Album Notes

Margie Adam is a rarity among musicians in that she has created two distinct bodies of work. She is known as a singer-songwriter of elegant love songs and inspiring songs of conscience. At the same time, Margie Adam continues to explore the realm of pop-jazz solo piano music as a composer and instrumentalist.

Margie Adam was born in Lompoc, California and started playing the piano as soon as she could climb up on the piano bench. She began her performance career at an open mike session at Kate Millett's legendary Sacramento Women's Music Festival in 1973. In the following years, she participated in the definition and expansion of women's music as an art form, a political force and an industry.

Margie's piano solo recordings include Naked Keys(1980), Soon & Again(1995) and Portal(2005). Her vocal recordings, also recorded oher company, Pleiades Records include Margie Adam.Songwriter.(1977), We Shall Go Forth!(1982), Here Is A Love Song(1983), Another Place(1993), Avalon(2001) and Best of Margie Adam(2005).

The quiet hum of spirit that has resonated in Margie's music from Songwriter through Avalon has now surfaced full force in PORTAL, a 2-disc CD/DVD set. This new work combines the rich contemplative core of her piano solo music with a surprising new visual element of her artistic sensibility: photography set in motion.

The compilation CD, PORTAL, brings together ten solo piano performances with clear melodies, lush chord color and mesmerizing polyrhythms from Naked Keys, Soon and Again and her last release, Avalon. These pieces have emerged as the soundscape for Margie's work with the labyrinth.

PORTAL to Avalon is a 7-minute DVD program playable on a television or computer screen. This audio/visual meditation is a transporting interaction between subtly choreographed photography and mesmerizing music which creates a still space in the midst of a noisy world.