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On
the borderline of Smooth Jazz and New Age you can find contemporary
instrumental legend David Lanz.
One should avoid to pigeonhole this composer
and pianist on one special style. His credo is:
“David
Lanz plays David Lanz music.” A rather complete survey about his
overwhelming discography is to find at
Wikipedia. Now you can add the new album
Movements Of The Heart (2013) to this
list.
It must be noted that, as expected, he remains true to his own style. David has recorded the entire album alone, so that you can concentrate on the actual music. David introduces into his new album with the wonderful piano piece Love's Return. The notes line up sonorously like a string of pearls. La Luna Dell' Amante is another sentimental piano tune with a very soothing attitude.
David draws the harmonic possibilities of his instrument with On Rainbow Way to the full. Even gentler follows David the melody on To Touch The Sky. With swaying rhythm he is linked to medieval ways. Warm-hearted romance is the right description for Rainlight. With I Hear You In A Song he delivers more emotional perspective to the audience.
Latest with The Way Home takes the melody the listener and does not let him go. Movements Of The Heart brings no change of the overall mood. White Horse is a good example of the range, we can experience in David's piano performance. In Moonlight is to be regarded as an approximation to classical music pieces such as by Claude Debussy. Same is to say about the following Midnight Adagio (Amarie's Theme).
After this self-imposed strict form, he dissolves
again with Here And Now to a popular sound sequence. The
album is closed with I See You In The Stars, aptly in the
style of the previous pieces.
David Lanz joins the illustrious group of pianists Jim Brickman and
Richard Clayderman, who clearly demonstrated by platinum selling
their excellence. Movements Of The Heart will surely follow
the success of earlier recordings.
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Album Information
Title: Movements Of The Heart
Artist: David Lanz
Year: 2013
Length: 1:01:32
Genre: General New Age
Label: Shanachie
Tracks:
01 Love's Return [4:11]
02 La Luna Dell' Amante [4:01]
03 On Rainbow Way [4:51]
04 To Touch The Sky [4:10]
05 Rainlight [6:00]
06 I Hear You In A Song [3:50]
07 The Way Home [4:11]
08 Movements Of The Heart [4:28]
09 White Horse [3:28]
10 In Moonlight [4:57]
11 Midnight Adagio (Amarie's Theme) [5:27]
12 Here And Now [6:55]
13 I See You In The Stars [5:03]