My childhood was experienced on a farm nestled between the nobility of Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta near the small community of Red Bluff, California, named for the color of terrain on the West Bank of the Sacramento River. Harvesting walnuts, collecting chicken eggs, stirring compost, and feeling dirt between my toes was part of everyday life on our little piece of heaven. In the center of our stone-block farmhouse lived an antiquated piano which was handed down through my family from my great-grandmother, Etta. My favorite thing to do was invent my own songs on this piano. The sounds of beetles, crickets and distant owls were my accompaniment and the unsettled spirits of Ishi and his Yahi-Yana tribe who once lived on our land were my inspirational backdrop.
Not much has changed about my favorite thing to do and where my heart is, musing with nature. I'm still inspired by open spaces, the last rays of orange and pale gold sunshine, smooth and tumbling waters, the lonely and longing of coyotes crying from foot-hills, and the midsummer goldfinches singing in the wind. These elements unite with touches of melodies from the mingling of my roots of Irish and Native peoples.
I create melodic and emotive piano music which is best described as "New Age". My influences include the music of Will Ackerman, David Lanz, Liz Story and George Winston. To express my essence and deepest emotions through harmonious, peaceful music is my calling. I hope while listening you feel the serenity I do when I return home to Etta's worn ivories.
Laura's album "Piano Solos" is available through her Independent Label, Sentient Spirit Records. Her latest releases, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America and Mystical America are available through Delvian Records. Please visit www.laura-sullivan.com for information on buying CD's and music downloads.
Laura has contributed her music to the score of films including "9 1/2 Minutes Left", directed by celebrated Austrian artist and author, Guenther Thallinger, and "American Icons", directed by Eric Galindo of San Francisco. Laura scored her first feature film, "Emotions" directed by Gio Santana in 2003. "Emotions" debuted at the New York International Film and Video Festival in April 2003.
"The pieces on the CD are very complete and mature. One would not dare to ever change a thing on a Rodin statue. And so appears Laura's work to me. The right music to find spiritual balance and rediscover the beauty within." Guenther Thallinger, Filmmaker
"I listened to the CD and drifted off into a wonderful reverie. I really love the story that the music and the titles of each piece tell. What a WONDERFUL journey!" Jim Ryerson
What music do you play at times like those, when you just want to be still and absorb...? The answer: this CD. It's peace, rolling reflection, gentle/natural rhythms & tides. Perfect daydreaming music, it flows with you. Beautiful." K.M. Jellen
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.laura-sullivan.com
Track List:
1. Hope for the Sun
2. Dreaming Underwater
3. Selling Water By the River
4. Lullaby Wind
5. Sleepwalking (On A Tightrope)
6. Claire de Lune
7. Calls to Spirit
8. Brave Mourning
9. Of Land And Sea, Of Mortal And Divine
10. The Voyage Home
11. In Last Hours
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
Not much has changed about my favorite thing to do and where my heart is, musing with nature. I'm still inspired by open spaces, the last rays of orange and pale gold sunshine, smooth and tumbling waters, the lonely and longing of coyotes crying from foot-hills, and the midsummer goldfinches singing in the wind. These elements unite with touches of melodies from the mingling of my roots of Irish and Native peoples.
I create melodic and emotive piano music which is best described as "New Age". My influences include the music of Will Ackerman, David Lanz, Liz Story and George Winston. To express my essence and deepest emotions through harmonious, peaceful music is my calling. I hope while listening you feel the serenity I do when I return home to Etta's worn ivories.
Laura's album "Piano Solos" is available through her Independent Label, Sentient Spirit Records. Her latest releases, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America and Mystical America are available through Delvian Records. Please visit www.laura-sullivan.com for information on buying CD's and music downloads.
Laura has contributed her music to the score of films including "9 1/2 Minutes Left", directed by celebrated Austrian artist and author, Guenther Thallinger, and "American Icons", directed by Eric Galindo of San Francisco. Laura scored her first feature film, "Emotions" directed by Gio Santana in 2003. "Emotions" debuted at the New York International Film and Video Festival in April 2003.
"The pieces on the CD are very complete and mature. One would not dare to ever change a thing on a Rodin statue. And so appears Laura's work to me. The right music to find spiritual balance and rediscover the beauty within." Guenther Thallinger, Filmmaker
"I listened to the CD and drifted off into a wonderful reverie. I really love the story that the music and the titles of each piece tell. What a WONDERFUL journey!" Jim Ryerson
What music do you play at times like those, when you just want to be still and absorb...? The answer: this CD. It's peace, rolling reflection, gentle/natural rhythms & tides. Perfect daydreaming music, it flows with you. Beautiful." K.M. Jellen
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.laura-sullivan.com
Track List:
1. Hope for the Sun
2. Dreaming Underwater
3. Selling Water By the River
4. Lullaby Wind
5. Sleepwalking (On A Tightrope)
6. Claire de Lune
7. Calls to Spirit
8. Brave Mourning
9. Of Land And Sea, Of Mortal And Divine
10. The Voyage Home
11. In Last Hours
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- NEW AGE: New Age
- CLASSICAL: New Age
- FEATURING PIANO