My Soul Sings

Description

My Soul Sings, sub-titled Live from Bogota, Columbia is a live album by the British pop-rock band Delirious?, released on Furious? Records in March 2009. It is a double pack featuring a DVD and CD in gatefold card sleeve and was the band’s last new recording before their split at the end of 2009. The album takes its name from a song included on the band’s recent studio album, Kingdom of Comfort.

Throughout their long career, Delirious? have, to these ears at least, often been better suited to the live arena than the studio. It is in the realm of live performance that the power and passion of their songs has often come through most strongly. Here, we find the five-piece, on the final lap of their long career, and with new drummer Paul Evans making his debut appearance on a Delirious? recording, enthralling a 12,000 strong crowd of worshippers in Bogota, Columbia. This package is split into two parts. First, a well-shot 14-track DVD of the band’s Bogota concert, which shows that the event was an exciting, even sweaty, evening. Recent album ‘Kingdom Of Comfort‘ is well-represented in the tracklisting, but songs from a smattering of other albums, including a neat re-working of a personal favourite of mine from the ‘Mezzamorphis‘ album, «Bliss», leave you with plenty to enjoy. Long time band cohort Andy Hutch and lighting director Ed White do a sterling job of providing the watcher with a feeling of “being there”, which must be one of the highest compliments one can pay to a live DVD. While this project doesn’t soar in quite the same way as the band’s previous live package, ‘Now Is The Time’, there remains much to admire here. The other disc in the package provides the audio from the concert with a couple of track changes, as «God’s Romance» and recent b-side «Hallelujah» are added to the mix. As this looks likely to be the final Delirious? release (apart from the probably obligatory compilation albums) it’s hard not to feel a tinge of disappointment that this is not quite as sonically pleasing and well-rounded as some of their output in the past. The mix, and particularly that of the rhythm section, lacks a little clarity and punch (unless I’m getting old!). What is beyond dispute though is that ‘My Soul Sings’ again finds Delirious? drawing people in to the presence of God. What could be a better legacy for this band than that? [Haydon Spenceley, May 2009]

> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-soul-sings-live/555610163)

CD tracklist:

01. Rain Down
02. God Is Smiling
03. God’s Romance
04. Hallelujah
05. Bliss
06. Love WIll Find A Way
07. All God’s Children
08. History Maker
09. Break The Silence
10. Deeper
11. Majesty
12. Kingdom Of Comfort
13. Stare The Monster Down
14. My Soul Sings

DVD tracklist:

DVD-01. Rain Down
DVD-02. God Is Smiling
DVD-03. Bliss
DVD-04. Love Will Find A Way
DVD-05. All God’s Children
DVD-06. How Sweet The Name
DVD-07. History Maker
DVD-08. Break The Silence
DVD-09. Deeper
DVD-10. Majesty
DVD-11. Paint The Town Red
DVD-12. Kingdom Of Comfort
DVD-13. Stare The Monster Down
DVD-14. My Soul Sings

Note: Generación 12, a Colombian worship band sang part of some songs in Spanish. A special ‘Colombian Edition’ has been released in South America.

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