Each song is an emotional journey, a holistic and metaphysical experience
author: Vision Magazine
If you were brought up on classical music and have a love for the complex sounds of a piano, this album is for you. Each of the eight tracks is filled with the tinkling and depths of piano keys. But unlike the classical sounds of say Beethoven or Bach, the songs have a holistic, metaphysical edge to them. Each song is an emotional journey. As a classical pianist from Brazil, Maria Alice is intuitive and creative in her work, mixing jazz, as well as eastern influences with her classical training. Also look for her first album Metamotphosis.
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The experience of having arrived. Peace.
author: Bernie Sirelson
Transcendental is, for me, an arrival. The exploration was started in Metamorphosis, and now we get to play in the light. The piano playing expresses Maria Alice's virtuosity, yet has no pretentiousness. Her fingers bring to life a view of the Universe where we see the pulsing, vibrating strings of reality, never the same, always moving just out of sight. Melodies and rhythms offer themselves and then dance away out of our grasp, only to return when least expected, yet at the perfect time. Listening to this CD is to dwell in the transcendence that we achieve through life's experience and teaching. The never ending quest takes a deep breath here.
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