Holy Ground (CD)
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Holy Ground
Holy Ground (CD)
Release Date: December 16, 2022
Produced by Neil Patton
Winner: Christian Album of the Year, 2022 SoloPiano.com
Nominated: Album of the Year, 2022, SoloPiano.com
CREDITS:
- All songs in the Public Domain in the United States
- All music arranged and performed by Neil Patton, except Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty: Arrangement by Jeff Brock and Neil Patton
- Performed, recorded, and engineered by Neil Patton Sep 9-18, 2021 at Patton Music Studio
- Mastering: Michael Charles McDonald, synthartsstudio.com
- Cover concept and painting by Neil Patton
- Graphics Production: Tim Yost 88.yost@gmail.com
- Package photography by Neil & Cathy Patton
About the Album:
Twelve solo piano improvisations inspired by historic hymns of worship.
The teenage son of dear friends of mine was diagnosed with advanced cancer, and was facing a year of intense chemotherapy and surgeries. Grief-stricken, I sat at the piano and improvised on some hymns, recording as I went, thinking that I could send these as an encouragement to the family. The emotions and prayers I experienced as I played each day were both a comfort and a catharsis to me. In the process, the more I recorded, the more I realized these might be worth sharing with a wider circle. These recordings are quite different from anything else I have created in the past. These aren't played from a dusty hymnal. Their spontaneity and "rawness", sometimes wandering, sometimes focused, reminded me of the divine conversation that prayer can be.
May these recordings encourage your heart and your prayers, whatever you may be facing today.
REVIEWS/ARTICLES:
It's been four years since Neil Patton released his Solitaire album, so to say his new release, Holy Ground, was highly anticipated is very much an understatement! Those who are familiar with Neil's music know that he has the playing chops to express whatever he chooses at the piano, but these improvisations come straight from the heart and overflow with Neil's faith as well as his humanity. I see I have used the word "heart" many times in this review, and that really says it all. I give it my highest recommendation.
Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com