Shouting in the Storm: Flevo 2

Description

Shouting in the Storm, sub-titled Flevo 2, is a live album by the American singer and songwriter Larry Norman, released in Europe on Spark Music in February 1999, marketed and distributed by GMI Music Partners. A slightly different version of the album was released in the US by Solid Rock Records. The album features Larry live with the Dutch rock band Beam. It was recorded during the Flevo Totaal Festival in the Netherlands, 1998, with Larry Norman producing.

This is a live concert with the band Beam, recorded digitally at the Flevo festival in Holland, in 1998. Solid Rock newsletters at the time described Beam as “possibly the best band Larry has ever worked with on stage and in the studio”. This release lets you check out the on-stage claim, while its sister title ‘Breathe In, Breathe Out’ showcases them in a live studio setting.

‘Shouting In The Storm’ is Larry’s second album recorded live at the Flevo Totaal Festival in Holland. Like its 1989 predecessor this is a scorcher, and all the more impressive for the bolder song selection this time round. A hat is tipped to Larry’s esteemed ‘6O’s and 70’s work with completely irreverent new versions of «Sweet Song Of Salvation», «Shot Down», and «The Rock That Doesn’t Roll». The new band arrange­ment of «Six Sixty Six» works wonderfully well, as does their treatment of another classic “solo” number «Goodbye, Farewell». The set kicks off with a new song «Heaven Wants To Bless You» and then tears into a grungy «God Part III», Other recent songs featured are «Let The Rain Fall Down» and a re-written «If The Bombs Fall», now simply called «Bombs». The crowd seem to really get into the reggae-ish «Let It Go» (co-written with Larry’s brother Charly) and the frenzied cover of Talk’s «Jesus Freak». It may take you a few listens to adjust to the arrangements, but once you do, you can’t fail to appreciate the quality of Larry and Beam’s gutsy perfor­mances. If you are presented with choice between Spark’s European pressing or Solid Rock’s America version I would recommend the Euro version. Both have the same song the same order but the mixes are slightly different. The atmosphere the concert comes across with me punch on the Spark release as the crowd noise is further up in the mix and the American version suffers the song endings and Larry’s short between song monologues getting cut off and followed by one second’s silence. This flaw becomes really irksome when one song is segueing another and all of a sudden the sound cuts out for a second and then comes back in again. [Dougie Adam,Cross Rhythms, October 1999]

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CD tracklist:

01. Heaven Wants To Bless You
02. God Part 3
03. Six Sixty Six
04. Shot Down
05. Let The Rain Fall Down
06. Sweet Song Of Salvation
07. Goodbye, Farewell
08. Let It Go
09. Bombs
encore:
10. Rock That Doesn’t Roll
11. Jesus Freak

Note: The initial Solid Rock pressing (of 300) is a mispress, which Larry dubbed the ‘green mutant’ version. A printer error resulted in incorrectly coloured disc art. It also had a two second gap between the songs. The corrected issue (and the Spark release) were also edited in that the track Bombs [If The Bombs Fall] is about thirty seconds shorter through the removal of some guitar feedback noise. Further, the spoken “thank you” at the end of Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation and some spoken words at the end of Let It Go are missing on the mispress. Available at Bandcamp: https://larrynorman.bandcamp.com/album/shouting-in-the-storm

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