Jubilee – Warisan Bangsa is the debut release of All In One Network (AION). The album, consisting of 7 Malay & 3 English songs, was released in conjunction with Malaysia’s 50th year of independence. The founder of AION, Pastor Matthew G Singh brought together some of Malaysia’s top Christian Artistes, including Jaclyn Victor, Vince Chong , Juwita Suwito and Patrick Leong to lend their voices to this album. The song Champions of Malaysia, written by Rev. Susan Tang and Wel Loren, is about a little nation Malaysia becoming strong and achieving greatness. Patrick performed lead vocals for that song. The title track Jubilee is a song about the nation coming to a time of renewal and freedom. Matthew G Singh and Teh Ju Ping ( Winner of Malaysian Revival Songwriting Competition ) co-wrote this song. Vince Chong sang his own composition Breathe Again, a catchy praise song. Juwita sang Satu Suara ( One voice), a song about unity in the Malaysian church which she co-wrote with Matthew.

The album was recorded in Indonesia with Erwin Badudu, Tommy Widodo and Leonard Kristianto as music arrangers. Jeremy Kumar produced the album. This album is well recorded with excellent vocal performance and musical arrangements. The audio CD also comes with a DVD.

AION’s vision is to unite and equip the Body of Christ in Malaysia. They previously organized the National Transformation Conference (NTC) which made a significant impact in Malaysia.

Website : www.allinonenetwork.org

E mail : aionmusic@allinonenetwork.org

Esther Mui is an accomplished pianist who has written more than 70 songs over a period of 24 years. She is also the founder of Malaysian Christian Songwriter’s Network (www.m-csn.com). Untuk Mu is a collection of her home-recorded demo tracks of some of her best songs. Some of the songs were written for specific church events, one being a presentation of the Christmas Story in Bahasa Malaysia. Two of the songs from that presentation have been included in this collection: "UntukMu" and "Buka Hatimu". Both are light jazz in feel with "UntukMu" having a traditional ethnic touch. The lyrics of both these songs were written by Heather Liew, and are evangelistic in nature. The other Malay songs in this collection are "Kasih", "Dengan Sepenuh Hatiku", and "Di Saat Ini". "Kasih" is also traditional-jazzy in feel, while "Dengan Sepenuh Hatiku" is a simple praise song with an acoustic feel. "Di Saat Ini" is a simple worship song, and will be included in AION Music's 2nd Worship Compilation Album, due to be released in the 3rd quarter of 2008.

The English tracks in this collection are mostly intimate worship songs with the exception of "Jehovah" and "You are the Reason" which are fast and catchy praise songs. Just listening to the demos, one can sense the anointing on these worship songs. Among the best are "Mary's song", "I Need You", "Lord Have Mercy, "In Brokenness", "All That I Have" and "Lord, Move in this Place". All of these songs are suitable for use in worship. "Jehovah" is a powerful declaration song of the names of Jehovah.

Incredibly, Esther, a mother of 2 children, arranged and recorded these demos herself in her own home. Some of these songs will also be included in Oops! Asia's Worship Compilation Album, due to be released in October 2008.

E mail Esther Mui at : admin@m-csn.com
Website : www.m-csn.com
Listen to songs : http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=329899

After releasing her first album, SAND – SOLD OUT album (SAND- Saved for A New Destiny) in 2002, and second album, SAND -DREAMS in 2004, Lucy L has re-emerged to launch her third album SAND- HOPE. Amazingly, HOPE is a Hokkien album consisting of 9 of her original songs. Charis Tan and Raymond Tan wrote one other song in the album.

One would have thought a Hokkien album would be of a traditional Chinese style but Lucy L has brought a contemporary feel to her Hokkien album. Some of her songs are arranged with a gentle R&B feel. There are also excellent worship songs in the album previously recorded in English, among them Come Holy Spirit and Alpha & Omega. Come Holy Spirit made an international presence when it was recorded by Kingsway Music, United Kingdom. The songs By My Bide, Hope and Why are also excellent worship songs.

