Mood music has a bad rep. That’s a pity.
The environments we create for ourselves matter deeply. Some make life difficult. Some make it impossible. Others destroy it outright.
Alternatively, good environments are a space where things can grow. Sometimes in a most orderly way, sometimes with wild extravagance, often with unintended consequences of peace, blessing, sturdiness, and grace.
Rob Barrett’s Communion: Music for a Hectic World establishes this latter kind of environment. Gentle almost to a fault, flawless in staying with the story it has chosen. Traditional hymns and more contemporary worship melodies receive loving treatment from a small band of instrumentalists, in which the violins feature the most prominently.
Communion is worthy of the noble rather than laughable task of creating background music for the soul.
That’s saying something.
Canter Bridge 