55th Studio Album
J.A.L.M.-MUSIC
Explore the Album"Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins; else the wineskins burst, and the wine runneth out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."
— Matthew 9:17
New Wine is a prophetic, fire-soaked, groove-driven album born from the ancient wells of Torah covenant truth and the living breath of Yahuah's Ruach HaQodesh. It is not a Jewish album. It is not a Christian album. It is a Yahshar'el album — a declaration from the scattered, the forgotten, the colonized, the miseducated, and the awakening — that Yahuah is calling His covenant people back to their true identity, their true King, and their true purpose.
This album speaks the language of the streets, the fields, the prisons, the barrios, the islands, and the inner cities where the descendants of the scattered tribes of Yahshar'el have been planted. It pulses with the Afro-Cuban clave — that ancient heartbeat carried in the bones of a people who never forgot how to praise even in captivity. It breathes with the deep, soulful ache of Neo-Soul — the sound of a people waking up, remembering, and rising.
"The message is simple and devastating: you cannot pour the new wine of covenant restoration into the old wineskin of Babylon's religion, Babylon's identity, Babylon's system, or Babylon's lies. The old must be shed. The container must be made new."
Hallelu-Yah. The wine is being poured. Are you a new wineskin?
The Awakening Call
Character: Amara, 26 — Baptist-raised woman discovering sacred names & Torah
Scripture: Yirmeyahu 6:16, Yeshayahu 43:18-19, Mattithyahu 9:17
Amara is a 26-year-old woman raised in a Baptist church in the American South. She has always felt something was missing — the name "Jesus," the Sunday worship, the pork at the church potluck, the Christmas trees — none of it ever sat right in her spirit. One night she stumbles across a teaching on the sacred names and the Torah, and something ancient inside her wakes up. She realizes she has been carrying an old wineskin — Babylon's religion — and Yahuah is calling her into something ancient and new at the same time.
(Percussion Intro — Clave pattern establishes, congas enter, Rhodes chord stabs)
(Spoken Word — low, intimate)
"Thus saith Yahuah: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls." — Yirmeyahu 6:16
Something is waking up inside you.
Something ancient. Something true.
Yahuah is calling you by your real name.
Are you ready to answer?
(Groove drops — full band)
(Verse 1)
She was raised on Sunday morning, dressed in her best
Learned the name they gave the Messiah, passed every test
But something in her spirit kept asking, "Is this right?"
Something in her bloodline was crying in the night
The clave was in her heartbeat before she knew the word
The Torah was in her DNA before she ever heard
That Yahuah had a covenant with a people set apart
And Babylon had been lying to her from the very start
She opened up the Scriptures with new eyes to see
The sacred names restored — Yahuah, Yahshua, set her free
She said, "This is what I felt but never had the words"
"The old wineskin is cracking — I hear what the Ruach heard"
(Chorus — Call and Response)
[Lead]: Derech Chadashah — a new way is calling
[Response]: New way, new way — Yahuah is calling
[Lead]: The old path of Babylon is crumbling and falling
[Response]: Falling, falling — let the old thing fall
[Lead]: Come out of her, my people — hear the shofar sound
[Response]: Hear it, hear it — let the new wine come down
[Lead]: New wine needs new wineskins — the old cannot hold
[Response]: Cannot hold — pour the new wine, pour it bold
[All]: Derech Chadashah — Yahuah is making a new way
Derech Chadashah — step into the new day
Old wineskins are breaking, new containers arise
Derech Chadashah — open your eyes
(Verse 2)
She put down the traditions that were handed to her
The holidays of Babylon, the doctrines impure
Not with anger, not with hatred, but with clarity and peace
Yahuah was calling her to covenant release
She learned the Shabbat — the seventh day of rest
She learned the Moedim — the appointed times are best
She learned the Torah — not a burden but a delight
She learned the sacred names — and walked into the light
The old wineskin of religion couldn't hold what she found
The new wine of the covenant was too full, too profound
She became a new wineskin — stretched, prepared, and made
By the hands of Yahuah — unafraid, unashamed
(Bridge — Choir enters, Afro-Cuban percussion builds)
Behold, Yahuah does a new thing — can you not perceive it?
He makes a way in the wilderness — do you believe it?
He calls His people out of Babylon — will you receive it?
New wine, new wineskin — Yahshar'el, achieve it
The ancient paths are calling — the Torah is the way
The Ruach HaQodesh is moving — this is the day
Not the religion of the colonizer, not the church of Rome
But the covenant of Yahuah — calling you home
(Outro — Call and Response fades)
[Lead]: Are you ready for the new way?
[Response]: New way — Derech Chadashah
[Lead]: Are you ready to shed the old skin?
