Album Notes

NEW COOL ALBUM
ICE – Piano Slightly Chilled
Award-winning composer-musician Fiona Joy Hawkins has released a new, cool album. And it’s already made a splash!

An exciting mix of piano and rhythm, Ice is instrumental chill at its very best… but like nothing you have EVER heard before! Sensual, with some vocal tracks, ICE covers chill, jazz, world and rock, with a taste of the unusual thrown into the mix.

With an already successful classical career and two award winning neo-classical albums, why change directions in such a radical way? Fiona replies: “When my teenage sons called me a classical music nerd – I had to prove a point”. And prove it she has!

“Frosted View”, from ICE - Piano Slightly Chilled was nominated for the MusicOz Awards, making the finals while still in the demo stage. Fiona’s classical album Angel Above My Piano won the Best Piano Album in the International New Age Recorder Lifestyle Music Awards (US) for 2006 and her first album Portrait of a Waterfall charted at #1 on the NAR World Charts for 2005 as well as making the top five in the MusicOZ Awards for the classical genre. Once again fiona\'s albums have made the finals in MusicOZ for 2007 and we eagerly await the results on November 22nd.

Fiona uploaded four tracks from the album on myspace in July and within the first two days was offered a global deal for two CDs with MG Music (Medwyn Goodalls UK-based label) – for both ICE – Piano Slightly Chilled and her classical CDs as well as an album release in Asia with Mesa Music.

Fiona met five-time Grammy Award winner Will Ackerman (founder of Windham Hill Records) in June and plans to record an album with him at his Imaginary Road Studios to be released in 2008 – an experience she describes as the thrill of a lifetime!

Added to this, her Penguin Whisperer music video has now had over 11,000 unique hits. To see this beautiful clip from Antarctica, visit www.penguinwhisperer.com

To sample tracks from ICE – Piano Slightly Chilled, visit www.fionajoyhawkins.com or contact: orders@littlehartleymusic.com.au Portrait of a Waterfall and Angel Above my Piano are also available in most CD shops, i-tunes or cdbaby.com.