Stream Israel & New Breed’s ‘Feels Like Home, Vol. 1’

Gospel icon, singer/songwriter and producer Israel Houghton is sharing a new live album today, “Feels Like Home: The Quarantine Worship Experience,” recorded with his band New Breed at Houghton‘s family home as an archive and extension of his initiative to bring his community safely online over the last year. A visual for the title track has also been released.

Israel stated; “Though the entire landscape changed with how we do concerts and touring, we knew it was still very important to come together. I’m grateful for the sacrifices made by everyone on our team to carefully come together and participate in this offering. Truth be told, it’s one of the most rewarding worship experiences I’ve ever been a part of.”

Digging deep, Israel‘s performance leading the group alongside his wife Adrienne is inspired and inventive while the fly-on-the-wall perspective highlights the lyrical comfort of the supporting musicians and numerous special guests who take an easy grip of the performance during their features.

Feels Like Home, and its #WorshipWednesdays roots, are a monument of Israel‘s career-long inspiration to explore and reinvent the possibilities of group worship dynamics even as communities started reforming online throughout the ongoing pandemic.

Since the release of his first studio album in 1997, Houghton has looked to the live performance format as a means to that very end, including 2004’s Live From Another Level and 2005’s Alive in South Africa, the latter of which won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album.

Houghton would later take home three more awards, his most recent live archive prior to Feels Like Home. In addition to his 6 GRAMMYs® Israel Houghton has also been honored with 16 GMA Dove Awards.