Originating from Penang, Lucy L, who produced this album herself, gathered a team of young musicians and singers from several churches to do this recording. Lead vocals were performed by Chai Lin, Calvin Lim, Ko Bee, Jessica Loo and Joni Tham. Music arrangement were done by PC Fong, EH Chong, HY Chan and TW Teoh. Most of the recording were done in Penang but the final mixing and mastering were done in Kuala Lumpur’s by acclaimed sound engineer Nick Lee at Sonique Studios. SAND-HOPE certain brings Hokkien music in Malaysia to a new level.

Lucy L and Raymond Tan are already well known in the music education circles when they released a song book series of their original songs for piano entitled Because of Love. One of the songs in the series Only You was chosen as an exam piece for ANSCAR 2007 exam syllabus in Australia. Recently 26 pieces have been chosen by St Cecilia School of music in Australia as their exam pieces from 2008 onwards.

Make sure you do not miss the exciting songs coming from these albums.

Website : www.masterpiecemusic.com.my
E mail : nkalsl@yahoo.com

Life Overflowing is an album released by Susan Yuen who wrote the lyrics for the 10 songs in the album. The music were composed by Darren Weller and  Carmee Lim. Susan Yuen established “Project Touch Heaven” to raise funds for the needy and poor. All the sale proceeds of this album goes to this project for the poor.

This album is a  collection of songs by Peter Wong written from 2003-2006 . The songs reflect the seasons on the Christian calendar as well as seasons of his own personal spiritual journey and reflection. Among the songs in the album are Worthy is the Lamb,  Psalm 71,  Crown Him the King of kings, He shall be great,  Christmas etc. Also included is a bonus track of 5 Mandarin songs by the Mo Yi Nong Church Choir from China.

Peter Wong  studied classical vocals for 7 years and was a choir director, worship leader and pastor for many years.  In the early seventies, he was also a Music Staff worker with Scripture Union. During these years,   he produced the SU SING ALONG Volumes 1 & 2 and  the SING SING SING HALLELUJAH  books and song cassettes. He also had the opportunity to work with the combine choir to produce  musicals by Jimmy Owens, COME TOGETHER and IF MY PEOPLE.  This combined choir toured all across Malaysia and Singapore.

E-mail:  peter_wyk@yahoo.com

Inspired by You - WIlliam Kok

'Inspired By You' is William's third guitar solo album, subsequent to the release of 'The Music Maker' in year 2004 and 'Every Time I Pray' in year 2005

Created to commemorate the first anniversary of his marriage, it is inspired from a personal experience through which he realized how much God really wants us to love our spouse like Christ loves His Church

The album features 13 tracks of Gospel songs, uniquely played in fingerstyle and the song 'Inspired By You' , specially written for his wife as an affirmation of their marriage vows
 
Free Online Guitar Lesson At http://williamkok.inc.md
Contact William HP - 016-2339668 

Dream Centre features 3 songs written by Patrick Leong, Dream Centre, The Church that serves and On Holy Ground. The title track Dream Centre is written about DUMC and its vision to “Building God’s Community & Making Known His Glory”. The song represents the calling of the Church to be an impact in the society and the nations. This album was produced by Patrick Leong and Andrew Tan for Oops Asia.

Website : www.oops-asia.com

"Because of Love” is a song book series for the piano. The songs are composed by Malaysian songwriters Lucy L and Raymond Tan. The song book title “Because of love” is the hit song by Lucy L in SAND debut album. This album caught the attention of Christopher Norton and with his help and musical arrangement, the first book was published in 2006. One of the songs “Only You” was chosen as an exam piece for ANSCAR 2007 exam syllabus in Australia. In August 2007, two more books were published under the same series. Recently 26 pieces have been chosen by St Cecilia School of music in Australia as their exam pieces from 2008 onwards.

“Because of Love” series comprises of modern songs in contemporary genres of pop, rock, swing, ballad, Latin etc. These pieces provide a refreshing supplement to the classical repertoire and will appeal to pianists of all ages. The technical and rhythmical challenges together with special features such as performance and accompaniment CD make the teaching and learning process enjoyable.

