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by Martin Tillman, Tim Wheater, and Michael
Hoope
*****
For those of you who are more inclined towards
classical music yet still want the soothing comfort most often
found in the new age genre, the CD album Afterglow
is a "must have" album. Afterglow is full
of paradoxes and complementary contradictions. It has been
composed without writing the music down so that, as in the
spirit of jazz, each of these superb musicians has had the
freedom to bring something very personally true to the creation
of this music.
Michael Hoope is a keyboardist and composer.
He has scored feature films and has been a contributor on
fifteen gold records. Martin Tillman is a Swiss cellist and
composer with classical training and has performed on thirty
other albums. Tim Wheater is a world class flutist and composer
who has recorded over a dozen albums and performed in styles
as diverse as rock/pop with the Eurythmics and classical with
many major symphony orchestras.
From the very first track on this CD, you
will discover that this music can penetrate your heart of
hearts to deeply stir and bring to the surface complex combinations
of emotion. The first song is titled "The Waiting."
It opens with a distant, thundering rain storm and is joined
by Tillman's dramatic cello which, as I listened, drew me
into long forgotten feelings of dissolving myself into true
communion with others. And yet, after touching old friend
memories and sadness of unfulfilled potential, Wheater's flute
once again lifted my spirits to joy and opened me to forgiveness
of myself and others. In listening to this music, it is possible
to discover how genuinely fragile we are as human beings and
how amazingly strong we are as spiritual beings. Of my personal
favorite songs, there is the fourth track, titled "Land
of Serenity," which leads into the fifth song, titled
"The Longing." In both of these songs, a Native
American style flute brings an undercurrent of melancholic
longing to a delicate balance of fragile hope.
It is a special musical gift to bring up
true emotions and yet another gift to move the listener through
those feelings. Afterglow will put you in touch with
your feelings. It is profoundly beautiful and emotionally
healing music.
Afterglow is available at Dancing
Moon Bookstore in Raleigh for preview listening. You can order
it through Dancing Moon or Hearts of Space, P. O. Box 31321,
San Francisco, CA 94131 or www.hos.com.
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