Finally, after several delays, my second Gospel/ Christian Worship music album will finally be released on 4th January 2010. The album is called, The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man (thought I'd go for a long album title this time, as other people seem to do this from time to time!).

The track listing is as follows:

Love From Heaven Came Down
Father
Your Love
Christ Is Risen
I Will Go Up
Be Glorified
Emmanuel
Thank You
King Of Love
Glory To God
You Are The Lord
Reign On High
High And Exalted One

Please note however, that firstly this is a Christian worship album and so the lyrics contain explicit Christian content and message and are the sort of music that you would tend to hear in a modern church - modern hymns, if you like - and secondly, please note that if you are expecting an album like either 'Pendragon' music in style, or like "Heart Of David", "A Vision Of Angels" or "The Spiritual World", then you may well be disappointed.

The style of music on this album is very much more in the form of simple songs with straight forward verses and choruses and with not many guitar solos or instrumental passages. All of the songs are acoustic guitar or piano based in style, with layered keyboards, drums, bass, some electric guitars and lots of vocals!

Oh and the final 'disclaimer' I need to say is that I am doing the lead vocals on this album (and I have never ever claimed to be a lead singer!). So if that lot still doesn't put you off, then you may well enjoy at least some of this album!

I started writing the songs for this album actually around the same time as I wrote the songs for "A Vision Of Angels", so songs like "Your Love", "Glory To God", "You Are The Lord" and "Reign On High" date back to at least the mid 1990s! Then songs like "Be Glorified", "Emmanuel", "Thank You" and "High And Exalted One" were the last songs to be written in the 2000s, with the other songs dating from around the late 90s! But the earliest songs I had actually started recording on old ADAT tapes (digital video tapes) before they became obsolete when Pro Tools came in (hard disc recording straight onto your Mac or PC), and so I had to get Karl Groom to transfer all of the ADAT tracks across to Pro Tools for me. I only got Pro Tools in 2004, so I have been catching up ever since by releasing "The Spiritual World" and now "The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man" - both albums had been started way before I finally got Pro Tools!





Anyway, for quite a low budget album, which is what "The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man" is, I am very pleased with the finished result, and especially so with about ten of the songs which came out particularly well. Also, the 'feel' and 'vibe' on all of the songs is really good I think. The main aim of this album for me, was for the music to be uplifting and to soar in places - to lift people up, and to get them to think about God and to thank and praise Him - and I hope that it achieves this effect? You will have to let me know what you all think?

In terms of the personnel on this album, there are only actually 3 musicians on this album, the least number of people I have ever used on an album before. The stars of the album for me are two of my good friends from my local church: Hayley Oliver - a professionally trained soprano singer, who has a really beautiful and pure female voice, and Jez Yates-Round, who sang the male harmony vocals, and who helped me to arrange many of the harmony parts. Both Hayley and Jez have really great voices which brings a real depth and choral effect to the overall vocal sound, and I am very grateful to them both for the amount of hours which they put in laying all of the harmony tracks down. I then did all of the other instruments myself on this album and also the lead vocals too. The album was mixed once again by Rob Aubrey, who did such a great job of mixing "The Spiritual World" and Rob and I co-produced the album, from the mix stage onwards.

Just for the record, my very first gospel album was called Calvary and was released in 1991 on casette only. It was very bad quality as it was all recorded on a 4 track Teac Portastudio, which recorded straight onto cassette tape, and so I had to do several bounces on each song before I could mix them in order to get all of the parts down. It also features some very quiet and trebley lead vocals by myself with some dodgy tuning in places! But despite all of that, I am still very pleased with the finshed product. Perhaps one day, if there is any demand for it, I might try and raise the money to re-release it on CD?

Anyway, this new album, "The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man" is for anyone who thinks that they would be interested in it, and please do let me know your comments back on the album, both good and bad, as I would very much value them. Happy listening and I hope that this album really does 'lift you up!'

Release date: 1st December 2009

Catologue number: PGCDW002

Label (is my own label): Roberts-Lutley

Distribution: is initially just from me by mail order at 15 Bourne Lane, Brimscombe, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2RP, UK

Price: £10 for UK, EEC and ROW (price includes postage and packing)

I just have to tell you about my trip of a lifetime this summer when I got to fulfill my life long ambition to visit Israel, or the Holy Land, as it is often called.

