I released the God of This City Loop in Aug of ’09 and I still get a lot of questions about how this mixes live. The easiest way to explain it is to just let you listen to us play it live. This is a live mix of my band (Our Rising Sound) playing God of This City this past Sunday at Life Connection Church. It’s far from perfect(my vocals stink and need to fix drum micing), but hopefully it will help those interested in the loop hear how we pull it off live.

For those who’ve used the loop themselves if you have recordings of how you’ve used it, I’d love to hear them. Comment away.

Credits:

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Kyle Campos (@kcampos) – vocals, guitar, loop
Kendra Rohl (@krohl) – vocals
Josh Dailey (@joshdailey)- bass
Jon Utter (@jonutter) – drums
Life Connection Church (@LifeConnection) - singing their guts out

 

 Our Rising Sound - God of This City (Live) [6:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My dear friend Mark Rohl took some incredible shots last week of Our Rising Sound leading worship at Life Connection Church this past Sunday and I wanted to share them with you. You’d be wise to hire Mark for any of your photography needs, hit em up on Facebook or Twitter.

This performance of “True Love” by Phil Wickham was recorded live at Life Connection Church in Phoenix AZ on 4-26-09. It was recorded using this modest setup and using the short intro version of the True Love loop released here on ORS. There is a lot of room for improvement and that’s the primary(currently only) reason we record our live sets, to see where we need to improve. So this is just my band being transparent to our process, a humbling adventure but I’m proud of the progress our band has made in a short time and look forward to improving together going forward.

Credits:

Kyle Campos: vocals, guitars, loop composer
Kendra Rohl: vocals
Josh Dailey: Bass
Jonathan Utter: Drums

 

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This is an original song of mine that we’ve been playing at Life Connection Church for about a year now. You can listen to the live version of How I Live here, as well as get the lyrics.

Don’t forget to rate the loop below and please comment with any questions or feedback you may have.

Song: How I Live by Kyle Campos, Our Rising Sound Live at Life Connection Church
Key: D
Bpm: 89
Intro: 2 bar intro, Verse 1 starts at bar 3

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 How I Live (Loop) [5:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Download: aif / mp3 / mid / rns (Reason 4 file)

I wrote this song about a year and a half ago and it’s been a slow evolution from where it began. Lots of rewriting in every aspect of the song. I feel satisfied with where it’s settled. I’ve been working on a studio demo of it for a long time, so many false starts due to the rewriting. This past Sunday we recorded the set live through our modest FireStudio Project setup mostly for our own internal band uses. You have to listen to yourself to see where you stink.

The mix is pretty rough, lots of stuff we need equipment wise to get a decent live recording setup, but for a rough live demo, it’ll do. The song is about our lives as worship and love for Christ. I was tired of singing about it, praying about certain things and just ready to live it. Lyrics below and you can grab the How I Live loop here.

Song credits(Our Rising Sound band):

Kyle Campos: synth/loop work, guitars, vocals
Josh Dailey: bass
Jonathan Utter: drums
Kendra Rohl: vocals

 

 How I Live (Live) [5:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Verse:

I love you Lord
Cause you changed my world
Your son crucified
Be restored to your bride
You’ve come to this dark
And hardened heart
You spoke into night
And your spirit has brought me to life

Pre-Chorus:

And I want to show you more, of my love
And I want to show you more

Chorus:

How I live I love you Lord
You have changed, changed my world
How I live I love you Lord
Though this world might have stole you restore my soul, whole

Bridge:

I can’t believe what you’ve done, done for me
That I could receive all of your love
And your life has set me free

I’ve been getting a lot of emails recently thanking us for the loops I post. I wanna thank you all for the feedback, it means a lot and is really encouraging to hear about churches across the states that are able to benefit from my loops. I even had a worship pastor from South Africa contact me, so that’s awesome. Keep the feedback coming and let me know if you have any questions on loops or anything else and I’ll respond as fast as I can and maybe even make a post out of it.

Additionally, Our Rising Sound is almost at 200 subscribers which is amazing considering it took us 14 months to break 100, now 2 months after hitting that mark we’ve added almost 100 more. That’s pretty incredible. The success of this site really depends on you sharing posts and telling others about it. If you haven’t subscribed please do so either through RSS or email.

I’ve been up in Seattle for the past couple days and won’t return until late tomorrow. Normal posting will return shortly. Thanks everyone for the great community and site you helped build here.

If you have not been to TheWorshipCommunity.com now is a great time to go visit and subscribe to their rss feed, twitter feed or via email. Fred McKinnon runs the site and it’s a great resource for worship leaders for training, discussion, encouragement and technical insight. I will be contributing some content there and helping where I can.

You can also join in the discussion at TheWorshipCommunity forums. Enjoy.

This week we launched the Our Rising Sound podcast which will contain all of our video/audio content, this so far includes interviews and worship loops. You can click the link on the right sidebar to subscribe to it in whatever podcast client you use. If you are using iTunes you can subscribe with iTunes. So subscribe if you’d like and spread the word.