Product Description

Charted on Billboard's New Age Top 25.
Deep in the night forest, fairies gather by firelight and fly to the song of the wind in the trees. Composer Gary Stadler and Vocalist Singh Kaur invite you to come with them on their magical travels through the fairy veil, into the realm of Fairy NightSongs. Your heart will open to the enchanted beauty of the Farie realm, as you relax in the beautiful melodies and angelic vocals.

Review

"A harmonious collection of moving vocals which shine with the purity of soul and gentle instrumentals" -- Mark Kelso - Convergence Magazine

"Breathtaking Gaelic/English vocals, delicate piano and Celtic orchestrations weave together musical traditions from Celtic to Classical to New Age." -- Anne Thiel - Mountain Luminary

"Stadler brings the healing mystery of the fairy folk to life. Fairy Nightsongs is absolutely exquisite from beginning to end." -- Steve Ryals - New Age Retailer

"To say that Stadler and Kaur have recorded a near masterpiece of mystical Celtic music is an understatement." -- Wind and Wire Magazine

"a musical journery into a magical world of wonder and relaxation. A welcome addition to any fairy lover's music collection." -- Nora Cedarwind - The Beltane Papers

From the Artist

During the release of "Fairy of the Woods", I chanced to meet Laura Drew, who had just released her CD "Spiritus" under the name Lorellei. We bacame instant friends, and Laura invited my new wife, Tam and I to spend our honeymoon at her home in Maui, which we ended up doing six months later. While there, Laura asked me to record a song for her on her synth setup, "just for fun." I doodled out a short set of chords that sounded kind of pretty, and that was that, or so I thought. The next morning I woke to the sound of Laura improvising on what I had played. I quietly listened as my idea evolved. For a few days we casually bounced the piece back and forth between us. One day coming home from a drive around Maui, as I walked up to the house, I heard Laura singing to it. I was stunned by the beauty and purity of her voice. It eventually became "Darkness" on this album. I'd always wanted a beautiful female voice in my music, and it was so much fun working with Laura that I asked her if she would do an album with me; the result is "Fairy NightSongs". For the next year, constantly pestering Tam for lyrics, we recorded this album. Musically we clicked. When Laura suggested we do a Celtic piece and played me one of her ideas, I went into my files and dug out a piece I had written a year earlier and played it for her. The look on her face was priceless; in essence it was the same song, destined to become "Laura's Hill". And so it went. Later I learned that Laura had done lots of work under the name Singh Kaur, and was well known for her many meditative CD's. I suddenly understood why things went so smoothly working with her, and I realized just how lucky I was to have had the opportunity to work with her. I'll always remember this project with great fondness. Hope you like it !
- Gary Stadler