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The Library CD Shelf

Generous Night, Redeem
Ryan Marvel
Ryan Marvel Music
www.ryanmarvel.com
$TBA CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Generous Night, Redeem is a rapturous, new age solo piano album by award-winning pianist, composer, and arranger Ryan Marvel. The mellifluous soundscape invites the listener on a journey of memories, love, evolution, and learning to let go. A quietly
relaxing experience, Generous Night, Redeem is highly recommended especially for fostering a peaceful, meditative mindset. The tracks are "Lunar Melody", "Whispered Words", "Crying Heart at Sleepless Dawn", "Fleeting Passage", "Overwhelm", "The Face of
Truth", "Generous Night, Redeem", "Evening's Benediction", "Grounding", "Veiled
in Tender Warmth", "Breath of the Vagabond", "Shifting Winds of Providence", "Sweet Memory, Deliver", and "Glance the Stars". 49 min., 30 sec.

Fontis
Voxfire
www.voxfire.band
Orenda Records
www.orendarecords.com
$TBA CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Fontis is an extraordinary, genre-crossing experiment of a music album. The group Voxfire, consisting of three female vocalists plus two instrumentalists/arrangers, perform songs in medieval dialects that were once spoken in 12th to 14th century Spain
and France. Individual songs include church chants, secular troubadour tunes, music that could have been sung during religious pilgrimmages, romantic compositions, and more. Many have anonymous writers. All are brought to life with a modern-day
passionate performance, in this album that is equal parts history and modern-day re-imagining with elements of jazz, folk, pop-rock and more. Fontis is highly recommended for connoisseurs in search of a unique, inspirational listening experience, as well
as public library collections. The tracks are "Fontis", "Vella E Mina", "Ondas", "Sen Calar", "A Chantar", "Laudemus", "Esta Montana", "Loudemus II", "Polorum", "Rosa Das Rosas", "Ya Viene", "Tu Secreto" and "Por Deus".

Every Single Star
Dori Freeman
www.dorifreeman.com
Blue Hens Music
$12.79 CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Every Single Star is an original album of Appalachian music written and performed by Dori Freeman. Heartfelt and down-to-earth, Every Single Star is about the joys of marriage and motherhood. Vibrant and heartwarming, Every Single Star resonates with
Freeman's love for her husband, daughter, and family, and is a beautiful treasure that stands out amidst its own genre. Every Single Star is highly recommended for both personal and public library Appalachian music collections,
and also makes an
excellent gift! The tracks are "That's How I Feel", "All I Ever Wanted", "Like I Do", "You Lie There", "Another Time", "Go On", "Darlin' Boy", "Walls Of Me And You", "2 Step", and "I'll Be Coming Home".

The Lightness of Dark
Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel
Featuring the Kanimbla Quartet
Little Hartley Music
LittleHartleyMusic.com.au
$15.99 CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Fiona Joy Hawkins, Rebecca Daniel, and the Kanimbla Quartet combine their talents in The Lightness of Dark, a poignant music album about the loss, mourning, and recovery. The thoughtful, emotionally moving songs are about finding a way to move forward
through the darkness. Crafted with masterful performances of piano, violin, quartet, and voice, The Lightness of Dark is highly recommended for both personal and public library music collections. The tracks are "Heavenly Voices", "Ghosts Insanity Angels",
"Elegy", "Lake of Contemplation", "Interwoven Threads of Chance", "Sugar Plum Ghost", "Lightness of Dark", "The Bit in the Middle", "Empty Moments", "Necessity for the Mundane", and "Finding the Way Out".

Wings
Peter Kater
Privately Published
$12.57 CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Grammy-winning pianist-composer Peter Kater presents Wings, an instrumental new-age album created to intrigue and inspire. The dreamlike soundscape induces
flights of fancy, granting metaphorical wings of imagination. Wings is highly recommended to
connoisseurs, and also makes an excellent gift! The tracks are "Raven's Wings",
"Wings of Love", "Hold Me Close", "Angel's Nest", "Wings", "Flight", "Swallow River", "Remembrance", "When We Meet Again", and "Flight Reprise".

Compassion
Sangeeta Kaur
Sangeeta Kaur Music
www.sangeetakaurmusic.com
$15.99 CD amazon.com

Compassion is the fourth new age/classical crossover album by Sangeeta Kaur. Her beautiful soprano vocals, supported by collaboration with the Hungarian Studio Orchestra, Hungarian Student Choir, and others, makes Compassion a rapturous listening
experience. Compassion is highly recommended, especially for new age/classical connoisseurs and public library collections. The tracks are "Om Tare Tuttare", "Rise Up", "Transcendence", "May the Long Time Sun", "Song of Compassion", "Om Vajra Sattava Hum"
, "We are One", "Sa Re Sa Sa", "Voices and Crystals", and "Voices of Compassion". 54 min., 42 sec.

Becoming Tomorrow
Jarred Walker
jarredwalker.com
Privately Published
$TBA CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Contemporary instrumental pianist-synthesist Jarred Walker presents his debut album Becoming Tomorrow, a lively showcase of acoustic piano supported by instrumentation from bass, drums, percussion, strings, electric piano, cymbals,
clarinet, tambourine
and more. A lively, masterfully crafted new-age treat, Becoming Tomorrow speaks
to pursuing one's dreams with full steam ahead. Highly recommended! The tracks are "Something New", "Along for the Ride", "Dream of the Firefly", "Fill the Stars", "Steam
Horse", "This Time", "Turning Point", "Looking Back", "Around the Block", and "End of the Line".

Promise
FLOW
flowthegroup.com
LMB Music
$13.98 CD amazon.com

Award-winning, four-piece ensemble group FLOW presents Promise, their sophomore
album of contemporary New Age music. Featuring guitar, piano, flugelhorn, ukulele, percussion, and vocalizations, Promise is a crisp, uplifting current, highly recommended
especially for connoisseurs of the genre. The tracks are "promise", "something on tuesday", "adrift at sea", "all these years", "last light", "fresh air", "nightfall", "blue umbrella", "chasing secrets" and "memoire du dome".

HaitiaNola
Lakou Mizik
www.lakoumizik.com
Cumbancha
www.cumbancha.com
$TBA CD / $9.49 MP3 amazon.com

Haitian roots revival group Lakou Mizik combine their talents with an extraordinary list of guest artists from the New Orleans music scene in HaitiaNola, an original album created during recording sessions in both New Orleans and Haiti. Haiti and New
Orleans have an intertwined history and culture for over 200 years; HaitiaNola blends the best of both worlds into a lively, joyous soundscape. Highly recommended! The tracks are "Renmen", "Pistach Griye", "La Fanmi", "Kay Granpa", "Loumandja", "Lakou
Dogwe", "Azaka Vini We'n", "Iko Kreyol", "Sa Na Kenbe", "Rasanbleman", "Grann",
"Manman Lavi", "Bouyon Lakou", and "Mizik Sa Yo".

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