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Into These Rooms

Sarah Hart

Featuring Sarah's joyous folk-pop style and poetic, introspective lyrics, Into These Rooms is impressive for its spiritual depth and sophisticated, multi-layered, tightly produced sound.

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Sarah's latest collection is an intimate self-portrait, a musical window offering glimpses into the rooms of her life, each of them containing, she says, "a little part of me." It's a rare and wonderful opportunity to get to know this charming, spirited, gifted artist and sister in Christ. Featuring Sarah's joyous folk-pop style and poetic, introspective lyrics, Into These Rooms is impressive for its spiritual depth and sophisticated, multi-layered, tightly produced sound.

Highlights include "For a Little While," a hauntingly tender piano-ballad/lullaby that captures the bittersweet pang every mother experiences while holding her sleeping newborn. Co-written by Texas rocker Curtis Stephan, who also provides edgy harmony on the song, "Be with Me, Lord" is a poignant duet pleading for God's help and a superb new setting of Psalm 91.

Featuring ethereal guitar work by the legendary Phil Keaggy, "The Hillside" is an eerie, fantastic musical depiction of the soul's "restless" journey through the clouds, shadows and contrary winds of this world. Other special contributors include Scott Dente (Out of the Grey), Mark Hill, Jerry McPherson, Dave Cleveland, Jeff Roach and Ken Lewis.

Listeners who enter into the rooms of Sarah's music can't help but feel like part of the family, like an unexpected guest received with generous hospitality. After visiting and hearing her sing of God's mercy, we all leave a little happier and a little more sure we're not alone on this spiritual journey.
"'Door Swing Wide' is a metaphorical surrendering of self, a reawakening from our baptism to the place of spiritual freedom, while 'The Hillside' evokes a Desert Father spirituality that plays like a John Michael Talbot masterpiece. My favorite is her homage to the Magnficat and the No. 1 stepdad of all time in 'His Name Is Joseph.' All in all, Into These Rooms is Sarah Hart's finest work to date, and that is a tall statement considering her near flawless discography. This collective family album she seems to be willing to share with us has become a testimony and imprimatur of faith."
--P. J. Littleton, Our Sunday Visitor

"Sarah has not made an album that I have not loved. This new effort is no exception. With a warm adult contemporary sound and a touch of folk, the real strength of this album lies in Hart's poetic lyrics. Even when she is writing a praise song, she manages to avoid clichés to create words that sound as rich as the spiritual meanings behind them. One listen to 'In a Little While' for any parent will open up feelings that can only be stirred up by truly inspired music. If you lean towards the Sarah McLachlan end of the musical spectrum, this could be the CD for you."
--David Wang, Critical Mass band member and Catholic Register columnist
2005 Unity Award Winner
Pop/Contemporary Album, Song "So We Will Worship"
Producer of the Year (Sarah Hart/Jeff Thomas)