Thursday, September 30, 2010
Narsilion~Mirror of Nature
Narsilion is a neoclassical darkwave band from Spain. Formed in 2000 as Aranmanoth and renamed to Narsilion in 2002 following the disbanding of Ordo Funebris, the band has been under contract with Caustic Records since 2004.
BERNWARD KOCH - Gentle touch
Bernward Koch (* January 23, 1957 in Siegen) is a German composer, pianist and keyboardist. Additionally he plays percussion, bass and guitar. His music mainly unfolds a soothing and calming style, mostly with a clearly recognizable melody from the piano, enriched with keyboards, flute, guitar, percussion. The first release was the album FLOWING in 1989 and were right from start successful especially in the USA (and Asia), achieved top positions on Billboard New Age Chart. His tracks contributed on several US-Aids-benefit compilations among others together with Sting, Bonnie Riatt, Al Jarreau, Ottmar Liebert, Dave Grusin, Dave Stewart. The Bernward Koch album MONTAGNOLA was recorded only on a grand piano and is dedicated to the German writer Hermann Hesse. The current Bernward Koch album is called GENTLE SPIRIT.
Giovanni Marradi - Caruso
Giovanni Marradi (1852-1922) was an Italian poet born at Livorno and educated at Pisa and Florence. At the latter place he started with others a short-lived review, the Nuovi Goliardi, which made some literary sensation. He became a teacher at various colleges, and eventually an educational inspector in Massa Carrara. He was much influenced by Carducci, and became known not only as a critic but as a charming descriptive poet, his principal volumes of verse being Canzone moderne (1870), Fantasie marnie (1881), Canzoni e fantasie (1853), Ricordi lirici (1884), Poesie (1887), Nuovi canti (1891) and Ballati moderne (1895).
He is the great-grandfather of the New Age musician Giovanni Marradi.
Stamatis Spanoudakis - Waves
Kymata (Waves) - Stamatis Spanoudakis
Album : Red - Green - Yellow
Kokkino (red) 7. Kymata (Waves) 2000
Another beautiful composition
STAMATIS SPANOUDAKIS - Love poem
Stamatis Spanoudakis - (born 1948 in Athens, Greece) is a famous Greek classical and new age composer. Early on he studied classical guitar. He went through a pop music phase, but then continued classical studies at the Würzburg State Conservatory with Bertold Hummel and later in Athens with Konstantinos Kydoniatis. Later on he took up Byzantine music.
Ryan Farish - Walk With You
Ryan Farish is an American electronica artist from Norfolk, Virginia. As a Grammy-nominated and 2008 GMA Dove Award-winning songwriter/producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist, Farish launched his music career on the first generation MP3.com. It was at this site his music quickly took to the masses obtaining more than 1.8 million downloads of his trademark, electronic/world music.[1] His success with MP3.com earned him the title “Download King” [2] from Los Angeles music industry magazine Music Connection.
His albums include Bloom (2010), Movement in Light (2009), Wonderfall (2008), Everlasting (2006), From The Sky (2005), Beautiful (2004), Selected Works and Selected Works Xpanded (compilations of his early works featured on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s), Daydreamer (2002), Beyond the Horizon (2002) and In The Day (2000). Songs from these are featured on Selected Works. He also released a Christmas EP Spirit - A Ryan Farish Christmas (2009), as well as multiple singles, including 2008’s “Dancing Angel” (a Ryan Farish and Donna Lewis collaboration) and “In This Moment". All of which were released by Ryan's label, RYTONE Entertainment.
Pachelbel's Canon in D--Soothing music
Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major , is the most famous piece of music by German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. It was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue in the same key. Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in the 20th century. Several decades after it was first published in 1919, the piece became extremely popular, and today it is frequently played at weddings and included on classical music compilations, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Imee Ooi - The Chant of metta
Metta is a Pali word meaning loving-kindness. Metta chanting is the radiation of loving-kindness towards all beings: May they all be happy and peaceful. Imee Ooi chants the Pali beautifully. Metta chanting is soothing, uplifting, joyful and a great healing for the world - pervading it with waves of love. Truly, may all beings be happy. May they live always in peace and harmony.
Loreena McKennitt - The English Ladye and the Knight
One of my favourite.
It was an English ladye bright,
(The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,)
And she would marry a Scottish knight,
For Love will still be lord of all.
Blithely they saw the rising sun
When he shone fair on Carlisle wall;
But they were sad ere day was done,
Though Love was still the lord of all.
Her sire gave brooch and jewel fine,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall;
Her brother gave but a flask of wine,
For ire that Love was lord of all.
For she had lands both meadow and lea,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,
For he swore her death, ere he would see
A Scottish knight the lord of all.
That wine she had not tasted well
(The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall)
When dead, in her true love's arms, she fell,
For Love was still the lord of all!
He pierced her brother to the heart,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall –
So perish all would true love part
That Love may still be lord of all!
And then he took the cross divine,
Where the sun shines fair on Carlisle wall,
And died for her sake in Palestine;
So Love was still the lord of all.
Now all ye lovers, that faithful prove,
(The sun shines fair on Carlisle wall)
Pray for their souls who died for love,
For Love shall still be lord of all!
Loreena McKennitt- Night Ride Across the Caucasus
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, warbling soprano vocals. She has sold more than 13 million records worldwide.One of my favorite.
"Ride on through the night tide on
Ride on through the night tide on
There are visions, there are memories
There are echoes of thundering hooves
There are fires, there is laughter
There's the sound of a thousand doves
In the velvet of the darkness
By the silhouette of silent trees
they are watching waiting
They are witnessing life's mysteries
Cascading stars on the slumbering hills
They are dancing as far as the sea
Riding o'er the land, you can feel its gentle hand
Leading on to its destiny
Take me with you on this journey
Where the boundaries of time are now tossed
In cathedrals of the forest
In the words of the tongues now lost
Find the answers, ask the questions
Find the roots of an ancient tree
Take me dancing, take me singing
I'll ride on till the moon meets the sea"
Saturday, September 11, 2010
LA VIDA ES BELLA - Ernesto Cortázar
Ernesto Cortazar (1940–2004) was a contemporary classical composer and pianist.
He started his music career in Mexico at the age of 18 composing the background music for the motion picture "La Risa de la Ciudad".
Since then, he has composed background music for more than 500 motion pictures
ENIGMA - THE DREAM OF THE DOLPHIN
The dream of dolphin. One of the most beautiful songs of Enigma - Michael Cretu. A true work of art.
Vanishing Breed - Beautiful Flute - Guitar - Native American
By Robbie Robertson, flute and guitar with Native American beat.
Friday, September 10, 2010
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