Reviewed by David Faulkner

It's over 15 years since the likes of Scott Blackwell started bringing clubbing influences into Christian music, and this effort from an Aylesbury-based singer sounds a little '90s in its style. But an unusual slant here is to find reinterpretations of ancient liturgical pieces - "Laudate Dominum", "Kyrie Eleison", "Sanctus" and "Agnus Dei" by a graduate from the London School Of Theology. It seems very much in the spirit of the late theologian Robert Webber's ancient-future emphasis in younger evangelicalism. The aim is to make the liturgy youth-friendly, something Catholic churches have been attempting for decades ever since the days of folk masses. Sanderson-White may well have succeeded, even if the style is not completely up-to-date. These are not sombre four-part choral pieces, but easily singable versions of Biblical truth, if occasionally a little too poppy for serious words. I don't quite see the claimed Taizé link, apart from the use of Latin. This might best be viewed as a resource for youth worship or possibly alternative worship. The four tracks are repeated with backing tracks. There is an accompanying music book with voice and piano arrangements, plus guitar chords. The recording standard is more like a demo CD, but that is enough for a church group that wants to learn the pieces for use in worship.

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