Mike Rowland Release Date: 11 January 2000 Format: CD Publisher: Oreade Music ISBN: 0723723436429 ISBN-10: 555545595X
My Elfin Friends is an anthology of Mike Rowland's latest works: Pisces, Magical Inspiration, Within the Light, Angel Delight, Mystic Angel and The Land of Hopes and Dreams. Somehow, with eyes shut, the music of Mike Rowland sets off a journey through landscapes of an inner world. His melodies are simple, intuitive and improvisational. Perhaps it is wrong to say there is just the one apparent melody. His music has different layers and hidden elements that trigger a slight melancholy, or a moving warmth for clear harmonies.
1 Immortal Dawn 07:02
2 Listen to your Heart 04:56
3 Pisces 03:27
4 Everlasting Embrace 09:11
5 Star to Guide You 05:33
6 Embrace within my Heart 06:03
7 Only Reflection 06:30
8 Angel Delight 07:05
9 When the Day begins 03:36
10 Crystal Angel 10:58
11 Follow your Star 07:25
Artist Biography
Mike Rowland is a British composer and artist who touches and inspires people all over the world with his relaxation music. His sensitivity and musical talent in combination with his involvement in his audience and nature results in unique piano compositions. Mike begins composing music as a young adult, having learned the piano as a boy. When he is a little older, he travels a lot and learns to listen; not so much to different types of music but to the sounds of nature. His musical career begins with a stroll through a forest in Stanstead, in the early eighties. While he is walking, he suddenly hears, out of nowhere, beautiful almost unworldly music. This experience affects him profoundly. B
ack at home he plays the music he has heard in the forest and that still lingers in his head, on the piano and records it with a microphone and a simple cassette player. This results in his first album, The Fairy Ring, a new age classic that sold more than a million copies and is considered one of the most important releases in healing music to this date. More relaxation and healing albums follow, all highly successful. Mike Rowland teaches and develops spiritual intuition and sensitivity at colleges and healing centres in Britain and abroad. He is currently compiling a book about the healing effect of music.