Title : INTIMATE

Artist : Andrew Ironside

Year released : 1999

Product code : IM028

Summary : Christian worship

Recorded : Ironspiration Studios

Background

Intimate is engineered for listeners who enjoy contemporary, easy listening music with a focus on the Christian message. The album provides a platform for listeners to find a new and personal intimacy with God.

Intimate consists of 11 tracks and is a mixture of traditional sounds and modern beats that allows churches to use the songs as choruses for their congregations. Each track is an individual expression of intimate worship that creates an atmospheric ambience, removing the listener momentarily to another place.

Double tracked vocals and distinct dynamics emphasise musical texture and warmth, all of which contribute to an intimate sound. Conventional musical boundaries are disregarded as computer generated drum loops are combined with the raw sound of guitar.

But first and foremost this album offers listeners a new intimacy with God. Check out the impact of worship from a testimony sent through to us :

“I just wanted to tell you about an experience that I had a couple of years ago, where the Lord used your music to help me through a very difficult night. I suffered from a severe attack of biliary colic, and was sent to hospital, where no medication seemed to be of any help. The pain was intense, the attack had lasted from early afternoon, and I was too exhausted to pray or to do anything but lie down. I knew my husband and several other people where praying, so I just waited for the pain to go away. Late that evening I was finally left alone by the doctors for a while. Being a singer, the Lord often uses songs to remind me of Himself, and this time the chorus from your song "Your Name" popped up inside me. As I recalled it in my mind, I suddenly heard a choir of angels singing it with me. I could not see them, but I could hear them loud and clear, and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. All that night they sang with me, and I had total peace, the presence of the Lord was all over the place, and the nurses and doctors were amazed that I was so peaceful in the midst of it all, the pain went away totally. So I just wanted you to know that the song you recorded on Intimate CD ‘Your Name’ is being sung by angels. May the Lord bless you and your ministry." Yvonne, Sweden