Cappadocia

For their third studio recording, Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy have created a contemporary instrumental journey inspired by Cappadocia (english pronunciation: kap-ah-DOE-cha), a visually spectacular area in central Turkey. The colorful soil there eroded over the millennia leaving steep cliffs and tall rock spires known as fairy chimneys, and into that rock ancient inhabitants carved houses, churches and even entire communities sometimes partially exposed and other times entirely underground. The Apostle Peter in his first letter greets the elect exiles and includes those hidden ones in Cappadocia. From that time until the early 20th century, Christians inhabited the secluded landscape and bathed it with their prayer. Still today Cappadocia inspires one to listen in prayer through its silent geology of secret wadis and historic habitation.