If you could choose only one place on earth that you would most like to visit and to experience before you died, then I wonder what you would choose? Many people would probably choose Ibiza, the Carribean, Paris, Rome or Hawaii maybe?? But for me, the one place on earth I most wanted to visit for all of my life has been Israel, because this is the place where God's Son walked upon this earth as a man, two thousand years ago, as recorded in the Bible.

To actually walk where Jesus walked and to visit the places where he performed great miracles and see where he died and rose again to conquor death, and to read those Bible accounts whilst actually being at those locations where those events really did take place, was for me, simply mind blowing!!! In fact for me it wasn't just a holiday or a pilgrimage, it was quite simply, a life changing experience.

I went to Israel for 10 days, between 17th and 27th August 2009. The itinerary of my trip was a follows:

Day 1 - Fight from London to Tel Aviv and then transfer to Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee.

Day 2 - A boat trip across the Sea of Galilee (where Jesus walked on the water and calmed the storm), a visit to Capernaum (where Jesus lived after he left Nazareth), a visit to Tabgha (where Jesus appeared on the lakeshore after his resurrection) and a visit to the Mount of the Beatitudes (the site of the Sermon of the Mount).

Day 3 - A visit to Kursi (where Jesus cast the demons out of Legion), a visit to Bethsaida (where Jesus fed the 5,000 and they lowered the paralytic down through the roof where he was healed), a visit a 1st Century Jewish village and to the Golan Heights.

Day 4 - A visit to Nazareth (the site of the home where the angel appeared to Mary, and where Jesus grew up), a visit to Cana (where Jesus turned the water into wine), then Mount Tabor (where Jesus' transfiguration happened) and the plain of Armageddon (where the final human battle will happen, and the title of an old Pendragon song!), and finally to the River Jordan (where Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist, and I re-newed my baptism vows there in the river!).

Day 5 - We drove south down the Jordan valley to Masada (an ancient Jewish fortress), a visit to the Oasis of En Gedi (where King David hid from Saul), then on to Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947), and finally for a float in the Dead Sea itself (the lowest place on earth at 14,000 feet below sea level).

Day 6 - We stayed in Bethlehem and visited the Church of the Nativity (where Jesus was born) and the Shepherd's Field (where the angel Gabriel appeared to the shepherds).

Day 7 - On the Sunday morning we went to Christchurch in Jerusalem (which was very powerful to worship in the place where Jesus lived and died) and then visited Herodian (a palace built by Herod the Great).

Day 8 - We walked down the Mount of Olives (the route of Jesus on Palm Sunday), saw the Chuch at Dominus Flevit (the place where Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem), and then went to Mount Zion (south west of the old city walls) and to the City of David, and walked through Hezekiah's Tunnel (a tunnel built to bring water up into the city during a seige), and visited the Poll of Siloam (the old reservoir that fed the city of Jerusalem and where Jesus healed a blind man).





Day 9 - A visit to the Western Wall (or the 'Wailing Wall', one of the original walls of the Temple Mount, the rectangular platform on which the orignal Jewish Temple stood. The Western Wall is the nearest to the 'Holy of Holies', the most holy part of the temple, that the Jews can stil get today, and where they go to pray - and I got to stick my own prayer on a piece of paper into the Western Wall!), we then walked on top of the Temple Mount and visited the Dome of the Rock (this Muslim memorial stands on the exact site of where the original Jewish Temple stood, and directly beneath the golden dome is where the 'Capstone' or 'Foundation Stone' stands, which was the foundation stone of the orignal Jewish Temple and was situated in the 'Holy of Holies'. Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the Dome of the Rock since 2000), we then walked through the Jewish Western Wall Tunnels (which go underneath the Temple Mount itself), and a visit to the Pool of Bethesda (where Jesus healed the man crippled for 38 years), and finally we visited Ein Karim (where Mary visited Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist).

Day 10 - We visited a possible site for the Upper Room (where Jesus ate the Last Supper), then visited the Garden of Gethsemane (at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, where Jesus was arrested), walked across the Kidron Valley (where Jesus was taken by the soldiers), visited the site of the Antonia Fortress and the Stone Pavement (where Pilate's residence was, the solider's barracks, and the stone pavement where the judgement seat stood, where Pilate sentanced Jesus to death), then we walked on the Via Dolorosa (The Way of Sorrows, the 1 mile route from the Antonia Fortress to Golgotha where Jesus was crucified), ending up at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (this church marks the site of Jesus' death on the cross at Golgotha, probably a quarry by the side of the road, just outside of the city gate. It also marks the site of where Jesus was buried in the tomb, and where Jesus rose from the dead after 3 days, just as he had prophesied that he would), and we then visited Gordan's Calvary and teh garden Tomb (an alternative site for the crucifixion and resurrection, but without any real histroical or archaeological evidence for this site), and then finally we saw the Dome of the Ascension at the top of the Mount of Olives (which marks the site of Jesus' ascension alive back to Heaven).

