The Creator Series is back with another episode, this time featuring photographer Corina Straub. We have known Corina for several years now, and always been a big fan of her work. She even took some of our early band photos! We asked her to share her journey, and were really inspired by hearing her motivation behind her photography, and the desire to see and capture God’s beauty in other people.
Today, the Rivers & Robots song Shepherd Of My Soul hit 1 million views on YouTube! Of course, this is just a number, but it's also really exciting to us because it shows what an amazing platform the internet is to be able to share this kind of thing.
It's what we're all about at Set Sail - making art about God, and sharing it with the world. Throughout history, missionaries have travelled the world, making God known to people around the globe. Today, we live in a world that's more globally connected than ever, and in a generation where the language of art is one of the most powerful and influential. Culture is shaped, on a worldwide scale, through our songs, our films, and our artistic expressions that carry a message.
At Set Sail, we see ourselves as missionaries on that platform. We want to speak the language of art well, aiming to create great art that's all about God, whether it's music, video, design or another artistic expression. And Shepherd Of My Soul is a perfect example of that. It's a musical representation of Psalm 23, with a lyric video we edited out of clips of beautiful scenery from around the Earth. And we love that the message of Psalm 23 has been heard through YouTube, in 184 nations! But more than numbers, it's the individual stories we hear from people's comments which really blow us away, and encourage us to keep going.
"I'm going through a tough season... I believe God is molding me for a great plan he wants to accomplish. I have been listening this song almost daily. Twice, if not three times over sometimes with strength and courage and sometimes in absolute tears... He will and will always be the Shepherd of my soul."
"I tried to sing this, and couldn't because I had to cry. I'm learning about Christ more and more, day after day, prayerfully. And these lyrics are so perfect for a prayer."
Watch the video below.
The instrumental album we've been working for the last few months has now been released! We've really enjoyed the process of arranging some of our favourite worship songs as instrumentals in our own Rivers & Robots style.
On Tuesday we did a launch event here in Manchester, at the Anchor Coffee House, where we showed a 15 minute version of the album and did a livestream Q&A, taking questions from YouTube about the process of making the album. You can watch that whole event here.
We also filmed some behind the scenes of that launch event for episode 21 of the Set Sail vlog, which you can watch below too.
After a successful launch night, the album then came out on Friday, and has received great feedback from fans and critics.
