Name: Pure Joy
Brand: REAL MUSIC.
SKU: 238375
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Pure Joy

By Walder, Russel

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

30 July 2002

Album: Pure Joy
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Faith Embrace	More Info...
2)	State of Grace	More Info...
3)	This Moment Now	More Info...
4)	One	More Info...
5)	Through the Gates	More Info...
6)	The Road to You	More Info...
7)	Spark the Sun	More Info...
8)	Holding the Space	More Info...
9)	More than Words	More Info...

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EAN

0046286755029

Writer

Walder, Russel

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Label

REAL MUSIC.

Dimensions

14.6 x 1.3 x 12.7 centimetres (0.10 kg)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Russel Walder (oboe); Caitlin Smith, Renee Brennan, Roz Turnbull (vocals); Nigel Gavin (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, bass); Johnny Fleury (Warr guitar, bass); Miranda Adams (violins, viola); Margaret Cooke (Baroque cello); Steve Small (piano, keyboards); Matthew Brown (keyboards); Darren Cottingham (synthesizer, programming, samples); Aaron Codelle (bass).
Producers: Russel Walder, Darren Cottingham.
Recorded at Ad Infinitum, Auckland, New Zealand. Includes liner notes by Terence Yallop.
Personnel: Russel Walder (oboe); Renee Brennan (vocals); Nigel Gavin (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Miranda Adams (violin, viola); Stephen Small (piano, keyboards); Matthew Brown (keyboards).
Recording information: Ad Infinitum, Auckland, New Zealand.
Photographer: Karen Abplanalp.
Arranger: Russel Walder.
Oboe player Russel Walder, late of Windham Hill recording duo Stein & Walder, makes his solo debut with an album of heart-opening, mid-tempo instrumentals that lean more toward classical music than toward the jazz-tinged work of his earlier career. The smoky tones of oboe add to but never dominate the material. Walder employs synths, samples, and wordless female vocals to paint panoramas of indigenous New Zealand (where the album was recorded).
Not only is Walder a skilled and expressive oboe player, he is also capable of writing striking compositions like "This Moment Now," a stately canon whose melody strives forward and cycles back like time itself. For all its space and vastness, the music never becomes bombastic. The moderate pace suits meditative endeavors, massage or relaxation.

Professional Reviews

NAPRA Review (11-12/02, p.66) - "...Walder is nothing if not masterful in his ability to tame that most feared of all the double-reed instruments, the oboe..."

New Age Retailer (1-2/03, pp.160-1) - "...Contemporary-instrumental New Age music with a classical flair..."