Nicholas Gunn Through the Great Smoky Mountains: A Musical Journ [New Age][2002]

Nicholas Gunn - Through the Great Smoky Mountains: A Musical Journ [New Age][2002]

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Product Details
List Price: $16.98
Audio CD (May 14, 2002)
Original Release Date: May 14, 2002
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Enhanced
Label: Gemini Sun Records
ASIN: B000066F09

Nicholas Gunn - Through The Great Smoky Mountains: A Musical Journey
MP3 | 320 Kbps | 110 MB
Genre: New Age

Tracklisting:
01. Call Of The Wild
02. The Highest Point
03. Cades Cove
04. Chieftain's Song
05. The Place Of Blue Smoke
06. Azaela Sunrise
07. Trail Of Fears
08. Awakening
09. Ramsey Cascades
10. Passage Through Ancient Relics
11. Dance Of Light

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The desert Southwest has been the source of more musical inspiration than just about anywhere else in the U.S., and Nicholas Gunn has been trekking through its surreal landscapes since his 1993 debut. He is one of the few flautists to evoke the Southwest without resorting to Native American flute. Instead, he relies mostly on a silver concert flute for most of his lush, often tribally rhythmic evocations. Beyond Grand Canyon is of a piece with all the albums he's released over the last decade or so, many of which have "Grand Canyon" somewhere in their titles. Favoring romantic harmonies and arrangements that border on Yanni 's terrain, Beyond Grand Canyon is on the lighter side of Gunn's oeuvre: often tending toward the sentimental, when a darker, more evocative touch might serve him better. Gunn plays flutes, stacks his voice in earthy, vaguely Native American-meets-Gothic choirs, and plays keyboards and percussion throughout the disc, accompanied sparingly by violinists (including Karen Briggs) and guitarists (including Johannes Linstead). Despite the Southwestern scenario, there's a surprising Celtic flavor to many of these tracks, including the title piece and "The Boneyard." And when it's not Celtic, Gunn brings a Latin and flamenco feel. On the companion DVD, the album tracks accompany a slickly produced slide show of Michael Fatali's color-saturated, painterly photographs, a vibrant, hyper-real Yang to Ansel Adams's stark and austere Yin. --John Diliberto

Gemini Sun Records
"A must have for all who appreciate music and art!"

Gemini Sun Records
"A great addition to any home theater."

From the Artist
Share with us a vision of purpose! Nicholas Gunn and Michael Fatali along with Gemini Sun Records and The Fatali Foundation each donate a portion of their proceeds from the sale of this CD/DVD and Michael Fatali art/prints to the Grand Canyon Association and other organizations that promote awareness and preservation of the natural world and its' powerful healing energies.

About the Artist
NICHOLAS GUNN - Classically trained, and with a reputation as one of the world’s best selling flutists, Nicholas Gunn is in the upper echelon of contemporary instrumentalists. Having sold nearly two million albums, making him a double Platinum artist! On his recordings, Gunn, who handles the arrangements and production, performs primarily on the concert classical C flute, but also plays bamboo flutes, wooden and tin whistles, synthesizers and a wide variety of drums and percussion instruments (and he occasionally adds background singing and chanting). But he also brings in special guest musicians which have included Yanni violinist Karen Briggs, cellist Sachi McHenry Patitucci, acoustic guitarist Zavier and various vocalists including Holland Zander, Casandra Sheard, Robert Miano, Peter Marmentini, and Navajo Razor Saltboy. Having been born in England, Nicholas studied at Great Britain’s prestigious Royal School of Music. In the early Nineties, Gunn’s debut recording Afternoon in Sedona, was released and was a best-seller at national retail chains such as Natural Wonders and the Nature Company. Nicholas’ subsequent albums each became a bestseller and went straight to the Billboard New Age charts, where they maintained success. The Music of the Grand Canyon was on the Billboard New Age charts for 32 weeks. In addition, Nicholas’ music has been featured on more than 20 compilation albums and has served as high-fidelity demo music for the speaker company Bose Audio. The series of National Park recordings, including his latest "Beyond Grand Canyon," in which Nicholas celebrates our nation’s protected nature reserves, has also enabled Nicholas to engage in another project, to assist in the preservation of the natural wilderness that has always served to inspire him. Nicholas donates back a portion of the proceeds from each album to help protect and preserve these National treasures. "I want my music to accomplish several things," Gunn explains. "I want the music to stand on it’s own as an enjoyable experience with memorable melodies and arrangements. I believe that it captures the feeling and spirit that inspired it. I am happy to donate part of the proceeds from some of my albums toward worthy causes, but really it is the fans that are buying my albums that are personally contributing."
MICHAEL FATALI - "Over the years, I have learned to use my creative voice for the gospel of nature and the universal energy of her love and beauty." The first introduction to his love affair with the outdoors began with many hiking and camping trips with his father during Fatali's childhood. Michael Fatali lost his mother to cancer when he was 14 years of age. He sought solace and comfort during many treks in the desert of the Southwest. This developed his heightened awareness and reverance for God's creation and what shaped his life mission as a voice for the gospel of nature. This healing voice allows the viewer to slip into the grace and beauty captured through his renderings of light, untouched by computers, color filters, or alterations other than the lens of his mind's eye. He soon formed The Fatali Foundation to heighten appreciation and awareness of the healing powers from the spirit of creation and the mystery of our eternal connection with it. The images of Fatali are donated throughout the world to charities and to patients receiving end of life care, as well as those who are on a journey of healing. After Fatali's artistry was dicovered, many publications and television featured stories quickly gained him both regional and international recognition as one of the world's top landscape photographers. His sensitive eye for spirit and light has become his own unique photographic voice in the world of photography and filmmaking. You are invited to visit and experience a personal tour of his breathtaking original photographs at one of The Fatali Gallery locations: Henderson, Nevada and Springdale, Utah.

