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Release Date: 22-08-2007
Label: Gemini Sun Records
Catalog Number: GSR2030
Barcode: 753223203023
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mirror Lake [04:55] | 7 | Yosemite Valley [04:52] |
| 2 | El Capitan [04:42] | 8 | Glacier Point [04:38] |
| 3 | Sentinel Meadow [02:38] | 9 | Half Dome [04:26] |
| 4 | Tioga Road [04:09] | 10 | Nevada Falls [04:53] |
| 5 | Merced River [04:57] | 11 | Valley Of The Giants [03:38] |
| 6 | Wilderness Trail [04:19] | ||
Description:
It is true - our blue planet is an indescribably beautiful place, and we are merely visitors here in the last second of our cosmic calendar. Our show of respect for planet Earth, if not through music alone, can leave giant impressions upon the muddy marshes and plains to be preserved for eternity. Yosemite can be best described as a Valley of Giants. Its' towering cliffs and awesome majesty leave millions breathless each and every year. One can only imagine the giant footprints left here as our ancestors marveled at the work created from millions of years of living earth. Join Mars Lasar as he journeys through space and time while capturing the reverence of this magical place, a musical portrait so amazingly beautiful it simply glows with love and respect for our home. Our gift to you is this music, and with your purchase, a portion of proceeds will support the Yosemite National Park.
Biography:
Born in Germany, Mars Lasar (lah ZAHR) moved to Australia with his parents when he was less than a year old. He started playing the piano at age eleven and received training in classical, jazz and composition. At age fifteen he won the Young Composers Award at the Sydney Opera House. It was around this time that he also developed an interest in using computers to create music. Computers were fascinating to me because I could manipulate them to create so many different types of textures, he recalls.
Of his earliest influences Mars admits, tongue-in-cheek, I have to take my hat off to Beethoven, but he also cites such disparate performers as Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, early Van Halen, Alan Parsons, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre as sparking his musical interest. In high school he began dabbling in abstract concrete music with a friend who taped frequencies off the short wave radio and incorporated them into musical pieces, an early form of sampling. Later, Mars joined the Australian band IQ where he was discovered by the President of Fairlight Computers who hired him as the company's in-house composer. I received calls from all over the world from fans of my Fairlight compositions, he says. The exposure led to a series of free-lance commercial and soundtrack work for the likes of Chrysler-Plymouth, Duracell and Kleenex and such television shows as Baywatch, Equal Justice and This is the NFL. In 1987, Mars created the score for Sounds Like Australia, a wildlife film that employed the Fairlight in taking the sounds of nature and shaping and reworking them into music. In 1990, noted producers Hans Zimmer and Trevor Horn brought Mars to America to work on the soundtrack for the Tom Cruise film Days of Thunder. Horn then brought him in to help with an album by new artist Seal, which ended up earning a Grammy nomination.
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