E mail : ngkafly@hotmail.com

Website : http://www.masterpiecemusic.com.my/

Sold out is the second album released by 1 am ( 1 Accord Ministries) with 12 of their original songs. This album is a follow up of their highly successful debut album Revelation. Youths will certainly love Sold Out for its fast, dynamic and lively music. 

Songs  like  Singing & Living, My God is so big, All I wanna do and  Dive in  are very catchy and can certainly move a crowd. Children will especially like My God is so big.

The album was recorded live with the worship team of Eaglepoint Covenant Fellowship led by Pastor Timothy Loh. Cathryn Loh (Worship Pastor) , Kelvin Lim (Worship Director)  and Neil Batiancila led the  worship. Songwriters, Neil and Kelvin wrote most of the songs in the album. Although the album begins with loud and fast music, the title track Sold Out is a slow worship song about Jesus who loved us that He came to die for our sins. As a result, we should all be Sold Out for Jesus. My favourite song in the album is  My Father, which  is an intimate worship song which can draw you into God’s presence.  Sold out is an excellent recording and should not be missed.

Website: www.1am.com.my
Email: ask@1am.com.my
Listen :  www.soundclick.com/1am

Review by : Ng Wah Lok on 27/7/2007

Faithful God is a collection of 5 original songs by CDPC released on the occasion of the church 7 th anniversary. The title track Faithful God, written by Sharon Amrita captures the theme of God's faithfulness to their church beautifully. Their visionary pastor Rev. Wong Fong Yang wrote The Father's Heart , a song about God the Father who gave His most precious Son to die for our sins. This short song has an awesome and powerful message and is intensely powerful. Yong Yi and Sarah Wong wrote and performed lead vocals for their songs Your Love amazes me and You were always there respectively. Julia Pong wrote the only Malay song entitled Bila. Both Julia and Sarah captured their songs well with some wonderful lead vocals.

The album was recorded with some help from Patrick Leong, Juwita and Nick Lee who are already well known in the music industry. Charles Wong and Simon Siow did the musical arrangement for the songs.

For more information, contact :

City Discipleship Presbyterian Church
W-10-2, Subang Square Business Centre
Jalan SS15/4G, Subang Jaya 47500
(603) 5621 2844 / 45 / www.cdpc.org.my

Review by Ng Wah Lok on 26/7/2007

This long awaited album is perhaps the best recorded music Gabby has done so far. The title track I trust in You is an intimate worship song, reflecting the Father’s love for us. You think you’ve got it all comes with a Latin beat with a message that we all need Jesus. Gabby’s songs certainly has an intimate touch of God’s presence.

Website: www.gabbytham.com
Website: www.oops-asia.com,
Soundclick: www.soundclick.com/gabbytham

Review by Ng Wah Lok on 27/7/2007

Alabaster Jar – Joanne

This singer/songwriter, a mother of 3 young children, sings regularly at old folks home, lunch meetings and churches. God has given her a great compassion and burden to reach the lost and Joanne has used her music to reach especially those with deep needs.

Listen to songs : www.soundclick.com/joanneng

Chen Sing – My Eyes

As a music director of Earth Productions Music Ministry since the year 2000, Chen Sing and the ministry strive to bring the Gospel to the world through music. Having a burden for the Chinese community around the world, Chen Sing hopes to build a new chapter in Chinese Gospel music and continue to share the love of Jesus with the music God has given her.

Producing her latest album, “My Eyes” recently, it was quite a challenge for Chen Sing who at the same time being a music director, a University Professor and is leading a campus ministry. Despite challenges, she admits that God’s grace is always sufficient and that He deserves all the glory.

The latest album contains music and lyrics that move hearts. The tracks include “My Eyes”, “All the Earth”, “Heaven’s Gate”, ” True Worship”, ” Because You Love Me”, ”Dawn” and an English song, ”Wings of Love”.  The best song, "Wo De Yan Jing Yi Kai" literally "My Eyes Opened",  expresses the thankfulness for Jesus because of what He has done in our lives, for being our Saviour. Ultimately, by knowing Jesus, the "eyes" of our hearts are opened, therefore we are not lost anymore and that we may find true joy and peace because of His amazing love.

