Between Praises And Worship

One position held by many music loving Christians and musicians is that when a song is performed with a slow tempo then it is worship and when the tempo is fast, it is praise.

This position is erroneous because most often cognisance is not taken of the words of the song to determine if they are in praise of God or for His Worship.

Be it as that may, there seem to be two main type of Christian songs – Praise and Worship. While there are some gospel musicians who have perfected the art of releasing both types, there are those who have concentrated their efforts on singing either of the two types.

One female gospel musician who has established herself as a worship singer is Evangelist Diana Asamoah. She showcased her stuff on her first two albums, ‘Wo Na M’ani Agyina Wo’ and ‘Mabo Wo Din Na Mafre Wo’.

It was perhaps her second album which shot her into the limelight. The music video that accompanied the title song had the President in it questions over whether it is a political song.

Evangelist Asamoah is out again with another worship album titled ‘Akoko Abon’. She describes the title song as a “prayerful song that seeks to ask God to do the desires of everybody”.

On ‘Akoko Abon’, Diana sings about the fact that a new day has begun and everybody is heading for their work places. Her plea to God is that He should make sure that all these people get their daily bread from what they do.

With her powerful voice and in a prayerful mood Diana Asamoah thanks the Lord for all He does for mankind.

Instrumentation is not too much on this song as it goes only with the backing of a piano. However, the chirping of birds and crowing of a cockerel at the beginning of the song makes it sound like a real make up song as if the events narrated in the lyrics are actually taking place.

Evangelist Diana Asamoah has developed a kind of interest for only keyboard backing for her songs. This is because all but one song on the eight-track cassette album go with? this style, ‘Akoko Abon’, ‘Owurabi Bi’, ‘Nkakra? Nkakra’, ‘’Ohutee Anamon, ‘Ene Nkonyan Besi’, ‘Hu Wafemfo Mobo’ and ‘Oko Yi’ are the songs that have organ backing and rendered in slow tempo.

The only song that comes with a multi instrumental backing is ‘Odimafo’. This is a mid-tempo song that talks about the birth of Christ and how the shepherds were directed to bow before him. Perhaps, Diana has her eye on Christmas and decided to put in this one for those who desire to have a Christmas song to go for it.

As was her previous album, ‘Akoko Abon’ was produced on the Frimprince Music Record label. All songs on the album were composed by Peter Yaw Boamah with Anane Frimpong as the Executive Producer.

One position held by many music loving Christians and musicians is that when a song is performed with a slow tempo then it is worship and when the tempo is fast, it is praise.

This position is erroneous because most often cognisance is not taken of the words of the song to determine if they are in praise of God or for His Worship.

Be it as that may, there seem to be two main type of Christian songs – Praise and Worship. While there are some gospel musicians who have perfected the art of releasing both types, there are those who have concentrated their efforts on singing either of the two types.

One female gospel musician who has established herself as a worship singer is Evangelist Diana Asamoah. She showcased her stuff on her first two albums, ‘Wo Na M’ani Agyina Wo’ and ‘Mabo Wo Din Na Mafre Wo’.

It was perhaps her second album which shot her into the limelight. The music video that accompanied the title song had the President in it questions over whether it is a political song.

Evangelist Asamoah is out again with another worship album titled ‘Akoko Abon’. She describes the title song as a “prayerful song that seeks to ask God to do the desires of everybody”.

On ‘Akoko Abon’, Diana sings about the fact that a new day has begun and everybody is heading for their work places. Her plea to God is that He should make sure that all these people get their daily bread from what they do.

With her powerful voice and in a prayerful mood Diana Asamoah thanks the Lord for all He does for mankind.

Instrumentation is not too much on this song as it goes only with the backing of a piano. However, the chirping of birds and crowing of a cockerel at the beginning of the song makes it sound like a real make up song as if the events narrated in the lyrics are actually taking place.

Evangelist Diana Asamoah has developed a kind of interest for only keyboard backing for her songs. This is because all but one song on the eight-track cassette album go with? this style, ‘Akoko Abon’, ‘Owurabi Bi’, ‘Nkakra? Nkakra’, ‘’Ohutee Anamon, ‘Ene Nkonyan Besi’, ‘Hu Wafemfo Mobo’ and ‘Oko Yi’ are the songs that have organ backing and rendered in slow tempo.

The only song that comes with a multi instrumental backing is ‘Odimafo’. This is a mid-tempo song that talks about the birth of Christ and how the shepherds were directed to bow before him. Perhaps, Diana has her eye on Christmas and decided to put in this one for those who desire to have a Christmas song to go for it.

As was her previous album, ‘Akoko Abon’ was produced on the Frimprince Music Record label. All songs on the album were composed by Peter Yaw Boamah with Anane Frimpong as the Executive Producer.