In the 60's when pioneering bands like the Lord Rhaburn Combo used to go abroad to cut vinyl records, making an album was a costly and involved process. But nowadays, with the help of a personal computer, music makers don't even need to leave their homes to cut and create an album. And that's exactly what a couple of up and coming artists from the capital city have done with the release of a new album.
It is entitled "Da Combo" and features Caleb Ortega and Jacob Diggz who've put together 10 original tracks with a distinctly contemporary feel that do the oldest job in history they praise the creator. Diggz stopped in to our studios and explains why they've chosen Christian music.
Alfonso Noble,
Why didn't you all go the secular way?
Jacob Diggz,
"Well for me personally you know, and I could speak for Caleb as well, it is because we realize that we are blessed with a gift and a talent. Everybody who has that potential in music it is a gift to teach, to reach, and to preach. You have the choice about what you want to preach and who you want to reach. And I believe with the gift and the talent that I have been blessed with I rather tell a young man how to better his life than how to smoke weed and tell him to stab this one or tell him to get a fast break in life. I don't see it worth it and all I would be doing is destroying my nation, my world, and my surrounding, and my environment. I don't see the point in it."
"I don't think it is a matter of who is preaching, I think it is a matter of the delivery that they come across and I believe that the delivery which our music has is the kind of delivery that the public and the youths have been waiting to listen to. Sometimes you will hear something your mom or dad say and you won't listen but if your friend tell you that same thing in a way you can understand and relate to, you will listen and I think is the music they can listen and relate to which will enable them to and want to listen to it."
The release, including 10 original tracks, is available in local record stores.