Album Of The Day: The Shadow Of Your Wings by Fernando Ortega

Album Art of Fernando Ortega's The Shadow Of Your Wings album - A photo of a desert at night, with waves of sand at the bottom and most of the area a dark sky with many stars and the mliky way galaxy making parts of the sky much brighter. In the middle, printed on top of the photo is the artist's name in large, white text. And just above the horizon near the bottom it says the album title, followed by 'Hymns and Sacred Songs'.

Released 20 years ago last month, this is an album of hymns and sacred songs by Fernando Ortega. If you are familiar with hymns, you will probably be aware of songs like "All Creatures Of Our God And King" and "There Is Power In The Blood", but these arrangements are especially good and include strings as well as Fernando Ortega's soothing vocals and piano. Other songs are still very hymn-like, though done here in a simple contemporary folk style. Some songs are new settings of scripture to music, while others are old English hymn texts written to new melodies. Country stars like Alison Krauss and Vince Gill sing harmonies on a few songs and many of Nashville's best session musicians play on this recording. It is a beautiful and prayerful listen, perfect for a quiet afternoon or evening of reflection and listening. This album is still a bit new to me, but it's really well-done and life-giving.

Release Year: 2006
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