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Release Date: 09-06-1997
Label: Real Music
Catalog Number: RM1430-2
Barcode: 46286143024
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journey [05:39]  | 7 | Trail of Tears [08:08] |
| 2 | Mountain Majesty [05:32] | 8 | Innocent Land [07:31] |
| 3 | Flight of the Hawk [06:35] | 9 | Through the Veil of Time [03:43] |
| 4 | Appalachian Sunrise [06:30] | 10 | Settler’s Waltz [03:46] |
| 5 | Time Ago [05:43] | 11 | Courage to Dream [06:25] |
| 6 | Ghost on Old Settler’s [05:29] | 12 | Napoleon’s Retreat [03:47] |
Description:
Emmy award-winning composer Gary Remal Malkin paints the Smokies in orchestral colors, adding touches of mountain fiddle, Native American drums and piano notes as soft and bright as raindrops. Evocative and deeply inspiring, this contemporary music captures the dignity of the American ancestry and heralds a vision of hope for the future.
Biography:
Born and raised in New York, Gary Remal Malkin has been playing the piano since the age of four, composing since twelve and producing and composing professionally since 1978. During high school, he studied composition and drama at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and went on to study piano and composition at USC and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In addition, Malkin did post-graduate work at San Francisco State University, studied jazz arranging and orchestration with Dick Grove and attended the renowned Ali Akbar College in Northern California, focusing on his interest in ethno- musicology under the tutelage of Ali Akbar Khan.
Malkin's formal training provides a solid foundation for his versatility and continuously evolving style. With elements of orchestral, funk, rhythm and blues, jazz and ethnic world music, his broad musical palette defies categorization. He is equally comfortable with state-of-the-art computer technology and acoustic instruments, effortlessly blending the two to give his compositions added dimension, depth and emotion.
In his professional career, Malkin has achieved major success as a composer for film and television, with a wide spectrum of credits attesting to his versatility. He has created original music for internationally distributed feature films, network and cable television series and documentaries and more than 1000 television commercials. He also has contributed his talents to a wide range of causes and socially responsible projects. The quality of Malkin's musical works has not gone unnoticed. He has received a number of prestigious awards. Among them, the highlights include ASCAP Film and Television Awards, four Emmys, a Cine Golden Eagle, a Joey and grand prizes in Best of the West, the NY Film and Television Awards and the ADDY's.
Driven by an urge to find his own voice of expression, Malkin decided to actively pursue success as a solo artist in the early 1990s.
Although he has embarked upon a new direction as a solo artist, Malkin continues to work in film and television. He is the principal composer and producer of the Remal Music Group, a San Francisco and Los Angeles based company that creates original music for films, television programs and commercials. Malkin currently resides in Northern California with his wife and daughter.
