The Nehemiah Band, Feats in Inches, & Monsters Calling Home are some of the many Southern California acts that run in the same circles, often swapping members between them and creating various side projects. 37th Place is yet the latest example, with Mike Whang of TNB & Daniel Chae of Feats coming together and releasing a worship album called Chantry Flats. It’s currently available on Bandcamp but will be up on other digital distributors very soon. Check out this short, 6 track offering from the two very talented artists.
Chantry Flats is the starting grounds to several historic hiking trails along the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California’s Angeles National Park. It’s also Mike Whang’s go-to spot for crying out to God.
It’s been a couple years since the TNB crew released a full collection of new songs, but that drought ends today with the release of their latest album The Morning Came to Me. You get an eclectic mix of acoustic rock, rap, turntabalism, and more with this 10-track release. This project was made possible through all your contributions via Kickstarter – so you guys made this album possible.
The Morning Came To Me captures the essence of a band-enjoying Christ and having fun playing music that worships Him. It was crowd-funded by our friends and family supporting us through Kickstarter.com, and God has really blessed us in this way. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.
Less than a week left til Christmas… bring on the covers! It’s our 5th Holiday round-up with appearances by Lily Bee, Jayesslee, Kat Badar, TNB, Erin Kim, Megan Lee, and Verseatile. Get your egg nog ready and munch on some candy canes cause there’s a good amount of music here. Enjoy!
Lily Bee Covers “A Snow Globe Christmas” by Pink Martini
Continuing with their guerilla acoustic performances video series, two members of The Nehemiah Band present a new clip of them singing “Hey”. As has been the case thus far, this is another guitar/cajon assisted piece – self described “sing about a rescue”. I’m beginning to wonder if they should try their hand at a completely organic/acoustic EP. Their music has a certain appeal when stripped down to the basics.
In the same style of their last clip, “1 thru 7″, members of The Nehemiah Band have posted up a nocturnal performance of their song “To the Fatherless” off their Break of Dawn album. This video is a lot less goofy and I’m personally glad they chose to do this song as it was one of my favorite cuts from their album. Hopefully we’ll start to see some clips that include the whole band too soon.
This is gonna be one of those clips you think is annoyingly silly or epic and hilarious. Two members of the Nehemiah Band perform their song “1 Thru 7″ off their Break of Dawn album from a couple years back. It’s a self-described “song about freedom”, and well… I’m gonna have to let you see/hear this rendition for yourself. It’s definitely… unique!
Today, we got a handful of videos where the common theme is that each cover is done via artist collaboration. Some of the pairings are common musical teams, others are welcome and newer make shift groups. As per usual, the genres are pretty diversely represented here, with everything from Pop/Rock to Rap to R&B to CCM each making an appearance. Check em all out below and don’t miss the ones after the break!
Gerald Ko x Aly x Noah Mash Up “Stereo Hearts” by Gym Class Heroes
Sam Tsui x Kurt Shneider Cover “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5
SoCal group, The Nehemiah Band, haven’t exactly been super active as of late, but that’s because they’ve been hard at work behind the scenes, preparing their sophomore full length album – Morning Came to Me. This will serve as the follow up to their 2009 debut, Break of Dawn, however they are looking to step up their game, and as a result have chosen to enlist the services of more seasoned professionals in the industry to make the album a reality. But like most artists we cover, this requires support and fundage that they just can’t quite afford and this is where you all come into play. If you are so inclined, click through to their Kickstarter page to find out exactly how you can contribute to their next release.
The fellas behind The Nehemiah Band have been on the quiet side as of late however I was pleasantly surprised to learn that they have a new EP out called Awaken the Dawn. It’s very short in length, at only 3 tracks it’s actually more of a demo and serves as a rehash of some older and unreleased material. There’s actually quite a bit of history behind each of the tracks but I’ll let you read their words about it because they describe it better than I ever could.
“Awaken the Dawn” and “Rice, Kimchee and Eggs (RKE)” are two songs we play at nearly every gig, but we haven’t properly released either of the songs.
Awaken the Dawn was originally found on Mike’s collaborative effort with Jaeson Ma (Namesake: bit.ly/kdChko) that was released back in 2007. We tried to release an Awaken the Dawn 2.0 on Break of Dawn, but after we started recording…we didn’t like what we created. Thus, scrapped it and told ourselves we’d re-record it someday.
RKE on the other hand, could be found on the Break of Dawn album if you popped in the cd and searched for it on your computer; however, we feel that this new version is finally in-line with how we want the song to sound. Descry thinks it’s because he actually cooked an egg before the song started, but Kevin thinks it’s because of his enhanced opera man section. You be the judge.
Both versions were recorded/mastered by Feats in Inches drummer (and Descry’s younger brother), Steve Lee (check out Feats in Inches here: featsininches.bandcamp.com)
We already told you about the star-studded event that is Mani’s West Coast album release party, but a bunch of other AA artists have gone on video, publicly giving him the co-sign. Esna Yoon, Ben Bae, Feats in Inches, Alex Hwang and TNB all show their love and encourage you to come out if you’re in beautiful Southern California. With so many people vouching for the guy, how can you not?
