Mukti Dil-Aye: He Saves

Description

Mukti Dil-Aye: He Saves, sub-titled The Asian Churches, is a praise & worship multi-artist project entitled Asia Worships featuring various well known British Christian artists, joined by various Indian-British artists, released on Kingsway Music in November 1993. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Martin Smith for Curious? Production at West Park Studios in Littlehampton, England.

This album is a bringing together of Eastern and Western music, which reflects the worship of the Asian community in the United Kingdom.

It seeks to build bridges and overcome barriers of culture and language in order to create unity, and understanding in the multi cultural society in which we live today. [Note featured on the back of the CD]

There are mountains of poor/average/good albums. There are a handful of essential/brilliant albums. And every now and again there are epoch making albums, song collections that not only abound in musical excellence but have a whiff of the prophetic about them. This is such an album – a collection of praise and worship songs way, way above puny artistic ambitions and dreams, marketing stratagems and Bible week hype. In one play ‘Mukti Dil-Aye: He Saves’ convinced me that this is possibly THE most important album released since Cross Rhythms commenced publication. On a factual level it can be briefly described – a fusion of Eastern and Western musics overseen by South Asian Concern, produced by exciting new discovery Martin Smith and featuring a bevy of famed Western musicians including (deep breath) Iona percussionist Terl Bryant; Bryn Haworth on slide guitar; woodwind man Dave Fitzgerald; Stuart Townend on keys; chapman stick wizard Nick Beggs and guest vocalists like Kevin Prosch, Helen Burgess and David Grant. But it’s the (literally) inspired Asian singers and musicians who give the album its focus and flavour. Never have the haunting ethereal sounds of Hindi worship been better captured than on the small group vocals here. Fusing the cultural elements into musical coherence must have taken a Herculean effort from Martin Smith but his production hand never falters so that tablas fuse with Flemish bagpipes and synths swirl around sitars in unforgettable soundscapes. The material from the beautiful Asian originals like «Mukti Dil-Aye» and «Aavone Saatho Praathnaano Vakhat Chhe» to Ramon Pink’s «Jesus Christ Is Lord» and Kevin Prosch’s «Come To The Light» is an inspired selection too. In an age where the electronic realities of the global village means that the West is coming alive to different cultures and musics like no other one and where God’s Spirit is thrillingly beginning to breathe over a whole continent for so long cloaked in spiritual darkness, here is an album to reflect these truths. Repent of your irrelevant prejudices about ‘curry house music’ or ‘the praise and worship conveyor belt’, buy this album and allow it to minister to your heart, mind and soul. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, December 1993]

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CD tracklist:

01. Mukti Dil-Aye – 4:10
02. Aavore Saathio Praathnaano Vakhat Chhe – 3:41
03. We’ll Walk the Land (Let The Flame Burn Brighter) – 4:27
04. Come To The Light – 4:41
05. Azhangal Thedunna Daivam – 2:52
06. Mourning Into Dancing – 4:25
07. Hallelujah Tarrif Karenge – 3:08
08. Thank You For Saving Me – 6:29
09. Hamd Teri Yahova – 3:23
10. East Meets West – 1:08
11. Jesus Christ Is Lord – 4:52
12. What Kind Of Love Is This? – 3:41

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Kingsway Music.

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