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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 11075-2
Barcode: 13711107524
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Song For Friendship [02:43] | 8 | Song for Edward [04:15] |
| 2 | Song for Peace [02:51] | 9 | Song for Marina [02:18] |
| 3 | Moscow Blues [03:52] | 10 | Song for Riya [02:02] |
| 4 | Song for Love [03:35] | 11 | Oche Cherrnouiye [02:40] |
| 5 | Syrinx [02:51] | 12 | Song for Rimsky [02:03] |
| 6 | Song for Understanding [03:48] | 13 | Song for Trane [03:33] |
| 7 | Song for Eugene [02:52] | ||
Description:
The reputation of flutist, Paul Horn is a traveler and searcher, in spirit as well as in body. He has endeavored to find inspirational locations to record his largely improvised pieces. Long before it became fashionable, Paul Horn was traveling within the Soviet Union, sharing his musical gift with responsive and appreciative audiences. This recording came during Horn's eighteen concert tour of the USSR in August of 1983. It is historic for it was done during the difficulty of a Soviet regime, in a city that was to become a herald of the sovereignty movement that ultimately liberated Lithuania and the other republics. During Horn's many stops, he was continually looking for just the right spot for another on-location recording. He found it in the 17th century Kazamieras Cathedral in Vilnius, which in 1983 served as a museum. Horn discovered the cathedral possessed a superb reverberation equal in decay time to the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. Late one night, when the huge church sat quite and empty, Horn sat beneath the 80-foot high dome and for two hours let his spirit flow out through his music. Horn is magical on a variety of wind instruments. During the evening, he played the C flute and alto flute and for the first time in the Inside series, he added the bass flute and saxophone. The music he captured on Inside the Cathedral is truly inspiring. It is peaceful, sweet, loving and emotional.
Biography:
A classically trained flautist, Paul Horn played jazz with Chico Hamilton, served as a top studio musician in Los Angeles and recorded with his own quintet in the early 1960s. During that time, he won two Grammy® Awards for his Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts. Increasing dissatisfaction with the Hollywood lifestyle led Horn to India on his search for alternatives, where he studied meditation and began to explore other ways of playing his instrument. The success of his intuitive and contemplative improvisations on Inside the Taj Mahal proved that audiences were ready for a new approach and opened the door to a series of recordings inside acoustic and architectural wonders around the world, including Inside the Great Pyramid and Inside the Cathedral. Both Horn's cross–cultural collaborations and his highly refined works for more conventional Western ensembles have garnered much critical acclaim.
Additional Attributes:
| Relaxing | Uplifting | Meditative | Exercise | Healing | Chant |
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