NEW WORSHIP FRIDAY: Songs from the Soil & LIFE Worship
Live At The Garden: Volume 4
Songs From The Soil (SFTS) unveils the last of their four-part collection of stripped-back “Live At The Garden” EPs. The new release comes from British songwriter and session guitarist, Marc James. This fourth addition features six acoustic songs that ooze with Marc’s signature alternative undertones.
Originally released on YouTube, these songs bring together some of Marc’s catalog as well as others by various Integrity Music artists. The heart behind the “Live At The Garden” series carries on what Songs From The Soil was birthed to do, namely reigniting the UK Church’s songbook by creating spaces where new songs of worship might grow.
The Garden is a space in the Integrity Music UK offices created to capture organic and unpolished songs and BTS showing the human element in creativity and the live worship process. The ethos is for it to be, like a garden, a living, raw, grounding place where others are also invited.
“Marc James – Live At The Garden” closes this collection of over 20 songs infused with the flavour of their local context, capturing a return to the land through melody and sung theology.
Stones of Remembrance
LIFE Worship, the vibrant sound of LIFE Church in Bradford, UK, releases "Stones of Remembrance – Volume 1," the first part of two EPs. Embodied by the new song, “Look What The Lord Has Done,” this whole project is a worshipful reflection on how God has been building his church in this community.
Worship leader Philippa Hanna said, “We've seen growth, salvations, and lives transformed, with our focus on Jesus refined. There’s been a deep spiritual emphasis on unity within the body like never before, and this album reflects that journey and mission.”
LIFE Church has become an "embassy of nations" under one roof where worship stands as a foundation for unity. As they have evolved culturally, so has their sound. This EP fuses various genres with a red thread of joyful praise running through it. “One People,” one of the new songs, incorporates the Yoruba language as a response within the chorus; a statement of cultural harmony in the presence of God.
“These songs are our ‘Stones of Remembrance,’ each one a monument to God's goodness and faithfulness,” Philippa Hanna continued. “Our prayer is that future generations will see these songs and remember how God made a way, just as he made a way through the waters for a nation to pass.”
LIFE Worship hopes these songs will serve as a cultural bridge within the UK worship scene and beyond, building God’s church that stands as one people united under Him.