[Response]: Shed it — pour the new wine in
[Lead]: Yahuah is calling Yahshar'el
[Response]: Yahshar'el — we are coming home
The Reckoning
Character: Dawit, 29 — Inner-city street soldier confronting covenant identity
Scripture: Romiyim 6:6, Ephesiyim 4:22-24, Yechezqel 36:26
Dawit is a 29-year-old man from the inner city whose entire identity has been built around his block, his crew, his colors. He has survived things that would break most people. He carries the weight of brothers lost to the streets and brothers lost to the prison system. A Torah-grounded elder in his neighborhood — a man who looks like him, talks like him, has lived what he's lived — sits with him one afternoon and opens the Scriptures. Not in a church. On a stoop. And Dawit hears for the first time that he is not what Babylon told him he was.
(Intro — Deep bass note, single conga hit, silence, then groove drops slow)
(Verse 1)
Dawit grew up knowing one law — survive
Keep your head down, stay loyal, stay alive
The block was his Torah, the crew was his tribe
The colors he wore were his covenant and pride
He buried three brothers before he turned twenty-two
He's been carrying their weight in everything he do
The streets gave him identity when nothing else would
He became what the system designed — misunderstood
But an elder sat with him on the stoop one day
Not in a suit, not in a pulpit — just real, just straight
Said, "Brother, I know where you've been, I know what you've seen"
"But Yahuah has a covenant — do you know what that means?"
"You are not what Babylon told you — you are Yahshar'el"
"The old wineskin of the streets is a counterfeit shell"
(Chorus — Call and Response)
[Lead]: Shed the skin — the old man has to go
[Response]: Let it go — shed the skin, let it go
[Lead]: Shed the skin — what Babylon built is not you
[Response]: Not you — Yahuah is making you new
[Lead]: The old wineskin of the streets cannot hold
[Response]: Cannot hold — the new wine is bold
[All]: Shed the skin, shed the skin
New creation breaking through from within
Shed the skin, shed the skin
Yahshar'el — let the new life begin
(Verse 2)
Paul wrote it plainly — the old man must die
Crucified with Yahshua — no longer alive
Not reformed, not improved, not a better version of sin
But a brand new creation from the outside in
Dawit reads it slowly — "Put off the old man"
"Which is corrupt according to deceitful plans"
"Be renewed in the spirit of your mind," it says
"Put on the new man" — Yahuah's covenant ways
The elder explains — "The Torah is not a burden"
"It's the covenant Yahuah gave to Yahshar'el — certain"
"The streets gave you a code — Yahuah gives you Torah"
"The streets gave you a crew — Yahuah gives you more-ah"
Dawit feels the old wineskin cracking in his chest
The colors, the codes, the survival — put to rest
Not by weakness, not by fear, but by something stronger
The covenant of Yahuah — he can't resist it longer
(Bridge — Percussion explodes, choir enters)
Yahuah said He'd give a new heart — take the stone away
Give a heart of flesh — a new spirit every day
Put His Ruach within us — cause us to walk in His ways
Shed the skin of Babylon — enter covenant praise
The old Dawit — the block, the colors, the code
Is buried in the mikveh — a new man arose
Not the identity Babylon assigned to his pain
But Yahshar'el restored — he'll never be the same
(Spoken Word over percussion)
"You were never just a product of your zip code.
You were never just a statistic in their system.
You are Yahshar'el — the righteous ones of El.
Shed the skin. Walk in the covenant.
Yahuah is pouring new wine — be a new wineskin."
(Outro — groove fades, clave continues)
Shed it, shed it — let the old man go
Shed it, shed it — let the new wine flow
Yahshar'el is rising — the covenant is real
Shed the skin — let Yahuah's Ruach heal
The Unlearning
Character: Kezia, 34 — Schoolteacher unlearning colonial miseducation
Scripture: Hoshea 4:6, Yirmeyahu 16:19, Devariym 28:64
Kezia is a 34-year-old schoolteacher who has spent her career educating children in a system that erased their history. She holds two degrees, has read widely, and considers herself informed. But when she begins studying the Scriptures through the lens of the Hebrew Roots / Yahshar'el covenant faith, she realizes that everything — the religion, the history, the identity, the names — has been systematically replaced. The old wineskin of Babylon's miseducation is the most dangerous container of all.
(Intro — Spoken Word, sparse bell pattern)
"The Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." — Yirmeyahu 16:19
They gave us their religion.
They gave us their names.
They gave us their history.
And called it the truth.
But Yahuah is restoring what Babylon stole.
