Le Voyage (Sandi Patty album)

Le Voyage
Studio album by Sandi Patti
Released	1993
Studio	Bunny Hop Studios (Los Angeles, California) Great Circle Sound, Greg Nelson Music Studio, Javalina West, The Music Mill, Nightengale Studios, Masterfonics, Quad Studios, Woodland Digital and Sixteenth Avenue Sound (Nashville, Tennessee) Studio at Mole End (Franklin, Tennessee) Pinebrook Recording Studios (Alexandria, Indiana)
Genre	CCM, inspirational music, Christian pop
Length	57:44
Label	Word
Producer	Greg Nelson
Sandi Patti chronology
The Friendship Company: Open for Business (1991) Le Voyage (1993) Find It on the Wings (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Le Voyage is the fourteenth studio album by Christian singer Sandi Patti, released in 1993 on Word Records.[2][3][4][5][6] It's a concept album and it tells the story, done in a musical setting, featuring Patti as a character named Traveler, and she comes from a long line of Sojouners. It has been described as a modern retelling of Pilgrim's Progress featuring songs about traveling on a journey of faith. Le Voyage continues her inspirational sound but also adds some upbeat pop and adult contemporary sounds as well. Patti re-records a new version of "Unexpected Friends," originally from her 1990 album Another Time...Another Place and also features a duet with fellow Christian singer/songwriter and former Kansas lead singer John Elefante called "Home Will Find You." This would be the last album using her last name "Patti." Patti also released a companion book to go with the album. The album would top the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart[7] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album. In 1994, her music video for the first single "Hand On My Shoulder" won Short Form Music Video of the Year at the 25th GMA Dove Awards.

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Nelson and Bob Farrell.

1. "Prologue" (instrumental) - 3:01
2. "Little Narrow Gate" - 4:21
3. "Home Will Find You" (duet with John Elefante) - 4:12
4. "Long Look" - 3:44
5. "Hand on My Shoulder" - 5:15
6. "All the Stars" - 5:06
7. "The Dilemma" - 5:03
8. "Forest of Fears" - 5:19
9. "In the Tenderlands" - 4:34
10. "Unexpected Friends" - 3:40
11. "Theme from The City of Rest" (instrumental) - 3:36
12. "Love Can Open the Door" - 3:44
13. "No Place to Lay My Head" - 6:11

Personnel

• Sandi Patti – vocals (2-10, 12, 13)
• Eric Persing – synthesizer programming
• David Hamilton – synthesizers (1), arrangements (1), string arrangements and conductor (1), keyboards (5), concept (11)
• Robbie Buchanan – acoustic piano (2-5), arrangements (2-6, 8, 11, 12), keyboards (4-8), programming (11, 12)
• Blair Masters – synthesizers (2, 10)
• Phil Naish – synthesizers (3)
• David Huntsinger – acoustic piano (10, 13)
• Tom Hemby – guitars (1, 3, 4, 6-9, 11)
• Dann Huff – guitars (2-5, 7, 11, 12)
• Jackie Street – bass (3-5, 7, 8, 11)
• Gary Lunn – bass (9)
• Paul Leim – drums (3-8, 11)
• Farrell Morris – percussion (3, 6, 7, 11)
• Tom McAninch – French horn (1)
• Eberhard Ramm – French horn (1)
• Joy Worland – French horn (1)
• Pamela Sixfin – violin solo (1)
• Mark Douthit – saxophone (6, 8)
• Sam Levine – soprano saxophone (9)
• Nashville String Machine – strings (1, 2, 5, 9-11, 13)
• Carl Gorodetzky – orchestra contractor (1, 2, 5, 9-11, 13)
• Greg Nelson – arrangements (1, 7, 9, 10, 13)
• Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements and conductor (2, 5, 10, 11, 13)
• Ronn Huff – string arrangements and conductor (9)
• John Elefante – vocals (3)
• Alan Moore – BGV arrangements (3, 4, 12)
• Bob Carlisle – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Beverly Darnall – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Michael Eldred – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Lisa Glasgow – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Mark Ivey – backing vocals (3)
• Tammy Jensen – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Bonnie Keen – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Ellen Musick – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Guy Penrod – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Leah Taylor – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Mervyn Warren – backing vocals (3, 4, 12)
• Chris Willis – backing vocals (3, 12)
• Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (4)
• Donna McElroy – backing vocals (4)

Production

• Matt Baugher – executive producer
• Greg Nelson – producer
• Bill Deaton – engineer, vocal engineer, mixing
• Bob Clark – string engineer
• Brent King – string engineer, vocal engineer
• Chip Birge – assistant engineer, mix assistant
• Robert Charles – assistant engineer
• Todd Little – assistant engineer
• Carry Summers – assistant engineer
• Greg Parker – mix assistant
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Holly Krig-Smith – production coordinator
• Loren Balman – art direction
• Patrick Pollei – art direction, design
• Neill Whitlock – photography

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Top Contemporary Christian Albums	1

Radio singles

Year	Singles	Peak positions
		CCM AC[8]
1993	"Hand on my Shoulder"	6
1993	"Long Look"	2
1993-94	"Love Can Open the Door"	9
1994	"Home Will Find You" (with John Elefante)	20

Accolades

GMA Dove Awards

Year	Winner	Category
1994	"Hand On My Shoulder"	Short Form Music Video of the Year

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Sandi Patti: Le Voyage. Word Records. 1993.
3. Cusic, Don (2009-11-12). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship: Pop, Rock, and Worship. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34426-8.
4. Balmer, Randall Herbert (2002-01-01). Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0-664-22409-7.
5. Indianapolis Monthly. Emmis Communications. September 2007.
6. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1994-04-30.
7. "Sandi Patty: Le Voyage (Top Christian Albums)". Billboard.
8. Brothers, Jeffrey Lee, ed. (2003). CCM Hot Hits: AC Charts 1978 – 2001. AuthorHouse. p. 172. ISBN 1-4107-3294-0.