GANDALF - EARTHEANA

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Gandalf presents an elaborately orchestrated 70-minute opus in which he surpasses himself.
Gandalf's work has often been inspired by the music of other cultures. EARTHEANA takes you on a musical journey all around the planet. There is a piece dedicated to each continent incorporating certain characteristic elements. As a recurring leitmotif, a diversely arranged `Earth-Theme´ connects the individual parts to form a large `Earth Symphony´.

Eartheana

Eartheana - Overture

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Special Soundtrack Album – A collection of picturesque pieces written and produced by Gandalf in 2013 as the music-score for various projects, mostly for the TV-documentary “The Stone Age Enigma” by Ronald & Roswitha Vaughan

Tracks

Ancient Wisdom Recalled 
Love Will Last 
Amongst Green Fields 
Sleeping Giants of Stone 
The House By the River 
Echoes from the Past 
Enchanted Garden 
Ancient Wisdom Recalled 
March of No Return 
Heartbridges 
Sea of Sorrow 
Beyond Fear 
Sea of Sorrow II 
Rainbow Sky 


Gandalf:
Acoustic guitars, grand piano, percussion & atmospheres
Merike Hilmar:
Cello
Karin Leitner:	Flutes & Irish whistles
Nicky Eggl:
Irish whistles, Bodhran
Monika Stadler:
Harp
Vasilie Marian:
Oboe, English horn

All music composed, arranged & produced by Gandalf, 
recorded, mixed & mastered at Seagull Music Studio, Austria 
© 2014 Seagull Music, all tracks published by manuscript
Cover photo by Ronald Vaughan

08 - Ancient Wisdom Recalled II [Preview]

07 - Enchanted Garden [Preview]

06 - Echoes From The Past [Preview]

05 - The House By The River [Preview]

04 - Sleeping Giants Of Stone [Preview]

03 - Amongst Green Fields [Preview]

02 - Love Will Last [Preview]

01 - Ancient Wisdom Recalled [Preview]

A brand new powerful track created by Gandalf, featuring the enchanting vocals of songwriter and vocalist Eva Novak.
The song is an excerpt from the artist’s upcoming new production Secret Sarai (release end of May 2020), which doubtlessly is a new milestone in his career, maybe even one of his best works ever. Long-time-fans of Gandalf as well as those who are just going to discover his musical universe can be looking forward to listen to the whole album.

Secret Sarai

Bound to Live Free - Short Edit

Bound To Live Free - Short Edit

can be called a "PAINTER OF MUSICAL LANDSCAPES", he is a composer, musician and producer of meanwhile numerous album releases. His name originated from J.R.R.TOLKIEN´s cult-epic "THE LORD OF THE RINGS".
GANDALF plays a great variety of instruments (acoustic and electric guitars, sitar, saz, charango, bouzuki, balaphon, piano, synthesizers & sample-keyboards and various percussion) and blends acoustic with electronic and spheric sounds, weaves folk-elements into symphonic structures, creating his unmistakable unique style that made him become one of todays internationally most successful Austrian musicians. 

The goal of this multi-sided musician is, to dissolve the boundaries between musical categories and styles and to create a cross-cultural global music. On his journeys through Europe, North and South America and Asia he came in touch with most different cultures and found out, that there are more things that unite than seperate the folks on this planet.

Similar to symphonic music from the past, GANDALF´s music tells us stories, describes certain moods and magical moments (in American magazines it has been named "21st CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC").

At the beginning of the eighties GANDALF was with his albums JOURNEY TO AN IMAGINARY LAND and VISIONS one of the pioneers of a new musical direction that was hard to categorize. Later on it was described as NEW AGE MUSIC or CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL and nowadays it develops more and more into a NEW WORLD-MUSIC, but no category ever really applied to GANDALF´s music. With his live-band he playes at Electronic-Music-festivals as well as at Rock- and Pop-events where the audiences respond very enthusiastically. On a promotion-tour through the USA he played solo-concerts with just acoustic guitar and piano.

1990 the self-taught musician composed and arranged a complete orchestral piece (SYMPHONIC LANDSCAPES) which was performed live as part of the Vienna Music Summer - festival with the ORCHESTER DER VEREINIGTEN BÜHNEN WIEN (conducted by Caspar Richter) at the WIENER KONZERTHAUS.

In the meantime GANDALF worked with international artists like the (ex-GENESIS) guitarist STEVE HACKETT (CD GALLERY OF DREAMS 1992), and the Tunesian vocalist and oud-player DHAFER YOUSSEF. He wrote music for theatre and films, his records have been in the charts in exotic countries like KOREA and CHILE and can be found on playlists of radiostations all over the planet.

1995 GANDALF went with his band on a concert-tour through BRAZIL, where he met the british cellist and vocalist EMILY BURRIDGE. Together with her he later produced two albums (GATES TO SECRET REALITIES and BARAKAYA).

GANDALF´s concept, to follow honestly his musical visions over the past years has proved to work, his music that is inspired by nature and by the wisdom and myths of various cultures, outlasts short-living trends and, in spite of most rapidly changing fashions in todays music-business, constantly finds its audience.

With his compositions the sensitive artist points at other realities behind the colourful scenes of our modern consume-society. His music shall encourage us, to start searching for ourselves and to preserve a small piece of individuality in a completely ruled and designed world.

Gandalf Official

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