The Psalms Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uULq1PHILro

The Psalms Project, granted I have the help of my generous community, will be an album of about 6 songs based off of the Psalms (Of David and Asaph primarily). I started this project 5 years ago as a collaboration with my brother Steven and a few of my friends when I was at Biola, and (lucky me) got credit for it as a paper project as a student in the Torrey Honors Institute. This album, which will be recorded this summer (2016) and hopefully released at the end of July, will allow us to re-vamp some of the Psalms we recorded in 2010 with better quality (since all we had then was garage band and a soundproof room). It will also allow us to record some of the songs I have written more recently, including Psalm 1, 77, 131, 133, and more!
If you donate to this project, you will be generously giving us the opportunity to record with better equipment and professional sound mastering via our master-mixer genius Stefan Macarewich, and to add beautiful instruments like Cello to the mix, hopefully giving you something both artful and uplifting to listen to. Since we started this project in 2010, those who got their hands on the humble recordings have been asking us to keep doing it, saying that it is like medicine to the soul and the songs are stuck in their heads constantly. Indeed, what could be more encouraging to the spirit than to listen to words straight from spiritual Patriarchs like David, who prayed to God (and played music to God) with sincerity and love?
The project will hopefully give you something to listen to that is a bit diferent from your every-day worship music and helps you meditate on and memorize the words of the Psalms. Just a few of the instruments included in the recordings will be banjo, piano, harp, cello, guitar, and drums (thanks to my multi-talented drummer of a brother, who also helped shoot and edit the promo video). The primary musical influences related to this project are Sufjan Stevens (via his Seven Swans album), Sucre (the solo project of Stacy King/Dupree from Eisley with her drummer-husband Darren King of Mutemath), Joanna Newsom and Jon Foreman. If you donate to the project, I will personally send you a copy of it via email or give you access to anything you need for easy listening. Thank you for your time and generosity and we hope you'll enjoy the music!

-Kristen Burnette