Awakening (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Instrumental  »  Keyboard/Synthesizer
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• Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Label: Spring Hill Music
• UPC: 718795604326
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105766929
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #25773 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #173 in Instrumental (See Top 100 Instrumental Bestsellers)
• #26 in Keyboard/Synthesizer (See Top 100 Keyboard/Synthesizer Bestsellers)

Personnel: Robert Gass (vocals, arranger, harmonium, bells); Cantor Robbie Solomon (vocals); Jonathan Goldman (chant, bells); Elaine Bomford, Jane Howard, Allaudin Mathieu, Devi Mathieu (conductor); Randy Armstrong (acoustic guitar); Steve Webber (electric guitar); Mimi Robson (violin); Omar Faruk Tekbilek (oud, nay); Shira Kammen, Margot Krimmel (harp); Steve Gorn (bansuri flute); Evan Harlan (accordion); John Marshall (drums, cajon, rik, cymbals, djembe, maracas, udu drum, percussion); Guy Dedell (tabla, djembe, shekere, percussion); Glen Velez (percussion).

Recorded at Blue Jay Studio, Carlisle, Massachusetts; Sound Techniques, Boston, Massachusetts and Colorado Sound, Lakewood, Colorado.

Digitally remastered using HDCD technology.

Robert Gass has always had an ecumenical approach to chant, choosing vocal pieces from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions. Here he and his choir, On Wings of Song, cover two 14th century Spanish Catholic hymns, a traditional Turkish Sufi chant (that runs through the 99 names of God), a Jewish liturgical chant, Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu chants, The Lord's Prayer, and an alleluia set to Pachelbel's canon.

On Wings of Song has a wholesome, Protestant sound that works best on European numbers like the medieval hymns and the canon. This is a stirring collection of spiritual music, delivered with the utmost sincerity and solemnity.

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