Rick Land & Russ Tapp: Journal

       ...my spirit is an enigma to me
my voice worketh not, my heart beats a tone of mysterious unconsciousness,
and my soul is wanting to separate from my being and soar through the
heavens to race with the angels - as they dart from universe to universe...
I want to disarm all my "contrived" methods of practicality and sanity
and survival and loosen the bonds of earthly restraint.

I want to step outside of myself and see you in the wholeness of my being!

Pull away, be gone, O earth
You are a conflagration of particulate beauty
You do not move me
You do not stir me
Your beauty is fixed, yea, though it's timeless extravagance is God's creation...

I do not wonder at majestic, breathtaking beauty
I do not murmer words of astonishment
I do not cover my eyes to wipe away the tears

I open my being, my psyche...
I open the chapters of my thought, in hope.
...in hope that you are real...
that this fleeting life will extend to me a gentle kindness
and a few  moments of laughter amidst the abyss.
Draw me away, oh thought,
Draw me away, away, away,
from the responsibility and pitiful nature of man.
Allow me a few seconds of peace,
     a respite from all my "silly awareness".
Oh, soul...reconstruct thyself inside me -
I burst free of you today...
    leave me alone...
   because when I return,
I shall be bourne on the wings of the angels...

rdl  8/9/'07

As of Sunday October 19 2008 our new CD entitled "CATHEDRALS": Fusion Music for Pipe Organ & Synthiszer has been released. The album contains 13 individual selections all recorded in the stunning acoustical space of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Amarillo, TX using the latest Yamaha Motif synthesizer and the 110 rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.

We cover every musical spectrum from the elegant "Gabriel's Oboe" from the movie "The Mission" to the epic composition "Cathedrals" by the legendary French organist Louis Vierne.

We feel that there is a need for a musical medium which encoumpasses the finest in acoustic and non acoustic instruments. We simply record the music we love and are not trying to reinvent the wheel. There is no substitute for a beautiful melody with elegant harmony and warmth. You may listen to a few of our selections from the album by going to "music link" and they will be available for online purchase very soon. We hope our music will bring you inner peace and spiritual healing. RnR

You can now keep up with Rick and all our happenings at R&R Fusion at our new website: rnrfusion.com Check back often for calendar updates and for worship team members to download mp3 demos, music, and worship bulletins for all our worship events. Also I will be starting a new blog where we can discuss my latest spiritual growth and growing trends in the area of worship.