Suzanne Ciani, Silver Ship - 37m 40s

Tracks & Durations

1. For Lise	4:03
2. Wine Dark Sea	4:15
3. Stromboli	4:06
4. Capri	3:33
5. Eclipse	3:52
6. Open Seas	3:36
7. Dentecane	3:11
8. Snow Crystals	3:37
9. Sargasso Sea	3:32
10. Silver Ship	3:48

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Review

In the late 1980s, the "beautiful music" radio format came to an end when Philadelphia's Easy 101, WEAZ-FM, switched formats and call letters. It's a shame, because Suzanne Ciani's music would have been perfect there. She's a veteran keyboardist who started out composing avant-garde works on a keyboardless Buchla synthesizer. She went on to fortune as a commercial jingle writer and fame as an early New Age star. But over the years, Ciani has been plying a treacle-laced brand of instrumental music in which she wears her heart on a keyboard adorned with Hallmark valentine homilies. Though marketed as New Age, her faux-orchestral music shares more of a lineage with 101 Strings, with compositions full of orchestral sweep and gentle melodies that attain the sentimental but never the serene or the sublime. "Sargasso Sea," a duet with cellist Joe Hébert, suggests that Ciani can go a little deeper, and oboist Paul McCandless of Oregon almost pulls out "Wine Dark Sea." His beautiful multitracked oboe and English horn lines echo and intertwine with each other before he breaks out into solos. But tracks like "Dentecane" are swept overboard by Ciani's overwrought melodies and strings. If your idea of romance is candlelit dinners, moonlit walks, and a Mantovani soundtrack, take a trip on her Silver Ship. --John DilibertoSilver Ship won the Indie Award for Best New Age Album in 2006. 10 original compositions that represent the ultimate artistic maturity of five-time Grammy nominee Suzanne Ciani. A flowering of her classical acoustic and electronic roots. An audiophile CD, recorded at 192Khz/24bit resolution. Come aboard Ciani's Silver Ship and let Suzanne take you to the mystical places of her imagination, where emotions run as high and deep as the seas. Featuring members of The Wave (as seen on PBS): Paul McCandless, Matt Eakle, Teja Bell, Michael Manring.

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