Omar - Free as a Bird
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Artist: OmarPerformer: Omar Akram
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Music Label: Real Music
Soundtracks:
- Free as a Bird 5:05
- Passage into Midnight 4:21
- A Day With You 5:08
- Falling Through the Rain 4:49
- Beauty Unveiled 4:25
- Dancing with the Wind 4:51
- Surrender 6:41
- Riding the Current 3:59
- Never Let Go 3:33
- Trust Unspoken 3:59
- Flight of Mystery 5:05
Music reviews of Free as a Bird
Music Review: Amazing Music
Rating: 5 Stars
Beautiful instrumental melodies with a multi cultural feeling that is very soothing and relaxing. Free as a Bird is an album that you would enjoy listening to everywhere you are! Omar Akram is a very talented composer and pianist. His latest album Secret Journey has reached a level of maturity and professionalism that permeates all the lovely music. I listened to it for the first time on the audio system of my flight into Chicago and I found it spellbinding. I bought the album as soon as I got home. I started researching his music, found his web page and learned about Free as a Bird, which I bought too! I listen to these 2 albums all the time in my car and at home. Omar Akram's music is addictive, there's no better escape!
Description of Free as a Bird
Composer/Pianist Omar thanks piano legend David Lanz in his liner notes, and like Lanz has done recently, takes a radio friendly smooth jazz sojourn on many of the tracks here. Every other track alternates between soaring, self-produced atmospheric and exotic pieces and more in the pocket rhythmic tunes produced by smooth jazz keyboardist Gregg Karukas (who has also produced Lanz). Working with top outside musicians (from violinist Charlie Bisharat to saxman Eric Marienthal), Omar creates a wonderfully diverse collection, which allows him to remain firmly at center stage.On the title track, his sensual musings are given dreamy and elegant harmonic support from Bisharat, while other pieces involve interaction with strings and percussion ("Passage Into Midnight") or gentle, electronic grooves...Omar's nod to the Orient is the sensuous and atmospheric "Beauty Unveiled," which begins in an ambient trance state with intermingling sitar and flute before the pianist enters and begins a more upbeat adventure.
For all the lush production values, it's Omar's piano, beautiful in its elegance and rich in its quiet rhythmic power, that proves the most unforgettable element.
~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
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