Tracks
Click on the following MP3 links to hear a preview of selected album tracks

You Shine
Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing)
I Am Convinced
You Surround Me
Faithful One
Your Faithfulness
Hope Of The Nations
I Lift My Eyes Up (Psalm 121)
Psalm 13 (How Long)
It Is Well
With All My Affection
Come, Now Is The Time To Worship

Story of the "You Shine" recording:

"You Shine" is my first worship recording; it almost sounds strange to say after being involved in recordings for almost 15 years. Some people were surprised that I would do my first recording live in Dublin. Several people stopped and asked me, "Why Dublin?" Here's a brief glimpse into the journey that led me to this point and the story behind this recording.

Several years ago, when I was living in England (the time when I produced "Hungry"and "Come, Now is the Time"), I had the privilege of spending a few weekends in Dublin, teaching on leading worship and writing worship songs with a gathering of Irish worship leaders and songwriters. Doing that was a fulfillment of a dream and several words to serve the Irish church, and I thought my connection with the Irish church may be over when we moved back to Canada in the summer of 99. After resigning from Vineyard Music in the autumn of 2000 (not because things were going poorly, but because I felt led to serve the broader church), I sensed I was to wait for God to lead me to the right group of people to partner with. Several months into this time I received a phone call from Chris Thomason at Integrity. After sharing our stories, vision and heart, we both sensed God's leading toward a partnership. We felt that my first recording should be a live one, so we begin initial discussions of where to do it. We were looking at several different locations in North America, including my hometown of Abbotsford where there is a significant move of unity happening in the churches. One night, I had a dream. I'm not the type of person that gets a lot of dreams, but this night in my dream I walked up to Chris Thomason and said this: "I know where my live recording should happen...Dublin, Ireland!" A few days later, Chris called, and when the subject of "where"came up I shared the dream that he was in. He was silent for a moment, and then said, "we have been waiting for the right timing and the right person to do a recording there!" I was amazed and grateful to have God’s direction!!! I then scheduled myself a flight on Sep 12th, 2001 to travel to Dublin from Vancouver and begin preparations there. Of course there were no planes flying on that date, so I wasn’t able to go over then, but I did manage to get over in December to do preparation work. There were many challenges along the way, but we continued to feel that Dublin was the right location for this "evening of worship" that was to be recorded, and looking back now, all of us on the team have no regrets about being in Dublin!!

I had the amazing privilege of gathering some of my best friends and favourite musicians to do this recording with me. Brian Thiessen has been a friend since early childhood and has been playing electric guitars with me since we formed our first band in high school. Philip Janz, who co-produces and plays all the keyboards, sings backing vocals and programs all the drum loops has worked together with me since 95 and we have become very close friends. Daphne Rademaker, who adds her powerful, yet beautifully fragile voice, has been a dear friend since 1985 when we met her on the first day we walked into the Langley Vineyard. The rhythm section is held down by Calum Rees on drums and Matt Weeks on bass; both of them played on "Hungry" under my direction and they are great musicians and passionate worshippers to boot! (Maybe I shouldn’t use the word "boot" in the context of anything other than the trunk of a car, since Matt and Calum are British...wouldn't communication be boring and predictable if we all used the same ‘English’ words for the same things!) It was a special treat to have James Isaacs join us from L.A. He is a gifted and sensitive oboe player who also plays all the pennywhistles and added the touch of "historical class"and "gentle artistry" to the recording. I especially love the way the oboe, representing historical music, and the electric guitar, representing the modern, interact in "Psalm 13," which is one of my personal favourites on the CD. Locally in Dublin, Ann Trainor did an amazing job of drawing in some wonderful local singers for the choir, plus introducing us to Kim McKevitt, a 19 year old young woman from Dublin who sings like an angel in Gaelic.

We recorded live on February 16, 2002, beginning the evening this way: I stepped to the front steps of the church and lit a match in the darkness. Then I lit a single candle held by Jeffrey Flynn, a boy chorister from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. As Jeffrey concluded the chorus of "You Shine" and the band began to play, we began to light candles all around the balcony of the old stone church we were worshipping in, and the candles continued to burn throughout the entire evening. The night seemed like "the eye of the storm" for me: full of peace and God's presence while the time before and since has been full of challenges.

After doing our overdubs with the Irish musicians and the Irish singers in Dublin, Philip and I returned home to Canada, where we finished our overdubs and mixed the album at Philip's studio (Hi Tyme Studios) in Mission, B.C. One of the things I love about working on the Protools system is the instant recall, so Philip was able to mix for a couple of weeks and then we could review the mixes and make minor changes as needed. Chris Thomason & Steve Merkel came up from Integrity in Alabama to review the mixes with us, and make final suggestions, which was really helpful!! It's been wonderful working with Steve & Chris; they are true artists who have a passion for excellence and ministry!

It was also an incredible privilege to have the CD mastered in New York at Sony Music Studios by Vlado Meller, one of the pioneers of modern mastering and one of the world's most sought-after mastering engineers. (Two recent projects he mastered were "Josh Groban" and "Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come.") This came about due to Integrity's partnership with Sony, which has also led to my CD being released into the secular market by Sony Epic. I do believe we live in a time when people's hunger for spiritual things is increasing, and there is a much greater openness to worship music, music that is written for an "Audience of One."

I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of you who made the effort to purchase "You Shine," and who by doing so support me in my love and calling to write and record worship music. For some of you that have followed my music from the early days of "Faithful One" and "Refiner's Fire," thanks for your patience in waiting for this. For my new friends who are just being introduced to my music, thanks for coming along!! I truly hope that as you listen to this project, you will be able to enter into worship, and that through the storms of uncertainty, the times of pain and the seasons of blessing, you will be able to love the One who made you!!

In the Father’s love,

Brian Doerksen