Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: OBR0618100
- Format: CD
- UPC: 888295879330
- Street Date: 05/10/19
- PreBook Date: 04/05/19
- Label: Orange Band Records »
- Genre: New Age
- Run Time: 50:49 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2019
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
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Ann Sweeten - Before Today, Beyond Tomorrow
All-out experience of intensity: at once passionate & tender, technically prodigious,with a range of dynamic & nuance.
- List Price: $15.99
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- In Stock: 18
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During the album's conception, Ann Sweeten was diagnosed with Leukemia. Before Today, Beyond Tomorrow refers to the time before diagnosis, and then to the horizon, beyond the immediate, with hope for the future. The album is an all-out experience of intensity: at once passionate and tender, technically prodigious with a range of dynamic and nuance that will astonish. The pieces on the album mark moments on her journey thru diagnosis, treatments and then onward to embracing the beauty of life despite unfortunate circumstances. Her music takes you to the Infinite and back again, all the while leaving the listener filled with love and hope.
In Sweeten's words:
''I have never needed a wake-up call in life thru diagnosis or event, as I have always felt so very present and awake, but this third diagnosis has dropped me to my knees, and in a way I can't explain, the world is different, my life is different. Life itself seems so fragile that I hold it like a wounded bird, so that it may grow well within my care and fly free again, carrying music on its wing.
In light of all this, I urge you to take the time to hear the birdsong in quiet April walks in the woods, to feel the sun in a sparkling sapphire sky with a salty brine in the air while sea ebbs and flows and you walk ALIVE, not alone, with a dog running free at your feet; to taste the truth of life in an intimate embrace, to delight, in the crunch of leaves beneath your shoes in Autumn's lusty haze, in the swirling magic of December snow, and in the majesty of Earth reborn in Spring, to be grateful for all that graces your day in the smallest of creatures and in the smallest of gestures, for the stars in the midnight fields, and for Love wherever it may appear. I carry on!''
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Sweeten has vanquished cancer twice and now is faced with a third go round. With the spirit she imbues her new age/contemporary instrumental piano playing with and the friends that are gathered here around her, you can hear and feel why this is the kind of set that could reignite new age back into the mainstream, this is the kind of quality music that Duke Ellington would refuse to label. Simply as good as it gets.
—Chris Spector, Midwest Records
With a team of consummate professionals behind her, Ann Sweeten has pulled off a masterstroke of an album, one that will stir your emotions, that will leave you deeply moved, that will inspire you...
—Steve Sheppard, One World Music
...an emotional roller coaster of ten cuts...excellent music
—Bob Morello, Boston Post-Gazette
Ann Sweeten is an outstanding new age musician...This music is beyond heartfelt. The notes seem to come from somewhere deep down inside of Ann Sweeten, and fortunately for us, she lets them out into our world.
—Magle International Music Forums
Before Today, Beyond Tomorrow is her story set to music. Words are not necessary with such talent at the keys. The eloquence and beauty of piano instrumental music reach new heights for the artist on this release.
—Keith Hannaleck, New Age Music Reviews
Ann Sweeten gives the world one musical gift after another... a new age music stalwart, a beloved composer and performer who can be counted on to always deliver the goods. Her melodies are always terrific.. they simply work..they make you feel.
—Buzz Music