Le Voyage (Sandi Patty album)
1993 studio album by Sandi Patti
Le Voyage Released 1993 Studio
Bunny Hop Studios (Los Angeles, California )
Great Circle Sound, Greg Nelson Music Studio , Javalina West, The Music Mill, Nightengale Studios, Masterfonics, Quad Studios , Woodland Digital and Sixteenth Avenue Sound (Nashville, Tennessee )
Studio at Mole End (Franklin, Tennessee )
Pinebrook Recording Studios (Alexandria, Indiana )
Genre CCM , inspirational music , Christian pop Length 57 :44 Label Word Producer Greg Nelson
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 1]
Le Voyage is the fourteenth studio album by Christian singer Sandi Patti , released in 1993 on Word Records .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] It's a concept album and it tells the story, done in a musical setting, featuring Patti as a character named Traveler, and she comes from a long line of Sojouners. It has been described as a modern retelling of Pilgrim's Progress featuring songs about traveling on a journey of faith. Le Voyage continues her inspirational sound but also adds some upbeat pop and adult contemporary sounds as well. Patti re-records a new version of "Unexpected Friends," originally from her 1990 album Another Time...Another Place and also features a duet with fellow Christian singer/songwriter and former Kansas lead singer John Elefante called "Home Will Find You." This would be the last album using her last name "Patti." Patti also released a companion book to go with the album. The album would top the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart[ 7] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album . In 1994, her music video for the first single "Hand On My Shoulder" won Short Form Music Video of the Year at the 25th GMA Dove Awards .
Track listing
All songs written by Greg Nelson and Bob Farrell.
"Prologue" (instrumental) - 3:01
"Little Narrow Gate" - 4:21
"Home Will Find You" (duet with John Elefante ) - 4:12
"Long Look" - 3:44
"Hand on My Shoulder" - 5:15
"All the Stars" - 5:06
"The Dilemma" - 5:03
"Forest of Fears" - 5:19
"In the Tenderlands" - 4:34
"Unexpected Friends" - 3:40
"Theme from The City of Rest" (instrumental) - 3:36
"Love Can Open the Door" - 3:44
"No Place to Lay My Head" - 6:11
Personnel
Sandi Patti – vocals (2-10, 12, 13)
Eric Persing – synthesizer programming
David Hamilton – synthesizers (1), arrangements (1), string arrangements and conductor (1), keyboards (5), concept (11)
Robbie Buchanan – acoustic piano (2-5), arrangements (2-6, 8, 11, 12), keyboards (4-8), programming (11, 12)
Blair Masters – synthesizers (2, 10)
Phil Naish – synthesizers (3)
David Huntsinger – acoustic piano (10, 13)
Tom Hemby – guitars (1, 3, 4, 6-9, 11)
Dann Huff – guitars (2-5, 7, 11, 12)
Jackie Street – bass (3-5, 7, 8, 11)
Gary Lunn – bass (9)
Paul Leim – drums (3-8, 11)
Farrell Morris – percussion (3, 6, 7, 11)
Tom McAninch – French horn (1)
Eberhard Ramm – French horn (1)
Joy Worland – French horn (1)
Pamela Sixfin – violin solo (1)
Mark Douthit – saxophone (6, 8)
Sam Levine – soprano saxophone (9)
Nashville String Machine – strings (1, 2, 5, 9-11, 13)
Carl Gorodetzky – orchestra contractor (1, 2, 5, 9-11, 13)
Greg Nelson – arrangements (1, 7, 9, 10, 13)
Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements and conductor (2, 5, 10, 11, 13)
Ronn Huff – string arrangements and conductor (9)
John Elefante – vocals (3)
Alan Moore – BGV arrangements (3, 4, 12)
Bob Carlisle – backing vocals (3, 12)
Beverly Darnall – backing vocals (3, 12)
Michael Eldred – backing vocals (3, 12)
Lisa Glasgow – backing vocals (3, 12)
Mark Ivey – backing vocals (3)
Tammy Jensen – backing vocals (3, 12)
Bonnie Keen – backing vocals (3, 12)
Ellen Musick – backing vocals (3, 12)
Guy Penrod – backing vocals (3, 12)
Leah Taylor – backing vocals (3, 12)
Mervyn Warren – backing vocals (3, 4, 12)
Chris Willis – backing vocals (3, 12)
Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (4)
Donna McElroy – backing vocals (4)
Production
Matt Baugher – executive producer
Greg Nelson – producer
Bill Deaton – engineer, vocal engineer, mixing
Bob Clark – string engineer
Brent King – string engineer, vocal engineer
Chip Birge – assistant engineer, mix assistant
Robert Charles – assistant engineer
Todd Little – assistant engineer
Carry Summers – assistant engineer
Greg Parker – mix assistant
Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
Holly Krig-Smith – production coordinator
Loren Balman – art direction
Patrick Pollei – art direction, design
Neill Whitlock – photography
Charts
Chart (1993)
Peak position
US Top Contemporary Christian Albums
1
Radio singles
Year
Singles
Peak positions
CCM AC [ 8]
1993
"Hand on my Shoulder"
6
1993
"Long Look"
2
1993-94
"Love Can Open the Door"
9
1994
"Home Will Find You" (with John Elefante )
20
Accolades
GMA Dove Awards
Year
Winner
Category
1994
"Hand On My Shoulder"
Short Form Music Video of the Year
References
^ Allmusic review
^ Sandi Patti: Le Voyage . Word Records . 1993.
^ Cusic, Don (2009-11-12). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship: Pop, Rock, and Worship . ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34426-8 .
^ Balmer, Randall Herbert (2002-01-01). Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-22409-7 .
^ Indianapolis Monthly . Emmis Communications. September 2007.
^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1994-04-30). Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
^ "Sandi Patty: Le Voyage (Top Christian Albums)" . Billboard .
^ Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (2003). CCM Hot Hits: AC Charts 1978 – 2001 . AuthorHouse . p. 172. ISBN 1-4107-3294-0 .
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