TIA KNIGHT: Blackwood

Tia Knight

Blackwood

© 1999 Blackwood Manor Music (733792310124)

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If you need music for a spell...this is it....It has been said by many that there is something a pinch more than just magic in her music.... and Strangely addicting.

tracks

1 Raindance
2 Loss
3 Blackwood
4 Lisas Arena
5 Staircase
6 Vertigo
7 Sticks-n-stones
8 Star
9 Witches Brew
10 Bringer
11 Zodiac

notes

Composer/Singer Tia Knight, born in 1969 in Meridian, Mississippi, had a strong love of the piano at an early age, sparked by her grandmother, Star.

Moving on to keyboards in her early twenties, she discovered how to weave sounds both gripping and focused.

Blackwood, her debut release in 1999 is a journey not only to another time, but to another place.

Homequest, released in 2003 breeds a collection of tunes filled with bewitching vocals and laced with Medieval overtones.

Smoke & Mirrors is a new sound from Tia Knight swirling with Sexy & vocals on almost every track.

About Tia Knight

Can a tune literally represent a stonewall with vines on it or with nothing
on it, though it (the tune) be made by a genius whose power of objective
contemplation is in the highest state of development? Can it be done by
anything short of an act of mesmerism on the part of Tia Knight
or an act of kindness on the part of the listener?

written by composer Charles Ives.




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  • Alive !!!!!!!
    author: S. F. White

    Alive and moving. Strange, but Raindance was both relaxing and energizing at the same time. Very neat experience.

  • delightful shock
    author: Alana

    I just wanted to mention, how much I ADORE what I have heard of BLACKWOOD - I've been playing the same several MP3s I found over, and over, and over again. It's a delightful shock to get my greedy hands on the CD (finally) and find that it's been signed. Cheers! Alana

  • An amazing experience
    author: auguzto

    -- An amazing experience This song has a fantastic, soothing sound and a tasty arrangement, and shows the skills of the author. Relaxing, magical and dreamy: I love it!!! :-)

  • it is awesome and i love the spell shit
    author: Mary Wilson

    it is an awesome cd and it has awesome potential it is really creepy and i like it alot all of yall should bye it like i am goin to

  • Truly Inspirational!
    author: Angel

    I have found that a lot of people are buying this cd from our website and I just had to check it out for myself, I really love it! It's Excellent!

  • exceptional
    author: m. watson

    I found your web site and your exceptional music! Thank you for your time and your music. M. Watson

  • Great Korg sounds!
    author: john

    I love the sounds the Korg M1 keyboard makes!And the whole cd is so magical... Your cd makes me want to run out and buy an old M1 board. Thanks

  • author: Unknown

    You have inspired me to become a wicth!

  • magical new age music
    author: lorenna tesh

    I am so happy I found this magical artist.She reminds me a little of Enya or Enigma but with her own haunting style. Thanks for the music Tia !!!!!

  • Haunting...Brought me to tears..
    author: Jennifer

    I just discovered Tia Knight's music and never has music affected me the way "Blackwood" has. It is mesmerizing, soul deep and brought me to tears, which is very rare for music to do that for me. I intend to by her other CD and continue to be a fan.

  • find your familiar
    author: judy ash

    This is so magical !! I want more....when I first heard the music It sounded so familiar.

  • Fire !
    author: wendy rule

    kick the tires and light the fires...of magick!

  • Such a talent !!
    author: Holly Diver

    hi tia I loooove your music- l'm only 11 but I've just started out on the wiccan path, and I love your music. My favourite song is 'vertigo' on the blackwood album. You have such a talent far more than any pop singers,yours greatfully (for that lovely music) Holly

  • AHHH YES! Pagan in Paradise
    author: totenzwerg

    Pagan in Paradise, October 30, 2003 "Witches Brew" is perfectly blended ingredients of mystical sound. Why such a marvel is offered for free download is beyond me. This is one of those rare songs that would have induced me to by the whole album just to get. I still may, because experience has shown that a gem such as this rarely is alone in its setting.

