【新世紀鋼琴】Paul Cardall 2011 《New Life》

 

專輯英文名: New Life 藝術家: Paul Cardall 類型: New Age 資源格式: MP3 320Kbps 發行時間: 2011年 專輯介紹: Paul Cardall was born with a severe heart defect, and was only given a few months to live. However, he survived through numerous surgeries. He began piano lessons at the age of eight but quit after six months because he was frustrated with the practice routine. During high school Cardall lost a close friend and in search of solace he sat at the family piano and discovered his ability to play by ear and transcribe the feelings of his heart through music. Cardall would play the piano two to three hours a day. Cardall studied a couple of months with pianist Craig Kaelin and credits him with teaching Cardall how to chart music (which would later serve a valuable purpose in his studio recording sessions.) Cardall lived 36 years with Congenital Heart Disease. He was born with only a single functioning ventricle or half-heart. In August 2008, with his heart failure, Cardall was listed for a heart transplant. After waiting 385 days, he received a donated heart via transplant on September 9, 2009. Cardall and his wife Lynette have one child, a daughter named Eden. 專輯曲目: 01 - The Traveler 02 - Letting Go 03 - Delayed 04 - Life and Death 05 - Gracie's Theme 06 - Journey Within 07 - Sign of Affection 08 - Restless Hope 09 - Coming Home 10 - Father in Heaven 11 - Sweet is the Work 12 - New Life 13 - Gratitude 14 - Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Benefit celebrates musician's 'New Life' By Carma Wadley Deseret News Published: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 4:00 p.m. MST It's not just about the heart — the one he was never sure he would get in time — although, that, certainly, is part of it. But it's also about knowing that someone else had to die so that he could live. It's about learning to live in a world without a beloved brother, who was killed in a tragic incident. It's about learning more of the depth of character and faith of his wife and family. It's about being able to go hiking and camping and to Disneyland. It's about developing a deeper relationship with a kind and loving Father in Heaven. It's about burdens of grief and guilt, but also about the lift of unspeakable hope and joy. In short, it's about finding a new life. "There have been so many emotions," Paul Cardall says of the 16-month journey since he received a heart transplant. As a musician and composer, it is natural that he expresses those emotions through music, which he has done in a new CD, "New Life" (Shadow Mountain Music). But he also found that it didn't come easy. In all the time he spent in the hospital, Cardall only wrote one song. He would go out to the piano in the lobby in Primary Children's Medical Center every night, but he would find himself playing the same song over and over, a song he called "New Life." "For me" he says, "music, opens a conduit to heaven and provides my soul with strength and peace. That's what 'New Life' did for me." After the transplant came through and recovery was assured, there was a benefit "Celebration of Life" concert to put together, and then a book, "Before My Heart Stops Beating" to finish up. There were hikes to go on and activities to plan of things that had not been possible before. There were trips around the country to speak at hospitals and to young patients suffering from congenital heart disease, the nation's number one birth defect. But there was little new music. "I would sit at the piano, but I would feel like I wasn't ready. I couldn't write anything new." He had been working on a new ending for "Gracie's Theme," a song he had written for the parents who had lost their little girl. "It had a sad ending, but I realized it needed to be a celebration of life. I had interacted with so many parents who had lost children, and they were so inspiring. They taught me you need to embrace each day." And finally, as he worked through all these emotions, the music came. On Valentine's Day, Cardall will release "New Life," his first full-length studio album since his heart transplant. That night, the second annual "Celebrate Life Concert and Silent Auction Benefiting Congenital Heart Disease" will take place at Cottonwood High School. "New Life" is very personal, he says. "It's a soundtrack of the emotions I've experienced. It's one of the most personal and monumental recordings I've done." Local musicians Steven Sharp Nelson and Marshall McDonald have collaborated with him on orchestrations for the pieces. "The compositions are more complex because of the orchestration, but somehow these melodic tunes seem more tender and full of emotion." It is fully in keeping, he says, "with a beautifully orchestrated heart transplant." The CD features a couple of songs in tribute to his brother Brian, who was killed in a tasering incident in Southern Utah. "Brian was also a musician. In college, he wrote a song about our paternal grandfather, who left home one day and never came back. Brian asked the question, 'where are you travelin' now?' I wanted to do an arrangement of the piece that reflects the fact that they are both now traveling beyond this world." Another song talks of "Letting Go." It's a reminder, Cardall says, "that there are things we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind, but letting go isn't the end of the world; it's the beginning of a new life." That same message is reflected in a new arrangement of Michael Giacchino's "Life and Death." There's a tribute to his organ donor in "Sign of Affection;" there are several renditions of favorite hymns. And more — music that he hopes will elicit meditation and contemplation but also evoke joy and happiness, that will uplift and inspire. It is music, he says, that goes beyond the sounds alone to the depths of emotion beneath.

 

 

 

 

[琴韻怡然]

很喜歡這張鋼琴專輯，聽了好久，感觸。

關於生死的音樂話題總是深沉凝重，耐人尋味，但看到了希望，謝謝！