Nando Herrera: We are a church worship team, so our story is not the "typical band" story. This wasn't the dream of 5 friends in a garage. This is an expression of a collective of people in a local church. In 2014, we started toying with the idea of taking the experiences and moments in our church's history and turning them into songs. We began writing songs for specific services and events and in response to what happening. Those moments became songs and those songs became our first live album Greater Things. And we were honored that Spotify liked one of the tracks off that album, "The Anchor", enough to put it on some big playlists. That really resonated with our story. We are "little guys" in the grand scheme of church worship bands. But we strive to deliver the best with what we have! And it worked out really well. So, naturally we did another album. And once again, we saw some success with one of our songs. And by this time, we started being asked by other churches about our songs, our process and our story. And we were asked to come out and serve other churches. That was the goal! We wanted to be a resource. We wanted to be an inspiration for other "little guys" who are just trying to be the best with what they have. In 2019, we made some cool connections and started dreaming about a studio EP. We came up with a plan to release something huge that would lead us into another live album. And just as we finished pressing the record button, Covid happened. We had no choice but to suspend our efforts and focus; and a project was left unfinished. By the time the world began returning to some semblance of normal, nearly a year had passed. We knew we had to get songs out, so we started working on the songs again and literally released them as we finished them. It was all over the place. It was not a fun time to try gain momentum again. But once we started hearing and seeing success stories from the song, we decided to return to the original dream and release the album we originally dreamed of. In July, we finally were able to release In Peace or Pieces I'm Complete and share the message we had been dreaming about for years. The album title is symbolic and definitely a call back to all the years of work getting things up and running again. Right now we are in the process of working on a live album.

Nando: We worked with lots of producers and writers for this album. So, we listened to a lot of music. Some classic bands like Switchfoot, Coldplay, U2, UNITED to newer pop albums that happened to release as were writing. We referenced Justin Bieber more than I'd like to admit. Other bands were LANY, The 1975 and Glades to name a few.

Nando: We all have different inspirations. Some of the folks on our team love pop artists, some love worship artists, some love crazy genres of music you didn't know existed. It's pretty eclectic. I (Nando) personally am a huge fan of Jon Foreman, Joel Houston and Phil Wickham. I think these 3 guys are brilliant!

Nando: It wasn't exactly a re-release. More of repackage. We felt like things got a little muddy on our end as we were wrapping up these songs. We released singles for about a year! We spent so much time releasing singles, we realized we lost sight of the story that the songs were supposed to tell collectively. So, we took all those singles and a few new songs and made sure we had something tangible that told the story. Truth is, as were releasing songs on Spotify, we kinda neglected our home. So, we also wanted something that we could print on a CD to give to our congregation, and any of our fans anywhere we lead worship. If the story is about people serving the local church, then we needed to make sure we had something we could physically and tangibly put in someone's hand. It's hard to say, "this is our story" when you have half a dozen different singles. This album was our plan since 2019, we just weren't able to release it when we originally wanted or how we originally wanted.

Nando: Actually, just this summer, we were asked to be a part of a fundraising event at a sunflower field farm. They literally, mowed out an area where we set up a small stage and performed at sunset with 6 foot sunflowers, as a backdrop, as far as the eye could see.

Nando: We are in the pre-production of a live album scheduled to be released in early 2023. We plan to go bigger than ever with this project! It will have a few singles, live video and more resources than ever to equip the local church. Definitely stay tuned for that one. And we also plan to try something with our next generation of worship leaders. Perhaps a new youth band will branch off if we are already doing. But I'll stay quiet on that one until another day.

Nando: I talked a lot about moments in our church and the experiences we were having that served as the catalyst for our team to release music. But this project gets a little more personal. A lot of the lyrics and themes are more personal. You may not catch the deeper story on the first listening, but as you look through the lyrics, you may catch a glimpse of very personal stories found in each song. We got real honest, while keeping the themes congregational. We hit on the topics of shame, self-worth, identity and personal struggles a lot on this album. But every song was contrasted with a response of worship and faith. That's where the concept of "in peace" or "pieces" really comes through. It's an album about the juxtaposition of the heart, and how faith has to fit in the complexities of life. We really hope it blesses you!