(Groove enters — slow burn)
(Verse 1 — Spoken Word style over groove)
Kezia spent thirty-four years inside their system
Learned their version of history — never questioned it
They told her who she was, they told her where she came from
They gave her a religion and said, "This is where you run"
Sunday morning, steeple high, the name they gave the King
Never matched the Hebrew, never matched a single thing
They said His name was Jesus — born on December 25
But the Scriptures tell a different story — Kezia is alive
She started pulling threads — the fabric came undone
The holidays of Babylon — not one of them, not one
Was found in the Torah, in the Moedim of Yahuah
The feasts He called "My feasts" — not theirs, but ours
(Chorus — Full band, choir)
Babylon lied to me — stole my name and my identity
Babylon lied to me — gave me religion instead of the truth that sets free
But Yahuah is restoring — calling Yahshar'el home
New wine needs new wineskins — I'm done carrying the old
Babylon lied to me — but I know who I am now
Yahshar'el, covenant people — Yahuah showed me how
New wineskin, new creation, new name, new way
Babylon lied to me — but not another day
(Verse 2)
Deuteronomy 28 — the curses on the page
Read like a history of a people in a cage
Scattered among the nations, serving other gods
Worshipping in the names of the colonizer's fraud
Hoshea said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
"Because thou hast rejected knowledge" — not just college
But the knowledge of Yahuah, the Torah, the covenant way
The old wineskin of ignorance has had its final day
Kezia stands before her classroom with new eyes
She can't unsee the truth, she can't return to the lies
She teaches differently now — she asks the deeper questions
She plants the seeds of covenant in every lesson
The old wineskin of Babylon's education
Cannot hold the new wine of covenant revelation
She is becoming a new wineskin — stretched and made
By the truth of Yahuah — unashamed, unafraid
(Bridge — Afro-Cuban percussion builds, choir swells)
The sorcery of Babylon deceived all nations — Chizayon says
But Yahuah is breaking the spell in these last days
He's restoring the names, He's restoring the feasts
He's restoring Yahshar'el from the greatest to the least
The old wineskin of lies is cracking at the seam
The new wine of covenant truth is more than a dream
Kezia is free — the miseducation is done
New wineskin, new creation — Yahshar'el has won
(Outro — Call and Response)
[Lead]: What did Babylon give you?
[Response]: Lies — but Yahuah gives truth
[Lead]: What did Babylon steal from you?
[Response]: Our name — but Yahuah restores
[Lead]: Who are you?
[Response]: Yahshar'el — the righteous ones of El
[Lead]: What do you need?
[Response]: New wine — new wineskin — new way
The Addict's Cry
Character: Zara, 31 — Woman in addiction & generational trauma finding healing
Scripture: Tehillim 34:18, Yeshayahu 61:1-3, Luqas 4:18
Zara is a 31-year-old woman whose addiction began as a teenager trying to numb the pain of generational trauma — the trauma of a people who have been scattered, oppressed, and stripped of identity for generations. She has been in and out of programs, has lost her children, and sits alone in a shelter convinced she is too far gone. A covenant sister comes to the shelter on Shabbat and reads Isaiah 61 — and Zara hears for the first time that her bondage was prophesied, and so was her deliverance.
(Intro — Single piano chord, silence, soft conga pulse)
(Verse 1)
Zara sits in the shelter, the cold seeping in
Counting the cost of a life lived in pain
Not the sin of the proud, not the sin of the strong
But the wound of a people who've been scattered too long
Deuteronomy said there'd be no rest for the sole of the foot
Anxiety, sorrow, a trembling heart — it took
Everything from her before she knew the name
Of the Elohim who saw her before the addiction came
A covenant sister came on Shabbat with the Word
Read Isaiah 61 — and Zara heard
"The Ruach of Yahuah is upon Me," she read slow
"To bind up the brokenhearted — to let the captives go"
(Chorus)
Cracked vessel, cracked vessel
Yahuah sees the crack and He calls it beautiful
Cracked vessel, cracked vessel
He doesn't throw away what's broken — He makes it full
New wine for the cracked vessel, new skin for the torn
Yahuah is the Potter — a new vessel is born
Cracked vessel — Zara, He knows your name
Cracked vessel — you will never be the same
(Verse 2)
Yahshua stood and unrolled the scroll in Natzareth's hall
Said He came to heal the broken — to answer every call
To proclaim the acceptable year of Yahuah's grace
To give beauty for ashes — to wipe the tear from her face
Zara whispers the name — "Yahshua" — for the very first time
Something ancient in her bloodline begins to unwind
Not the name they gave Him in the colonizer's tongue
But the covenant name — Yahshua — and her healing has begun
The old wineskin is cracked, yes, it's broken and worn
But Yahuah is a Potter — He works with what's torn
He doesn't need perfect, He doesn't need whole
He just needs a willing and surrendered Yahshar'el soul
The addiction was a symptom of a deeper wound
The wound of a scattered people — but the healing is coming soon
(Bridge — Choir enters softly, Afro-Cuban percussion swells)
The curses of Deuteronomy were real — but so is the covenant
The scattering was real — but so is the gathering
The bondage was real — but so is the deliverance
Yahuah is breaking every chain — every generational inheritance
Of pain, of addiction, of shame, of loss
Yahshua paid the price — He bore the cross
The new wineskin of covenant healing is being formed
In the belly of the shelter — a new Zara is born
(Outro — Spoken Word, piano only)
"You are not the sum of what was done to your people.
