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Release Date: 16-08-1997
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HS11066-2
Barcode: 25041106627
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still Life With Lions | 10 | Thousand Whispers |
| 2 | Sand and String | 11 | Secret Rhythm |
| 3 | Promise and a Plea | 12 | Here Lies the Water |
| 4 | Chanarambie | 13 | Moors |
| 5 | Careen | 14 | Her Lost Feet |
| 6 | Three Feet From the Moon | 15 | Seventh Chance |
| 7 | Snake's Eye | 16 | Great Thaw |
| 8 | On the Green Cays | 17 | Private Mutiny |
| 9 | In This Small Spot | 18 | Drawn By hand |
Description:
Tim Story has abridged his early recordings and produced a retrospective that brings you the best pre-Hearts of Space albums.
English critic David Elliot calls it 'a catalog of emotions all perfectly parcelled up in miniature Modest in scale, private in nature overflowing with delicate, deeply felt character.'
Eighteen small enchantments and compact vignettes of piano, subtle synthesizers and glissando guitar - as full of unsentimental tenderness, as offbeat as they are beautiful.
Biography:
TIM STORY's intensely personal style as a pianist and synthesist developed from his love of the instruments themselves rather than any formal training. Other than some early guitar lessons, the Philadelphia-born artist is self-taught. After honing his keyboard skills on piano, he became a studio composer in the mid 70s with the advent of synthesizers.
From his base in Maumee, a small town near Toledo, Ohio, Story works as a recording engineer and is also a partner in a commercial music production company. This deadline-ridden business is balanced nicely by his meticulous compositional process. When writing and recording his own albums, Story spends months carefully working and refining the shape of each composition until he achieves the desired emotional effect. His seemingly simple pieces distill harmonic and melodic ideas that are actually quite complex.
