Earth Music, by Paul Winter

Earth Music

by Paul Winter

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1.	Cathedral Forest 05:54	info	buy track
2.	Wolf Eyes 06:05	info	buy track
3.	Sax-Wolf Duet 00:45	info	buy track
4.	Sea Song 06:29	info	buy track
5.	Sun Singer 05:08	info	buy track
6.	Dancing Particles 05:17	info	buy track
7.	Eagle 02:09	info	buy track
8.	My Father’s Smile 05:00	info	buy track
9.	Canyon Chaconne 05:52	info	buy track
10.	Belly of the Whale 05:30	info	buy track
11.	The Rising Moon 04:37	info	buy track
12.	Sunderland 05:23	info	buy track
13.	Adagio 05:11	info	buy track
14.	And the Earth Spins 05:08	info	buy track

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Some thoughts on “Earth Music”
by Paul Winter

Throughout the several decades of the Consort’s journey, the most perennial question we’ve been asked has been: “What do you call your music?” “Earth Music” is the response I’ve most often given, as that term embraces the totality of our field of play, and our long-going aspirations to celebrate the cultures and creatures of the whole Earth.

I feel it’s time to put forth the answer with music, in the form of an album. Included are pieces celebrating the Grand Canyon, the old-growth forest of our Northwest, the ocean, the moon, and our star, the sun, with its quadzillions of dancing particles. Consorting with us are representative voices from what we think of as “the greater symphony of the Earth”: Spotted Owl, Timber Wolf, African Fish Eagle, and Humpback Whale. And no album or concert to me is complete without an offering from the great mentor of our Consort heritage, Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music awakens in me a resonance with the soul of the Earth.

We have been blessed to have had many opportunities and adventures over the years, and to have been able to pursue our mission of creating music of beauty in the service of the community of all life.

Thank you for listening,

For living music,
Paul

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released September 26, 2011

Produced by Paul Winter, Dixon Van Winkle

Paul Winter / soprano sax
Paul McCandless / English horn, oboe
Eugene Friesen / cello
Rhonda Larson / flute
John Clark / French horn
Mark Perchanok / Heckelphone
Paul Halley / piano, pipe organ
Paul Sullivan / piano, keyboard
Jeff Holmes / piano
Tim Brumfield / pipe organ
Eliot Wadopian / bass
Russ Landau / bass
Glen Velez / percussion
Ted Moore / percussion
Jamey Haddad / drums
Paul Wertico / drums
Gordon Gottlieb / timpani
Kenny Mazur / steel-string guitar

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Paul Winter Litchfield

Paul Winter is a seven-time Grammy-winning saxophonist, whose sextet was the first jazz group to perform at the White House in 1962. His second group, the Paul Winter Consort, interweaves sounds from the natural world with classical and ethnic traditions, and the spontaneous spirit of jazz. Their annual Winter Solstice Celebrations and Earth Mass are among the most popular events in New York. ... more