Full CD with all 14 tracks, plus beautiful liner notes and quotations from each composer featured on the album, with artwork by Svetlana Papouchina.
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From John Armstrong, composer:
The five movements of Five Inspirations are my reactions to seminal books in my life. I read The Inner Game of Tennis as a teenager, looking for a way to improve my game, but absorbed the lessons on what would now be called “mindfulness” and have tried to use them in every aspect of my life. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, is a fictional account of the life of a seeker, Siddhartha, who lived in the time of the Buddha. Chaos, by James Gleick, helped me to question my tendency to search for, and try to achieve, exactness in music. Dreams, Dreaming refers to two books, one by Carl Jung and the other by Carlos Castaneda. Everything Else refers to Grover and the Everything in the World Museum. The last room in the museum opens to the outside and has “Everything Else” written at the top of the door. Don’t look for direct or elaborate connections. As the title suggests, these books were inspirations, not blueprints.
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from Inspirations: New Music for Solo Guitar,
released December 3, 2021
Composed by John Armstrong, 2018.
Premiered by Daniel Ramjattan at the inaugural 21st Century Guitar Conference, 2019.
Performed by Daniel Ramjattan.
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Drew Henderson
Recorded in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto
Performed on a 2010 left-handed 7-string Kolya Panhuyzen guitar
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