Graham Kendrick – Sacred Journey

Description

Sacred Journey, sub-titled An Evening with Graham Kendrick, is a live album by the British singer and songwriter Graham Kendrick, independently released in the UK on Make Way Music in 2004, manufactured under licence, marketed, and distributed by Fierce! Distribution. All songs written by Graham Kendrick.

It has often been observed that Graham at his best is Graham closest to his roots – the acoustic guitar troubador painting word pictures on our consciousness, inviting us to wonder and ponder and sing the greatest of all stories. Inviting us to sing ourselves into the story, and the story into us. Add choice instrumentalists skilled in interpreting the meaning of words and the emotion of the moment, place them together beneath cathedral architecture and the best is even better!

The specialness of this album is not just that it features fresh recordings of songs from the beginning of Graham’s journey, unavailable anywhere else today, right through to more recent compositions and ‘classics’, but it unites something very personal with a shared experience; one voice and many voices. Intimacy on a grand scale. [Note on the back of the CD]

Recorded live at various cathedrals around the country during Graham’s Cathedral Tour in the spring of 2003, ‘Sacred Journey’ features songs from recent releases as well as classics such as «Meekness And Majesty» and «Shine Jesus Shine». The album is blessed by the classic reverberation of each cathedral which adds an historic depth to an evening of intimacy with a truly prolific songwriter and how God has used Graham greatly over the years. His ability to interpret the signs-of-the-times and bring a word-in-season to the global Church has created a colourful back catalogue of songs, many of which are masterpieces. I am sure that future generations will look back on this time and say how blessed we were to have him in our midst. Graham has chosen some excellent musicians to play alongside him, most notably are David Fitzgerald (Iona), whose beautiful saxophone brings a haunting melody to the evening. His introduction to «O Lord The Clouds Are Gathering» is masterful and it brings you right into the crowd at the cathedral. Hearing the ladies in the congregation singing the repeat-lines reveals the high quality of the recording, which is timed to be released for the 2004 version of the Cathedral Tour. One song that is truly anointed is «Thorns In The Straw», which echoes with passion under the high ethereal architecture and the excellent flugel horn of Portugal’s Raul D’Oliviera. This song also reveals the deep resonance of Paul Kimber’s double bass, which adds another dimension to the track. Altogether the mix and overall production are a credit to the team at Make Way Music and to Jon Kensington, the engineer who had the difficult job of recording the evenings of live worship, yet managed to capture the very spirit of the events! [Brian Edgeley, Cross Rhythms, May 2004]

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CD tracklist:

01. Led Like A Lamb
02. Simon’s Song (Footsteps On The Sea)
03. Caiaphas and The Temple Guard
04. Meekness and Majesty
05. Peter At The Breaking Of The Bread
06. The Servant King
07. How Much Do You Think You Are Worth?
08. O Lord The Clouds Are Gathering
09. Thorns In The Straw
10. To You O Lord
11. Lord The Light Of Your Love