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Andreas Vollenweider - Air
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 509 MB | Full Artwork: 72 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Edel Records # 0196302CTT | Country/Year: Germany 2009
Genre: Electronica, Folk | Style: Newage

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We are very exited to present to you AIR, a very special new album with a very special history; it came as a surprise, even for Andreas himself! For 2008/9 he had planned to take time off to focus on other projects than music.

Andreas: "I actually was going to make room for my passion for storytelling and I was already in the midst of an intense writing process, when suddenly I felt an unbridled desire to play music rising. So I ended up writing during the day and at night I went to my studio, to completely lose myself in the playing, for hours, very much the same way as in the very beginning, no strategy, no concrete purpose, no plan. After some time it became very obvious; something wanted to come out and I should follow its 'calling'. I love the line 'man makes plans for the amusement of the gods…', how true this many times is ;-)."

Andreas began to call his friends and invited them for a spontaneous gathering in his studio… and in less than two weeks AIR was recorded.

A I R – the name says it all

• Music, passionately relaxed and uncompromisingly beautiful
• Music, tailor-made for people of our times who

- feel the need to take a deep breath again

- are longing to slow down

- need a break, a moment to themselves

- are looking for a protective distance from the overwhelming flood of impressions, expectations and pressures from all sides …

- need a little time to reflect, to ponder

• Music with a gentle breeze blowing through its delicate sound tapestries

Vollenweider: “Listening to music is a perfect ‘excuse’ to take a little time-out from our lives’ crazy merry-go-round of speed, pressure and expectations. Listening to music is a ‘permitted time-out’, so to speak, for which nobody would criticize us … music – used this way – is like a secret door to the very personal inner space, the home of our emotions, dreams and hopes. We invite you to visit this space, in fact we strongly recommend it! After all, that’s the reason why we recorded AIR.”

AIR’s strength is its consistently lyrical atmosphere. Describing the character of this basic atmosphere, terms such as ‘poetical, lyrical, melodic, personal, intimate, close, relaxed, tender, dreamy, sensual, acoustic, live’ come to mind…

There are no floating, artificial synthesizer sound tapestries on AIR, everything was recorded live by exceptional musicians who do not care about acrobatic and garrulous virtuosity and know that you have to allow ample space for that mysterious tension to build up in the pauses between the notes.

Vollenweider: “Our approach on AIR was to actually really play just very few notes and only imagine or hint at the rest of the music. This created a lot of air to breathe.”

AIR hits the pulse of our times by providing an effective remedy for breathlessness.

More than three decades ago, Vollenweider reinvented harp-playing. His sound is unique in the world. In many of the songs on AIR, he no longer plays his harp as an accompanying instrument, but brings it more to the fore. Largely without extensive orchestral sonic landscapes, the subtlety, refinement and musicality of his innovative playing are allowed to be truly appreciated.

Additional instruments, such as drums, percussions, lap steel guitar, flugelhorn, baritone saxophone, ocarina and voices are used very sparingly and played in a highly sensitive way.

Special Guest: Collaborations have always been a part of Vollenweider’s musical world. Luciano Pavarotti, Milton Nascimento, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Zucchero, Angelo Branduardi, Ray Anderson… it’s a long list of illustrious artists from very different musical cultures who Andreas Vollenweider has worked with.

AIR certainly doesn’t take second place to these collaborations: this time Xavier Naidoo, a highly respected German Singer, is Vollenweider’s guest, contributing his musical charisma. An encounter on MTV Unplugged – Andreas had been invited as Naidoo’s musical guest – spawned a fruitful cooperation which can be heard on the song “The Golden Dancing Shoes”. vollenweider.com

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