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ANTHEMS (LMUS 0023)
| TRACKING | TEN YEARS OF LIVING MUSIC |
An eloquent introduction to the first ten years of Living Music, featuring some of the world's finest jazz, classical and ethnic musicians, along with extraordinary voices from the great symphony of wildlife.
"[..]With a spirit of gladness, we offer this retrospective of the first ten years of Living Music - these anthems to the Sun, to life, to love...to mystery, to music...and to the Earth" (Paul Winter)
"One of the finest and most important contemporary instrumental
retrospectives of the year." (NEW AGE JOURNAL)
Celebrating Living Music's tenth anniversary, ANTHEMS presents 17 of the
label's classics from a range of Paul Winter and the Consort's musical adventures,
including selections from 16 albums.
- 'Sun Singer Theme' from SUN SINGER
- 'River Music' from ARMS AROUND YOU
- 'Magdalena' from CALLINGS
- 'Song for Joyce' from OSCAR!
- 'Appalachian Morning' from EARTH:VOICES OF A PLANET
- 'Humphrey's Blues' from WHALES ALIVE!
- 'Full Circle' from NEW FRIEND
- 'Peasant Revels' from WINTERSONG
- 'Bedrock Cathedral' from CANYON
- 'Anthem' from PIANOSONG
- 'Icarus' from WOLF EYES
- 'Down in Belgorod' from EARTHBEAT
- 'Kyrie' from MISSA GAIA / EARTH MASS
- 'Hymn' from HOMECOMING
- 'Ubi Caritas' from ANGEL ON A STONE WALL
- 'Solo Whale' from SONGS OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE
- 'Sun Singer' from SUN SINGER
"Subtitled 'Ten Years Of Living Music,' the album reflects the many facets undergone by the jazz/new age soprano saxist's label, like Oscar Castro-Neves' Brazilian-tinged guitar stylings, Ralph Towner's inspired, worldly theme "Icarus," Eugene Friesen's cello reveries, and recordings of whale, sea-lion, and wolf calls. The album's inherent diversity of sound is threaded by the warmth and melodic clarity of the Winter Consort, which remains consistent throughout." (BILLBOARD MAGAZINE)
Ten Years of Living Music by Paul Winter
an-them (án-them) n. a song of praise or gladness"The story of Living Music is interwoven with that of the ensemble I chose to call the 'consort', and the vision involved during a two-decade saga of adventre-through-music which began with my college jazz sextet in the early 1960's. Milestones in this journey include the Sextet's horizon-expanding tour through 23 Latin American countries in 1962, our seven initial albums for Columbia Records, under producer John Hammond, my sojourns in Brazil during the mid-sixties, meeting Pete Seeger in 1966, and hearing the songs of whales in 1968. The Consort was founded that year as a fourm for exploring all the musics I had come to love. We made three studio albums with producers Phil Stookey and Phil Ramone and then the ICARUS album, produced by George Martin and recorded in the summer of 1971 in the unhurried, unpressured atmosphere of a rented house near the sea. That landmark experience underscored the importance of establishing a place where we could noursih our music and our community. Annual visits to the exemplary Maine homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing inspired me to find a barn and some land of my own, in northwest Connecticut, where we could live our music. The album COMMON GROUND was recorded here during a summer-long outdoor music 'village', interweaving elements from different musical traditions with the voices of whale, wolf and eagle.
"The momentum that finally launched Living Music Records came from several different directions: the Consort's by-then bulging wish-list of albums we dreamed of creating; the encouranging growth of an audience who not only listened but cared about the earth; and the accumulated frustration of experiences with large record companies. Another great impetus was the invitation to be artists-in-residence at New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine. This Gothic cathedral, the world's largest, has extraordinary acoustics, and we were thrilled with the prospect of recording our future albums here.
"[..]Ten years seem now to have passed like ten minutes. Yet we have 22 albums of which we are intensely proud. And this decade has provided a gamut of experiences richer than I could have imagined.
"[..]With a spirit of gladness, we offer this retrospective of the first ten years of Living Music - these anthems to the Sun, to life, to love...to mystery, to music...and to the Earth"
(extract from Paul Winter in the liner notes to ANTHEMS)
"A celebration of the diversity and spirit of life on earth [...]. The plethora of guest and ethnic instruments expand Winter's recorded vocabulary [...] This joyous amalgamation is remarkably well realized." (IT'S HIP!)
