Mannie Schumpert - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey there!
I'm a producer/songwriter/worship leader. In between working on other artists' projects I'm working on an album of my own - my first. I've written all the songs (and almost enough for a second album), I just have to finish putting it all together!

The tracks you'll find in the player currently are rough cuts consisting mostly of scratch takes. I just wanted to give you an idea what my music is like. If you care to know more about me and what I'm after, check out my blogs!

P.S. The ReverbNation player sounds a lot better:

I currently only have one song available for purchase. I have two other songs listed as the artist "Waiting Music". This is a side-project of mine consisting of ambient instrumental pieces intended to facilitate meditation and reflection.
More tracks will be added to both projects as they become available.

This is what I've listened to most recently:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/3/2006
Band Members: Mannie: plucky stuff, hitty stuff, plinky stuff, clicky stuff
Influences: or rather inspirations...

Radiohead, Imogen Heap, Peter Gabriel, Jay Clifford and Jump Little Children, Matt Redman, Delirious, much of the MorningStar music, world music (almost any form of Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin, African, Eastern European), percussion (i.e. Glen Velez, Hossam Ramzy, Zakir Hussein, Garett Buell) electronic music (particularly IDM - Bola, Landau, Matmos, Boards of Canada, Deru), Lamb, Bjork, Rush, Yes, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd, Project 86, Underoath, Bela Bartok, Kronos Quartet, Jon Brion, Steve Tibbets, Jeff Buckley, Jonatha Brooke, Sarah Masen, Over the Rhine, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Charlie Peacock, Daniel Lanois, Jars of Clay (really just their 11th Hour album), C.S. Lewis, John Piper, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, etc., etc.

Sounds Like:

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Dry Bones

This song is the punctuation of a long time of sickness, pain, and fruitlessness. A couple of months ago I contracted an odd infection which was painful and somewhat debilitating, and to make matters ...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:17:00 PST

Forever With You (for Diane)

This is another song that will not be on my album. I just wrote this today for the memorial of a sweet lady in our church who just passed. (The recording's rather rough.)Diane hadn't been coming long....
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:16:00 PST

The Light of the World

I wrote this song as a "great commission" anthem for my church as we entered a new season with a focus on evangelism. It's pretty self-explanatory, so I don't need to expound much. However, I will exp...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:09:00 PST

Relentless

(This shoddy picture is supposed to be me drawn to light from a dark tunnel.)The first two lines of this song - words, music and all, came to me in a dream during a short nap one day. It came simply, ...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:46:00 PST

Your True Love

(That's a pearl in a lily, btw.)It's so easy to get caught up in earthly love, and all too easy to forget that it pales in comparison to God's. Sight and skin and breath cuts so deeply, we are fooled ...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 05:20:00 PST

You, and You Only

(This image is supposed to be a house - representing the worldly security that most of us strive for - sifting out of my hand like sand. I didn't quite pull off that vision with this image, but you ge...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:38:00 PST

More About Me

I think I started singing in church somewhere around twelve-years-old. I think I did it because my Dad did it and I figured I was supposed to. The first song I sang, as I recall, was Michael Card's "T...
Posted by Mannie Schumpert on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:55:00 PST