now. and that there was a way to string them all [Melody] On “Rebels Finale”, Voices of Rebels, releasing on July 19 th , simultaneously together. Within the span of two meetings this Hope had been on Americas Got Talent with has a short film accompanying its full album entire narrative ended up coming forth. There’s Michael Ketterer. They are based out of Irvine release. How important is it to tell your story a lead character in the film named Bella, and Presbyterian Church. We got along super well through film? Tell us about the film. What types she’s a young girl who is formerly a prostitute with the Ketterer family and stayed connected. of themes and concepts will it communicate? and she ends up getting saved by these four Originally we were just going to have them do rebel children that you could compare to Peter some background vocals because we thought [Melody] We just got the first edit a couple of Pan or the Lost Boys. So, they go out and save it would be cool to have a children’s choir. days a go. Our team is really inspired obviously these adults who are then transformed into The more we got to know Sarah who is their by artists inside the Christian industry, but children, and it really just represents coming choir director, the more we felt this synergy also artists outside of the Christian genre. So back to a childlike faith. It’s just this incredible like there could be more. Our producer Jordan we pulled from Beyonce’s “Lemonade”, or post-apocalyptic journey that you’re taken on Sarmiento, one of his biggest inspirations is Kendrick Lamar’s visual album. There is a really in the span of twenty-five minutes. Its all about Jon Bellion, and Jon Bellion does something clear theme, and that theme is vulnerability, redemption and going into the darkest places similar, kind of a medley to his album called redemption, and risk taking for the sake of the for the sake of the gospel. “Hand of God”, and Jordan was like, “Man, I gospel. Our creative director, Michael Barkulus, kind of want to create something like that!” And and the director James Davis, just had [WM] “Rebels”, is the title song of your new he came up with the whole arrangement, he incredible ideas surrounding the visual content release, and the “Rebels Finale” selection is one and Michael Barkulus got together the Voices 34 August 2019 Subscribe for Free...