Review:

One Voice

What last year’s Compassionart project proved was that it’s possible to assemble some of the biggest names in the Christian music scene and come out with a coherent, quality product. The man behind that album, Martin Smith, is just one of the star names involved in One Voice. Others include Israel Houghton, Matt Redman, Smokie Norful, Darlene Zschech and Erica Campbell.

Starting with the single ‘What a love’ in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami, this album has grown from collaborations between artists from several different musical genres. That fact makes the lack of musical variety on display a little disappointing. Some African stylings here (‘Let the people’) and sweeping orchestration there (‘Awesome wonder’) aren’t enough to keep the attention for the album’s 56 minute duration.

The track ‘One voice one heart’ closes the album and is the best thing here. That serves to demonstrate how great a song it is, and unfortunately also how the rest of the album doesn’t quite measure up.

HIGH: ‘One voice one heart’. The original single towers over the rest of the record.

LOW: An overlong album. Perhaps inevitable with so many big names to squeeze in.

Published by: Survivor