Dana Decker: Bass, Vocals (5)
Chad Reisser: Vocals
Brindin Sawyer: Vocals
Chris Eves: Guitar (6,8)
Pathik Desai: Guitar (5,10)
Jeff Lingle: Guitar (1)
Andrew Doolittle: Guitar (1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9)
David Arana: Piano(1,6,7) Vocal Arranging (10)
Mike Lee: Keyboards
Jason Lingle: Drums
Jeff Driskill: Saxes (10)
Roy Weigand: Trumpet (10)
Gospel Choir (10):
Benetta, Darryl, Gary, Nichelle,
Nicole, Olivia
Gospel Choir Directed by Gary Murphy
Mixed by Glyn Morgan
Mastered by Steven Slate
Influences
Jason Shelton, Jim Scott, Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt, Weezer, Michael Jackson, John Vanderslice, Maroon 5, The Beatles, U2, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica
Sounds Like
Chris Tomlin, Tom Petty, The Wallflowers, Indigo Girls, Brand New Heavies, Bob Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Living Colour, Darlene Zschech, Coldplay, Roxette, James Brown, Billy Preston
Dana Decker - Composer
Dana Decker is a songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Dana became involved with writing music for liberal faiths when he began attending the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society (SUUS) in October of 2005. After finding the U.U. faith a welcoming spiritual home he began working with the Soulful Sunday committee to bring contemporary worship to SUUS. The committee began a very successful Sunday morning worship service called Soulful Sunday and have been bringing this up-beat, exciting worship to SUUS bi-monthly for almost two years. Dana has used this outlet to begin writing his own original contemporary worship music for liberal denominations. His writing brings his own love for contemporary secular music to liberal faiths with songs written in the pop, rock, funk vernacular. Dana and the Soulful Sunday team have performed at the first ever Contemporary Worship Conference in San Diego, CA; PSWD District Assembly in Riverside, CA; and the 2007 General Assembly in Portland, OR. Most recently Dana has been hired as the new Associate for Contemporary Music at First U.U. Church of San Diego. As of last year Dana has been working to not only bring his music to the wider UU community, but to other liberal religious denominations as well. WHEN WE SING documents Dana's exploration of exciting new possibilities for liberal religious music.
Sheet Music Now Available!
Big news - sheet music for When We Sing is now available.
Click here
or the picture to the right to see the samples. These are beautiful charts that have the vocal melody and harmony as well as chord symbols and directions for your contemporary worship ensemble. There are two samples up right now and more will be added in the coming weeks. It's a little time consuming to get all of the samples up on MySpace but rest assured that all of the music from the CD is available. If you'd like to order something that you are not seeing in the samples just drop me a line and I will get you the music as quickly as I can. My hope is that this sheet music will help to facilitate contemporary worship within your congregation. Enjoy!
Lyrics have been posted
I've started to post the lyrics for the songs in my pics area. This should speed things up if you need lyrics to project in your service. It also should help those who are looking for music to fit a specific message. All of the lyrics should be on the site soon.
Dana Decker - Composer 
