I’m planning to spend most of the rest of the year going through the astonishing work, The New Living Parish Hymn Book, but as a brief change of pace I am going back to the recent past of 2005-6 and Emmanuel Worship’s Revolution.
Emmanuel Worship is a Brisbane based youth ministry that has been going many years and producing music along the way.
Much as I like uptempo, noisy music, I fear this was the apotheosis of rowdy, before becoming much more user friendly in recent years. It’s like the last hurrah of nineties numetal sound bleeding into this millenium.
Nonetheless, I’m hoping to find gems amongst them, and as with all forms of sacred music we can see lived faith in these songs even if we don’t always have the circumstance to use them.
Pope Benedict XVI’s quote, “Only from God does true revolution come, the definitive way to change the world,” is their starting point.
In previous communication with Emmanuel Worship, they were happy for out of print resources like these songs to be posted.
This song by Patrick Keady is a call to arms for a youth rally. The lead line goes impossibly high but there are singalong elements for the crowd to sing and jump up and down to.
My backing goes someway to domesticating the song, although I suppose that isn’t really the point.
I couldn’t find Youtube clips for this era of Emmanuel Worship but I can link to previews on Spotify.