C.S. Bezas' music is intriguing, solid, and wonderfully beautiful. A very unique style that welcome's your attention to enjoy and meditate upon. Every song is excellent in it's own way. This is a great choice for your music collection!
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I have been looking for just such quiet music, especially to wake up to.  Was impressed by the sample from Meridian Mag. and ordered it.  Loved the Confirmation order!  Thanks.
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> As the mother of four, and grandmother of one, I've witnessed first
> hand
> the power of music to impact psychological well-being.  Thus, in a 
> world
> that seems to possess no shortage of distress and unrest, I am ever
> interested in music that will evoke feelings of peace and harmony.
>
> Last fall, I had the pleasure of attending a performance given by C.S. 
> Bezas.  I found her music to be unique with a quality I felt could 
> best be described as reflective.  When her new CD, A Time for Ana, was 
> released, I was anxious to discover whether it lived up to its 
> billing: music intended to soothe.
>
> I decided to listen to the CD with my six-year-old, a precocious child 
> who has the ability to communicate her feelings well but sometimes has 
> a hard time slowing down to absorb the world around her.  As we 
> listened, I found her reactions to the music were much the same as 
> mine -- a sense
> of gentle calm giving way to an avenue for introspection.
>
> Like the compositions I'd heard flow from the fingers of C.S. Bezas 
> during her performance last fall, A Time for Ana, stirred feelings 
> that were reflective.  I didn't find myself immediately soothed -- in 
> the true sense of that word -- by each and every selection.  For 
> instance, A River to Cross, which begins quite dramatically, initially 
> caused me to feel a bit of despair.  As the song progressed, that 
> feeling, however, soon became replaced with a sense of resolve -- a 
> sort of
> "stay-the-course" type of  emotion.   On one of her websites, Bezas
> stated she wrote the song for those who have "wide rivers" to cross, 
> so my feelings seemed on course with the emotions she intended to 
> stimulate.  She also stated that she hoped the song would bring peace 
> and, by the end of the selection, I felt I had indeed arrived at a 
> place of peace.
>
> My six-year-old was captivated by Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No.  She
> said
> it made her feel "happy" and reminded her of time she'd spent with a
> favorite aunt who also served as a surrogate grandmother.  Writing 
> about
> this song, Bezas said, "when I have someone in my life sustaining me
> through both the "yes's" and the "no's," the unpredictability becomes
> much more manageable.  I wrote this song in the hope and prayer that
> each listener will have that special person through each personal "yes"
> and "no" of life!"  For my daughter, the song seemed to communicate 
> this
> desire quite well.
>
> Summer Rain felt light and fresh to both of us, taking us back to 
> times when the breath of spring was fresh and new.  Adam-ondi-Ahman 
> gave us a sense of hope and How Gentle seemed to bring about a sort of 
> airy, childlike tranquility.
>
> After listening to the entire CD, I did feel soothed and at peace and 
> observed that those same feelings resonated in my daughter.  A Time 
> for Ana is different from similar music in the same genre in that each 
> selection seems to provide a type of mini-journey that allows 
> resolution of various levels of stress and tension leading to a place 
> of respite that is much less transitory than that of some other works.
>
> Concerning the final track on the CD, Time Will Tell, Bezas states: 
> "Let us relax, knowing that some things can only be born out through 
> the gentle ebb and flow of time itself . . . For what legacy do we 
> really want to leave?"
>
> The statement seems to sum up A Time for Ana in that the full effect 
> of the CD is indeed born out through a gentle ebb and flow -- 
> uncertainty giving way to certainty, unrest giving way to rest, tumult 
> giving way to tranquility.  And the legacy C.S. Bezas leaves us with 
> is of a heart communicating its deepest urge to comfort and console, 
> to bring peace and to soothe.  For that I commend her.
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Your next Cd needs to be subtitled "music to think by".  I am behind at work and came in early this AM to write lectures and an article that is due.  It has just dawned on me that I have been listening to "A Time for Anna" the whole time.  It is perfect "thinking" music (perhaps most beneficial for those of us who have trouble with thinking).  Powerful stuff! Stimulating, but without distraction.
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