While I was writing the “Wisdom of Nana via Gebo Passage” the words seem to flow as I listened to “Along the Shore of Acadia” – the haunting, yet beautiful sounds of the violins, enabled me to envision Freedom’s Destiny as it sailed the oceans, and the wedding of Maggie and Asa as Captain Tirone Smith joined them in marriage, with “Night Walk” filling the airways – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdgcs8Y_Xtk&list=OLAK5uy_n0_vL-8B6f065_iJg81s1zWA84mx6somA&index=6.
Carol Wright was right when she wrote, “If this music had been written for a movie, it would be a top seller,” She says much more, “Like the best symphonic movie scores, the music allows the wilderness area and its Native American and Celtic heritage to spring vividly from the speakers…”
In my world, somethings never age, they become iconic such as “The Polar Express” a 2004 film that tells of a young boy and that mysterious train bound for the North Pole; “It’s a Wonderful Life” a 1946 film where James Stewart plays George Bailey who has given up life, but his Guardian Angel intervenes and shows him what things would have been if he has not helped others.
Therefore, I find this 1996 instrumental album by Tim Janis, his first on his label in the same league, a classic returning often, and I can wholeheartedly relate to why he was inspired by and composed based on his experiences in Acadia National Park, including the Maine’s coastal views from Mount Desert Island and the town of Bar Harbor, especially “Tribal Land” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8qzCz-sRk&list=OLAK5uy_n0_vL-8B6f065_iJg81s1zWA84mx6somA&index=3
The album is definitely as I see it, projects serenity in its highest form with impressionistic melodies, led by the orchestra work by Janis at the piano mixed with synthesizers, and other acoustic instruments; thusly, it brought to my mind foregone memories, physical sensations on hike over the rocky terrain, a stream of emotions yearning of those once as I stood near the ocean’s edge, the onslaught of stormy weather, the waves of the sea water rapidly coming ashore, placing me on the pages in ‘Wisdom’ when Nana foretold Benjamin’s future, and when he and Jackie begin their global separation.
More on this musical masterpiece at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib4Nwes7j8s and more on this remarkable artistic gem at: https://www.timjanis.com/about-tim-janis
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