Journey With The Sun (CD)

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• Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Label: Living Music
• UPC: 010488003820
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106613130
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The Earth Band: Paul Winter (soprano saxophone); Arto Tuncboyaciyan (vocals, sazabo, percussion); Eugene Friesen (cello); Davy Spillane (whistle, Uilleann pipes); Paul Halley (keyboards).

Additional personnel: Mickey Hart, Niamh Parsons (vocals); Zan McLeod (guitar); Damian Draghici (panflute); Jerry O'Sullivam (Uilleann pipes); Dorothy Papadakos (organ); Jordan Rudess, Jim Beard (keyboards); Eliot Wadopian (bass); Vardan Grigoryan (zurna).

Recorded at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Paul Winter.

JOURNEY WITH THE SUN was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

JOURNEY WITH THE SUN invokes a plethora of musical styles. From Turkey to Ireland, West Africa to Romania, Armenia to The United States, this album contains musical spices from many different countries.

Long time Earth Band members Paul Halley (piano) and Eugene Friesen (cello) offer familiar atmospherics. However, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead drummer) and Davy Spillane (Riverdance uilleann piper) add new color to the band's sound. Hart's percussive acumen and Spillane's piping skills are especially effective on the Celtic pieces "Last Oasis" and "Land of the Pipers." Nonetheless, the album's brightest star is singer and percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan. Using a polyglot of languages, Tuncboyaciyan soliloquizes beautifully over the euphoric "Caravan of Dawn" and the mournful "Oror Bubrik." Paul Winter's own soprano saxophone adds further dimension to this music. His playing on "Mountain Wedding" is particularly inspired in its mixing of Balkan folk music with light jazz. Overall, JOURNEY WITH THE SUN is more than just a cultural experiment; it encourages listeners to contemplate music from a deeper, more universal perspective.

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