Reviewed by Tony Cummings

The sheer joyful exuberance captured here makes this one of the most enjoyable children’s projects released for years. Recorded at a Birmingham church, the kids are clearly having a ball while the songs are excellent with Simon Parry’s “He’s Jesus” suddenly surging into a double time climax with riffing brass and Nigel Hemming’s “Tiny Little Me” a tongue-twisting listing of God’s creation (“crocodiles and antelopes and jelly fish and billy goats”). I’m not sure about the spoken bit of “Down On My Knees” which sounds like it was recorded at another time and place but the Nigel Hemming duet with the incomparable Esther Alexander on “Shout Of Praise” works well. All in all, another example that it is possible to record music for the under eights without making the adults cringe.

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