Hosanna! Music, Lionel Petersen - Rejoice Africa

Published Friday 16th February 2007
Hosanna! Music, Lionel Petersen - Rejoice Africa
Hosanna! Music, Lionel Petersen - Rejoice Africa
DVD

STYLE: Pop
RATING 6 6 6 6 6 6
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 19929-DVD297
LABEL: Hosanna 000768156315
FORMAT: DVD Music video
ITEMS: 1
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-01
RRP: £11.99

Reviewed by Andy Cooper

This is the first time this unique event from South Africa in 1993 has been made available on DVD. Lionel Petersen leads the worship, with top musicians such as Justo Almario on sax, Abraham Laboriel on bass and Alex Acuna on percussion, and an enormous choir made up of virtually all races of South Africans. Despite this, and despite the title, it's not particularly African in feel or in style. For that you should check out the Sounds Of Blackness or Ladysmith Black Mambazo, both from the same era. Talking of the era, you just can't help cringing at the mullet hair styles and loud Hawaiian shirts on display here. The production is not exactly big budget: no video trickery, limited camera angles, a standard viewing format (not wide-screen), few lighting effects and quite a flat un-dynamic audio mix. But then that means less distraction from the music, the worship and the performance. And there are still some spine tingling moments, such as Bev Turner's rendition of "Behold The Lamb": perhaps the only song featured here which can, almost 15 years on, be filed as a classic. A couple of video extras are thrown in: interviews with some of the band, telling of how impacting the concert was for them personally. Worth checking out...if you don't object to late '80s fashion.

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Product Description
Join over 5,000 worshippers in a live praise and worship event – available for the first time on dvd
Experience praise and worship recorded live in Johannesburg, South Africa, at Rhema Church. Rejoice Africa, led by Lionel Petersen, centres around the reconciliation, unity and true freedom that come only from Christ.
As the album opens with indigenous, lively songs of rejoicing, many written by local writers, you’ll taste its ethnic flavour with thousands of people joining in praise. The remainded of the video is a moving, powerful time of adoration in God’s presence with fresh worship songs. Running time 74 minutes.

Reader Comments

Posted by Patrick Russell in Georgetown, TX @ 23:47 on Jun 27 2021

I attended the all nights Lionel Petersen, Tom Inglis, Ron Kenoly and Don Moen performed. I was blown away by the worship like I have never experienced before.



Posted by RICHARD TRZESNIOWSKI in ALAMOGORDO NEW MEXICO @ 21:56 on Jun 26 2013

where can I purchase two dvds and one cd of rejoice africa



Posted by Mary Seminario in USA @ 06:29 on Aug 8 2008

I don't care what they're wearing or in what era this was produced, this is beautiful praise music. It has african flavor and influence and is a beautiful blend of styles voices and outright annointed praise to God.



Posted by Oswaldo Barrios in Colombia @ 18:41 on Feb 25 2007

Hello I Don't speack inglish, I like Rejoice Africa, ¿pero como haria para conseguirlo en formato DVD? y lo mismo WE ARE ONE?



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