Chill Café

Integrity Music

The “Chill Café” concept takes classic and modern worship songs and puts them to a new age style of Euro-styled jazz, pop, and R&B.  The idea is to make an ambient atmosphere for prayer, meditation, and relaxation.  The traditionalist will not dig this at all. I happen to like it myself. Of the two projects, my favorite is “Hiding Place.”  The other collection is titled “Where You Are.” 

Like I said, my preference is for “Hiding Place,” why you may ask, well for starters the lead vocals are so close to Rebecca St. James that it could easily pass for her next worship album.  Secondly, the songs just work better.  The lead track, “You Are My Hiding Place,” and the jazzy “Rescue” work very well with this experimental sound. 

The songs on “Where You Are” are more of the modern worship tunes that don’t seem to fit this Euro style as well.  The songs are also more familiar like Jeff Deyo’s “More Love, More, Power,” and Mercy Me’s “I Can Only Imagine.”  My mind just cannot accept them in this new form.

It’s an interesting concept, and if you liked the Apt.Core projects from producer Will Hunt, then you will surely like the concept of the “Chill Café.”

Ken W.