March 26, 2004

This newsletter is 19 years in the making!!!  Bout time we do one is all we can say!.  To get you acquainted with us, let us first give you an Azimuth history summary:

Azimuth was formed in San Jose, California in 1985 to preach the Gospel through music. In the early years, Azimuth concentrated it's ministry inside prisons and youth authorities. We also played in many local churches and community events throughout Northern California.  In 1994 Azimuth stopped performing live and centered on studio projects and have strove to reach His excellence musically ever since.  Our producers, Ed Goldfarb and Paul A. Fox have helped bring His music to nearly every U.S. state and many countries via the radio.

Currently we accomplish our ministry from three states, Denver, Colorado (LaVada); Milpitas, California (Dan) and Belfair, Washington (Paul).  We feel we are called to spread His word through music via the radio, CD's and praise and worship songs.  We all have our local ministries and are active in our church worship teams.

FIRST FOCUS:  We are in the middle of recording our next album, "Mystery of Your Love" which we expect to release next year.  We are meeting in June to complete our next four songs and will produce two more songs next year.  We have made it a priority to ensure our lyrics are centered on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and that our music reaches that same high standard.  You can monitor our progress by bookmarking our main music page at LINK.

OTHER FIRST FOCUS!:  We are very active in writing praise and worship music that we share through CCLI, Songsofpraise.org, AzSongs.com, FreePraiseAndWorship.org, InHymn.com, and Sharesong.org.  We've had the honor of writing songs with Lenny Smith, Rick Founds, Elton Smith, Larry Holder, Dave Cooley and the brilliant Rhesa Siregar from Indonesia.  Elton has had a huge influence with our musical direction and with his assistance we have forged our own genre, Pop/Praise and will employ this style on our next album. For sheet music or midi for our most recent song, Your Love (written by Rick Founds, Paul Gentry and Dan Swan) please visit at SOP at LINK.  

ELEVATOR ON THE RISE!!!!  As a pre-release album promotion we recently submitted "Elevator's Gone" onto the popular Uncle Samoo's Zoo Radio Show which is hosted by WITR in Rochester, New York.  Many popular bands were launched from this Indie Christian Show including "Jars of Clay."  We are currently #42 on their charts and should keep moving up to the higher floors! Our next album title track, Mystery of Your Love rose to #8 on their charts in early 2002..  Additionally "Son of Thunder" was aired on March 21st!  This show is syndicated across the U.S. Airing Sunday Nights 7 PM to Midnight (eastern). Join the webcast ... www.thelivingrock.com!  If you like our song, please write Pastor Samme at sammep@aol.com and encourage them to keep playing Azimuth!!

For MP3 download or broadband listen of Elevator's Gone go to LINK.
For midi download go to LINK.  Elevator's Gone was written about September 11, 2001 and the story of the writing of this song can be found at LINK.

OUR OTHER AZIMUTH WEBSITES!!!!  Many of our songs midi files and sheet music files can be found at our two sites we maintain below, AzSongs and eSongbooks. Additionally, we are very close to completing our first songbook and have many praise and worship songs available from Azimuth writers and friends.  Please click the links below to take a look at our sites and feel free to download as much as you wish!

In these days of troubled times we encourage everyone to keep our nation in prayer. There is so much bias in the mainstream media that is hard to keep a balanced eye on current events, so we feel the only good news is in our Bibles and we pray you keep His word close to your heart and keep His focus and not our own!

Blessings,
Paul Gentry on behalf of Azimuth