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Reviewed by Tony Cummings
Occasionally, recording a live worship album completely blurs the distinction between deft musical expertise and audience participation atmosphere, between Holy Spirit-blown improvisation and thoughtful theological songwriting, between popular art and timeless anointing. This is one of those occasions. Redding, California s Jesus Culture have long stated that their ultimate vision is to herald in revival to the world wide Church while Martin Smith has demonstrated down the years that he is up there with this century s finest hymnwriters and worship songsmiths. Though Martin s voice may occasionally show the strain away from the thunderous support of the Littlehampton d:boys the collaboration of Jesus Culture and Smith has here produced one of Christian music s finest moments and the gathering at New York s Nassau Veterans Coliseum will surely go down in worship music history. In fact, the way the audience take up the singing at the close of Majesty , takin
Reviewed by Pete Townsend
Most readers will know that One Sonic Society is effectively Delirious? without Martin Smith. Bringing in tried-and-tested American CCM man Jason Ingram to sing with Stu G and Jon Thatcher may make sense in terms of the Nashville-based Christian music market but, on the evidence of this first EP, it has yet to produce anything close to the high standards of the d:boys. From the opening jangly guitar riff on Our God Will Come , One Sonic Society settle into a blend of ambient vocals with drum loops, bass, synthesiser and some tasteful hints of rock guitar. This five track EP is competently written, played and produced but somehow feels too restrained, as if in the confines of the recording studio the power and vibrancy of the music and lyrics came second to the technical demands of putting together a CD. Burn with its breathy vocal over a simple keyboard has a simplicity, which makes the song stand out on the EP. It s on this track that the relative music