A publicly unfolding large-scale album, Gathered Hymns of Haden Laas will consist of thirty-three hymns and a mass. That takes time... In the mean time, enjoy this pressing of the first thirteen, the ones I recorded throughout New York church basements and released monthly beginning July 28th, 2014: Early Hymns of Haden Laas.
As of December 2018, we have begun the second season. Watch this space for a new upload every month or so. The first thirteen hymns below are found on Early Hymns. They will NOT all appear on the final collection, Gathered Hymns of Haden Laas.
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Pray for rain in the springtime
That the summer may be green
Every season its purpose
Every purpose won't be seen
We tonight look surrounded
By a tempest of dark waves
In our hearts feel abandoned
Listing hours from the day
'Til our sea of trouble settles, calm
Look to God's horizon
Follow it on
As a boy in the clovers
Could you peer above the fence?
Still a world laid in waiting
When the time had come, you went
As the swells break over
Man the ropes
Holding to our blessed duty of hope
From the sea of high waters
That would overcome our cheer
We will make land tomorrow
Having settled every fear
And give praise to the maker
For He made us how we are
We were pale and unsteady
Now we journey wide and far
Ever follows peace after the storm
We are charted to our promised home
Off to God's horizon
Heave ho!
credits
from Hymns of Haden Laas,
released November 29, 2020
Grant Huling - piano, toy piano, bass, voice
Alan Murchie - piano solo
Rose Stark - violin, voice (rosestark.com)
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