  • Will have listeners reaching for repeat!
    author: Murrday Fisher - Amg Expert Review:

    From the eerie "Witches Brew" to the somberly elegant and striking "Loss," Tia Knight provides an intriguing range of ambient instrumentals with a medieval tone. "Bringer" opens percussively, with a pulsing beat that continues through the composition. "Vertigo" is another percussive exploration, this one in a more subtle, muted range, yet also with a catchy rhythm that will get listeners wanting to move. Then "Staircase" offers rising keyboard crescendos and horn fanfares, while "Sticks-n-Stones" explores a darker ambient sound that would make effective theme music for events portrayed in an ominous setting. In her description, the artist likens it to "black widows dancing across the moon." The harpsichord on "Raindance" is an effectively atmospheric touch. In all, Blackwood is an enjoyable debut for fans of ambient music, and will have listeners reaching for repeat!

  • Blessed be
    author: Zorah Staar

    I really enjoy your song "Blackwood" and have it on my mp3 station (Pagan Music - Zorah Staar's Station).thanks for sharing your magic with the world! Blessed be, Zorah Staar

  • I can see Tia Knight's music appealing to a variety of listeners!!
    author: Jerry Kranitz From Aural Innovations #17 (september 2001)

    Tia Knight is a keyboard artist who serves up an interesting variety of instrumentals on her debut release, from symphonic New Age music to more adventure and sometimes experimental pieces. Standout tracks on the melodic symphonic side include "Raindance", a Medieval New Age gothic electronic track. The harpsichord-like melody is so simple but my head was bopping throughout the song, making it simultaneously dark and uplifting. "Loss" and "Staircase" are symphonic tunes with the later reminding me a lot of Vangelis. "Blackwood" was one of the more interesting of the New Agey tracks as it had a percussive melody that added character to the music. Things start to get more adventurous with "Vertigo", on which gradually evolving tribal percussion provides the basis for a series of electronic patterns and sounds. It's an intriguing piece because the music demands a little more attention than the other tracks yet still manages to drift along without having jarred the listener from his/her meditation. "Sticks-n-Stones" and "Zodiac" are both harsher, more mechanical atmospheric space ambient pieces. I liked the dark pounding beat on "Zodiac" that conjures up images of a robotic dance. On "Witches Brew" a trumpet sound plays the lead melody against a dark orchestral backdrop while spacey synth noodlings dance about giving the music a welcome freaky edge. And my favorite track is "Bringer", a song the promo sheet says was used in a Frankenstein play at Richland College in Dallas, Texas. The song grabbed me because it actually sounds a bit like "Darkness" from Mr Quimby's Beard's Definitive Unsolved Mysteries Of CD... an analogy that should endear Tia to the space rock crowd. In summary, I can see Tia Knight's music appealing to a variety of listeners, from the New Age fans who like the spiritual element but are sick of the fluff and want something more, to fans of ambient space who like the cooperation and contrast between heavenly symphonics and somewhat more experimental sounds.

  • "Ritual" Music
    author: Linda Beltowski

    If the rest of the CD is like the mp3's I downloaded, it can't get here fast enough! ... this sounds perfect!

  • Hail Tia!
    author: Milton Kleim

    Your album is awesome! I've downloaded all the mp3s from mp3.com, so I can listen anytime on the computer, and I'll use the CD in my car. :-) Milton

  • Rare thing!
    author: Jim R.

    Blessings, I have just finished listenng to the "Blackwood" cd. Such a journey is a rare thing these days, thank you. Be Well, Jim R.

  • * * * * *
    author: Angela White

    Most Wicked!!

  • Tia is successfull !!
    author: Silvereagle- Paganpresence.com

    Blackwood by Tia Knight collection of haunting instrumental songs by a talented Tia Knight. The album starts off with Raindance and it reminds me of rain when I hear it. Each song is different, taking you to different places in Blackwood. Overall the CD Blackwood has a magickal quality to it. Tia Knight is successfull in painting a musical landscape called Blackwood that any one can appreciate whether you are Pagan, Wiccan, Witch or of a more mundane persuasion. - SilverEagle.

