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Release Date: 22-03-2004

Label: Hearts of Space

Catalog Number: HS11412-2

Barcode: 25041141222

Musical Style: Space Music

Reviews:

'This is a masterful spiritual journey from one of the best of the genre... the first lady of e-music - the talented, legendary and beautiful Constance Demby... Indeed, the entire CD is already a classic! These soundscapes and atmospheres are gentle and soft, exactly what listeners and meditaters have come to expect, know and crave from Constance's music. The music has strong holistic healing and psychoactive overtone properties. Those qualities set the disc apart from the madding throng. They also place Constance in the perpendicular universe - rare air, indeed! This marvelous CD belongs in every serious meditater's collection. It is an absolute must-have!' -Jim Brenholts, ambientvisions.com, EER

Constance Demby is known as a musician who gives voice to spaceships and stargates, but on Spirit Trance, she returns to earth with a grounded and deeply felt collection of film music and rare re-mixes. After being nominated for the New Age Grammy with Novus Magnificat, Demby became known for her celestial harmonies and her ability to turn sound effects into real, evocative music. Her talent for giving life to unique sounds is evident on the albums stand-out track, 'Ocean of Life', where underwater echoes convey the enormity of the sea, while short, high notes vibrate like schools of fish moving though the dark. 'Legend' is a grand, sweeping piece that was written for an unreleased film about James Dean. On this track, Demby gives a sonic portrait with all the pathos you would expect from a 500-page tome on the actor. The earthbound tone of this album may surprise some of her fans, but careful listening reveals the artist's signature style. Symphonic and spiritual, Trance speaks to the soul and transports the listener to new realms without leaving the planet. -CD Universe

'Constance Demby is a pioneer in space music. Her album Novus Magnificant pretty much defined ambient musical styles in the late 80's and remains a benchmark of the sub-genre to this day. It's nice to know that almost two decades later, Demby still is making music that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Spirit Trance is a collection of film score excerpts (including the stirring theme from 'James Dean - An American Legend' and several quasi-spiritual compositions from 'I Am') and re-imagined pieces from her past repertoire. Each of these selections features an intricate array of space effects, vocal and chant textures, synthesizers that exhibit the sweeping grandeur of a symphony and isolated piano melodies that seem to wander amid the spacious backdrops. Complex and transcendent, this trip through the cosmos is a journey you won't want to miss.' - Blue Eagle Books

'Constance Demby is a prophet who speaks to us not in words, but music. Her music has annointed this world for some time, guiding us on an epic, sonic journey into the depths of spiritual feeling and discovery.Spirit Trance continues this journey, and words alone are inadequate to describe the depth, scope and emotion of this latest, magnificent work. Mysterious, alluring and compassionately welcoming, the music heals the soul as worries drain away, replaced with gentle healing and a sense of universal wonder. After hearing it, personal growth is a certainty. In this day and age of unease and world turmoil, her music is a remedy for souls that need soothing, wonder and hope.' - Chaiworks

'Composer of the Grammy nominated masterpiece, Novus Magnificat, Constance Demby has returned to the forefront of visionary New Age recordings with Spirit Trance. Developed from a variety of sources, including her acclaimed motion picture soundtracks, Spirit Trance has roots in nearly the entire span of her groundbreaking career. Arranged and blended to weave a seamless starry fabric, we are transported into deeply beautiful places within and beyond the self. Highly recommended.' -L. Starkey, East West

Description:

Constance Demby was one of the founding figures of the new age music format with her masterpiece NOVUS MAGNIFICAT. Her subsequent body of work has defined space music and her compositions are used everywhere - from planetariums and films to new age locations and compilations. This is Constance's first new record in two years and follows her best selling SANCTUM SANCTUORUM. The album includes songs from the soundtracks of two films, 'James Dean - An American Legend' and 'I Am'.

Biography:

An irrepressible personality with an infectious joie de vivre, Constance Demby is also a sincere spiritual seeker. A fifth generation Californian born in Oakland, Demby began classical piano studies at the age of eight. At twelve she moved to Connecticut where her artistic studies also included painting and sculpture.

Throughout the 70s, she gave concerts, workshops and visual/musical presentations all over the eastern seaboard. During this period, she began to develop new forms of contemplative classical music. By the end of the decade, she had established her own label and released her first albums of meditative and sacred spacemusic (Skies Above Skies and Sunborne).

Demby's music blossomed when she returned permanently to northern California in 1980 and began experimenting with electronic instruments. Two years later, she released Sacred Space Music Vol. 1, an enduring album featuring hammered dulcimer, acoustic piano and synthesizer (re-released in 1988, HS11010).

Soon after the arrival of digital sampling keyboards, Demby integrated symphonic instrumental sounds into her music and began recording in her own 16-track studio. There she produced Novus Magnificat (1986, HS11003). Her 1989 release Set Free (HS11016) added rhythms and influences from Bali and Africa to her contemporary classical base and was hailed as a first-rate release by an artist in her prime. Several international tours followed, to Europe, South America, the Canary Islands, Japan, Indonesia and beyond.

With the help of Jim Miller of Stratus Sounds, Demby updated her entire studio in the early 90s, replacing many of her early synthesizers with an impressive array of the latest electronic instruments and recording technology.

Additional Attributes:

Relaxing	Uplifting	Meditative	Exercise	Healing	Chant

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