ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sleepwalker a.k.a Lyubomir Yordanov started to work on the Sleepwalker project back in 2000, after years of studying music, exploring ethnic cultures and inspiring by vast journeys. With more than 200,000 listens online, Sleepwalker (at age 26) almost instantly became one of the most successful artists from Bulgaria in his genre. It is no chance that the track “Invisible Cloister” from his 3rd album occupied the #1 place in the World chart of the prestigious website GarageBand.com and stayed there for 8 months. Like proud member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers), Sleepwalker released 3 albums since 2004 - “Flower Of Life - 2004”, “A Tear For Kursk - 2005”, “Amenti - 2006”.
The music of Sleepwalker combines in a fascinating way different genres as New Age, Chill-out, Lounge, World and Ambient, mixed with folklore motives from all over the planet, symphonic parts and Soundtrack themes. The conception centre on ancient civilizations, wondered and sacred places, epic antique cities, fascinate tales, lyrics of Arabian, Portuguese, French and Italian, interlaced with Tibetan, African and Native American dialects and Bulgarian chants. For reaching such rich and vary sound picture, Sleepwalker use the combination of new modern computer technologies with multiple instruments as guitars, violin, synthesizers, Native American flutes, African and Indonesian percussions, mandolin, oud, saz and Armenian pipe. Sleepwalker works with different musicians, like each one of them blend and color the music with own style.
ALBUM DESCRIPTION
"A Tear For Kursk" is Sleepwalker's tribute to the Russian submarine that sank in the icy Baltic waters, killing all hands on board.
It is a haunting new age song comprised of several classical instruments with violin and vocals being the showcase sounds.
This is Sleepwalker's second cd, their debut cd "Flower Of Life" is available at PeaceWork Music Net and will soon be available here as well.
MUSIC QUOTES
written by sound reporters, producers and music labels
"A Tear For Kursk" is Sleepwalker's tribute to the Russian submarine that sank in the icy Baltic waters, killing all hands on board. This is a single track CD with emotive, flowing strings, processional snare drum, acoustic guitar, piano and spoken voice. A soaring female vocal line periodically rises to operatic heights billowing above everything - sonar pings juxaposing soft chimes in the interlude, as the promotional material puts it: "a haunting new age song" that will touch the heart.
Paul Jury (Morpheus Music)
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