  • author: Farah Ali

    Tia'a music is a joy and an inspiration. It brings out my creativity when I'm feeling artistically blocked and whisks me away to a land of unfettered dreams where anything I can imagine is possible. Blackwood is a unique blend of dark beauty and the quiet hope of an artist's passion. I encourage other artists and every music lover to share the magic of Blackwood!

  • ENCHANTING POWERFUL MUSIC - BEAUTIFUL SOUL
    author: Phyliss Hill

    Gotta get it! What wonderful music this is, truly written from the heart and soul. The only thing more beautiful than her music is herself for I have the great privilege of knowing Tia personally. Her music will play on your heart strings like a heavenly harp. Thanks Tia for your exquisite contribution and we look forward to more. We love you!

  • Words can not also do justice to the composer and the music.
    author: Melanie Willmann

    I hesitate to write reviews because when I enjoy something it is a sensation not words that first comes to mind. This holds true for Tia Knight and her Blackwood CD. If you enjoy listening to one CD over and over because it contains sounds that fill you from within, I recommend you purchase "Blackwood".

  • Mystical Places...
    author: Kathy

    Hi Tia , Blackwood is magical for me. It touches my soul and connects me with so many wonderful mystical places! I'm so glad I found your music.I rarely search for music on the web so this just proves how cool the universe works!! Wishing you all the Best, Kathy

  • Masterful and compelling, weaving a spell of enchantment over the listening mind
    author: Lisa Stanley

    Listening to Tia's music is like climbing aboard a magic carpet, as it enters your mind and carries one to distant times of magic and mystery, of things both beautiful and haunting. Hypnotic and strangely addicting, it's sure to quickly become a staple of your cd collection.

  • Enchanted!!
    author: Ethan Finley

    My name is Ethan Finley and I am a musician/producer from Salt Lake City, Utah. I was fortunate enough to discover your page on MP3.com, and I just had to write a quick note to say that I REALLY enjoy your music! I am absolutely enchanted by medieval music, and was excited to see someone so dedicated to maintaining that tradition. Your compositions really are beautiful! I just wanted to say keep up the great work, and to wish you all the best! Sncerely, Ethan Finley The Orpheus Project- www.mp3.com/OrpheusProject

  • AN ALBUM FILLED WITH MAGICK AND MYSTERY!!!
    author: K N A R F

    I happened to find this while looking for music that had something behind it - in a spirtual/magical bent. When I heard the samples, I knew that I had found it. This is an album you can listen to for hours and hours while you work or just meditate about life and love.

  • Epic Music
    author: Josh Apperson

    This is one of only three CD's I've ever owned where I've actually been overcome with emotion while listening to it. Unlike the others, however, Blackwood has been able to do that with each song. I've literally sat and cried while listening to some tracks, and felt a sort of overcoming inner peace with others. No other single piece of artistry has ever brought out so much of my own creativity, and sparked such imaginations as this CD. If you don't yet own this CD, and are even remotely interested in any sort of new age, trance, or ambient music: what are you waiting for?

  • Wonderful music...
    author: Michael B.

    Tia's song Raindance is an entrancing and captivating tune with a wonderful combination of a high spirited quick beat, a wonderfully melodic harpsichord riff with subtle perscussion backgrounds and finally that wonderfully soothing descending keyboard work that carries the whole tune. Her music reminds me of the early works of musical great Brian Eno when he worked with groups like Cluster, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Streetmark and a few other European groups I had the pleasure of discovering back in the late 70s. The songs Bringer and Vertigo are predominately percussion and well suited to a big bonfire at any modern Medieval (SCA) gathering. Her music is a fine example of relaxing, vision inducing (I like to call it Picture Music), new age music. I thoroughly enjoy her work and look forward to the new CD.

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