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Varuna

by Laurie Antonioli

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Varuna 03:22
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You're An Angel Now 04:46
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Summer Night 04:33
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Gentle Rain 06:05
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Revelation 01:40
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Transformation 01:31
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Exaltation 03:03
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My Love 03:00
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Inside My Dreams 04:50
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Haunted Heart 05:34
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Impressions 05:00
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12.
Over the Rainbow 05:15
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about

Richie and I have been friends and collaborators since we first met in 1988, performing both in Europe and the United States. We’ve had some extraordinary experiences, from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, with a full choir singing my lyrics to Richie’s music, to duo concerts in cities including Istanbul, Vienna, Zagreb, Munich, and San Francisco.

When Richie and I are together for a performance, we often go into the studio for a day or two to capture the essence of our collaboration in that time and place. As I traced the arc of the past ten years of these ad hoc sessions, I found a storyline of dreams, the night sky, the morning sun, birth, death, the unseen, and of course, love. The narrative of Varuna is shaped from our favorite sessions in Leipzig, Germany in 2006 and Berkeley, California in 2012, with some additional recording done specifically for this album in 2015.

Most of the songs are introspective. As Richie noted, our feelings about the music have deepened over time. He said, “One of the good things about getting older, if you can hold on to your health, is that certain things get easier. You become more yourself. This is hard won over years of gigs, traveling, recordings, and all the in-between times of deep, long conversations about life and music, which are just as important as rehearsing. We’ve gained experience and, above all, humanity.”

Were it not for Richie, I might not be singing today. His insistence and belief in me as an artist have never wavered. Of course, Richie’s mastery has never been in question. He has developed a unique voice in the history of jazz, and his students read like a Who’s Who of contemporary pianists. His classically infused playing provokes an interplay that is both familiar and complex, offering unexpected turns leavened with a healthy dose of humor.

Varuna is a Vedic god who presides over the celestial waters. It’s also the name of a new dwarf planet, or a moon, that astronomers recently discovered hiding near Pluto. The harmony of the spheres, the miracle of space and time, and the joining of two musicians are all magical phenomena. I hope you find that magic in our music.

With love,

Laurie Antonioli

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released January 1, 2015

Laurie Antonolio, vocals
Richie Beirach, piano
Pepe Berns, bass (tracks 5-8)

Produced by Laurie Antonioli
Artistic Consultant – Hans Wendl
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8: Recorded and mixed June, 2006
by Kai Mader at FWL Studios, Leipzig, Germany
Tracks 3, 4, 9,10, 11, 12, 13: Recorded February, 2012
by David Luke at C-Change Studios, Berkeley, CA
Additional recording and mixing (3, 4, 9-13) February, 2015
by Dan Feiszli at What’s For Lunch, El Cerrito, CA
Mastered by Christoph Stickel, Munich, Germany
Photograph of Laurie by a-restrospective
Photograph of duo by Darlene Pearson
Cover photo by Wanphen Chawarung
Cover design & layout by John Bishop
Tracks (1, 6-10), published by Remains2BSeen Music

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Laurie Antonioli is one of the era’s definitive jazz vocalists, but she’s got a little rock ’n’ roll in her soul too. Her new album The Constant Passage of Time expands her creative purview with an emotionally trenchant program focusing on her collaborations with state-of-the-art jazz composers and new arrangements of tunes by iconic singer/songwriters Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Sheryl Crow. ... more

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