Mark Peterson » Music

Mens Katoomba Convention Rehearsal done

Mark — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:30:15 +0000

One of the highlights of each of the last 4 years for me has been the opportunity to lead the singing at Men’s Katoomba Convention over 3 weekends in February and March.

I have just finished rehearsing for 2 days in Sydney for this year’s event, which has been great as always. It’s brilliant to be able to play with some really fantastic musicians, including Javed Sterritt (drummer for the band Holland), Trent Prees (bass player from the band Garage Hymnal) as well as old friend and keyboardist/backing vocalist Rob Brown, and great new electric guitarist Cedric Tang.

Can I recommend MKC to any men living anywhere remotely within reach of Katoomba? Each year I am challenged about my life, especially about keeping Christ-focussed in work, church and family. This year’s topic is “Men at Work”, and I expect it will contain plenty of useful stuff that this rather busy guy needs to hear.

We’ve rehearsed 20 songs for the weekend – including a few songs off my new album (whose release will coincide with the conference), plus a bunch of great new songs to take back to the musos at your church, and plenty of old favourites.

Hope you can make it!

Mixing “The name of love”

Mark — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:48:14 +0000

The new album “The name of love” is being mixed right now. All the live songs are done, and 2 of the studio songs. 4 to go, then mastering and pressing. Michael Sinclair my producer has got some awesome talent, and I can’t wait to get these songs out there for you all to hear!

Recording Keys

Mark — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:12:24 +0000

Today just recorded some piano parts for the album… more vocals this week. Hoping the voice holds out after a busy end of year vocal thrashing…

Free Sheet Music

Mark — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:44:21 +0000

In anticipation of the new album (due out in next couple of months), I am making available the lead sheets of 9 out of the 11 songs that will appear on the album (and thereby hinting at almost the entire list of songs for the album). What will the other 2 be? One of them is an oldie I haven’t recorded myself since 1998. The other is not that old, but one I’ve always wanted to record live.

Can’t wait to make the recordings available for you to hear… they’re sounding amazing.

Anyway, here are the songs: lead sheets from new album

I hope you like them. A brand new song “Our Glorious King” is being debuted tomorrow night (Thu 14th July) at Revelation. Or it could debut right now at your piano…

Free downloads until May 23

Mark — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:56:10 +0000

Recently I made my 2 most recent albums available for free download on this site. See downloads. Unfortunately, I am not able to keep doing this indefinitely.

This will not be the end of free music at this website! I have a new album coming, and expect to make various tracks freely available at various times.

So get in today and download stuff if you don’t already have it! Please forward this message on to anyone else you know who might be interested.

Some time on May 23rd, my website will automatically close down the free access…

Where are the words

Mark — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:36:31 +0000

Where are the words (downloadable version: right click)

Ok, here’s another new song… “Where are the words”, recorded on the same night as “In the name of love” here at Holy Trinity Adelaide. This song has already appeared in a more mellow version on the Emu Music album: Songs for little rooms. Hope you like it! Let me know your thoughts…

In the name of love

Mark — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:24:11 +0000

Have a listen to this new song, “In the name of love”. This recording was done straight off the mixing desk (plus a stereo mic of the room) at Holy Trinity just this last Sunday (8th August). Tell me what you think.

Mark

You can get a free score of this song here.

Three songs in CCLI Australia Top 100

Mark — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:43:41 +0000

See him coming, Highest Place, and Hallelujah to the King of Kings have all recently made an appearance in CCLI’s Top 100 songs being sung in Australian churches. It is also great to see a good range of other Emu songs making an impact.

Albums available on iTunes and Amazon

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:43:00 +0000

As of very recently, my most recent 2 albums are available for mp3 download on iTunes and Amazon. The congregational album “When we see you” and the devotional album on the book of Philippians “Whatever Happens” are both available as entire albums or as individual songs. At this stage, you still need to purchase the CD to get all the lead sheets, but they should be available on CCLI SongSelect shortly.

New Album released

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:42:02 +0000

My new album “When we see you” is available now through Emu music or through Koorong books. The album is the culmination of 4 years of writing songs about living in light of Jesus’ return. It includes new recordings of songs previously recorded by Emu, such as “See him coming” and “Hallelujah to the King of Kings”.