During the recording of the album, Chen Sing was deeply touched by God’s words. Nan Fang, the ministry and music producer as well as other staff who were present said, “God is in our midst”.

Indeed, Chen Sing has a great passion for music, and plays the piano, guitar, and harp. She has written hundreds of songs and previously produced several albums include “Sing to the Lord”, “Are You Willing?”, “Use Me, My Lord” and “Starry Night”. Besides that, she has also authored the book “You and Your Household Shall Be Saved”.

Our website is www.alltheearth.org
E-mail: chensing@alltheearth.org or info@alltheearth.org

Better than life is an album by the Youth from Calvary Church, Kuala Lumpur. Calvary Church is the largest AOG church in Malaysia and led by their Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Prince Guneratnam. The main people behind the album are Steven Kum (Advisor), Adrian Lee (Exec Producer), Joel Wong &  Bryan Mak (Producer/Arranger) and Jeremy Koh ( Prod. Manager).  Bryan and Arian also served as worship leaders. The musicians include Michelle Wong  & Jennifer Tang (Keyboards),  Adrian Lee and Bryan Mak (Drums), Jason Tan (bass), Peh Choon Wee, Kester Low ,Joel Wong &Alvin Kang (Guitars), and Se-Ken & Raymond Yeo (percussion). Allison Wong & Sheryl Chong served as Vocal directors.

The album contains 7 English songs and one Malay song. The title track Better than Life was written by  Allison and Joel Wong. Adrian Lee wrote 2 songs, All Blessings &  With Every Thing. Others who contributed songs were Alvin Kang, Sheryl Chong, Jeremy Koh, Bryan Mak & Jennifer Tang.

Website : www.calvary.org.my

CSI is produced by the Youth of Full Gospel Church, Johor. The album was conceived when they had a TEENz camp  in 2005. In the camp, God gave them  a vision  to impart to all teenagers a Christ Identity. Full Gospel Church, led by Pastor Albert Cheng is one of the largest church in Johor.

The album contains 5 English and 3 Mandarin songs. The title track CSI has good and catchy rock feel. The songs in the album were composed by TCTT, YongThai, BoonFei and Philip Tan . Musicians include Lynn, Koon, FuYau, HupTwo, Peter, Aaron and Victor. Vocals were performed by TCTT, YongThai, Peter, FuYau, David, BoonFei, Angela, JieLin and Meliza.

Website. www.fgcteenz.com

A DAY at the ZOO consist of  Christian musicians who are committed to express their love in music. The  Rock band with a passion for ministry was formed in 2002 originally with friends in Shah Alam. Later the band began to evolve as talented musicians,  Wagner Daniel (drums) and Mozad (bass) joined the original band members,  Justin (guitars) and Jonathan(vocals). Over the years the band has been  actively involved in evangelism and praise & worship concerts  designed to reach out to the people. Justin also preaches the  Word at these concerts.

The band  networks with various charitable organization in helping people live better lives.

A day a the ZOO is driven, inspired and motivated to communicate Love and  positive lifestyle through their music. Seeing from a little child's eye "a day at the zoo" is always filled with excitement, anticipation and loads of fun!

This  self titled single (EP) offers a good blend of Rock numbers. The EP was self produced by the band members and recorded at Nick Lee's Sonique studio. Nick Lee and Mozad helped in the mixing of the album. The album has   2 English songs written by Justin and 2 Malay songs written by Jonathan. The English song Way Of the Ants talks about an average working class person going through their daily chores. The other English song  Rescued is about God's grace. The Malay song  Seperti Dulu is a love song and a people's favourite. Kawan is about a friend seeing another best buddy slipping away but yet remaining  a true friend.

The album is now on dale  at Canaanland Book stores.

