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Release Date: 09-06-1997
Label: Real Music
Catalog Number: RM0139-2
Barcode: 46286013921
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open Place  | 9 | Surprise Visit From an Old Best Friend |
| 2 | Autumn Drive | 10 | Wonder |
| 3 | First Kiss | 11 | Water Scenes |
| 4 | Heart on the Rise | 12 | Moonlight Boy |
| 5 | Love of Home | 13 | Way She Likes Things |
| 6 | Looking Glass | 14 | Laughter at Dawn |
| 7 | Happy Hat | 15 | Within The Rose of Lavender |
| 8 | From My Heart | ||
Description:
Fifteen songs capture the enchanting, romantic melodies reminiscent of his beloved Tender Ritual and Dusk. If you like the solo piano music of Jim Chappell, you'll love waking up to Laughter at Dawn.
Biography:
Tracking Jim Chappell's (shah-PELL) artistic development over the course of his multi-faceted career proves a rewarding study of true musical evolution. Since the independent release of his breakthrough solo piano collection Tender Ritual in 1986, he has become one of contemporary instrumental music's most engaging composers and performers.
Chappell's musical education developed through trial and error, with the greatest strides coming after leaving his native Michigan and traveling through various regions of the United States. Early stints writing pop tunes in Nashville and playing piano improvisations at the University of Oregon were fruitful, but didn't capture the soul of my music, he says. It was then that I realized that the free-flowing music I played when I came home after meeting with publishers was what I should be doing full time, Chappell recalls.
When I make an album, Chappell says, all I've ever done is create material as it comes to me. I'm not really in charge of that. As a creative person, you're working with something much greater than yourself.
