“When I heard Shakespearean-trained actor Alexander Scourby, who lent his deep authoritative voice to the classic reading of the King James Bible, it was for me, a unique listening experience. While this recording is undoubtedly a classic, I wanted to hear a contemporary electronic soundtrack that I felt would engage today’s audience with the depth of the text that Scourby so brilliantly captures.

I approached Mike (Spike) Avery, with whom I have worked performing the biblical Psalms in Sons of Korah and asked him to take up the challenge. As a team, we have musically ‘dressed up’ the Psalms as those who have heard Sons of Korah can testify.

What we were looking for however, was a completely different sound and we were using spoken text rather than sung lyrics. I believe this is an impressive start to what we hope will be a whole series of albums based on different books of the Bible.

We chose Romans to begin with because it presents such a clear outline of the gospel message. We have worked with highlights of the text to give people a taste of what lies within this amazing book in the hope that this will draw people into exploring the full text for themselves.” Matt Jacoby – Sons of Korah

Bonus booklet ‘Magda Lynne… Dying to the Old Self’ written and illustrated by Rod Allen, 14 Pages.

About the Author

Mike has just produced an album called ROMANS: The Unofficial Soundtrack soon to be released on Sons of Korah's Wordsong Artists Label. It combines an edgy eletronic soundtrack with a classic recording of the KJV text by Alexander Scourby. He also plays the acoustic fretless bass and keys for Sons of Korah.