Search - David Lanz, Paul Speer :: Bridge of Dreams

Close to the Heart - "We Are All One"

Judy Lesak | Minneapolis,MN, USA | 10/27/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Several years ago, I purchased David Lanz's "Bridge of Dreams" CD. It soothed me so that I went out and bought the book of its piano arrangement. I have absorbed this music through both listening and performing it in solitude reflection. There are two songs with lyrics on this album. They are "Song of the East - We are One" and "Whispered in Signs.". The lyrics of the second, "Whispered in Signs" have just, after all this time, come to me. They ring of "remembering" that which we already know, and it's all that we need ... "right now." The mode of the music itself is relative to the Traditional American Indian in its rhythms and chanting motif as it whispers to "Listen to the Sound ...." I have purchased this album as a gift to my new friend, as it is part of the circle that I am. In sharing the peace I find in this music, I celebrate with new friends the spirit that "We Are All Related" . . . We Are All One. If you are reading this review, then you are my friend, and in this, I give you this music to soothe you when your life is too cluttered with the world. Let it all go, and listen to the simplicity . . . the pure simplicity of the soothing phrases offered through David Lanz's voice and special gift of whispered signs."