marvin gaye. motown. worship music.

every once in a while, some musical artist or musical genre will come to my life and change it.
a while ago, radiohead came to me and guitar tones, complex layering, odd chord progressions, and innovative song writing, changed my musical outlook.
some time later, sigur ros came to me and dynamic change took on a whole new meaning.
then, sufjan stevens came and gave me a whole new set of chord changes and voice-layering ideas, and the banjo of course.
obviously these are just a few, but the newest one is: motown.
not cheesy motown, like hey mr. postman. but the good r/b and soul of marvin gaye, stevie wonder, al green, sly and the family stone, and so on.

it's the future of worship music.
not that worship music is going to sound exactly like it, but take some influence from it.

i mean how long can we keep on doing the same chord progressions with the same song structures.

there are some brilliant patterns of chords and melodies that are going start influencing the way i write and i think the way other people write also.
along with a similar gospely type feel with lots of tambourine and soulful melodies.

i would say check out "in the groove" by marvin gaye first. its amazing

i'm excited.