mark devin.

Ever since i’ve started my job i feel like my life has been on hiatus. I’m still writing but i haven’t played that many shows lately. My last show was at a coffee shop in Addison in the northwestern part of Dallas. Life has been pretty different, my new job keeps me from church currently until the schedule changes and i stepped down from the praise and worship team at my church recently. as of lately, I’m working hard to earn a promotion and trying to find a way to Houston in a few weeks. I feel like I’ve been inconveniently on the down low involuntarily.

I’m in a season where I feel like I’m only tilling land. It feels different. It feels like normal life. Working at a corporate office, building a relationship to prepare for a marriage, paying off debt. As for the music, I’m waiting for a particular studio be finished, it’s currently being built. As for me, I’m trying to figure out where I need to be presently. I feel like I’m stuck in a moment and I can’t get out of it. Nicki and I are in this actually, we miss our college group with Chris and Kelly and the gang before it was destroyed by pride and politic. We miss our other church family at Northplace due to my work, we miss our families, we miss our friends. But we know that right now we are currently going through a season where I feel like we are in Screwtape Letters when Uncle Screwtape say to his nephew, “He[God] wants them[us] to learn to walk and must therefore takes away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there, He is pleased even [our] stumbles.”

We are still here everyone and we miss you guys. Once life gets back on track, we’ll know where we will be.  Living life, Living large, Living love. We’re just building are muscles and bones to become the person we plan to be. And if you here about us, please sure to check in with us. People like to tell stories.

The season is getting colder, i find the colder it gets the more the love grows. (That’s nothing deep or metaphorical, it’s just a matter of fact)

selah.

Mark Devin.

Hey Everyone,

Here’s a few updates to let you know what I’ve been up to with the album.

Cha-Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes!
As you may have noticed, I have been doing some rearranging to my Myspace and other sites, as well as noticing missing songs. Because of the new album in the works, I decided to take certain songs off for the sake of avoiding any preconditioning.
As of the album, I just finished on the budget on the album and will, as well as should, going into the studio to knock out an album. I already have my line up ready and will be going into full production in due time. Until then, if you want to know what any of the new songs sound like, I recommend you come out August 21st to Crooked Tree Coffeehouse at 8:00PM. It’s a free show so bring your friends!

With the new album:
What was supposed to be originally called “The Bride Sings Her Song, Israel Finds Her Rest,” was changed recently due to waking up in the middle of the night only to hear the words “Lost At Sea” droning in my head. Which conveniently enough is the, now considered, title track to the album.

On the Direction:
Lately my music has been considerably different since I’ve released “Mixtape.”
A lot of the songs you hear on the album is a lot of out order progressions of my voice and for what it’s worth, you can hear how I’ve been on a journey to find my place musically considering the fact that not one song sounds the same. With the new album, you will hear some of the later songs like “‘Til We Have Faces” and “The Bride.” But you will also hear, in my opinion if I may, a more mature and soulful sounds carried through a weathered spiritual life, that has lived through frost and fire.
My goal as a songwriter is for the listeners to hear and say to themselves, “This isn’t your typical saved by grace album.” I don’t want to be like a typical “Christian” album. In fact I hope that it’s not considered what would be “Christian,” but real authentic Jesus Music. I like to convey my faith in my music like it was my everyday, as if it’s what were supposed to talk about with stranger en route through love, relation, and relevance. This is my witness.

Selah and Shalom,

Mark Devin.

wrote a new song over the weekend in tuscon, arizona called “the all said and done song.” it’s a song i wrote for nicki. it’ll be on the album, “the bride sings her song, israel finds her rest” … how fitting.