Website :  www.purevolume.com/adayatthezoo
E mail : zooligans@gmail.com
Telephone Contact : 012-3770824

GTLim or Pastor Lim Gee Tiong is fondly known by his church members as the singing pastor. This is not surprising as he has released 12 albums. His recent release Child of God was recorded in Singapore and produced by Mandarin pop arrangers Martin Tang, Kenn C and Jonathan Koh. This album features Christian songs written by GTLim in Hokkien.  This is his third Hokkien album, the other nine are in Mandarin. He began writing songs as a university student in New Zealand in 1988.  In 1991, he returned to Malaysia and released his debut album Chase After Life . He continued to write songs and release albums, even after becoming the pastor of Blessed Church in Kuching in 1995.

It was with his fifth album, Hold My Hand that gave GTLim a breakthrough. The title track, a Hokkien song about trusting in God, became a hit here, and in Singapore and Indonesia. 

Lim, who has been channeling proceeds from his albums to his church or charity, will always see himself as a pastor first.  “Singing is a secondary calling. Whenever the two clash, singing has to give way,” he said. 

Website : www.gtlim.com 

 

“ The Lord is my Light”  is  Joanne's second  album.  It is a mandarin album with one English song ("Look at the Cross") and one Hokkien song. Five songs from this album are playing on MCSN Radio: "Light of My Life", "I Behold Thee", As White as Snow", "Every Time I Pray (Mandarin), and "Look at the Cross".  The song “Every Time I Pray”  was  written in 1981 by Wah Lok and Yuen Woh.  The album was produced by James Yee.

Joanne Ng released her debut album  Glory be to God on March 2005. Her debut  album is a rare  recording of  10 Hokkien Praise and Worship songs.  This singer/songwriter  is a mother of 3 young  children and worships at Calvary Charismatic Centre, Petaling Jaya.  She sings regularly at old folks home, lunch meetings and churches. God has given her a great compassion and burden to reach the lost and Joanne has used her music to reach especially those with deep needs.

Besides the Hokkien language, Joanne also speaks and  sings in English, Mandarin and  Bahasa  Malaysia. She ministers regularly to people with needs, in the different languages.

Please visit Joanne's soundclick page at  www.soundclick.com/joanneng

Sukacita Selalu (Happy Always) is a Malay album by Ulek Kaulibut who is from the Kenyah race in Sarawak. This is a rare recording of Malay songs from someone from Sarawak.  The album contains 10 songs among which are Terpujilah nama mu, Sepintas angin lalu, Sembah Anak Raja and  Bangkitkan aku. The music is programmed by Stephen Liaw and arranged Bradley Matthew.

Ulek worships at SIB Church and works at Nestle Products in  Kuching.

Contact telephone : 016 7839903 
E mail : ulexies@gmail.com

In this album, Dr. Albert Issac delivers his rendition of some of the world’s top Gospel Songs like Awesome God (Rich Mullins), Feel the nails, Thank You,  Mercy, I pledge Allegiance to the Lamb, Shepherd Boy (Ray Boltz), Amazing Grace (John Newton), I will be here for you (Michael W Smith), Grace by which I stand Keith Green) and I stand in awe (Mark Altrodge).  Just looking at the list of songs he has chosen will already draw you to this album. The album was recorded in Malaysia with the help of Freddie Fernandez.

Albert Isaac is a gifted communicator and motivator. He has a dynamic international ministry and is the Founder and Senior Pastor of World Harvest Church, Malaysia which has over 100 branch churches and ministries throughout South East Asia Region. Dr. Isaac is committed to see people break free and achieve  their fullest potential and success in life. He is the author of  the book  Your breakthrough is only a seed away.

E mail : info@whcmy.org
Website : www.whcmy.org

Purpose is Jonathan Tse’s debut album with 10 of his original songs.  The musical content of the album  varies from contemporary pop music to jazz, and is arranged in a very casual and light mannered tone. Purpose is aimed to reach out to an audience that is primarily young and energetic college students. Its lyrics touch on topics regarding life from the perspective of a young college graduate, trying to find his purpose in life. Most of the issues engaged in his songs are inspired by Jonathan’s own life experiences, capturing the ebb and flow of a young man caught in the hustle-bustle of metropolitan life. The tracks in the album include So beautiful, Supernatural, Season without love, Purpose, Formality, Change, Shape my life, All for me, My everything  and Showtime.

