Response (album)
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| Studio album by Phil Wickham | ||||
| Released | October 4, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary worship | |||
| Length | 45:32 | |||
| Label | Fair Trade Services | |||
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Brown Bannister Peter Kipley |
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Response is the fourth studio album by contemporary worship musician Phil Wickham. It was released on October 4, 2011 by label Fair Trade Services, his fourth album released under that label. The album was produced by Brown Bannister and Peter Kipley.
Wickham was asked by Bill Lurwick that people may describe this a worship album, and to this Wickham responded by saying "I grew up leading worship ever since I was like 13 years old. I was just like the youth group worship leader back in junior high. It’s always been a big part of what I do and I think if you listen to all my past records, songs that people can sing are sprinkled throughout them all. The whole thought of worship is definitely like – we’ve got some more songs written to God than about other things." Wickham went onto further respond, when he said "It’s always been a big part of what I do, but this really was the goal of this record. It was on my heart to try to put together a record of songs I could sing with people, and hopefully if they fit, into certain churches. I just love to serve the Church with new songs; hopefully they can sing some of them."
The word response is a great definition of what worship is. It's responding to who God is and what He's done It's Kind of a formula for worship —God reveals himself, whether it be through his creation or with what he's doing in our hearts or through the Word. He reveals Himself in some way and our hearts just automatically respond to all that God is. That's when worship happens. There's no song called "Response" on Response; it's just what I want the entire record to be...and then calling other people into that response as well. Something I can sing with the church and with the people...
Wickham and Tim Hughes co-wrote the song "At Your Name" together. The story behind it was that "after leading worship at a conference in London with 1500 worship leaders. The next day we were playing around with some ideas...and the idea there's no higher name than God." The conference was at Soul Survivor Church that Hughes invited him to come in order to lead some worship with members of Wickham's church.
The album was crafted with the mindset from Wickham that "I was very intentional with the themes of the song and the progression of the songs on the record". So, Wickham started out by asking for a revelation and end with "The Victory".
The song was crafted by Wickham "to make sense at the beginning of a moment of worship. I wanted to be asking God to reveal himself...It's that moment of asking Him to reveal Himself and make His presence known." Furthermore, Wickham asks prayed and said "'God, we pray for a new refresh reviewing of your presence and your spirit that you fought with life,' and that was a very intentional opener of the record."
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