For the most part, worship music (meaning music to be sung together in church) has basically become a genre with certain defining distinctions. To me at times the melodic, and musical side of it is a bit tired, predictable, boring, dare I say, nauseating? Jason Morant's new record is not.
Jason Morant is an amazing new talent on the CCM scene. He just released his sophomore project entitled "Open". This super talented twentysomething has seemingly endless creativity and it shows on this record. I don't think many of these songs would be used in corporate worship, but for sure it is a worship record that doesn't sound like a worship record. What is sad is that usually in the Christian market, super talented guys like Jason sell about 5 records. (Taylor Sorenson would be a great example of this, what? you haven't heard of him either? that's my point.) The reason for this is that the Christian market is pretty small compared to the mainstream and the number of Christian's out there who would appreciate what Jason is doing here is relatively small.
This is a record you will want to sit down and actually listen to, not just have some happy praise music in the background to give you a nice bounce in your step while you go about your day. I think you will really enjoy it if you give it a chance to sink in. He is really on to something here. Support great art!
You can buy it here (Christianbook.com).
Or buy it here (iTunes)
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