You are not the product of Babylon's design.
You are Yahshar'el — the righteous one of El.
Yahuah is pouring new wine.
Be a new wineskin.
Cracked vessel — He makes beautiful things."
The Executive's Surrender
Character: Kofi, 48 — Corporate attorney who traded birthright for career
Scripture: Mattithyahu 19:24, Philippiyim 3:7-8, Devariym 8:17-18
Kofi is a 48-year-old corporate attorney who has spent his entire adult life assimilating — changing his name, his speech, his appearance, his worship — to succeed in Babylon's system. He has succeeded by every worldly measure. But on the night of his greatest professional achievement, he sits alone in his corner office and feels the most profound emptiness he has ever known. His daughter, who has been walking in the Hebrew Roots covenant faith, sends him a voice note with Matthew 9:17. He listens to it three times.
(Intro — Jazz Rhodes chord, walking bass, brushed snare, clave bell)
(Verse 1)
Kofi changed his name at twenty-two to get the job
Learned to code-switch, learned to smile, learned to rob
Himself of everything that made him who he was
Traded covenant identity for corporate applause
Forty-eight floors up, the city spread below
He's made it — by their measure — but the spirit says no
His daughter sent a voice note — Matthew 9:17
"New wine in old wineskins" — do you know what that means?
He's been pouring the new wine of his gifts and his call
Into the old wineskin of Babylon's hall
The pressure is building, the seams are about to burst
He's been so busy being successful — he forgot to be first
A son of the covenant, a child of Yahshar'el
He traded his birthright for a corner office and a spell
(Chorus — Call and Response)
[Lead]: Boardroom Babylon — it cannot hold you
[Response]: Cannot hold — Yahuah has told you
[Lead]: Boardroom Babylon — the wine is spilling out
[Response]: Spilling out — what's the covenant about?
[Lead]: You can't buy your way into the Kingdom of Yahuah
[Response]: Cannot buy — only covenant will do
[All]: Boardroom Babylon — lay the old wineskin down
Trade the corner office for the covenant crown
New wine, new wineskin, new identity, new name
Boardroom Babylon — you'll never be the same
(Verse 2)
Paul counted it all loss — the status, the name
The pedigree, the prestige, the religious acclaim
He said, "I count it all dung that I may win Messiah"
The old wineskin of achievement — set on fire
Kofi reads Philippians in the early morning light
The Ruach HaQodesh moving through the office night
He thinks of his daughter walking in the covenant way
He thinks of the Shabbat he hasn't kept in years — today
Deuteronomy 8 says, "Thou shalt remember Yahuah"
"For it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth" — ours
Not Babylon's system, not the world's design
But the covenant blessing of Yahuah divine
Kofi closes the laptop, he loosens the tie
The old wineskin of assimilation — it's time to say goodbye
(Bridge — Full Afro-Cuban percussion, choir)
Come out of her, my people — Chizayon declares
Be not partakers of her sins — Yahuah cares
The wealth of Babylon cannot satisfy the soul
Only the covenant of Yahuah can make you whole
Kofi walks out of the boardroom into the Shabbat light
His daughter is waiting — the covenant is right
New wineskin, new identity, new purpose, new name
Boardroom Babylon — Kofi's not the same
(Outro)
You are more than what they made you
You are more than what they paid you
You are Yahshar'el — the covenant is yours
New wine, new wineskin — open the doors
Boardroom Babylon — it's time to come home
The Prisoner's Redemption
Character: Ezra, 27 — Man serving 12 years discovering covenant heritage
Scripture: Ma'asiym 16:25-26, Yeshayahu 42:7, Devariym 28:68
Ezra is a 27-year-old man serving a 12-year sentence. He grew up in the system — foster care, juvenile detention, then prison. He has known nothing but survival. In year four of his sentence, a covenant brother from a Hebrew Roots assembly comes in on Shabbat. He reads Deuteronomy 28 and says, "This is not your fault — this was prophesied. But so was your deliverance." Ezra hears his own story in the ancient text and something in him breaks open.
