LINER NOTES
Innisfree
The title of this piece is taken from the 1892 poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats.
Loren Evarts- piano
Rhonda Larson- crystal flute
Confluence
This tune was first recorded in 1988 on an album of the same name by a group of the same name.
Loren Evarts- piano
Eugene Friesen- cello
Jeff Haynes- tubano, udu, tam tam, frame drum, talking drum, rainstick shaker, maraca
Tony Levin- NS bass
Lonely Road
Loren Evarts- piano
New Irish Waltz
This was piece was first recorded in 1992 on an album called Sojourn by the group Confluence.
Loren Evarts- piano, bodhran (with brushes)
Rhonda Larson- whistle, flute
Eugene Friesen- cello
Tony Levin- NS bass
Windmills
Loren Evarts- piano
The Cat and the Moon
The title of this piece is from a 1919 poem by Yeats.
Loren Evarts- piano
Rhonda Larson- bansuri
Eugene Friesen- cello
Jeff Haynes- djembe, tubano, hand drum, temple blocks, bata, shekere, djun djun, cowbell, Windham County black birch firewood (felled by Will Akerman)
The Pond in Winter
This tune was originally recorded on my 1985 solo piano album Water Music. The name is taken from the title of a chapter of Thoreau’s Walden.
Loren Evarts- piano
91 North
Also originally recorded on the 1992 Sojourn album.
Loren Evarts- piano
Rhonda Larson- flute
Jeff Haynes- tam tam, tubano, shaker, talking drum
Tom Eaton- electric bass
Big Black Rapids
Another tune first recorded on my 1985 Water Music album.
Loren Evarts- piano
Sojourn
Originally from the 1988 Confluence album.
Loren Evarts- piano
Rhonda Larson- alto flute
‘C’ Effigy
Originally on the 1988 Confluence album.
Loren Evarts- piano
Eugene Friesen- cello
Jeff Haynes- tubano, bongos, shaker, congas, tam tam
Tom Eaton- electric bass
Produced by Will Ackerman with Tom Eaton and Loren Evarts.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Tom Eaton.
Recorded during the spring of 2015 at Imaginary Road Studios, Windham Co. VT.
Thanks to Will and Tom, who work a special magic in the studio. I learned much!
Thanks to Rhonda for her melodic contribution on The Cat and the Moon.
Cover art is a handmade paper piece entitled “Gillen Pond” by Stephen Gatter.
Photograph by Harold Shapiro.
Thanks to Rev. Keane at 1st Baptist Church of Branford, CT for use of piano for photography.
Logo by Diane Lewis.
The piano used on this recording is a Steinway B
All songs composed by Loren Evarts (BMI).
Dedicated to the memory of my parents, Shirley and Seward Evarts.
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