Jonathan Tse is a youth pastor in a local church called Faith Christian Centre located in Bandar Sunway. Hailing from the Federal Territory of Labuan, he graduated from Inti College Subang Jaya with a BSc. in Computer Science in April 2004.

His musical talents have been honed since the tender age of five when he first enrolled into a music school to learn the organ. Since then, he discovered his love for music and he started playing the bass guitar in his church in Labuan six years later.

He is now pursuing his theological studies as a part-time student in Malaysia Bible Seminary.

Website : www.jonathantse.com

Joanne Yeoh: Pulse of a Metropolis, is Joanne’s  debut violin solo  album comprising of  nine English songs and one Malay song. The English  tracks include New World, Silk Roa, Revelation 1618, Valley of the Kings, I remember, Yuan’s theme, IslandParadise and Villa. The Malay song is entitled Jauh-Jauh.

In year 2004, Joanne  was selected as the honoree for "The Outstanding Young Malaysian Award (2004)", for the category of "Personal Improvement and Accomplishment".

Joanne also had the privilege to perform alongside Hong Kong superstar Jacky Cheung in his Music Odyssey Tour 2002/03 covering over 40 concerts around the world. Her tour with Jacky Cheung included performances in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Taiwan, Brunei, USA, UK and Canada.

In 2003, Joanne was once again selected to perform with Taiwanese heart-throb David Tao in his Soul Power Tour 2003 touring Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

Website : www.joanneyeoh.com.my

Liang's passion for music began in HELP Institute where he joined 6-man acapella group Legato, performing at various college functions & events. Legato has even had the privilege to work with critically acclaimed drummer Lewis Pragasam, performing with him at the Kiara Jazz Festival. Liang doesn't just sing but also plays the bass, the guitar and the piano.

Liang's new mini-album “8oz of Soul” is a fun hip-hop album with a mix of both fast and soulful numbers - all written by Liang himself, some in collaboration with other talents. The first single “Show Me Whatcha Got” is a laid back groove track about how people aren't always upfront with others. Another track to look out for is “The Feature” in which Liang collaborates with James Baum of “Skirts” fame.

The EP also contains the track “Silver Linings” that can be found on Oops! Asia 's tsunami-relief compilation “Through The Rain”. “Silver Linings” has already received good listener response on Xfresh FM hitting number 1 on the Xfresh FM 10 & Carta 20 charts. His current single “Show Me Whatcha Got” hit number 1 on Hitz.fm's Malaysian English Top 10 charts and also being making its presence felt on Hitz.fm's Top 30 chart. As a result Liang has already appeared on Hitz.fm with Serena C and also in a Hitz.tv Christmas Eve special. A music video for “Show Me Whatcha Got” has just been completed and is due to make its rounds on local TV as well.

“8oz of Soul” is a collaborative effort of many names in the local music industry and features the involvement of luminaries such as producer Nick Lee, JD of Pop Shuvit & the “Maestro of Mix” in the local club scene Jungle Jerry.

Website : www.oops-asia.com

The long awaited 2 nd release from Patrick Leong is now in stores nationwide. The debut album titled "Unto You" was released on the 13 January 2006 . A compilation of personalised worship songs that touches deep into ones heart bringing about healing, restoration and even the intimacy with the Almighty God. Comprising of 9 brand new tracks and an invited guest singer from Singapore , Galvin Sng of a song in which he wrote “Above All Else”.

"Unto You" will bring about change and transformation to the soul with the intimacy of the worth of worship unto God in the highest honour. Through the songs, messages and testimony of “Unto You” Patrick hopes that you will fall in love with the Maker of heaven and earth as you will be transformed, renewed and be blessed.

Patrick Leong is no stranger in the Malaysian music scene. He sang lead vocals for the song "Silenced by You Love" in Wah Lok's album Every Time I Pray . He has also sung back up vocals for some of Malaysia 's top secular