(Intro — Clave pattern, single bass note, timbale roll)
(Spoken Word — powerful, deliberate)
"Yahuah shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you." — Devariym 28:68
The prison was prophesied.
But so was the deliverance.
Yahuah has not forgotten Yahshar'el.
(Groove drops — heavy and driving)
(Verse 1)
Ezra grew up in the system before he knew the word
Foster care to juvenile hall — his story went unheard
By twenty he was sentenced, by twenty-two he knew
That the pipeline from the cradle to the cage was nothing new
It was written in Deuteronomy — the curse on the scattered
The bondage, the captivity — Yahuah said it mattered
Not as punishment without purpose, but as prophecy fulfilled
And the same book that named the curse named the covenant still
A covenant brother came on Shabbat with the scroll
Read Deuteronomy 28 — and Ezra's spirit broke
"This is us," the brother said, "this is our story written"
"But Yahuah is calling Yahshar'el — the covenant is not forgotten"
(Chorus — Call and Response, choir chants)
[Lead]: Bars and bones — the prison cannot hold
[Response]: Cannot hold — the covenant is bold
[Lead]: Bars and bones — Yahuah breaks every chain
[Response]: Every chain — Yahshar'el will reign
[Lead]: Paul and Silas sang at midnight — the prison shook
[Response]: Prison shook — Ezra, take a look
[All]: Bars and bones — new creation rising
Bars and bones — Yahuah is surprising
New wine, new wineskin, new man, new name
Bars and bones — Ezra's not the same
(Verse 2)
Acts 16 — Paul and Silas in the midnight hour
Beaten, chained, but singing with covenant power
The foundations shook, the doors flew wide
Every prisoner's chains fell off inside
Ezra reads it in the cell by the dim light
A covenant Scripture — contraband in the night
"If any man be in Messiah, he is new"
He whispers, "Yahshua — is this covenant true?"
Isaiah said He came to open the blind eyes
To bring out the prisoners from the darkness inside
Not just the physical bars but the bars of the mind
The old wineskin of the system — Ezra's leaving behind
He bows his head on the concrete floor, tears falling free
"Yahuah, I am Yahshar'el — restore the covenant in me"
(Bridge — Afro-Cuban percussion explosion, choir in Hebrew cadence)
They cried unto Yahuah in their trouble
He saved them out of their distresses double
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death
And broke their bands asunder with His breath
The curse of Deuteronomy is real — but so is the covenant
The scattering was real — but so is the gathering
The prison was prophesied — but so was the freedom
Yahshar'el is rising — Ezra has found the Kingdom
(Outro — Clave continues, choir fades)
Eight more years but the spirit is free
Bars and bones cannot hold what Yahuah has set free
Ezra is new — the old man is gone
New wine in new wineskins — the covenant goes on
Bars and bones — cannot hold this
Bars and bones — Yahshar'el
The Grieving One's Restoration
Character: Adaeze, 52 — Mother carrying generational grief finding covenant joy
Scripture: Yeshayahu 61:3, Tehillim 30:11, Yirmeyahu 31:13
Adaeze is a 52-year-old woman who has been the strength for everyone around her for so long that she forgot how to grieve. She buried her son, buried her mother, and kept moving — kept the altar lit for her family. But when she discovers the covenant faith and lights her first Shabbat candles in the ancient way, the grief she has been holding for decades finally finds release. Yahuah meets her at Mama's altar.
