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Release Date: 09-06-1997
Label: Real Music
Catalog Number: RM0133-2
Barcode: 46286013327
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June Dance [04:11]  | 7 | Living the Northern Summer [04:36] |
| 2 | Boy and the River [03:58] | 8 | Adventure No. 8 [03:21] |
| 3 | Passing Place [03:53] | 9 | Dreams We Dreamt Together [05:51] |
| 4 | Finest of Times [03:04] | 10 | Embrace of a Lifetime [04:53] |
| 5 | Storm Rider [04:39] | 11 | Once in August [05:51] |
| 6 | Secrets in the Woods [05:38] | 12 | Golden Again [05:07] |
Description:
'The inspiration for this collection of songs is the variety of experiences I had during the summers I spent growing up in a northern part of the United States - Michigan. Each song is unique with its own distinctive melody.' --- Jim Chappell
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.
