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This is Josh Taylor. Rad. He's been working for quite a few years under the banner of a band named "Clairmont". It's good. It's real good.
Josh has, in the last year, taken on a side project by the new name of The Surrender Sound. This solo project, with some help from friends, has produced an album called "Clarity, Humility, and Peace". I'll say here that you should buy it from THIS place. Now that that is out of the way... I tell you why I love this project.
First up, let's start with the name The Surrender Sound. For something like 16 years, Josh has been training, working, and writing music. That much investment in a craft will tend to lead you into some serious control issues. You may be particular about the album art, the songs themselves, your message, your band rider, what venues you will and will not play, or any number of things. For Josh, that all got brushed away when, to hear him say it, "the Lord started giving me songs. A LOT of songs. Like, a couple a day for months." He had no control over what he was putting into it anymore, yet it was more than had ever been done. He decided at that point to find a way to give as best he could. So, being totally supported by his community, he found a way to produce the album with no cost to himself, produced the album, and is now hoping to give as much as he got. Genius.
For instance, he spent this afternoon schooling our intern in the importance of photography for bands. How a photo will communicate within half a second the soul of the album. How if the artist does not know what the soul of the album is about, then it is the photographers best guess what that soul is about.
These are the photos that we shot for the album. Josh wanted to communicate that this album was given by, produced by, and eventually distributed by the Lord and His people. We hope that we got close to that message:
Josh has, in the last year, taken on a side project by the new name of The Surrender Sound. This solo project, with some help from friends, has produced an album called "Clarity, Humility, and Peace". I'll say here that you should buy it from THIS place. Now that that is out of the way... I tell you why I love this project.
First up, let's start with the name The Surrender Sound. For something like 16 years, Josh has been training, working, and writing music. That much investment in a craft will tend to lead you into some serious control issues. You may be particular about the album art, the songs themselves, your message, your band rider, what venues you will and will not play, or any number of things. For Josh, that all got brushed away when, to hear him say it, "the Lord started giving me songs. A LOT of songs. Like, a couple a day for months." He had no control over what he was putting into it anymore, yet it was more than had ever been done. He decided at that point to find a way to give as best he could. So, being totally supported by his community, he found a way to produce the album with no cost to himself, produced the album, and is now hoping to give as much as he got. Genius.
For instance, he spent this afternoon schooling our intern in the importance of photography for bands. How a photo will communicate within half a second the soul of the album. How if the artist does not know what the soul of the album is about, then it is the photographers best guess what that soul is about.
These are the photos that we shot for the album. Josh wanted to communicate that this album was given by, produced by, and eventually distributed by the Lord and His people. We hope that we got close to that message:
