Today was a wonderful day of recording. We had hoped to finish most of the recording last Thursday, but we needed to record the strings today. It was a miracle I was even able to make it there today. Thankfully my oldest daughter “happened” to have the day off school (Teacher prep day?!) and she was willing to watch the the kids for the morning.
What an amazing experience to listen to my song with sounds that I have only dreamed and imagined being added. Greg Hansen did an amazing job. As I heard the orchestration for the duet, I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. It is beautiful. I’m so happy with how it sounds. My only fear now is that I will be overcome with emotions as I perform this song at Women’s Conference.
One of the other songs, “Living Water”, also was deeply moving. Rebecca Lopez sings this song, and I can’t imagine anyone singing it better. There were parts where we had added cello, and decided to drop it out so it wouldn’t detract from the beauty of her voice. Her voice is just gorgeous, and the message of the song is deeply moving in the way she sings it.
All of the vocals turned out really well, and I’m very happy with the whole album. Steve Lerud was the engineer for the CD, and he is absolutely fabulous in making everything sound rich and warm. He also helped with my added piano song. It was fun to do some of my my own orchestrating for that song. I have so much to learn, and it was a privelege to learn so much from Greg, as he shared with me the reasons why he chose to do different things, and use the different colors of the orchestra. Someday I hope to orchestrate the way he does.
So I’m just excited. All that’s left is the back and cover of the album. Once that’s done, it will be sent off to the duplicators. April 15th, is really not that far away. What a thrill! I’m hoping to make a preview track of atleast “Living Water”, that people can listen to before the album is released.
Below is a picture of Rebecca Lopez
recording “Living Water”. 