this album features the creme-de-la-creme of Blue Mountains guest musicians and much involved production by Ash Wanders. Additionally many of the songs are in three or four conceptual parts, making Hidden Prayers truly a journey to be travelled for the absorbed listener.
Tone colour of featured instruments is rich and diverse: bottle-neck guitar, acoustic 6 string guitar, double bass, flute, piano, harp, mandolin, shakuhachi (by Master player Bronwyn Kirkpatrick), cello, clarinet, saxophone, darambuka, tambura, chimes, hand cymbals, recorder, sampler, tambourine, drums, backing vocals, thunder and rain.
credits
from Hidden Prayers,
released February 27, 2014
song written by A.Feord
arranged and produced by A.H.Benthe
Altruis Music Publishing 2008
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