2022 - On the occasion of Johnny Church's dear sister, Katou Urrea (née Church)'s wedding, this album was originally intended to be a keepsake for her and her husband Nicolas Urrea.

Featuring Natalia Niznik (vocals), and Ryan Factura (pipe organ, acoustic guitar, vocals), and Nico Church (drums), this album was recorded in the Greater Calgary Area, Southern Alberta, Canada; this album's art showcases the moonrise over the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Beginning with Holy, Holy, Holy - this well-known, time-honoured piece was the song chosen for the bride, Katou, processing into the church - as battery of drums emphasize God's strength and power, as Lord of heavenly hosts of angel armies, on marching orders to defend His daughter and son as they begin a new family. The responsorial psalm 147, How Good was reimagined for this occasion with newly composed music; as Johnny Church quotes, "it was the one piece of music I was given free reign to compose for their wedding, so I pulled all the stops as best I could, yet trying my best to not become the focal point".

While licences were obtained for the digital publication of the cover songs, the album's creative production introduces special moments affectively recomposed, namely, "superposition of lyrics from verses, refrains and bridges, all mashed together and sung at once in various flourishes", adding tensions and releases thereof not previously heard. Johnny Church's most surprising moment: "when Come Thou Fount, in 6/8 time, came together in a church basement, myself experimentally strumming a cello, with Ryan and I singing our hearts out as he played acoustic guitar on top of it. The transitions between verses came out of our heads between takes, and struggling with the transitions at first, we only later figured out they were in 4/4 time - a mismatch - yet it grew on us and the whole thing just came together. That take, in the church basement - is what you hear in the track. I later met with Natalia again, and the only space at our disposal on that day was in a university building stairwell. That's where the nice reverberation on her voice comes from; from there I added her lovely stairwell voice to our basement voices." Newly popularized was the song The Blessing by Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes; this cover of that song features Johnny Church singing the last chorus in Hebrew, the original language of the Aaronic Blessing (Ha Bracha), hoping the new bride and groom would hear it and feel the whole weight of their nuptial blessing as when Aaron and Moses spoke it over the people for the first time - in Hebrew - as God had directed them.

The album finishes on lavish yet calm reverberations of echoing guitar chords, as if extending into eternity - represented in the vastness of the sky and mountains in the album art - our praises, or our maskils and miktams, as David would suggest in the Book of Psalms, pierce through to the ends of the earth, God's praise resounding over all the earth - as a dear couple is made into a new family to follow God wherever He takes them.

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