This is Chris Robinson’s song from Isaiah and is a normal sounding song in the snippet on AOV. I gather he is Australian and this is from a collection of advent songs.
I myself have always heard it as a Russian style song for some reason. I’ve also played it so many times I no longer know if is is good song, but people do get into it and sing enthusiastically.
Refrain
A voice in the wilderness calls to prepare,
For we are standing on the edge of changes.
Across the desert sand and the mountain high,
The Lord is coming, make your way.
Verse 1
I will hear what the Lord will say,
A voice of peace for all his people,
His voice is never far for those who know
His glory dwelling in our land.
Refrain
Verse 2
Faithfulness and mercy have met,
Peace and justice have embraced here.
Faithfulness shall spring from the earth
And justice look down from the sky.
Refrain
Verse 3
The Lord our God will make us grow,
And earth will bring its fruit in all its splendor.
Justice marches on before he comes
And peace will follow in his way.
Refrain
© Chris Robinson 1990.
How do we buy these songs? I have looked on apple music and itunes to no avail. I belong to a small country church with an average congregation of about nine people. Twelve on a good day. Our organist has moved away and I am trying to maintain some music for our mass via my iphone and bluetooth to a speaker. Internet in our location is not strong enough to support Youtube so I need to be able to download songs to my phone.
Our small church community do not have the funds to spend $275 on the full set of As One Voice as much as we would like. Even if we did, I would still have to get it to my phone somehow.
Many years ago we did actually have the album on “tape” but that has become obsolete now. So the hymns are familiar to many of us.
G’Day Catherine
Due to copyright issues I had to take down the download links on this site.
The best solution seems to be MyMIDI Worship Resources:
https://mymidi.audio/
They give you a free MIDI player and soundfonts that sound quite good and you can very cheaply buy MIDI tracks. They have done the hard work to make it cheap and legal – the files were made for nothing by volunteers and the songwriters get paid. They have files of the common songs played in Catholic churches.
It will run fine on ancient laptops -the sort people throw away. The best thing is that you can edit the instruments, tempo and key and save the changes to a song list for each service.
I looked at other options here:
https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=7239
Personally I think that if a parish owns copies of the songbooks they should be entitled to get backings without worrying about copyright since the only difference is a machine plays the music rather than a musician but pastoral considerations are trumped by copyright these days.
You could e-mail me at geoff@sixmaddens.org if you have a specific need.
Best of luck
Geoff