Bitter Sweet

Description

Bitter Sweet is a contemporary worship album album by the British singer, songwriter, and producer John Pantry, released in the UK on Kingsway Music in 1994. The album was produced by Mark Edwards.

The Tribe, Blackwell and those other dance music pioneers who’ve wrenched the Church around to face the fact that much of her ‘contemporary’ music was in fact…er…dated are bearing fruit in the most unexpected places. MOR-style worship leader Chris Bowater has a dance orientated track on his new album and now veteran John Pantry who’s old pop-gospel albums would have led you to the conclusion that he didn’t have a cell of African American in his body, now weighs in with a lightly funky pop-dance album. What John’s safe and staid support fan base will make of John’s radical deviation from the middle to the dance part of the road I know not. But my dance-orientated daughter likes it and the lightly percussive grooves conceived by producer Mark Edwards suit John’s high, pop-wheeze surprisingly well. Excellent lyrics throughout with the ballad title track, about those mysterious times when God DOESN’T answer prayer is a gem only spoilt by a too frenetic sax. A fine album you’ll be hearing regularly on Cross Rhythms radio – and we’ve never been able to say that about a John Pantry album before. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, December 1994]

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CD tracklist:

01. How Easily A Heart Can Break
02. Running From Love
03. Bittersweet
04. Living With A Mystery
05. New Vision
06. Fearfully And Wonderfully (Hannah’s Song)
07. This Is Forever
08. No-One In Heaven
09. Bread Of Life (feat. Kaz Lewis)
10. Benediction

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