Complete your Ashes Remain record collection. Discover Ashes Remain's full discography. Shop new and used Vinyl and CDs. Ashes Remain When in 2011 the album 'What I've Become' by a rock band from Baltimore,, it seemed tailor made for Cross Rhythms. Not one but four tracks from it were selected for airplay and judging from listener response each of the tracks - 'Everything Good', 'End Of Me', 'On My Own' and 'Keep Me Breathing' - were just the kind of inspiring, skilfully written, imaginative not generic pop rock that our listeners like. As CR reviewer Lins Honeyman wrote, 'This is a stunning release from a band set on communicating God's love in a real, relevant and electrifying way.' When 'Keep Me Breathing' finally came off the Cross Rhythms playlist we began looking hungrily to the American CCM band for the expected followup. By 2017 we'd come to the reluctant conclusion that these most gifted of pop rockers - consisting of Josh Smith (vocals), Ryan Nalepa (guitar), Rob Tahan (guitar), Jonathan Hively (bass) and Ben Kirk (drums) - had called it a day. After all, we reasoned, had been around a fair while (recording their first independent album in 2003) and it's hard to keep a band together particularly through the seismic changes that have affected the whole music world. In view of all this, you can imagine the excitement and expectation there was at Cross Rhythms Towers when towards the end of 2017 the pioneering Seattle company Tooth & Nail/BEC Recordings were about to release a new album. That album, 'Let The Light In', is, in our view, every bit as good as its predecessor and thankfully one or two American reviewers have agreed, JesusFreakHideout suggesting 'Let The Light In' is a solid pick for those who like honesty, passion and good old-fashioned shredding' while 375 Days Of Inspiring Media commented 'a few tracks are genius.' I spoke to Josh Smith and began by asking him the most obvious question - why a six-year delay between albums? Josh: Well, as you know we are primarily a rock band that also has a softer side and in American Christian radio, the softer side is all that people are really looking for on the radio. The label we were signed with turned in tons of demos over the years and it was always too rock n' roll for them. We finally got them to agree to let us go. We signed with BEC/Tooth & Nail and they let us be a band doing both rock stuff and songs on the softer side. It sounds overly simple but that's all it was. We were basically on the shelf because we weren't turning in the music they were looking for and they wanted us to make the entire album what feels like the softer side of us and it just didn't feel honest. So, that was about a six year struggle for us. Tony: The received wisdom is that if you haven't got a record out, the gigs start to dry up. Presumably that began to happen with you? Josh: Oh, it absolutely happened. The last three years have probably been the least busy that we have ever been and it was exactly what you're saying. I mean, we'd go to the same places and we're playing the same songs and these people who'd bought that ticket, they've heard that show and loved it but there was nothing new to offer. Data Center 2 3D DWG Full Project for AutoCAD. Data center project 3D. Drawing labels, details, and other text information extracted from the CAD file (Translated from Spanish). Data center drawing autocad. Tony: But you kept going. With those circumstances, most bands would have split up and gone their separate ways. What kept you together? Josh: We are a family. I know you probably hear that from a lot of bands. But in truth you'll find that with many bands it's one or two original members and then it's a revolving door of a new bass player, a new drummer, a new guitarist. We've been the same guys going on for 16 years now. We've built our lives around this. I mean, our families are connected, we love each other just like brothers and so for us it was never a question of do we keep doing it, but it was how do we get to keep doing this because we always feel like this is a privilege. I mean it really is. I've had this dream of being a musician much of my life and most people do. Though we're not, by no means, the next U2, we do get to go out and present this music to people. For us, it's always been a passion, even over those six years just sitting. Tony: But alongside your passion for music is your passion for God, isn't it? If search results are not what you looking for please give us feedback on where we can/or should improve. When you search for files (video, music, software, documents etc), you will always find high-quality mksap 16 question bank files recently uploaded on DownloadJoy or other most popular shared hosts. Mksap 16 free download rar. Josh: Absolutely! I feel that he has blatantly called me to write these songs and he hasn't told me I can quit yet!
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