(Intro — Acoustic piano, single candle being lit — the sound of Shabbat)
(Verse 1)
Adaeze has been strong for so long she forgot how to cry
She buried her son on a Tuesday, kept moving — didn't ask why
She buried her mother in the spring, kept cooking, kept praying
She's been the altar for everyone else — no one saw her swaying
Fifty-two years of carrying what no one should carry alone
The grief of a people, the grief of a mother, the grief of a home
That was taken, that was scattered, that was stripped and renamed
Adaeze has been strong — but tonight she is not ashamed
She lights the Shabbat candles for the first time in the new way
The covenant way — the ancient way — and something gives way
The tears come like a river she's been holding back for years
And she hears Yahuah whisper through the candle flames and tears
(Chorus)
Mama's altar — Yahuah sees it
Every tear you've cried — He keeps it
Mama's altar — the grief is real
But Yahuah is the Elohim who heals
He turns the mourning into dancing — Tehillim says
He gives beauty for ashes — in these covenant days
Mama's altar — you don't have to be strong alone
Mama's altar — Yahuah is bringing you home
(Verse 2)
Yirmeyahu 31 says Yahuah will turn the mourning to joy
He will comfort and make them rejoice from their sorrow
The virgin shall rejoice in the dance, the young men and old
The covenant of restoration — more precious than gold
Adaeze reads it slowly, the candles burning low
The ancient Naomi said, "Call me Mara — bitter, I know"
But Yahuah had a plan in the fields of the kinsman redeemer
A covenant restoration — the dream of the dreamer
She thinks of her son — not with the grief of the hopeless
But with the faith of the covenant — Yahuah is closest
To the brokenhearted, to the crushed in spirit
The new wine of restoration — Adaeze can hear it
The old wineskin of grief and survival and strength
Is being replaced by a new vessel — at length
A vessel of covenant joy, of Shabbat peace
Mama's altar — the mourning has found release
(Bridge — Strings swell, choir enters gently)
Chizayon says He makes all things new
He wipes every tear — Adaeze, this is for you
The tabernacle of Elohim is with His people
He dwells with them — no more grief, no more steeple
Of Babylon's religion — but the covenant of Yahuah
The new wineskin of joy — Adaeze, it's yours
The old wineskin of survival and sorrow is done
Mama's altar — a new covenant has begun
(Outro — Piano only, intimate)
Light the candles, Adaeze
Shabbat Shalom — you are home
Light the candles — Yahuah sees you
Mama's altar — you are not alone
New wine, new wineskin, new joy, new song
Mama's altar — you've been strong too long
Rest now — Yahuah has you
Shabbat Shalom
The Prodigal's Return
Character: Tobias, 38 — Megachurch worship leader leaving Babylon's church system
Scripture: Chizayon 18:4, Yirmeyahu 51:6, Hoshea 2:14-15
Tobias is a 38-year-old worship leader who has played keys in a megachurch for 15 years. He loves the people, loves the music, but the Ruach HaQodesh has been pulling him deeper into the Word — the sacred names, the Torah, the true Shabbat. The old wineskin of institutional religion can no longer contain what Yahuah is doing in his life. With love and without bitterness, Tobias walks off the stage and into the ancient paths.
(Intro — Gospel organ chord, clave enters, congas build)
(Spoken Word)
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." — Chizayon 18:4
This is not about leaving people.
This is about obeying Yahuah.
The wine is new. The wineskin must be new.
Come out of her.
(Groove drops — mid-tempo Afro-Cuban)
(Verse 1)
Tobias played the keys for fifteen years in the house
Knew every chord, every song, every worship shout
He loved the people, he loved the music, he loved the call
But something was missing behind the stained glass wall
The name they sang — it never sat right in his spirit
The calendar they kept — the Torah said nothing near it
The Shabbat was on Sunday, the feasts were replaced
With holidays of Babylon — and Tobias felt displaced
The Ruach started pulling him deeper into the Word
The sacred names, the Torah, the covenant — he heard
The voice of Yahuah saying, "Come out, come out"
"The old wineskin of religion — I'm calling you out"
(Chorus — Call and Response)
[Lead]: Come out of her — Yahuah is calling
[Response]: Calling, calling — come out of her
[Lead]: Come out of her — the old wineskin is falling
[Response]: Falling, falling — come out of her
[Lead]: New wine needs new wineskins — the old cannot hold
[Response]: Cannot hold — come out, be bold
[All]: Come out of her, my people — hear the covenant call
Come out of her — let the old wineskin fall
New wine, new wineskin, new covenant, new way
Come out of her — this is the day
(Verse 2)
He played the last Sunday with everything he had
Poured out every gift — not bitter, not sad
But knowing that Yahuah was calling him forward
Into the covenant — the ancient and restored
He walked off the stage and he didn't look back
Not with anger, not with judgment — just on the right track
Yirmeyahu said, "Flee out of the midst of Babylon"
"Deliver every man his soul" — Tobias moved on
He found a covenant assembly — Shabbat, Torah, the Name
The sacred names restored — Yahshua, Yahuah — not the same
As what he'd been singing — but truer, deeper, real
The new wineskin of covenant — beginning to heal
The old Tobias — the megachurch, the stage, the show
Is being replaced by a covenant man — watch him grow
(Bridge — Afro-Cuban percussion builds, choir swells)
Hoshea said Yahuah would allure her
Bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her
Give her vineyards from there — the Valley of Achor
A door of hope — she's not lost anymore
The prodigal father ran to meet the returning son
Yahuah is running to meet every covenant one
Who comes out of Babylon, who sheds the old skin
New wineskin, new covenant — let the new life begin
(Outro — Groove fades, organ sustains)
Come out, come out — Yahuah is calling
Come out, come out — the old walls are falling
Come out, come out — the covenant is real
Come out of her, my people — come out and be healed
New wine — come out of her
New wineskin — come out of her
Yahshar'el — come home
The Believer's Declaration
Character: All Voices — Every character united in restored Yahshar'el identity
Scripture: 2 Qorintiyim 5:17, Galatiyim 2:20, Yeshayahu 43:1
Amara, Dawit, Kezia, Zara, Kofi, Ezra, Adaeze, and Tobias — all the voices from the previous tracks — stand together as one body, one covenant people. This is the anthem of the restored. The declaration of new identity. The triumphant shout of Yahshar'el rising from the ashes of Babylon. New wine has been poured. New wineskins have been formed. And both are preserved.
