And so it worked out perfectly. Jason Ingram( Co-Producer and Programming) and I flew to Houston. David was already there and we just set up mics everywhere. And then a wonderful man called David McHenry played it, and it was just everything that I hoped for. There’ s some immensity of the pipes. You can’ t really sample that, the force of it. So that was so cool.
[ WM ] Wow! So because your lyrics are all scripture, I was thinking, why did you name the record EAT? I’ m thinking, well,“ Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Was this a prompt for people for the word … or why EAT?
[ Brooke ] Definitely. I mean, there’ s so many scriptures. I mean, Eugene Peterson, our friend who you’ ve met, he has a whole book called Eat This Book. And Ezekiel and Revelation, both those books, the angel hands the scroll, hands the word to them and says,“ Eat this scroll.” There’ s Jesus in Matthew 4:4, what does he say to the enemy? The end of Satan’ s tempting him with all these things, tempting him with instant food. And Jesus said,“ Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Scotty, my husband, was the one who came up with the name because we were talking that we wanted it to be one word and because the album’ s a little bit weird, we’ re like,“ This should be a bit weird. It should be a bit weird and a bit aggressive and a bit strange and a bit like, wait, what? What is that?“ And so I feel like it’ s true to what the album is. And then it’ s also an invitation, come and eat.
[ WM ] Okay. I’ m going to have to try to get this next thought out in a coherent way. You have built up the trust and creative capital to spend on this unique project. And actually, your last project Infinity was leaning towards this as well with all the heavy, great synth work( and I love synthesizers).
But looking back at the birth of modern worship music this reminds me of the band Delirious? They did a couple of strong albums. And then when people thought,“ Okay, they can just put out a new radio-friendly, kind of homogenized sound of Delirious? album and have a big hit,” the followed their creative souls and released Mezzamorphis.
[ Brooke ] Of my favorite albums.
[ WM ] Yes, but I think it went over a lot of people’ s heads because it was 10 years ahead of its time.
[ Brooke ] Yes.
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