14 November 2015 at a friends house in Chester County, Pennsylvania

I woke up the morning after the Paris terrorist attacks. After reading some of the news reports and checking on my friends staying near Paris, I needed to just sit for a minute and center. I picked up my guitar just to do morning warm ups and freshen up on some music for the upcoming holiday. This tune came to mine. I remember the tune from when I was younger and singing in the church choir. “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent”
The tune turned into a quiet meditation so I got out my laptop and my iRig interface and recorded this track. I used a GarageBand preset called “Sharp Chorus” for the reverb and delay. The guitar was my Martin D-41 with a Dean Markley pickup.
I edited and mastered the original recording using Audacity to remove some digital artifact on the recording because my old laptop’s processor speed was having trouble keeping up.

To me the tune voiced the meditation that I was feeling in the moment and connected with the voices that were cut short or left crying in anguish that night.

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recorded on my MacBook Pro using GarageBand
guitar: Martin D-41 with a Dean Markley pickup