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Songs
from the last Millennium
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Friends
This
Meditrranean Music Song- & Pop Album comprises a unique and never
permitted to be one-sided compilation of BEAVER songs from 1980
- 1984. Newly arranged and produced, "FRIENDS" appears
on the market packaged in an exclusive blue-marbled CD-box with
an extravagant 4-color, 16-page booklet. Well-known musician-"Friends"
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from all different corners of the music
world record together with pianist and keyboarder BEAVER. Together
with the fascinating Alto of PETRA SODEN, they have
contributed to the creation of a German Singer/Songwriter album
with jazz elements that hold a special position in the German
sound-carrier market.
From
the list of "Credits":The song-artist Bob Matt (Yulara/23rd
Spirit); Caroline Höglund, Marcus Schmidl, "Joe"
Werner & Christian Wegmann (Singer Pur - winner of the German
Music Competition 1994, A-Cappella-Jazz); Wolfgang Götz
(Spider Murphy Gang); Gunther Conrad, "Yankee" Meier
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Blue
Four
years after my first album "Friends", which was characterized
by Pop and Jazz, it appealed to me to record something musically
totally different - a calm instrumental album. In only three
months time between April and June 1997, a concept album, arising
from a general music idea and various improvisations, was composed
almost completely right through.
The
16 title songs flow well into one another and the music binds
together the music and emotions that appear throughout. In this
fast-paced day and age full of hectic, my "musical"
soul, like those of many people, longs for just this type of
music and strives constantly toward inner peace and harmony.
This I have transposed in "Blue".
"Blue"
is inspired from the strength of the ocean that again and again
awakes dreams and desires far from reality and prompts fantasies
- inspired as well from
lingering under southern skies on solitary beaches
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and possibly even a better meaning
of life.
Deep in thought, I often linger on the picturesque beaches of
the rugged Greek Island Karpathos in the Dodecanese Islands.
On romantic summer nights, melancholy and a zest for life are
not far from each other.
"Blue"
mirrors these subjective impressions and experiences. Crucial
to this album, I was given much encouragement by my long-time
friend from Karpathos, the painter Minas Vlahos who in 1993
also designed the cover for "Friends". He made "Blue"
as well into a work of art.
Last
but not least, "Blue" was inspired by a poem that
strongly impressed me. It is called "Footprints" and
is printed in the booklet included with the CD in its original
form. This poem conveys the direct closeness of life and death,
the inseparable union of God and Man and bestows, in its pictorial
form of a beach experience, to our life here on earth a new
and positive strength in a reality filled with life´s
questions.
Don´t
just listed to "Blue" in the background but give this
album your undivided attention. Let the poem spiritualize while
listening to the music and you will feel more consciously and
will be able to draw strength from it.
I wish you a pleasant journey through
"life" with "Blue".
(Text from the booklet included with the CD, where the above
mentioned poem "Footprints" from Margaret Fishback
Powers is also printed in its original form)
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Gemini
"Gemini",
the sign of the twins, constitutes the theme of the third BEAVER
album. Influences from Mediterranean rhythms, Greek music, classic
and modern western music as well as a few dreamy romantic instrumental
ballads are combined together in the music of GEMINI to form
a multi-faceted New-Age album.
GEMINI
joins traditional middle and south European music; rhythms originating
from the Balkan area are mixed with pop-related beats and find
their symbiosis in this varied production. .
Orchestrations
having classic and oriental elements, pop beats, esoteric and
arrangements layed out epically even fuse in "Freedom"
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But
GEMINI is also soft and romantic; with its melodic piano lines,
it invites you to dream and surprises again and again with its
powerful and partly tracked beats that reflect the zest for
life, the passion for all that is new and the striving for diversity.
After
the preceding album "BLUE", BEAVER presents with his
second CD a unique musical combination of instrumental music,
new age and world music in one. The conception of GEMINI is
at the same time a metaphorical and musical transposition of
the eternal fascination of the ocean and its tremendous powers
of nature, its unpredictability, the perceptiveness of wide
and never-ending horizons, and its calmness.
With
MINAS VLAHOS's painted gloss cover, GEMINI is also an artistic
masterwork.
GEMINI
fits in smoothly with the young World Music / New Age CDs from
Mediterranean Music.
Born
in the sign of the versatile and dualistic GEMINI, BEAVER has
turned out a many-sided and innovative album that does more
than justice to his basic principle out of Greek mythology -
PANTA REI
(all is in a state of flux).
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Yulara
Cosmic Tree
In
the language of the Australian Aborigines, YULARA means "The
Cry of the Dingoes".
This
band, led by Annie Hilsberg and Robert Matt, acts as a medium
between metaphysical transcendence and worldly transposition.
Their compositions integrate songs from humpback whales as well
as the meditative sounds of the far-reaching oceans and the
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YULARA´s
music rises to higher realms in a multi-colored mosaic of heavenly
premonitions, exotic instruments, charming songs and a prevailing
atmospheric mood. Ethnic, funk and celestial trance are mixed
together along with jazz, hip hop and modern dance elements.
"COSMIC
TREE" is a new musical form of communication that "speaks"
to the listener on a non-verbal level and mutually inspires
using the various languages of nature and life forms. YULARA
is a place without time where cultures are joined.
"COSMIC
TREE" is a perceptive and magical dream journey through
bewitching and unusual sound worlds, lingering harmonies and
traditional songs. Fascinating and original world jazz between
dream and reality.
www.yulara.com
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Yulara
all is one
YULARA,
the "Cry of the Dingos", is also the name of an Australian
village near the famous "Ayers Rock". This project
from ROBERT MATT and ANNE HILSBERG relates itself musically
to this holy rock and its tales. ALL IS ONE is world music,
a colorful and highly imaginative journey through the initial
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This
debut album from YULARA is refreshing and full of atmosphere,
a mixture out of modern grooves, jazz harmonies, meditative
sound collages and ethno sounds.
The
musical style of YULARA combines skillfully and tastefully acoustic
impressions with complex compositions that follow a musical
journey through the Far East and Australia. ALL IS ONE is sensitive,
meditative music that not only opens up the doors to new worlds
but also encourages a soul-searching pause.
YULARA
presents a remarkably produced CD, an adventure of a special
kind of world journey that no one should miss.
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Minas
Vlahos
Minas
Vlahos was born on September 2nd 1956 on the island of Karpathos
and here he spend his childhood. On this little greek island
between Crete and Rodes, with its sometimes rough but gentle
charakter, he began painting when he was a little boy. This
passion didn't let him loose for the rest of his life.
During
his ten years in the USA he developed the wish to open his
own art gallery. A few years ago he managed to realize his
dream and opened his own
Studio. With the >ART CENTER< he created a gallery whose
harmony of music and Minas pictures is very inviting. His
exposition is open for the public from the first of May till
the end of October. With the opening of his gallery he made
many friends all over the world. It is always worthwhile to
visit the >ART
CENTER<,
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but
the visitors should take their time and the
artist will be pleased to answer their questions.
Minas is very happy if he can present and at
the same time give his audience a part of hinself.
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