Product Description
BEYOND GRAND CANYON is a journey through music and images, which transcends the awakened awareness by infusing the Southwest’s phenomenal beauty with other worldly energies of light and sound. Nicholas Gunn and Michael Fatali have collaborated their creative passions to share with you this unique Audio-Visual experience, which inspires and informs. The soothing power of the musical compositions resonate a spiritual movement and vibration, through an ancient symphony of creation and a twenty-five year odyssey of stunning imagery. It enlightens and lifts the human spirit up to the eternal connection we all share with the natural world. This CD/DVD is one of the most innovative art forms created, making it a great addition to any home theater – a "must have" for all who appreciate music and art! CD run time: 49:21 DVD run time: 57:20 Wide Screen Format - 48K/24Bit Audio Special menu selections include interviews with Nicholas Gunn and Michael Fatali.

This inventive, beautifully melodic composer, flutist, keyboardist, and producer has made nature appreciation a true art form. He launched his career a decade ago with Afternoon in Sedona and has recorded incredibly lush sonic interpretations of the Southwest and Grand Canyon since then. His national park itinerary moves east to Tennessee this time, where he's inspired once again to create an impressionistic travelogue of tribal rhythms, dreamy atmospheres, and hypnotic melodies, spiced with evocative nature sounds, all in the service of telling tales of the Great Smokies' ancestral past with an eye toward their future preservation. Gunn's journeys are the new age listener's joyful gain. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide

Memorable and enthusiastically recommended selections, August 10, 2002
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Nicholas Gunn is a classically trained and superbly talented flutist, keyboardist, and percussionist. In Through The Great Smoky Mountains, Gunn draws upon his native ability and obvious talent to musically conjure and reflect the spectacular scenery and breath-taking beauty of the Appalachian mountain range that straddles the boarder of Tennessee and North Carolina. The memorable and enthusiastically recommended selections comprising Through The Great Smoky Mountains include: Call of the Wild; The Highest Point; Cade's Cove; Chieftan's Song; The Place Of Blue Smoke; Azalea Sunrise; Trail of Tears; Awakening; Ramsey Cascades; Passage Through Ancient Relics; and Dance of Light.

First time listener, December 30, 2004
Reviewer: Andrew Wootress "SprSynJn" (San Diego, CA USA)
Before I listened to this artist on Lanch, I never heard of him before. I was amazed at how well a man from England could take the old Southwest atmosphere and create such a beautiful stream of music. I listen to it and I feel as though I am living during the time when this land was new, which I think is what his purpose was. The way he was able to incorporate the sound of this lands ancestors (by that I mean Native Americans) and his style of New Age is simply incredible. I look forward to what this man comes up with in the future.

SPECTACULAR !, August 18, 2002
Reviewer: Lee Anne (Phoenix, Az United States)
This was a birthday present to ME from ME (i do this every year)this is about my 5th or 6th cd of his between me & my husband,(he always wants to borrow this one.once again Nicholas has come through,we live in Az most of his music is fron the southwest i have to admit i was doubtful at first BUT... he has really shown his talents by going to the midwest.Pop it in the cd player & let your mind wander you WONT be disapointed.

Through the Great Smoky Mountains, July 28, 2002
Reviewer: John S. Shahan (Gainesville, FL United States)
Nicholas Gunn is at his best when his music has a more narrative quality. This album recreates that same narrative feeling that he put into his Grand Canyon masterpiece. I am not sure that I don't like this one even more. At first I thought the "out west", native American quality was a little out of place. Then I realized that this land was once the "hunting ground" of the Cherokees and other "Indians." The piece is also a little more reflective and haunting than the Grand Canyon works, which goes along with the more haunting and "settled" quality of the Smoky Mountains. All I can say is that I can't wait for more of this kind of work from him.

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