SM 30 423 (1970?) This French contribution to the "Jesus Music" era is different in many ways. Given its reference to the liturgy on the back cover, it's probably Roman Catholic in at least its target audience. As opposed to the "garage band" origin and feel of much of the work of the era, or …
Inri Ezel: Aunque La Tierra Tiemble Debemos De Cantar
Roka LP-7316 (1973) If the previous Puerto Rican album was a conservative throwback for its day, this one is anything but: it's a hard-driving rocker, some of which isn't particularly Hispanic in flavour. And it varies in style too, from very fast pieces to very slow ones. If the goal was to reach into the …
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Ecos Celestiales: Escuchame Señor
EC-101 (1971) For a departure from the recent postings, this one and the next feature albums from Puerto Rico. The recent election of a Latin American Pope has put the spotlight on this largely Roman Catholic world, but Latin America also has a strong Evangelical and Pentecostal presence, one that is changing both Latin America …
Sebastian Temple: Sing! People of God, Sing!
St. Francis SFPS-2 (1967) Up to now the early post-Vatican II albums have come from the U.S. But there was activity in this field in the U.K. also, and probably the best known artist/song writer to get things started was Sebastian Temple. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to the UK, where he spent many …
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Sister Germaine: Songs of Salvation
FEL 810F-6242 (1966) One of the early "sensations" of the post-Vatican II Catholic music world was the young nun Sister Germaine Habjan, who produced this album of songs and narrative (Episcopal ministers Ian Mitchell and Frederick Gere also included narrative) based on Scripture and other sources. By later standards it's a plain album, but it's …
Peter Scholtes: They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love
FEL S-252 (1968) Anyone who has rummaged (physically or virtually) through the discography of the "Jesus Music" era usually has strong ideas about which albums and artists affected them personally, and which ones changed the course of the life of the church. For Evangelicals, artists such as Larry Norman, Phil Keaggy or the Second Chapter …
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The 10:15: Making Tracks
no label 2345 (1970) Some people will find the connection between "folk music" and "the Bronx" akin to salsa coming from New York City, but here it is anyway. This album, produced right about the time the Novus Ordo Missae was made official, is a rambling folk album whose style is, in many ways, more …
Wendy Vickers: Sow a Seed
Epoch VII WV01 (1974) Most people associate post-Vatican II Catholic music with the folk Mass type music that's featured regularly on this blog. But there were some exceptions, and this album--and artist--was one of them. This is a very good, straightforward folk album, more like (as Ken Scott points out in Archivist) Maranatha artists Karen …
Water, Wind and Fire: Songs By Sisters
CAVS/Fountain FTN 2506 (1977) Folk albums by nuns were fairly common in the 1960's and 1970's; this site features Roman Catholic religious such as Juliana Garza and the School Sisters of Notre Dame. This one, however, is different in one important respect: the sisters are Anglican. Two of them were of the Community of the …
Rev. Ian Mitchell: The American Folk Song Mass
(FEL 7401-M) 1967 The 1960's were a time of ferment and change in the U.S., and, then as now, institutions had a hard time keeping up with them, let along getting ahead. One attempt to do so was The American Folk Song Mass, performed by the Canterbury Choir at Northwestern University under the direction of …
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