Hymns with Fresh Inspiration

Despite being a project of timeless classics, Avalon’s latest CD will delight your auditory senses with something unexpected. The hymns are familiar, but the music is new and inspired.

When tackling a remake of hymns, most musicians tend to take one of two roads. The first is that of completely redoing the composition with the exception of the lyrics: new melody, new tempo, new instruments, classic words. The other road is to take the original and simply jazz up the instrumentation while keeping the music the same.

Here Avalon takes a third path, a road less traveled, that should please both traditionalists and those seeking something different. The underbelly of the music on this CD is, at most points, completely unrecognizable as a hymn. Some songs sound like a gospel spiritual (“I’ll Fly Away”), some like an epic movie soundtrack (“It Is Well”), and still others like soft rock (“Blessed Assurance”). And, yet, the integrity of the melody and the lyrics are preserved. You can safely sing along with familiarity and still hear something new at the same time.