Cross (album)
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Cross is the fifth live praise and worship album from City Harvest Church
City Harvest Church
City Harvest Church or CHC is a non-denominational megachurch in Singapore with an average of 23,256 attendees in the month of December 2010....

 in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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History

The album was recorded in the church's premises located at Jurong West St 91. There was more than 2000 members in the main auditorium present for the live recording, which took place over two days.

Executive Producer Ho Yeow Sun
Ho Yeow Sun
Ho Yeow Sun, better known as Sun Ho, is a Singaporean pop music singer. She studied at Anglican High School and Victoria Junior College. Ho is one of the co-founders of City Harvest Church and its community services and is married to Kong Hee Sun started her Mandarin pop singing career in 2002 and...

 was the main worship leader for the project, along with Mark Kwan, Alison Yap and Calvin Ho leading some songs.

Track listing

The album consists of two discs, with 15 live-recorded songs, and 3 bonus studio-recorded songs.

Disc 1:
  1. "Yours Is The Kingdom" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  2. "Free" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  3. "Hold Me Close" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  4. "One" (Mark Kwan, Gan Khek Chyan)
  5. "One2" (Mark Kwan, Gan Khek Chyan)
  6. "Cry" (Gloria Lim, Gan Khek Chyan)
  7. "Refuge" (Ho Yeow Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun, better known as Sun Ho, is a Singaporean pop music singer. She studied at Anglican High School and Victoria Junior College. Ho is one of the co-founders of City Harvest Church and its community services and is married to Kong Hee Sun started her Mandarin pop singing career in 2002 and...

    , Mark Kwan)
  8. "Holy" (Mark Kwan, William Ng)


Disc 2:
  1. "In the Name of Jesus" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  2. "Extraordinary" (Mark Kwan, Daniel Pringle, Leah Pringle)
  3. "Call Upon" (Mark Kwan)
  4. "My Source" (Gloria Lim, Gan Khek Chyan)
  5. "I Give" (Ho Yeow Sun, David Yem)
  6. "Come Holy Spirit" (Caroline Tjen)
  7. "Crossing Over" (Gloria Lim, Gan Khek Chyan)

Studio-Recorded Songs:
  1. "I Believe" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  2. "Breathe" (Gan Khek Chyan)
  3. "Heart After You" (Mark Kwan, Caroline Tjen)

DVD Edition

The DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 edition of Cross features the 14 praise and worship songs, live from the main auditorium of City Harvest Church. The songs are subtitled into English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese and can be played in the following sound formats: DTS, Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints...

 5.1 and Stereo.

The DVD extras feature behind the scenes footage of the live recording and post-production, as well as interviews with members of the Cross production team.

Production

The album was produced by Daniel Pringle and Leah Pringle from Christian City Churches
Christian City Churches
C3 Church Global, formerly known as Christian City Church International , is a Charismatic church movement founded by Pastors Phil Pringle and Christine Pringle. The first church was established at Dee Why on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, and is now located in Oxford Falls...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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The studio-recorded songs and post-production was mainly done in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The studio engineers for the project were Edmund Monsef, Ben Eggehorn and Mower Studio from Los Angeles, California. The Mixing Engineer
Mixing engineer
A mix engineer is the person responsible for incorporating all the different recorded elements of music to make the final version of a song. These mixing professionals have many years of experience and training with audio equipment which has enabled them to master the art of audio mixing...

 in charge of Dolby Digital 5.1 was Damon Tedesco. The audio was mastered by RKS Mastering. Both are from Los Angeles, California.

Views on Cross

Distribution

Cross is sold and distributed in Singapore by Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

 in secular music stores like HMV
HMV
His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...

, Sembwang Music and CD Rama, Christian bookstores like Trumpet Praise, Mt Zion, True Vine, Crest, Faith, Hope and Love and Acts Lifestyle, as well as the church's own bookstore Attributes.

Cross is also sold in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.

See also

  • Praise and Worship
    Praise and worship
    Praise and worship may refer to:* The overall praise and worship of God - see Christian worship* A style of music - see Contemporary worship music* A time of congregational singing - see Contemporary worship...

  • Christian music
    Christian music
    Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world....

  • City Harvest Church
    City Harvest Church
    City Harvest Church or CHC is a non-denominational megachurch in Singapore with an average of 23,256 attendees in the month of December 2010....

  • Ho Yeow Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun
    Ho Yeow Sun, better known as Sun Ho, is a Singaporean pop music singer. She studied at Anglican High School and Victoria Junior College. Ho is one of the co-founders of City Harvest Church and its community services and is married to Kong Hee Sun started her Mandarin pop singing career in 2002 and...

  • Kong Hee
    Kong Hee
    Kong Hee is the founder, honorary and volunteer senior pastor of City Harvest Church in Singapore. Kong is a Christian in the Charismatic Movement, with a philosophy of ministry that emphasizes the Great Commandment, Great Commission, and Cultural Mandate. City Harvest Church has an average of...


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