As I stand between the Years, The old has gone and the new has come! I stand in THE Light looking at the darkness ahead ...
Here is where I stand and here is where I look.., Into the Light and the radiance that flings itself across the stars and the galaxy and the year ahead..,
Jesus Christ! I stand in the One who holds the world and sees the way before us - Phew! What a relief!
EVERYTHING AHEAD RESTS IN CHRIST !
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Where do I begin? Our first live event with the new album at Essex Trinity Church was tremendous: The Event was filled with evidences of God’s grace from start to finish. Over 500 people came along and it was great to work alongside an old friend and meet new ones! The band had worked hard on the new material and it showed - What a terrific concert! The presence of I AM moving among us.
Thank you for all your encouraging comments and chats, keep them coming! ...
Award winning artist Yazz announces the release of her new contemporary Gospel album THIS IS LOVE! This sees her 6th studio recording album as a singer/songwriter and she hopes will be an inspiring follow up to her successful debut Gospel album "RUNNING BACK TO YOU".
"... it’s about Love ... it’s about God .. it’s about People.., I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the new album is now released and excited about responses so far! Over the last year I have met and listened to some remarkable people and visited unusual places all of which became a part of the inspiration in writing messages connecting love and Gods grace to me. To take music and touch the soul of a person is for me, a profound deep connection and thats what drives the creative in me! On this album I included two tracks that have both inspired and moved me for a long time: Fleetwood Macs ‘Songbird’ and Bob Marley's Redemption Song.. Really hoping your going to enjoy it!" ... Click here to read more ...
Next week sees the new album released, thrilled at the responses so far...
Invited in to promo @Premier Radio TV today....was won over with the sheer volume of love, plus sharing Ghanian food recipes ...was honoured to walk the experience, special people doing special tings for God and Life!....you rock Mr Pantry, Dave P, Brigitte, Faith, t.shirt Dave! Martin, all the boyz on film ......making a difference that's where I want to be!
...an unexpected box of delights arrived in my drop box from the saxophonist player Gary Barnacle...Gary graced this album playing what maybe could be like angels wings soaring across the heavens .. he simply blows and the music explodes and carries you up to the skies as you climb the octaves taking your heart with it and then he brings you back to earth excited whilst popping your heart back in! - I was under the impression we had no more of his files to come in but problems sending files into drop box led to a delay and suddenly there were 3 more songs all covered with his skills..both tenor and alto parts!
Whooo hooo! - Love when the unexpected comes in creative boxes!
It’s intense up here in the hills., temperatures reaching 38º in the shade thank God for AC in the studio! I lost the plot last night got down about the whole project and phoned a friend...This is Love! Back in this morning ready to go... Final stages, always the most fragile of times. But you have to stand for what you believe in and therein you watch your faith grow tall! as the song says., “when the mountains seem big and faith blows small - God carry you through so you can keep on, keep on!”
It’s... funny but it happens.., it happens every time these voices get together something like magic, I call it anointed... this weekend they painted love’s colors across the album beyond my expectations! HeaveNation makes me cry! Summer Rain made me groove! Narrow Road drives! plus D+Ri+Me= too much fun! click here to check out a snippet of what we got up to this weekend - www.facebook.com/YazzOfficial
I’ve decided that Kenn’s playing is like CHOCOLATE..., smooth, rich and creamy! and after one bite you have to go back for more! :P the tracks are shaping up into their own personalities now. Discovered the wah-wah pedal during recording is making it’s way across most of the tracks! Vintage! :)
Players are coming in this week! Kenn bring bass and guitar and smooth chocolate! This is where the album’s portrait starts to take on another dimension on it’s canvas.., Bring it on!!
I’m back in the studio AT LAST!!! Always feels like a homecoming! My natural habitat I guess! I’m praying hard for good results :) ...
