Below is a review from Echohub.com   __________________________ You know Michael Gungor from his incredible music, but this week he has released a book — The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators (Amazon, iTunes). And before I say anything else about it, let me just say this: You should read this book. Here’s the author in his introduction to The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse: This is a book for creators—for those down in the valley with the dirt ...

Yesterday, we released our new live album “A Creation Liturgy” as well as my new book “The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators.” Yes, as some of you astute readers have already noticed, there is a bit of a creation theme going on… So, here’s the truth of the matter: I wrote the book because a lot of these ideas about art had been stirring in me for a long time and influencing the way that I make music. As I write in the book, I have discovered that the roots of...

I don’t really like the term “worship music” for some of the same reasons I don’t like the term “Christian music.” Worship is an offering of your self, a loosening of grips, a heart open wide, not a genre of music. Worship can be experienced through anything. For Brother Lawrence, worship was primarily experienced through washing dishes. For Mother Teresa, worship was primarily experienced in bandaging wounds and kissing lepers. Anything can become worship, including music, and even ...

Okay, so we’ve been busy working on some things, and we’re excited to finally announce everything that’s going on. This Fall, we will be releasing the first ever live Gungor album. It’s called “A Creation Liturgy”, and it features a bunch of songs that are, well, somehow tied to creation. It was recorded live on our Spring tour, and even though most of them are songs that we’ve released before on our studio albums, there’s something about the live energy of these recordings that ...