Classic (German) Christian rock for the weekend: Semaja

I don’t remember when I first ran across Semaja. I know it was most likely at the Inner Court – the music department of the Shepherd’s Shoppe. But I remember liking them immediately. They were different. I don’t know, maybe I was in my European music phase, because I liked Edin Adahl, too. And Semaja also had a number of instrumentals which I thought was kinda cool. Just a bunch of guys jamming.

I found a few samples on youtube. You’ll have to deal with some extraneous stuff – a rather long song introduction in German; an example of why keyboardists should not step out from behind the keyboards; songs in German. And yes, I had their live album with some of the songs in German, but no, I did not learn the words well enough to sing along. I should point out that it might be easier to listen and appreciate their music if you don’t actually have to watch them…

In my search for Semaja, I found this cool website from which you can listen to all four of their albums (I had No Burning Out and Semaja Live). Check out “No Burning Out” and “Karin” from No Burning Out (although I had the English version, so “Hey! you! Jesus is alive!” sounds kinda different in this version). “Dawning” from the live album is pretty cool, too. Or the jam session called “Big Noise.” Good stuff. Enjoy.

January 22, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: music

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