Description
Timeless: Music for Meditation is an album by the New Zealand singer and songwriter Stephen Bell-Booth, released on Earthmovers in 1988, a division of Scripture in Song. The album was recorded and mixed by Steve Garden at Progressive Studios in Auckland, New Zealand.
Featuring Stephen Bell-Booth at the Bechstein grand piano. (Synthesizers: Roland D50 courtesy of Bruce Bremner, Roland Digital Piano MKS-20 courtsey of Perry Trotter, Akai Sampler S900.)
To do this tape critical justice would involve fully describing the sheer spiritual impact this album had on me. This New Zealand-born project is a collection of carefully-arranged worship tunes taken from assorted moments in time and played on piano and keyboards. I felt God’s presence from begining to end. The lyrics are printed out for home worship and one can sing along or just sit and be still with God. Stephen Bell Booth’s playing is constantly masterful, unpredictable enough to avoid monotony, controlled enough to avoid breaking the listener’s train of thought and, thanks to David Garratt’s excellent production, free of those uncomfortable “modernisms” which contemporary praise and worship music is so often littered with. Only the use of a tinkly, clavichord-like keyboard occasionally broke in to spoil things, a bit too Mother Goosey for me, hence the lack of a fifth star. Listen to Timeless’ for art’s sake and you will be bored. Listen for the purpose intended and you cannot fail to be moved. [Niazi Fetto, Cross Rhythms, October 1992]
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Cassette tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Isn’t He” – 3:00
A2. “More Precious Than Silver” – 2:53
A3. “Don’t You Know” – 2:44
A4. “You Are My Hiding Place” – 3:00
A5. “Fairest Lord Jesus” – 2:38
A6. “God Will Provide” – 3:55
Side Two
B1. “Holy Holy Holy” – 2:38
B2. “For His Name Is Exalted” – 2:57
B3. “O Lord You’re Beautiful” – 3:56
B4. “Exalt The Lord Our God” – 2:10
B5. “As The Deer” – 2:45
B6. “I Stand In Awe” – 3:44
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