Reviewed by Jennifer Brooker

Cathy Gibbs - now Cathy Silmon after her marriage - is a very talented artist and she gets the support she deserves from versatile accompanist Julian Wiggins (it takes a top class musician to make the soprano sax sound as good as he does) and the rest of the team. The lyrics of these new, intimate songs about the relationship between God and the soul are refreshingly honest and direct (surely born of experience), the arrangements imaginative, the performances both accomplished and committed and the recorded sound excellent. If there is a criticism, it is that the songs themselves, moving though they are, do not have the kind of top draw melodic interest to really connect with the soul. But well worth checking out.

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