Hillsong Worship, one of the most established church-based praise and worship collectives, has a catalogue packed with live albums—one for nearly every year since 1992—and those recordings capture congregations fervently singing along.
The album, Awake was made differently: Hillsong’s leaders brought their songs into the studio. “The sound of Hillsong Worship is the sound of the church, primarily,” explains Brooke Ligertwood, who leads the group and co-produced the album. “You put on a record and you can hear our church singing. Before we entered this process, we had to ask ourselves some questions: What's the sound of our community when you take it out of that live context?” Many of the arrangements build towards anthemic pop-rock catharsis, progressing from hushed single-voice intros to billowing guitars, keyboards and choral harmonies and churning tom-tom patterns, all treated with reverb and ambient effects that give the tracks an immersive quality. Here Ligertwood goes through each of the album’s 12 tracks.
From Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
“The chorus is actually the original doxology ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’. Then we wrote new verses and a new bridge fit to that ancient chorus. But the one really cool thing that happened as we were researching about that was we found out that the melody was from the Genevan Psalter, which originated in the 1500s. It was almost like a modern revival of worship at that time. Because at that point in history in Europe, when people came to church, it was the clergy chanting in Latin. And then John Calvin in the 1500s started to teach that all people should be able to come to church and sing to God in a language that they understood. And so the Psalter was put together as a response to that teaching—the idea that worship wasn't just for the clergy, wasn't just for people with theological degrees, but that worship was for everyone.”
From Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
“The chorus is actually the original doxology ‘From Whom All Blessings Flow’. Then we wrote new verses and a new bridge fit to that ancient chorus. But the one really cool thing that happened as we were researching about that was we found out that the melody was from the Genevan Psalter, which originated in the 1500s. It was almost like a modern revival of worship at that time. Because at that point in history in Europe, when people came to church, it was the clergy chanting in Latin. And then John Calvin in the 1500s started to teach that all people should be able to come to church and sing to God in a language that they understood. And so the Psalter was put together as a response to that teaching—the idea that worship wasn't just for the clergy, wasn't just for people with theological degrees, but that worship was for everyone.”
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