(Intro — Full percussion ensemble, choir hum builds, then EXPLOSION)
(Verse 1 — All voices)
We were the scattered, we were the forgotten
We were the ones whose names had been rotten
With Babylon's lies, with Babylon's chains
We were the colonized, the miseducated, the stained
We were the addict, the prisoner, the proud
We were the grieving, the assimilated crowd
We were the worship leader in the wrong house
We were old wineskins — cracked, worn out
But Yahuah called us by our covenant name
Said, "Fear not, for I have redeemed thee — you are not the same"
"I have called thee by thy name — thou art Mine"
New wineskin, new creation, new wine divine
(Chorus)
[Lead]: New creation rising — Yahshar'el is rising
[Response]: Rising, rising — new creation rising
[Lead]: Old things have passed away — Yahuah is surprising
[Response]: Surprising — new creation rising
[Lead]: We are new, we are new — new in Messiah Yahshua
[Response]: New in Messiah — new creation rising
[All]: New creation rising from the ashes of the old
New creation rising — the covenant story told
New creation rising — Yahshua paid the price
New creation rising — Yahshar'el, arise!
(Verse 2)
Paul said, "I am crucified with Messiah — nevertheless I live"
"Yet not I — but Messiah lives in me — He gives"
"The life I now live — I live by faith in the Son"
"Of Yahuah who loved me and gave Himself" — it's done
No condemnation for those in Messiah Yahshua
Who walk not after the flesh but the Ruach
The old wineskin of condemnation is gone
The new wineskin of covenant righteousness carries us on
Yechezqel's prophecy fulfilled in our lives
New heart, new spirit — the old man dies
Yahuah's Ruach within us — causing us to walk
In His Torah, in His covenant — not just talk
New creation, new identity, new name, new way
Yahshar'el is rising — this is the day
(Bridge — Batá drums, full percussion, choir in Hebrew cadence)
Amara is free from Babylon's religion
Dawit has shed the skin of the street's dominion
Kezia is unlearned from the colonizer's lies
Zara is healed — the cracked vessel now flies
Kofi walked out of the boardroom into covenant light
Ezra is singing in the prison — midnight
Adaeze is dancing at Mama's altar in peace
Tobias came out of her — and found release
We are all new creations — we are all new wine
Poured into new wineskins by the hand divine
New creation rising — hear the shofar sound
Yahshar'el is rising — the scattered have been found
(Outro)
[Lead]: Who are you?
[Response]: Yahshar'el — new creation
[Lead]: What are you?
[Response]: New wine — new wineskin
[Lead]: Who made you?
[Response]: Yahuah — through Yahshua HaMashiach
[Lead]: What are you doing?
[Response]: Rising — we are rising
[All]: New creation — RISING
The Covenant Seal
Character: All Voices — The eternal promise sealed
Scripture: Mattithyahu 9:17, Yahuchanan 10:28-29, Romiyim 8:38-39
The entire album comes full circle. The foundational scripture — Matthew 9:17 — is fulfilled. The new wine of covenant restoration has been poured. The new wineskin of the redeemed, restored, covenant-walking child of Yahshar'el has been formed. And both are preserved. Forever. This is not temporary. This is not fragile. This is the eternal covenant sealed in the blood of Yahshua HaMashiach. Both are preserved.
(Intro — Single clave pattern, silence, then a single voice)
(Spoken Word — intimate, over clave)
"Behold, the days come, saith Yahuah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yahshar'el, and with the house of Yahudah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Yahuah: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Yahshar'el; After those days, saith Yahuah, I will put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people." — Yirmeyahu 31:31-33
This is the new wine.
You are the new wineskin.
Both are preserved.
