If one album in 2025 wasn’t enough it was followed by a single release and a whole new album.

In June of 2025 my much loved big sister went in for a serious heart operation for which the success rate was high. Despite the optimism about her recovery she didn’t come around and was declared dead on 7th June.

We all have different ways of coping with grief. Mine was to pour myself into a song which I reframed for my sister. ‘Play it over again’ was released as a single in late July. Please do have a listen but be warned it is edgy and raw.

In the meantime I had been working on a collection of worship songs called Encounter. Two of the songs had made it onto recordings previously but needed reworking largely from scratch to bring them up to date. Most of the others had existed in demo form for some time but had never been released on an album, though had been either performed by me or used in worship. So cue a major rebuild with fresh sounds, tightened timing, and new vocals. Finally one song was a brand new co-write with my mate Andi Foster which featured him on acoustic and vocals with Peter Welly contributing some ambient drums.

In amongst all these great songs is a fabulous jewel – ‘Jesus how we love You’. It’s the song that first drew the attention of Nigel Coltman and Geoff Shearn at CopyCare back in the early 1990s. Delicately sung by Andrea Almeida its qualities are timeless. This edition is true to the original and includes a very Gilmour-esque guitar outro.

As ever if you have questions on processes of writing songs or recording them, then please do drop a comment below.

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