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Performance
Credits
Lead Vocals: Kevin Budd Backup Vocals: Kevin Budd Acoustic Guitar: Kevin Budd Acoustic Nylon Guitar: Kevin Budd Alto Flute: Kevin Budd Bass Pan Flute: Kevin Budd Bouzouki: Kevin Budd Flute: Kevin Budd Kaval: Kevin Budd Pan Flute: Kevin Budd Recorder: Kevin Budd Sampled Acoustic Piano: Kevin Budd Sampled Strings: Kevin Budd Shakapa (Leaf Shaker): Kevin Budd Trumpet: Kevin Budd Whistling: Kevin Budd Acoustic Guitar: Rich Dodson Acoustic Lead Guitar: Rich Dodson Drum Programming: Don Breithaupt Sampled Accordion: Don Breithaupt Sampled Acoustic Guitar: Don Breithaupt Sampled Acoustic Piano: Don Breithaupt Sampled Bass: Don Breithaupt Sampled Finger Snaps: Don Breithaupt Sampled Fretless Bass: Don Breithaupt Sampled Marimba: Don Breithaupt Sampled Strings: Don Breithaupt Sampled Vibes: Don Breithaupt Synthesizers/Samplers: Don Breithaupt
Production
Credits
Recording Engineer: Rich Dodson at Marigold Sound, Toronto, Canada
Liner
Notes
Composer-musician Kevin Budd presents a collection of original songs performed on a variety of wind instruments and embroidered with guitar, piano and gentle percussion. This recording blends the clear, ethereal sound of the exotic pan flute with the warm, rich tones of other wind instruments - transverse flute, alto flute, recorder, caval - to create hauntingly lovely melodies. There are traces of Eastern European folk dance music, latin rhythms, tango, Roma harmonies, lullabies and art song.
Remarkable for their texture and intricately woven melodies, the songs in this collection are supported by engaging rhythms and unique harmonies. Kevin Budd translates the old-world pan flute for a modern audience and infuses its music with a contemporary sound.
www.kevinbuddmusic.com
Canadian musician Kevin Budd has specialized in the pan flute as both a composer and performer for over two decades. A consummate wind musician, he also plays transverse flute, recorder, trumpet, the Eastern European caval and guitar. About the title of this collection, he writes, "beyond the immediate association of inhalation which is integral to a wind player, Deep suggests an emotional profundity, while Breath refers to the spirit. These songs are my ‘deep breath,’ an expression of profundity and intimacy in sound.”
An ancient instrument, the pan flute is used, in some form, throughout much of the world. According to Greek myth, it was invented by the god Pan as an instrument of consolation for love lost. The Romanian-style pan flute or nai played here has a single line of bamboo tubes which produce an extraordinarily clear, natural and haunting sound.
Kevin Budd is North America’s most renowned builder of professional pan flutes. He has taught at the Arosa Music Festival in Switzerland, performs as a soloist for Canadian regional orchestras, and has played for movie soundtracks, commercials, and recordings. Mr. Budd has brought disparate elements of the international pan flute community together by creating the first Internet web page devoted to the instrument as well as its first Internet-based discussion group, Pan Flute World. This collection of original compositions gathers his best work.
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Ruth Budd, Rich Dodson, Donny Breithaupt, Jöri Murk, Brad White and Peggy Warren.
Composer: Kevin Budd (except #5)
Arrangers: Donny Breithaupt and Kevin Budd
Sound Engineer: Rich Dodson (The Stampeders)
Recording Studio: Marigold Sound, Toronto, 2006
Reviews
"Just loved it. I was amazed by the beauty and variety here. Lovely sounds. I kept thinking, 'Wow, this is so great!' relaxing, beautiful and intriguing. Though I am not a musician, I really was pleased by the variety of moods and textures. I really like the sound of wind instruments, and I own other pan flute and flute and recorder albums, and this is right up there with the best. I have been listening to it for a couple of weeks and still am finding new subtle turns of phrase and just very enjoyable energies throughout."
-- Jack Ross
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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