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Gungor Live CD/DVD

At the heart of Gungor’s music is that corporate transcendent experience that can happen when people get together to worship.  Our music has always been designed to draw the listener into a moment of connection with the Divine.  For this reason, our live shows are a very important part of our work.  The live shows aren’t simply the places that we market the songs that we previously recorded; they are the places of connection from the music to real human faces, joy and pain.  It is ab...

Jan.21.2012 Read More

Untangling the Gramophone

It is no secret that people worship celebrity in our culture. To be recognized by others as more special than others is a powerful feeling. It is the feeling of love and acceptance and safety. The problem is that this sort of recognition never satisfies. The feeling of worth and importance that comes with the accolades of the crowd is shallow and fleeting. It is a counterfeit to real love and security. Lust may have a lot of the same feelings associated with it that love does. Desire. Passion...

Jan.09.2012 Read More

Zombies, Wine, and Christian Music

When you are in a touring band, there is a lot of time that is spent waiting. Waiting to board a plane, waiting for the bus to arrive at the venue, waiting for sound check…etc One of the many games that people in our band have implemented now and then to fill the waiting time is a little game we might call the “Christian or secular” game. Basically the game is simply playing a very short clip of music and having someone guess whether it is “Christian” or “secular” music. The person...

Nov.15.2011 Read More

Ghosts Upon The Earth

INTRODUCTION This album is a bit of a risk for us.  With the attention that our last album, “Beautiful Things” brought to what we are doing, there was a temptation to take the safe route on this album and try to make a “Beautiful Things-2”.  We knew people liked it, and the easy plan would be to try to do it again. That’s not what we did. I think one of the primary reasons “Beautiful Things” resonated with people was its honesty.  It was true to who we were at the time,...

Sep.20.2011 Read More

Crowder, Ghosts, and what to expect from Gungor this fall

Hey everybody, with our new album "Ghosts Upon the Earth" being released on September 20, and our upcoming acoustic tour with David Crowder Band, John Mark McMillan, and Chris August, we are about to have a busy fall. We've seen many of you tweeting about all of this already, we wanted to make our plans clear to you, so you can have some idea what to expect.  First of all, for the Crowder "7 tour", there are some severe limitations we are working within as there are so many other groups that ni...

Sep.01.2011 Read More
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