Roland Giese
Roland Giese is a songwriter whose work appears on recordings of contemporary church music first issued in the late 1960s and later restored to the catalogue.
His songwriting is represented on the companion releases Move Two Mix (MD 3001) and Seven Whole Days (MD 3004), collections of religious songs in jazz and folk-inflected settings for worship and devotion.
Compositions by Roland Giese appear on
Seven Whole Days: Music for the Contemporary Church
Seven Whole Days is Jim Minchin’s second Move album of contemporary church song, recorded across Melbourne and Singapore in 1969 with singers and instrumentalists from both places.
Move Two Mix: Music for the Contemporary Church
Move Two Mix gathers religious songs and hymns with music by Jim Minchin, marrying familiar sacred texts to jazz- and folk-inflected settings. First issued in 1968, this pioneering Melbourne recording brought contemporary idioms into church worship.