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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Islands In The Clouds by Doug Wisler
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fave it Ambient | New Age
13 tracks | 64 minutes
Released Apr 2006
on Doug Wisler
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:35 Rainbows in the Sand lyrics BUY MP3 05:35 Rainbows in the Sand lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:35 Rainbows in the Sand
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 Coming Out of the Clouds lyrics BUY MP3 03:06 Coming Out of the Clouds lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:06 Coming Out of the Clouds
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:39 Dancing On the Moonlit Sea lyrics BUY MP3 04:39 Dancing On the Moonlit Sea lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:39 Dancing On the Moonlit Sea
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 Serenity Shores lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 Serenity Shores lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 Serenity Shores
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:41 Joy Far From Home lyrics BUY MP3 04:41 Joy Far From Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:41 Joy Far From Home
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:31 Remembering Distant Waters lyrics BUY MP3 05:31 Remembering Distant Waters lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:31 Remembering Distant Waters
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:58 Smooth Sailing lyrics BUY MP3 04:58 Smooth Sailing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:58 Smooth Sailing
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 Wherever the Wind Takes Me lyrics BUY MP3 04:14 Wherever the Wind Takes Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:14 Wherever the Wind Takes Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:05 Floating Over Still Waters lyrics BUY MP3 06:05 Floating Over Still Waters lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:05 Floating Over Still Waters
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Rising and Falling in the Swells lyrics FREE 03:57 Rising and Falling in the Swells lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Rising and Falling in the Swells
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Blue Sea lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Blue Sea lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Blue Sea
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:16 Going Against the Current lyrics BUY MP3 05:16 Going Against the Current lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:16 Going Against the Current
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:21 The Lost Come Home lyrics BUY MP3 08:21 The Lost Come Home lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:21 The Lost Come Home
Beautiful, relaxing contemporary classical/new age piano music. Emotionally involving. Creative and evolving. For rest, renewal and inspiration.
Bio / Background
Doug started formal piano lessons at age seven and took up the (notorious) accordion in high school. A major in music education at San Jose State College necessitated a return to classical piano (in 1957). He developed a strong liking for impressionistic and 20th Century classical music. After a BA and graduate work, he then taught public school music and private piano lesson for years. Only after leaving school teaching did he discover and develop his own individual improvisatory style. Finally, with the encouragement of family and the creative impulse coming yet more alive, he recorded his first CD, "Pleasant Dreams and Faraway Places" (also soon to be available on CD Baby), in 1999, at the Dave Austin Studio in San Francisco. Doug has just moved to Dallas, where he is performing.
Difficult to pigeonhole, Doug's music could be called "Contemporary Improvised Classical", or perhaps "Classical New Age". But the music is more important than the name.
↓ more ↓"I recorded this music live in real time with no post studio editing of the sound. Played on a 7 foot Steinway, it was not composed formally, but is completely improvised, and offer the listener the sounds of spontaneous music making.
I value the creation of life moment by moment, just as we live it day by day. While I sometimes wish I had the power to hold old conversations once again to improve on them, we all know that can't be done, movie plots to the contrary. But the other side of that coin is that particularly inspired moments can be created, and to capture those AND to be able to recreate them again and again for other is the miracle of recording that the old masters of improvisation like Bach and Beethoven did not have. Thus, to our disadvantage you only hear their written-down works (as beautiful as they are).
I hope to give the listener unique experiences - fresh and immediate creations - one-time-only performances - never played the same way again. I think the highest aesthetic results are possible if the door is left open to pull forth one's inner potential in this manner.
This music was accomplished with unpredictable but appropriate changes which came out of ever changing emotional, physical and artistic impulses. It is my purpose to express myself in a way quite different from the norm and with qualities that exceed the results of music set in concrete in advance. I hope this will result in unique and beautiful musical experiences.
While I felt much of my music was quiet and peaceful, I was surprised to find the word "relaxing" come up unsolicited with almost everyone who heard the CD. Massage therapists have used it to great success, while others have said they used it to calm themselves down after a stressful day. I hope you like it as well.
As each new season comes, my music evolves in style, form, and technique, taking the next step towards the ideal of complete communication with and emotional transformation of my audience.
Thank you for listening. I welcome any message you may with to communicate."
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