The Power of Your Love is the first live contemporary worship album released by Hillsong Music — the first album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music released by the label.
| The Power of Your Love | ||||
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| Released | 5 July 1992 | |||
| Recorded | January – July 1992 | |||
| Venue | Hills Entertainment Centre, Castle Hill, Sydney, Australia | |||
| Genre | Contemporary worship music | |||
| Length | 56:42 | |||
| Label | Hillsong | |||
| Producer | Darlene Zschech, Russell Fragar and Geoff Bullock | |||
| Hillsong Music Australia Live praise & worship chronology | ||||
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Production
editThe majority of the songs for the album were written and composed by Geoff Bullock, the then Worship Pastor of Hillsong Church. It was recorded live by Bullock, Darlene Zschech, and the Hillsong team.[1][2]
The cover was designed by a local design firm in Sydney. The font used for the title is Century Gothic (a standard font on Microsoft Windows). The front cover is a panograph taken by Christian photographer; Ken Duncan. His panographs are seen on three other Hillsong album covers. There are no photographs of the actual live service in the original CD sleeve design. The updated version shows "what's new from Hillsong Music Australia".
Reception
editIn June 1993, Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms rated the album as 7 out of 10 and described the group as willing to "take on the full hard rocking armoury of AOR to shout praises to God".[3] He summarised the album with "What they lack in subtlety they make up for in exuberance ... Recommended to radical worshippers".[3]
In 2000, the album was certified gold by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 35,000 units.[4]
Track listing
edit- "The Time Has Come" (Geoff Bullock)
- "We Will Rise" (Bullock)
- "You Placed Your Love" (Bullock)
- "Your Love" (Bullock)
- "Blessed Be" (Bullock)
- "You Are My Rock" (Bullock)
- "Hear Me Calling" (Bullock)
- "Refresh My Heart" (Bullock)
- "The Power of Your Love" (Bullock)
- "Lord We Come" (Bullock)
- "I Will Worship You" (Bullock)
- "You Are My God" (Bullock & Gail Dunshea)
- "Holy Spirit Rise" (Bullock)
- "Glory" (Bullock)
- "Latter Rain" (Bullock)
- "The Great Southland" (Bullock)
Credits
edit- Geoff Bullock - worship pastor, piano, vocals
- Russell Fragar - keyboards, music director
- Darlene Zschech - vocals, vocal producer
- David Evans - vocals
- David Moyse - guitar
- Allan Chard - guitar
- Andy James - bass
- Adam Simek - drums
- Stuart Fell - percussion
- Jeff Todd - engineer, mixer
- Andrew McPherson - assistant engineer
- William Bowden - mastering
- Cameron Wade - production manager
- Nick Asha - front of house Manager
- Chris Googe - foldback engineer
- Brian Houston - executive producer
- Michael Murphy - executive producer
References
edit- ^ Bullock, Geoff; Hillsongs Australia; Hills Christian Life Centre (1993), The power of your love the music, Hillsongs Australia, retrieved 22 June 2014
- ^ "ACMusic Albums – Stone's Been Rolled Away". Australian Christian Music. Archived from the original on 6 March 2001. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ a b Cummings, Tony (1 June 1993). "Review: The Power of Your Love – Hills Christian Life Centre". Cross Rhythms. Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 30 June 2014.