Tim Hall International Ministries - The Promise: Live Worship From Australia

Published Monday 1st March 2004
Tim Hall International Ministries - The Promise: Live Worship From Australia
Tim Hall International Ministries - The Promise: Live Worship From Australia

STYLE: Pop
RATING 5 5 5 5 5
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 9245-8963
LABEL: Independent
FORMAT: CD Album

Reviewed by Greg Inglis

(www.timhall.com.au)

Recorded live at the annual Voltage Conference in Melbourne, Australia, this album is a collection of recent material from the likes of Victor Row Jr, Guy Sebastian and Julie Egan. Worship is lead by David Hall, although he is joined by a number of musicians from Planet Alive and Hillsongs amongst others. One of the more interesting elements of this recording is the inclusion of trumpets and trombones, which bring a funky ska element to a number of tracks. The album starts well with the opening trio of “Rain”, “Living By Faith” and the Reuben Morgan penned “This Is How We Overcome”. From then onwards the songs tend to drift somewhat into sub-Hillsong style ballads, with only the prayerful “Saviour” and the stirring title track saving the latter half of the album. The bonus track also feels like it’s been tagged on the end and sounds very much to me like a studio recording if I’m not mistaken! Whilst the production is excellent and the musicianship highly competent, the lack of memorable songs and performance like feel in some places mean this has little to appeal to the casual buyer.

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Reader Comments

Posted by angel in phoenix, az @ 05:13 on Jan 5 2007

i love this cd!!



Posted by Delores Pellegal in New Orleans, La @ 20:11 on Dec 27 2006

Can hardly wait for you all to get back to New Orleans



Posted by James K in Queensland, AUS @ 13:02 on Mar 16 2006

Although very hard to get a hold of, I've gotta say this is one great CD. Featuring Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian it makes a nice change to the standard praise and worship albums out these days.
My absolute favourite is All That I Need written by Victor Row Jr, but there are plenty of other greatly produced songs as well...
If you can get it, do so... you'll enjoy it!



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