Joel Augé............

Joel Augé (pronounced “Oj-hay”) hails from Ontario, Canada, where he serves as a worship leader for The Meeting House family of churches. Check out his Pastor's book here, its a good read. For a limited time you can download a free track via the widget on the right of this page or here and also listen to some more tracks on his myspace here. Anyone who knows me will be aware of my love/hate relationship with Christian music, especially the "worship" industry, but in recent months i have pulled back the veil of skepticism to discover that there are artists out there who are truly artists in their own right, writing amazing music that is worshipful without being a big bundle of cliches and mediocrity. This is one of those albums that could stand in the spotlight of "secular" music and be noticed for the melodies, lyrics and the voice that Joel has been gifted with. I have talked about this recently with a few folks and would love to see albums like this flying off our shelves, being re-ordered in larger quantities and generally getting into the ears of more people. So, with that in mind i aim to try and do something about it! This post is just the start, many changes are on my horizon but for now, just take my word for it, this album is great stuff and you should check it instead of that "huge monster big worship 6 cd box set" that is on sale at a discount price and features no original artists! I am going to hound thousands of people about the music they should be buying, watch this space!