Published November 21st, 2006 by hrabbach
Love Came Down
When I was in England last week, I picked up a copy of this year’s Soul Survivor live CD. Unfortunately I didn’t have the opportunity to go there myself this year, it’s an event I very much enjoyed last year, but the timing this year just didn’t work out. Anyway, “Love Came Down” is the traditional music CD recorded at this event and this time it leaves me with a rather mixed feeling.
There are a number of new songs on it that I’m sure I will enjoy not just listening to, but also singing and playing with the band I happen to lead. But as an album, this year it feels a bit too polished and seems to have lost some of the “live” feel that the previous Soul Survivor recordings had. The fact that for the first time, they saw the need to record overdubs in a studio, may well be part of the reason for that.
Worship leaders this time are Tim Hughes (well known from previous recordings and a lot of songs he wrote), Lex Buckley and Ben Cantelon - it’s nice to hear a few fresh voices. I really like the new songs - “Celebrate” and “Join With The Angels” really stand out for me. When I saw that “Saviour” was a version of Tim Hughes’s “When Silence Falls” together with 29th Chapter, I thought it was an accident just waiting to happen, but it is in fact a lot nicer than I thought it would be. And of course, a lot of what’s special about Soul Survivor is in the spontaneous songs, one of which is also the last track on the CD - too bad I had to wait this long for a glimpse at the live atmosphere.
Can I recommend it? Sure I can, otherwise I think I wouldn’t be writing about it. Just don’t expect too much live atmosphere and you will get a great CD with a number of new songs and some good recordings of old ones. And a good laugh when you listen closely to Ben Cantelon’s version of “From The Inside Out” and realize that every time, he sings “you glory goes beyond all phase” instead of “all fame”… if you can make sense of it, let me know. I wonder why they didn’t fix that when they did the overdubs…
Daniel Yu Says
actually Ben sings “your glory goes beyond all things”, which makes sense but still not the lyrics to the original. lol.
Dec 1st, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Holger Says
Yeah, that actually makes a bit more sense… it doesn’t rhyme, but at least it makes sense. Thanks for the translation
Dec 1st, 2006 at 7:10 pm