Day 11 - A visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum at Yad Vashem, just outside of Jerusalem, and then we drove back to Tel Aviv for our flight home to the UK.

On the 3 photos from Israel of my trip you can see firstly, me paddling in the water in the Sea of Galilee, secondly, me standing outside the Dome of the Rock on top of the Temple Mount, and thirdly, me standing on the Mount of Olives.

Quite simply, I would say to everyone, that if there is one place on earth that I would reccommend that you go to before you die, then take my advice, go to Jerusalem. There is something really very special and very spiritual about that city and that place, and indeed about the whole of Israel, including being by the Sea of Galilee, that is impossible to put into words. If just made me feel closer to God, because I had walked and been where His Son had walked, and it is like the fragrance of Jesus is still there in a very powerful way (although obviously all of us can know God's presence and His Spirit in our hearts, where ever we are living in this world!). For me personally, just to stand on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the city of Jersulem, which was the one place on earth that I had most wanted to be, and to walk beside the Sea of Galilee and to paddle in it, where all of those miracles took place, was absolutely life changing! It was awesome, incredible and impossible to properly put into words! Anyway, you get the picture ... I enjoyed it a lot!!! So please do go, if you ever get the chance!

I am also currently working on what will be my fourth mainstream solo album.

The current working title of the album is Broken, but this may well change before the album comes out, probably at the end of 2010, dependant on other commitments.

All of the songs on this new album were written around the same time as "The Spiritual World" album and all of the drums, bass, guitars and keyboards have now been completed. I am really honoured to have the very talented vocalist and solo artist Steve Thorne again singing on this new album. Steve is a really gifted guy who brought so much to "The Spiritual World" album, and I know that he will also bring some really great vocal performances to this new album too. Drums were played once again by Steve Christey, the drummer from 'Jadis', who as always has given me some great performances to work with. Once again the album will be a mixture of songs, interspersed with instrumentals.

The current song titles for the new album are, in no particular order: Arabia, Falling Star, I Want Out, Spread Your Wings, Hendrix, Gone, Why?, Hear Our Cry, Sundays At Woodside, Emma, One Day We'll Meet Again, Blue Skies, The Wonder Of You, Eyes Of A Child, Stradivarius, Andrea, So Beautiful To Me, Ends Of The Earth, and Belinda.

I am very pleased to finally announce the long awaited and anticipated re-release of my first mainstream solo CD album "Heart Of David" (or "HOD" as we affectionately call it!).





The album is out now, released on Friday 20th March 2009.

Label is my own label "Roberts-Lutley".

Catalogue Number is PGCD001.

Distribution is initially through my site by mail order (although I'm afraid that I still can't accept credit cards through this site - cash and cheques only please) and through the Pendragon online store (who can accept credit cards!).

Price (including postage and packing) is UK £10 EEC £11 ROW £12.


As it was a re-release I did consider going down the road of adding bonus tracks to the album, but decided against it in the end as I'm one of those old fashioned kind of people who likes to keep the integrity of an album in tact and just present the original finished statement, rather than tag on inappropriate material at the end which really doesn't fit in with the overall "flow" of the album.

So big appologies to those of you who bought HOD the first time round - as musically this album is the same as before, and I have also kept the artwork true to the original version too. But if you have never heard HOD before or couldn't get it first time round then I really hope that you like the finished result.

Heart of David was first released in 1993 by a Dutch label called "SI Music" which was run by a good friend of Pendragon called Willebrod Elsing. Unfortunately in 1996 SI Music went out of business and sold the label over to Roadrunner. Clive and I then spent a few months negotiating with Roadrunner who eventually agreed to return the masters artwork and rights to the albums that Clive and I had done on SI Music. Clive then went on to re-release all of his albums again, but unfortunately it is only now, after over 12 years of the album having been deleted, that I have finally been in a postion to re-release it (largely due to the income generated by sales of The Spiritual World album, and thanks also to Wlicey for finding the HOD artwork for me, which had been buried away at Pendragon HQ!).

