Track Listings
| 1. Voice Of the Rose | ||
| 2. Audience With The Queen | ||
| 3. Glory Of Creation | ||
| 4. Flame d' Nocturne | ||
| 5. Le Mat (The Fool) | ||
| 6. 7th Prelude | ||
| 7. Journey From Vintaine | ||
| 8. Once For The King | ||
| 9. Infatuation Symphony | ||
| 10. Sweet Tears of Joy | ||
| 11. Ascension | ||
| 12. Framke's Etude | ||
| 13. Dweller On The Threshold | ||
| 14. Flight To Freedom | ||
| 15. My Lady My Love | ||
| 16. Echos In Time | ||
| 17. Majestie | ||
| 18. Now We Raise Our Glass To Thee |
Editorial Reviews Skilled on organ, piano, synthesizer and guitar, Kramer is also a recording engineer, and has done many vocal and instrumental music beds for radio and tv spots over the years. Able to tap into many different styles, his works include classical, folk, new age, jazz, avante garde as well as contemporary pop/rock musical pieces. In addition to having composed an entire film score for a recently released independent film to raise funds for Guardian Angel Basset Rescue, Robert has written and recorded "Remember Their Lives", a song that is destined to become the definitive September 11th musical tribute. Robert Kramer continues to compose and perform, and is destined to take his place among the great musicians and composers of the 21st century and beyond. Channeled thru by musician/composer Robert Kramer after a 3 hour hypnotic past life regression, to his amazement he discovers a previous existance as an obscure 16th century composer and lute player named Lucious Gray. More incredibly, despite possessing no previous skill or training in classical music, Robert began to write song after song of beautiful and emotionally moving classical and renaissance pieces that defy explanation. Hearing this beautiful album will make you a believer that we have indeed passed this way before. Listen and be touched forever by the Songs Of Past Lives!
About the Artist
An accomplished musician/composer and performer, Robert Kramer has worked both live and in the studio with various performers and artists of all different musical genres including local Chicago guitar virtuosos Jimmy Ryan and Nestor Contardo.
Album Description
The controversial album of stunning and beautiful classical and renaissance styled instrumental music everyone's talking about.
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Songs Of Past Lives
Manufacturer: IBOB DIGITAL RECORDS ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Classical
| Indie Music
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| Classical
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ASIN: B00006ELM0 Release Date: 2002-07-22 |
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Album Description
The controversial album of stunning and beautiful classical and renaissance styled instrumental music everyone's talking about.Channeled thru by musician/composer Robert Kramer after a 3 hour hypnotic past life regression, to his amazement he discovers a previous existance as an obscure 16th century composer and lute player named Lucious Gray.
More incredibly, despite possessing no previous skill or training in classical music, Robert began to write song after song of beautiful and emotionally moving classical and renaissance pieces that defy explanation.
Hearing this beautiful album will make you a believer that we have indeed passed this way before. Listen and be touched forever by the Songs Of Past Lives!
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New music from yesteryear is gift to the ears and spirit.......2002-07-31
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Past Lives
Michael Breen Manufacturer: Basilbone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00004VWUH Release Date: 2000-07-15 |
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Album Description
This eleven song collection is an exploration of the conflicts of life and love and a wonderful instrumental medley of three Irish fiddle tunes. The title cut "Past Lives" takes place in the year 1862 and is a story about a priest and the woman he loves and how they find themselves in the present as different people but still carrying the same love for each other.Customer Reviews:
Quiet Drama.......2003-06-02
Few days in most lives are marked by public, or even private, high drama. Fewer still are either celebrations or cataclysms. The lyrics of popular songs, however, understandably stress drama, romance, exultation, even dejection in simple, high-contrast terms suitable for low-attention mass diversion, fast food for the ear. For those hungry for more modest, realistic, and compelling musical storytelling, "Past Lives," the second release from Phoenix's Mike Breen, is just the dish. Breen's lyrics, evoking the intimate warp and woof of life, are set in infallibly attractive and catchy melodies supported by amiable acoustic instrumentation of understated mastery, and are animated by his gentle tenor, expressively reminiscent of James Keelaghan's deeper vocal. "Past Lives" is a sort of theme album, revolving about an appreciative and joyful, rather than regretful and tragic, nostalgia, and affords Breen an opportunity to display his rare flare for organically matching words and music.
On the title track, acoustic and slide guitar fanfare leads into a cunningly crafted first-person narrative of that reassuring sort of reincarnation in which you and your comrades remain together through idylls, wars, and into the present. "There is no end": a concept simultaneously appealing and appalling. The sentimental appeal of Breen's lyrics on "Autumn Afternoon," the immediacy of two young people falling unexpectedly in love in a diner, is so credible that one nearly overlooks the subtle beauty of melody and music, especially the quietly jangling banjo; the dawning revelation that this all happened a half-century ago can't help but provoke a smile. "The Little Things" is a compositional triumph, and a nice song as well, with just the right touch of dissonance in the verses to express the anxiety of a father as his son drives off on his first date, the chorus nostalgic yet hopeful over the surprising speed at which children grow. Another intriguing song of active nostalgia, "State Fair," is a very southwestern take on one of America's autumn institutions, reminiscent of both Ray Bradbury's writing and Neil Young's most unaffectedly effective song, "Sugar Mountain."
Strategically placed at the center of "Past Lives," the instrumental "Corrs Medley" builds from slow yearning to quick festivity, featuring Breen's guitar and mandolin, and Ron Rutowski's visiting fiddle. "The Letter L" is a charming and clever alphabet song for adults, Breen coyly orbiting the central challenge and joy of intimacy, subtly ratcheting up the stakes through the letters, but never quite reaching Z. Breen's guitar and mandolin join Ken Skaggs' pedal steel on the countrified music for "The Girl From Northern Maine," the tale of another long-failed love, this time bequeathing a tangible legacy, a daughter, who provides "one more chance" for "love to find a way." And old sweethearts two-step around the past in "Sparkle Do," contemplating relationship renewal; no denouement is ordained, but Breen's optimism, cautious with experience, is infectious and reassuring.
The care and artistry of "Past Lives," particularly Mike Breen's precise matching of music and lyric to create finely tuned moods, makes it a record worth hearing over and over.
Songs from the soul of a writer.......2001-06-15
"Past Lives" Invites you to explore Mike Breen's world........2001-03-02
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