Originally just an aside from a random conversation, "Coincidence? Maybe..." was a passing comment that had a unique ring to J. Maier and what he thought was the theme behind who we are as a band.  We're a group made up of normal everyday people who play music and believe in God.  This leads to some interesting conversations before and after concerts with people from all walks of life and one of the conversations we often discuss is God's intervention in people's lives.  To some they say it's just coincidence, to which we reply "Maybe... but here's what we believe...".  And with that we're able to have true dialogues with people about The Gospel, what it means to be a Christian and how that only means that you're able to accept forgiveness, not that you're perfect, and the reasons behind why we play, write and sing the way that we do.  

From the beginning, we have made an effort to keep our albums and our concerts as two very different experiences.  Whereas our live concerts are designed to draw everyone in the audience together with us for a fun, transcending, and dynamic night, our albums have been produced with the hope that they can create moments of separation from the immediacy of the surrounding world and provide personal soundtracks for some of the events of your own life.  The Fall of October (2002) was written about the early stages in of realizing a need to live life in a different way and the search and ultimate decision to become a Christian and all that it entails.  What Will Remain (2009) was conceived as a group of songs that convey a sense of changing the focus to what will last and is ultimately eternal instead of focusing on the temporal world.  Even Travis' solo project Unexpected (2005) (joined on by some of C?M's former members and good friends) had an over-arching theme of comparing our personal relationships to those of God's relationships with mankind as a whole and as individuals.  

But a new recording will began on January 15th, titled The Essence Project (EP).  This project is a way of taking all that we do and all that we are as a band and ultimately getting to the core message and sound.  Denver and Travis will be recording stripped down versions of band favorites and some unreleased songs with only acoustic guitar, vocals and percussion.  These songs will be the exact arrangements that they will be played live when Denver and Travis go out as a duo in Spring 2010.