(Full orchestra enters)
(Verse 1)
Yahshua said it plainly at the end of the parable
"New wine in new wineskins — both are preserved, it's bearable"
Not just the wine of the Ruach, not just the new life
But the vessel that carries it — preserved through the strife
The new creation is not temporary, not a phase
Not a feeling that fades in the coming of days
But a covenant sealed in the blood of the Lamb
Preserved by the power of the great I AM — Yahuah
He who began the good work will complete it
He who called you faithful will not delete it
The Brit Chadashah — the New Covenant — is written
On the heart of Yahshar'el — no longer smitten
But restored, redeemed, renewed, and preserved
Both the wine and the wineskin — both are preserved
(Chorus)
[Lead]: Both are preserved — the wine and the wineskin
[Response]: Both preserved — the covenant is within
[Lead]: Both are preserved — Yahshua declared it
[Response]: Both preserved — the covenant, we bear it
[Lead]: Nothing can separate us from the love of Yahuah
[Response]: Nothing — both are preserved by Yahuah
[All]: Both are preserved — the life and the vessel
Both are preserved — the covenant is special
Both are preserved — in Yahshua, we win
Both are preserved — Yahshar'el, begin
(Verse 2)
Yahuchanan 10 — Yahshua said, "I give them eternal life"
"They shall never perish, neither shall any man"
"Pluck them out of My hand" — Yahuah's eternal plan
Romiyim 8 — Paul asks, "Who shall separate?"
"Neither death nor life, neither present nor fate"
"Neither height nor depth, nor any created thing"
"Shall separate us from the love of our King — Yahuah"
The new wineskin is preserved by the hand of Yahuah
The new wine is preserved by the Ruach of Yahuah
The new creation is preserved in Messiah Yahshua
Both are preserved — the ancient covenant is true
Ivrim 13 — the Elohim of peace who brought again
From the dead our Master Yahshua — the great Amen
Through the blood of the everlasting covenant
Make you complete in every good work — magnificent
(Bridge — Full orchestral gospel explosion, batá drums, choir in Hebrew cadence)
Chizayon 21 — He makes all things new
A new heaven, a new earth — Yahuah breaking through
The former things have passed away — He wipes every tear
The new Yerushalayim descends — Yahuah is here
"Behold, the tabernacle of Elohim is with men"
He will dwell with them — the new wine again
The ultimate new wineskin — a new creation complete
The ultimate new wine — Yahuah and Yahshar'el meet
Amara, Dawit, Kezia, Zara
Kofi, Ezra, Adaeze, Tobias
Every soul who has surrendered the old wineskin of self
Is preserved in the covenant — eternal wealth
New wine, new wineskin, both preserved forever
The love of Yahuah — nothing can sever
(Outro — Final Spoken Word — quiet, reverent)
"Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins; else the wineskins burst, and the wine runneth out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved." — Mattithyahu 9:17
"Therefore if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." — 2 Qorintiyim 5:17
Yahuah is pouring new wine in this hour.
Yahshar'el — you are the new wineskin.
Both are preserved.
Forever.
Baruch HaShem Yahuah.
Hallelu-Yah.
(Single clave — silence)
"Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins; else the wineskins burst, and the wine runneth out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."
"Therefore if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Spirit. Soul. Sound. Truth.
Gospel Neo-Soul • Afro-Cuban Fusion • Scripture-Centered Concept Albums
J.A.L.M.-MUSIC is the recording expression of visionary artist and producer John Alan Legette — a prolific independent creator whose catalog now spans more than 55 studio albums and counting.
This is not a seasonal creative run. It is a sustained body of work.
Each album is intentionally constructed as a theological journey — not a loose collection of songs, but a cohesive spiritual narrative. Themes move with purpose: conviction to repentance, warfare to victory, deception to revelation, question to truth.
J.A.L.M.-MUSIC blends:
The result is music that feels devotional yet bold, intimate yet cinematic — rooted in soul but anchored in Scripture.
The mission of J.A.L.M.-MUSIC is clear:
These albums are designed to awaken conscience, strengthen believers, and challenge complacency.
With 55+ studio albums, J.A.L.M.-MUSIC operates at a rare level of creative output while maintaining conceptual depth and theological consistency.
Projects often follow structured arcs — spiritual acts that unfold progressively across 10-track concept builds. Each album contributes to a growing Scripture-saturated library of musical theology.
Recent projects include:
And the catalog continues to expand.
Rooted in a Hebrew-centered biblical worldview, J.A.L.M.-MUSIC openly references Yahuah, Yahshua, and the Ruach HaKodesh — not symbolically, but theologically. The music does not soften its stance to fit cultural climates; it speaks with conviction and clarity.
J.A.L.M.-MUSIC is not background music.
It is testimony.
It is warning.
It is exhortation.
It is worship.
It is confrontation wrapped in soul.
More than 55 albums in — and the work is still building.