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 | It's amazin 'what Praisin' can do CD The rarest Ish CD. It was only released on cassette for a very short period of time back in 1978. Recorded live with the brilliant rock band 'After the Fire' providing all the music. It's rough, it's basic but it's oozing with feeling that a lot of modern recordings lack. This was one of the very first UK recordings that put 'rock' and 'worship' together so in some ways you could say that some of the songs on this CD are the roots of much of the praise music that we enjoy today. |
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 | Hooked on Ishmael CD by Tim Jupp Tim Jupp (now the keyboard genius with the band delirious) toured with Ishmael for many years. In 1989 he made an intrumental Ishmael tribute CD putting his own brilliant arrangements to the songs. Here it is available for the 1st time in over 15 years and for the very first time on CD format. This CD is made up of 6 melodies containing over 21 of Ish's most popular songs of that era. One whole melody is devoted to variations of 'Father God I Wonder'. You will also hear the distinctive sounds of a very young Doug Horley playing guitar on a few tracks. Nostalgia at its best ! |
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 | Ready Salted (1973) The first Ishmael album recorded with his best mate and travelling partner of the time Andy Piercy. Ready Salted is a tribute album of the Ishmael and Andy ministry and includes some of the favourite folk / rock songs that made this duo so popular in the early 70s... |
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 | The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1977) Probably one of the most controversial Ishmael albums and banned from a large chain of Christian bookshops due to the song content. The lyrics graphically announced of the dangers of occult, the stupidity of preaching to seagulls and the problems of Church unity... |
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 | If You Cant Shout Saved/Life Begins At 30 (1980) At a time when punk bands were performing all sorts of nasty agro, Ishmael United was a crazy fun band who just enjoyed laughing on stage and showing that life with Jesus was to be enjoyed. The songs clearly depict the fun of the band... |
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 | Land Of Hope And Glories (1981) This album was totally radical, the first children's rock concept album that mentioned salvation, baptism, praise, Holy Spirit, healing, opposition, persecution, martyrdom and Heaven. Ishmael created the characters of the Glories and Miseries... |
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 | Songs For Bouncing Glories (1981) This was one of the first rocky 'chorus' albums and certainly the first that children would enjoy. Other people's songs were included as well as Ishmael's... |
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 | The Power And The Glories (1982) Land of Hope and Glories had set the scene, the Power and the Glories set new boundaries. For the very first time a children's album that taught baptism in the Spirit, the use and misuse of the gifts, the fruit of the Spirit, Church, backsliding, hurts, reconciliation and Jesus return... |
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 | Praise Party Vol 1 (1983) After Songs for bouncing Glories, Ishmael threw caution to the wind and again selected the Churches favourite new songs and recorded them in the way that he felt they should be played... |
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 | Praise Party Vol 2 (1984) Due to the popularity of volume 1, Ishmael felt there was a need for a second volume. Now however he hit a problem as he was running out of other peoples songs that he felt were simple and catchy enough to be enjoyed by both children and adults... |
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 | Praise Party Vol 3 (1985) By far the best selling and the most popular of the Praise Party recordings and the first to contain at least half a dozen scripture songs. This album brought forth some children's classics, which are still very popular today... |
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 | A Sting In The Tale (1986) This is a totally crazy album for those who must have a sense of humour. Ishmael dug out of the archives all the fun songs that Andy and he had sung back in the early 70s and had never dared to record and decided to update them and drag a 'working men's choir'? into the studio with him to help sing them... |
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 | Scripture Praise Party (1987) Praise party 3 proved two things to Ishmael, the first was that children knew very little scripture and the second was that music was a great means to memorise it. It pioneered yet another development in children's music, which many have successfully picked up and continued today. Please note. Some of these tracks are included on the 52 Scripture Song CD. |
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 | Training Up The Troops Vol 1 & 2 (1989) With all the fun that must accompany ministering to children, Ishmael knew these little ones were in a spiritual battle and life for them was often far from easy. On came the combat gear and along came the songs about being in 'God's Army'... |
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 | Songs For Little Troopers (1990) 'Training up the Troops' was exciting, very noisy and powerful, but like most of Ishmael's previous albums the songs tended to be enjoyed more by those over the age of 7. What about the very little troopers, hardly anyone was writing songs for this age group at this time?... |
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 | Christmas Carol Celebration (1991) Ishmael realized that there was not a lot of point in writing new songs to celebrate the Christmas period as it is the one time in the year when even the most radical Christian prefers to be traditional and sing the `old favourites'... |
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 | Praise N Glories (1991) 2 years past after the release of 'Training up the Troops 2' and Ishmael was still in a loud and energetic mood. This album brought in more of the heavier guitar tracks but still managed to balance them out with a smattering of scripture songs and even a song directed at parents encouraging them to spend time with their children... |
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 | Childrens Hymn Celebration (1992) Although Ishmael had recorded many albums and written hundreds of new songs he was never one to believe that the new was necessarily better than the old, it was just different. He knew that he could never match the inspirational brilliance of some of the old hymn writers, so never attempted to do so... |
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 | Ishmael USA (1993) The album with the deliberate American twang that again combined new action scripture songs with praise and teaching. A wide range of songs were included from the dramatic epic 'Bartemaeus' to the very popular 'Blessed is the King who comes'... |
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 | Joyful Noise For Girls And Boys (1994) After the very successful 'big sounds' of 'Praise 'n ' Glories' and 'USA' Ishmael again wanted to change the style completely and bring out a fun little recording that would be full of scripture verse to learn and suitable for the tinies as well... |
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 | Ishs Bible Belters (1996) Yet more Bible verses to sing-a-long to and act out the motions. After a 7 year break old chum Andy reappeared to produce this album and all the sounds and musicians were from his fellow workers at Holy Trinity, Brompton in London. Please note. Nearly all the tracks on this album are included on the 52 Scripture Song CD |
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 | Wakey Wakey Sleepy Sleepy (1997) And finally for something completely different. Scripture songs to play to your children whilst they quietly go to sleep, and scripture songs to play to your children when they noisily wake up... |
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Ishmael Direct : Ishmael's CD Back Catalogue
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