The NEW ALBUM
THIS IS LOVE...,
The Buzz on the Music
“Yazz has become one the UK's first female contemporary Gospel music artists to cross Faith into vogue genres moving the listener into places and spaces in ways only she can do! ‘This is love’ continues her exemplary edge musically her soulful voice soaring, and uplifting in a surprising compilation of tracks ...she keeps faith alive! - Top of my collection this year.“
{Choice Music - Dave O}
“An uplifting soul-filled response to the knowledge of God”
{Women for Christ Magazine}
10 Whacky Facts!
1. There are no male voices singing on the album at all !
2 ‘Summer Rain’ was written in UK on a rip roaring stormy weather day!
3. A Father & Son, Husband & Wife and Mother & Daughter all perform on the album!
4. First ever time in a Studio, Andrew H played flute, terrific form!
5. Every day started as a ‘no carb day’ and every day that began again!
6. One song contained nearly 250 audio tracks mostly backing vocals
7. To create a cool “brushes stirring over a drum skin” sound, engineer Pete recorded his fingers rubbing the rough wooden surface above the studios computer control panel!
8. All the vocals on the album are sung by three people only -
9. Since becoming a Christian Yazz promises always to record at least one acapella track per album because she has found God absolutely loves the sound of human voices -
10. A divine incidence occurred that was not seen until the song was finished where a Plagal Cadence is played at the very end of the album it is also known as a church cadence and is the pair of chords that traditionally underpins the Amen. Amen means - Let it be so! - Let it happen - May it be - So the album ends with a final Amen! -
... ‘ I am absolutely thrilled to announce that the new album is now released! Plus really very excited at great response so far! Am really looking forward to performing the new songs live this year too, there is a whole new, fragile and at the same time Impactful dynamic that happens live that studio recording cannot always capture. Its just so real, once sung, once played the note is gone, its out there! cannot be tweaked or made better like in a recording studio, its free to do what ever God wants to do with it -
I love that!’
.. its about Love...its about God..its about People...
Over the last year I have met and listened to some remarkable people, visited unusual
places all of which became a part of writing messages on what is love, where does it come
from and finding that connection in music to the soul of a person which is such a part of
Gods love and grace to me, it is an outrageous Grace that I wanted to capture in melody.
Whilst visiting a Prison in Northern Ireland I was challenged in spaces I was never aware I
had within me - Walking in I was questioning myself in which way I could possibly identify
in these peoples situations, their levels of frustration..
I realized I really couldnʼt understand experientially and I had never felt so overwhelmingly
inadequate..
Then I was reminded of the first time I looked at my minutes old baby held so fragile in my
arms and that same deep sense of wanting to connect with something that was so
overwhelming ... In that thought I was touched through by my faith as I remembered the
new birth .. the new hope .. the new life beginnings that I had found in Christ in the
middle of my totally inadequate messy life and the fantastic gift of grace that He offered to
me. Somehow I now knew that was what I could sing and talk about in this situation! -
The Father showed me that before HIM we are all, everyone, absolutely everyone, fallen,
imperfect people and that equalizes you to everyone doesn´t it! Only God can do that!
The track ʻ Love Soldiersʼ speaks a bit about that...
It was an incredible experience sharing and meeting men and hearing their stories and
being able to offer something of Hope that is found in the grace and love offered us in
Christ and the choice to walk a different road - a narrow Road - and find a peace with God
and thereafter, ourselves.
Mistakes all have a price, some men agreed. You do something wrong, something thats
against the law, yes, there must be a rule that teaches you whatʼs right and wrong and
punishment is made, but chatting to some inmates I was disturbed by the repetition of
crimes that they were doing, some had been back over 6 times! Sheer will power was
not working. It only gets you so far But, right there running directly alongside their tracks I
saw this great hope of God.
He alone, can open the eyes of your heart in-order to find a true and lasting
staggering change. This experience inspired me to write Narrow Road and cover the
song ʻ PEOPLE GET READYʼ ( there´s a train coming) and the different track you can find.
The Son of God came and paid the price for the punishment of our errors, Jesus paid the
ticket - he took it all because God said I will show my love in that while people are far from
me, messing up, struggling or repeating error after error, I sent my Son to die for them and
to reconcile people back to me and bring change! ...
So, the album THIS IS LOVE...
its about love ...its about God ...its about People !