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Austin-based worship leader Rick Pino has made his original music accessible to broader audiences through a series of eight independent releases - a mix of studio and live recordings. His latest, Rend The Heavens, is a live project that captures the raw, unbridled chemistry of the evening through original and spontaneous moments of worship.
The minute you press play the energy level in the opening song 'Lift Up Your Hands' is out of this world. Rick blasts out the song with such energy is just become infectious. He encourages the people at the recording to really get involved and the...
Read More Austin-based worship leader Rick Pino has made his original music accessible to broader audiences through a series of eight independent releases - a mix of studio and live recordings. His latest, Rend The Heavens, is a live project that captures the raw, unbridled chemistry of the evening through original and spontaneous moments of worship.
The minute you press play the energy level in the opening song 'Lift Up Your Hands' is out of this world. Rick blasts out the song with such energy is just become infectious. He encourages the people at the recording to really get involved and the recording picks this up. This album is one of the small number of albums that truly sound like you were there.
The thumping bass & drums and roaring guitars are played loud and proud. The musical mix of this album is very good, even the richness of the piano sound in 'Be Enthroned' and meaty bass are well worth a special mention. Might I also add the beautifulness of the song 'The Narrow Road'. There is some lovely and well played rich piano on this song.
You can tell that when Rick is leading and singing he just loves it. It comes over that he loves worshipping, he just wants to praise God with everything he has got no matter what. I love how that oozes out of this recording.
There are many wonderful spontaneous moments on the album too. There are places where the songs are given space to see where God is taking them.
One of the most wonderful times of worship on the whole of the album has to be during the title track 'Rend The Heavens'. It's a wonderful track firstly, but the time of spontaneous worship at the end of that track is something really special.
You can't just put this album on in the background and not get draw in. This isn't background music. Rick doesn't let that happen with the songs on this album. I found myself time and time again just stepping back from writing to worship with the songs. There are many times on the album where Rick speaks, calls out to God, speaks a lyric, a phrase or even a word of praise over and over on a song. There is even a 38min, teaching talk on worship at the end of the album. You don't see that very often.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM Rating 4 Out of 5 Stars
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Rend The Heavens
Lift Up Your Hands
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Austin-based worship leader Rick Pino has made his original music accessible to broader audiences through a series of eight independent releases - a mix of studio and live recordings. His latest, Rend The Heavens, is a live…