I know that I am very biased in this respect, but HOD still sounds really good to me, and still really relevant to today. I think the only track for me that didn't realise it's full potential when recorded was "Beyond Oursleves" which came out quite subdued compared to what I had imagined it to be. And the acoustic guitar sound on "Kingdom Come" could have been a lot better. But hey, everyone was younger then, and every recording was a whole learning experience! Yet despite these minor things, HOD has some great performances on it - notably from Nick, Clive, Nigel Harris, Fudge Smith, Richard West, Paul Wilson, Tracey Hitchings, Steve Weeks and the Kensington Temple Gospel Choir. But my own personal favourite performances are Rick Carter's piano and Uwe D'Rose's (Landmarq) guitar solo, both on the same track "Crying OnThe Inside". My own personal favourite tracks remain "Water's Edge", "Unspoken Words", "Forever" and "Crying On The Inside".


The full track listing is:

1. Angel Song
2. Walking By Night
3. You bring The Rain
4. Unspoken Words
5. Forever
6. Crying On The Inside
7. Heart Of David
8. The Enemy Within
9. On Broken Wings
10. Water's Edge
11. Beyond Ourselves
12. Kingdom Come
13. Voices In The Dark
14. The Everlasting Arms


People often ask me what the songs on Heart Of David are all about. So here is a very quick summary:

Angel Song is just meant to be an uplifting instrumental with the voice of an angel, Tracy Hitchings on it!

Walking By Night is about just how much evil is in this world and how at times it feels like it is getting out of control, but it reminds us that God is ultimately in control and even if there is no justice in this world, the Christian hope is that there will be justice for everyone in eternity.

You Bring The Rain draws a parallel between physical rain, which we all need to survive, and especially those drought ridden countires in Africa, and also spiritual rain, which comes through God's presence, or His Holy Spirit - and we don't just need physical rain to survive, but we all also need spiritual rain too.

Unspoken Words is all about the maze that growing up as a teenager is, and trying to find your way and your own place in life - especially growing up as a very shy person like myself, when often it is hard to get the words out which you so badly want to say from inside of yourself.

Forever is simply saying that we were all created as eternal beings, and though our physical bodies will eventually wear out and die, yet we will all live on forever - and it then depends on whether we trust in God to carry us safely home, or continue to trust in our own resources when we die.

Crying On The Inside is about the masks that we all wear as people, and often people ask us, "are you okay?" and we always say "yes", when often we are crying on the inside or lost or broken - but our fear of getting more hurt and our pride stop us from being totally honest, and so we continue to put a brave face on everything.

Heart Of David is about a man in the Bible called King David, who God referred to as "A man after my own heart" for "Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart". David tried to serve God with all of his heart and this is probably the greatest standard in this lifetime for any human being to try and emulate.

The Enemy Within is about the ongoing human struggle to try and do the right thing - and sometimes we get it right and many times we make the wrong choices and give in to our own temptations, whatever they may be - and so there is this constant struggle between good and evil raging within us.

On Broken Wings is about all those who have fought in wars - but especially refers to my grandfather on my father's side who was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and lost one leg there, and also my friend's father, who suffered much in his memories for years because of his wartime experiences.

Water's Edge is a modern version of the 23rd Psalm "The Lord is my Shepherd".

Beyond Ourselves is all about the search of many young men and women for fame and fortune and the false expectation that these things will bring lasting happiness - which they don't - and in fact it is something spiritual and much deeper that we all need, God's love.

Kingdom Come then goes on to talk about what God's love is like.

Voices In The Dark is all about schizophrenia and all those who suffer mental illness of any kind, and some of my own experiences of visiting patients in the old style Victorian mental health assylums from several years ago.

Finally The Everlasting Arms is about Heaven and the Christian hope of life after death - that because Christ is risen from the dead, so also will each of us live on and receive a new spiritual body that will then last forever.

Pendragon have a new live DVD out, released in March 2009, called Concerto Maximo.





This is once again recorded in Poland at Teatr Slaski in Katowice and features 2 and a half hours plus of concert footage, plus interviews with all four band members and a longer interview with Nick Barrett.

As well as the DVD, the special edition features 2 live CDs of the concert.

My personal favourite moments from the DVD are the live versions of rare tracks such as - "Learning Curve" (Believe album), "Total Recall" (Kowtow album), "Sister Bluebird" (Fallen Dreams EP) and "We'll Go Hunting Deer" (World album).

Those of you who know the track "King of The Castle" very well might notice that we didn't stick to the album version of the song, and this was because I decided to unententionally edit the song as we played it during the concert - so apologies to all of you for that!

But this DVD is very much a collector's item and features lots of rare tracks, as well as being the first live DVD for Scott, who played an awesome gig and sang his heart out.