Notes Along the Road

THE RECORDING: Dim the lights and give it a listen!   Our instrumental recording, Notes Along the Road, is now officially available from i-tunes for sampling, purchase and download.  Naturally, the BQ and I hope our friends who read Thronetogether will download a copy from i-tunes, and love it!  Of course, the if you'd leave behind a (gushing) review, we'd be even happier!  The recording contains 13 lovely, ambient songs, each a reflection on some place in Eastern Iowa.  Stylisticly, it's a nod to artists like Acoustic Alchemy, Enya and Bruce Hornsby, but the recording has it's own disctinct personality.  On both a musical and technical level, I'm pleased and hope you will be, too.  There are brief samples of each song at i-tunes.  As a style,  it's categorized as "New Age," but I'm more comfortable calling it "True Age" instead <g>.

One of the pieces is called "Ellis Park, Frozen in Time," a musical painting of that stunning park iced over in the dead of winter, when the Cedar River is frozen and covered with fresh snow.  A personal favorite of mine is "Bluffs of Palisades Keplar;" a slowly meandering piano captures the river winding through those granite bluffs.  A 4th of July in Marengo is the inspiration for "Marengo Parade," complete with marching bands and the grand marshall in a convertible!  If you've visited the Palo Chain Lakes bridge, you'll recognize the cover art and the source of the song, "Beyond the Bridge at Chain Lakes."