#26 - Aaron Marsh - What Child Is This

Aaron Marsh - What Child Is This
Late in 2006 I was getting right into the new Anchor and Braille stuff on their myspace, and I saw that Aaron Marsh, the lead singer from Copeland had his own myspace. I thought I'd check it out, and I found that he'd created his own version of the Christmas carol 'What Child Is This', it was a live recording that featured Aaron playing piano, singing, with programmed strings in the instrumental bits of the song.
I was instantly hooked. It was a free download, I thought 'Why not?' and got it. When Christmas of 2006 rolled around I was up in Sydney for about 3 days (ridiculously short time I know). A lot of the time was spent driving around. Because of the fact that I was so tired from plenty of travel and busyness, I spent a lot of time listening to my new-ish ipod shuffle. This song, along with the +44 cd and another cd that I can't remember became my soundtrack for that trip. At times the song almost brought me to tears, it became a reminder of the beauty of Christmas carols when they're done in a sincere way. I would love to play and sing this song at a carols service because I feel at times like we lose that sincerity with our celebration of Jesus' birth.
I can imagine the writer of the song feeling the same way. Obviously Copeland are one of my favourite bands so it makes sense that I'd love this genuine song about the birth of Jesus.
It clocks in at number 51 on my itunes play count with 22 plays to its name, which denies the amount that i've played it. Last.fm is even worse, with only 5 plays and at equal number 337!
I'll upload the mp3 of this for a short time so you can hear it, and i'll make it available for download. if you wanna listen to a track i created earlier this year give it a go too :) comments would be appreciated :)

www.myspace.com/paperpiano is the URL so yeah, go there!
www.myspace.com/anchorandbraille is a project with stephen christian and aaron marsh
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www.myspace.com/aaronmarshmusic is one to look at too :)

p.s. i just finished a whole subjects worth of assessments in a week, 6000 words in 3 assignments haha yay. that's 1 down, 2 more to go :)