Mystic

Mystic (sample)

Al's fifth release is an ancient tale told through music, exploring themes as ancient as time. Al masterfully weaves music and narrative entrancing the listener and blending modern and ancient sensibilities.

The Blue Rose

The Princess and the Emperor

The myths of the Norse come to life in Northern Seas, Al Conti’s GRAMMY® Nominated fourth album. As with his previous award-winning album, Scheherazade, Conti has taken well-known tales, this time from the mystical lands of the north that originated during Scandinavia’s Viking Age, and woven music around themes and images. By combining ancient and exotic instruments with modern ones, Conti has created a mythical landscape carrying the listener to another time and place, one cloaked in veils of mist, when the gods ruled over harsh Nordic lands. Alongside the GRAMMY® Nomination, the album also ranked Top 10 Best New Age on Amazon.com in 2010.

Northern Seas

Odin the Wanderer

Al Conti's third release is his most haunting and seductive yet. Alluring sounds of guitar, piano, dulcimer, exotic hurdy gurdy, sitar, tribal drums and other percussion fill this musical landscape to tell the triumphant story of Scheherazade like it has never been told before. This is Al's first album to bridge new age and world music and is a compelling retelling of the 1001 nights through the eyes of Scheherazade, the teller of these tales.

Scheherazade (Samples)

Heart Triumphant

Eternal Majesty

Gold and Spices

Palace Gardens

A Thousand tales

Dunyazad

Seven Veils to Midnight

Shahryar

Desert Nights

Daughter of the City

Travel through musical valleys and peaks to discover Orpheus and his unrelenting quest to retrieve his lost love in the haunting opening track ‘Quest for Orpheus.’ Dream along with the tales of Homer’s ‘Iliad.’ Find yourself wishing for ‘Evangeline,’ the young Victorian maiden, to find true love as she sits by the sea, day after day with her book of poems. And then find that true love in the movement of ‘Danzante’ and the power of ‘Abstract Desire.’ Feel the quill of the poet inspire the world through a tapestry of enchantment. And, as every book must end, feel yourself transported with the final rendering ‘Epilogos’ and its timeless prayer.

POETA Excerpts

Epilogos

Sonnet in C

Sacred Space

Danzante

Abstract Desire

Evangeline

Crepuscule

Poeta

Ripples on Water

Dreams of Iliad

Quest for Orpheus

Argentinian born Al Conti is a Grammy® nominated composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His album 'Northern Seas' garnered a GRAMMY® nomination, made Amazon's Top 10 list for Best New Age Albums of 2010 and reached #2 in the Zone Music Reporter's Top 100 chart for October 2010. His album 'Scheherazade' topped the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Chart at number 1 for three consecutive months, in October, November and December, 2008. The album also garnered four ZMR Lifestyle Music Awards nominations, including Album of the Year, and won Best World Album of 2008. 'Scheherazade' also headed many radios 'Top 10' and 'Best of' lists,' as well as charting #5 on the ZMR's Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2008. His album 'Poeta' was used as part of NPR's fundraising efforts in 2007 and his recording 'Quest for Orpheus,' from the same album, received a “Best of 2007” Award from Mystic Soundscapes Radio.

In 2008, Al Conti joined Kevin Bacon, Jessica Alba, Will & Grace's Shelley Morrison and other celebrities lending his name to the Until There's A Cure foundation to help raise funds for HIV/AIDS awareness and research.

Conti has traveled widely and has lived in South America, Europe and the United States. As an actor, he has appeared on television shows including the CBS daytime drama “As The World Turns,” in films, in numerous radio and television commercials, and on-stage in theatre productions in cities including New York City, Philadelphia, Tampa and Buenos Aires. Born and raised in Argentina, Conti comes from a family of artists with notoriety in many fields. Conti, who has composed music all his life, released his first album, 'Shadows', in 2006, 'Poeta', in 2007 and the critically acclaimed, award winning 'Scheherazade' in 2008.


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