“God is With Us”
Carrol Hall
From the CD Songs that Sing You to Silence (2011)
Email contact: hallc333@yahoo.com.au
South African-born singer-songwriter Carrol Hall immigrated with her family to Perth, Western Australia in the 1980s to escape the oppressive apartheid government. Since the fall of apartheid, Hall has returned time and again to minister in her native Durban, and that is where she records “God is With Us.”
Sung in English and Zulu, “God is With Us” is a subtle call to stop, listen and hear God in the surrounding silence. Eschewing the well-trodden formula of praise and worship for what sounds like the haunting balladry of Cesaria Evora, Hall plays acoustic guitar and sings with lovely understatement, the proverbial violet half hidden from view. The single is among the most distinctive sacred recordings TBGB has heard this year.
Carrol Hall is no stranger to recording. She, her sister Michelle Hall and friend Danellia Daniels collaborated in 1995 with the Perth-based NewSong Christian Community Choir on an independent project called He’ll Make a Way for You.
The new CD, Songs that Sing You to Silence, includes Carrol, Danellia and a host of other musicians, and the release event will take place Saturday, December 17.
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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