Album Notes

Vicki Larnach has a hypnotising way with melody and arrangements. You immediately feel a deep sense of tranquility. This music truly has a beautiful essence.
Lumia, her first album, has a certain magic about it. One yoga teacher, says that as soon as she puts Lumia on to play, her students just let go and breathe.
You ride the melodies, have visualisations, you feel impelled to let it all go and bliss out.

The word Lumia means "the art of changing light", and when I was composing this music, I had visualisations of floating in space. Beautiful sylph like spiral beings, all changing colours, slowly whirled around me, giving me an overwhelming sense of serenity. I believe this vision is embedded in the music. Hence the name and the cover.

Vicki Larnach is an Australian composer, music producer and teacher working mostly as a solo artist, composing, recording and producing her own works using piano and keyboards.

"When I played in loud rock bands and did wild synthesiser solos (which I did love playing), I also yearned to play more feminine, aesthetic styles."

Her latest instrumental works are elegant and spacious. Natural therapists, fitness instructors, their clients, families and schools praise her music for its immediate positive effects.

Vicki's music was recently featured in Family Circle Magazine, as a cover mount CD, with over 53,000 copies circulated in Australia and New Zealand.

Her music is used as backing tracks in guided meditations, in short films, and as orchestration in a spoken book, also narrated by Vicki, entitled 'Why Women Weep" by Marie Gai Oberlander.

She studied classical piano with Edith Woods, and jazz with Roger Frampton, Julie Spithill and Mike Bukovsky at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia.

She has performed and recorded music from rock to salsa, jazz to ambient, pantomime to country, classical and children's music in both Australia and overseas.

In Venezuela, South America, Vicki Larnach played keyboards for actress/singer Maria Conchita Alonso, in rock concerts, tours and TV appearances.

She recorded piano and keyboards on Giordano Di Marzo"s "Negocios" album, and toured in concert with bands Tinajas and Celestial.

Vicki was musical director of a production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in Caracas and taught music in schools and at the Conservatorium of Music for the Philharmonic Orchestra, Caracas.

Primary (elementary) school, piano and early childhood music teacher, Vicki was on the advisory panel for the Australian ABC's SING '93 (a CD of songs and book used by most schools in Australia). Her children's songs "Wear A Hat", "Solar" and "Little String Bag" appear in several of these ABC's SING Productions.

Please contact me if you need any new project music." www.vicki.com.au