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Fresh Aire III
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Common Ground
: essential recording:For the past 30 years, Paul Winter has been the foremost exponent of integrating sounds from nature into environmental-themed music to espouse an optimistic kinship with Planet Earth's myriad creatures. Fusing animal callings with jazz, orchestral, and choral arrangements, folk, and world music, Common Ground is a cohesive concept album with more than its share of beautiful music. Winter's mimicry and accompaniment of wolf and whale on soprano sax is eloquent, though the human vocal passages sometimes verge on a sanctimonious folkiness. His 'best of' collection, Wolf Eyes (which features various ...
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No Words
: essential recording:For the past 30 years, Paul Winter has been the foremost exponent of integrating sounds from nature into environmental-themed music to espouse an optimistic kinship with Planet Earth's myriad creatures. Fusing animal callings with jazz, orchestral, and choral arrangements, folk, and world music, Common Ground is a cohesive concept album with more than its share of beautiful music. Winter's mimicry and accompaniment of wolf and whale on soprano sax is eloquent, though the human vocal passages sometimes verge on a sanctimonious folkiness. His 'best of' collection, Wolf Eyes (which features various ...
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The Songs of Distant Earth
: essential recording:For the past 30 years, Paul Winter has been the foremost exponent of integrating sounds from nature into environmental-themed music to espouse an optimistic kinship with Planet Earth's myriad creatures. Fusing animal callings with jazz, orchestral, and choral arrangements, folk, and world music, Common Ground is a cohesive concept album with more than its share of beautiful music. Winter's mimicry and accompaniment of wolf and whale on soprano sax is eloquent, though the human vocal passages sometimes verge on a sanctimonious folkiness. His 'best of' collection, Wolf Eyes (which features various ...
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Thunderstorm in the Wilderness
: :Slowly rolling forward, the crackling storm envelops the lake and enables the listener to experience the exhilaration and drama of a wilderness thunderstorm.
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Natural Sleep Inducement
: :This recording was crafted to help you drift off to a peaceful and natural sleep. Use this music when you are having trouble falling asleep or if you wake up in the middle of the night and can not get back to sleep. Instrumentation includes keyboards.
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State of Grace II: Turning to Peace
:Album Description:Paul Schwartz is back with a follow-up to the popular series State of Grace, with State of Grace II: Turning To Peace. Having always been drawn to the great Latin texts that have inspired so many great composers before him, State of Grace II: Turning To Peace is based on two Latin texts: the Magnificat and the Stabat Mater. 'The Magnificat is taken directly from the Bible, from the Gospel of Luke: it is the prayer of Mary expressing her joy in the knowledge that she will bear the son of God. ...
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The Celtic Book Of Days
:Album Description:Paul Schwartz is back with a follow-up to the popular series State of Grace, with State of Grace II: Turning To Peace. Having always been drawn to the great Latin texts that have inspired so many great composers before him, State of Grace II: Turning To Peace is based on two Latin texts: the Magnificat and the Stabat Mater. 'The Magnificat is taken directly from the Bible, from the Gospel of Luke: it is the prayer of Mary expressing her joy in the knowledge that she will bear the son of God. ...
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Sleep Deeply
: :Wrap yourself in this comforting blanket of dreamy music and gentle natural sounds, scientifically designed by Dr. Lee R. Bartel to promote delta brainwaves for a deeply restful sleep. Instrumentation includes piano, keyboards, guitars and electric wind instrument.
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Breakfast in the Field
: essential recording:Released in 1981, Breakfast in the Field was part of the thrilling, early '80s rollout of 'new acoustic' music unveiled by Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman, where each new release and new artist seemed to yield something revelatory. The startling uniqueness of guitarist Michael Hedges's imagination and style, however, was not fully recognized until he introduced a host of tradition-jarring innovations (unexpected tunings, tappings, and rhythmic slaps) on the magnificent Aerial Boundaries three years later. Here, on just the 13th recording to carry the Windham Hill logo, the 28-year-old Hedges ...
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