Description
This exciting, “wintery” CD from harpist Sharlene Wallace is a testimony to her innovative, virtuostic and gorgeous playing. The album journeys from crisp, winter-inspired original music to hot South American tunes with driving rhythms to a beautiful, naive waltz with harmonica player Carlos del Junco.
A frozen lake is like a chameleon whispering
shades of white and grey,
interjected by sweeping winds
then suspended in an eerie silence
against the booming and cracking
of the ice. – Sharlene Wallace
shades of white and grey,
interjected by sweeping winds
then suspended in an eerie silence
against the booming and cracking
of the ice. – Sharlene Wallace
Produced by Evelyne Datl
The musicians are:
Sharlene, lever harp
George Koller – double bass
Rick Shadrach Lazar – percussion
Rob Piltch – guitar
Carlos del Junco – harmonica
Evelyne Datl – piano
David Travers-Smith – trumpet
- Still Life: In the Silence (4:02)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©1998 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp, bass, percussion - Una vez en la montaña (3:11)
by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz – ©1979 AROY Music (ASCAP)
– harp, guitar, bass - Still Life: Night Rhythms (2:20)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©1998 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp - Winter Danse (3:18)
‘Twas in the moon of Wintertime – traditional
Danse – Sharlene Wallace ©1998 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN) Noël Nouvelet – traditional French
– harp, percussion (timba, triangle) - Milonga para amar (3:22)
by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz – ©1996 AROY Music (ASCAP)
– harp, bass, percussion (riq, dumbek, caixixi, bells) - Winter Still (3:10)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©2004 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp, bass, piano, percussion - Cold Frosty Morning (4:07)
traditional Appalachian
– harp, trumpet, bass, percussion (dumbek, la caja de bomba) - Winter Frieze (3:59)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©1995 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp, bass, percussion (riq, rain stick) - Ice Lake (3:22)
by Evelyne Datl – ©1995 Evelyne Datl (SOCAN)
– harp - Still Life: Bound Branches (3:10)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©1998 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp, trumpet, percussion - Sleep Soon i’da Mornin’ (2:24)
traditional Shetland reel
– harp, bass, percussion (riq, dumbek, finger cymbals) - Journey of Shadows (4:08)
by Sharlene Wallace – ©1998 Sharlene Wallace (SOCAN)
– harp, trumpet, bass, percussion (riq, triangle) - Mountain House (2:17)
by Jay Ungar – ©1994 Swinging Door Music (BMI)
– harp, harmonica, bass
Engineered and mixed by David Travers-Smith at Canterbury Music, Toronto
Mastered by George Graces at Lacquer Channel, TorontoPhotography by Cylla von Tiedemann
Ice crystal photo by Richard Martin
Creative concept, art direction, design by A Man Called WrycraftThe harp Sharlene recorded this album on is a 40-string nylon/wire, walnut wood, “Celtic 40” lever harp made by David Kortier in Duluth, Minnesota.In allowing the endlessness to be,
winter becomes itself…
suspended.
– Sharlene Wallace
Ice crystal photo by Richard Martin
Creative concept, art direction, design by A Man Called WrycraftThe harp Sharlene recorded this album on is a 40-string nylon/wire, walnut wood, “Celtic 40” lever harp made by David Kortier in Duluth, Minnesota.In allowing the endlessness to be,
winter becomes itself…
suspended.
– Sharlene Wallace
A Winter Journey.
Release date: 1998
