Beloved Heartsong

Grateful Day

Beloved's music is truly enchanting. The music on this CD is a journey into love, joy and a very pleasurable and healing listening experience. The lush melodies, harmonies, rhythms and flow are both relaxing and renewing and often inspire great peace and a desire to dance. I highly recommend this CD and look forward to more music by this gifted and creative pianist/composer! 
N. S-D., Durham, NC  Corporate Director and Instructor, Healer, Musician
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I love this CD! I listen to it daily, while providing massage to the clients at the spa where I work. I also have my own copy and decided to give this CD to 7 members of my family this past holiday season. Everyone has been "Grateful" and so am I. Thank you, Beloved, for providing such beautiful, heartfelt music. It lifts my spirit and relaxes me and my clients each time we hear it. 
S. C., Middletown, CA  Massage Therapist, Living Foods Nutrition Instructor, Counselor & Chef
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The lush sweet sounds and lilting rhythms of Beloved's music are like poetry for the soul and gentle healing medicine for the heart. Each song has a rich and poignant beauty that uplifts the emotions and calls to a mystical union with love's deep imagination. The music effortlessly moves the listener's heart through a range of love, yearning, and passionate embrace with the beloved within, inviting new tenderness for life like a graceful dancer riding inner waves of light. 

The whole sound transports one to realms of utter serenity, peace, and magical beauty. Perfect for quiet reveries, meditation, and relaxation, I often listen to the CD when I work at my desk so that my heart feels nourished and inspired. This is highly recommended music of divine grace!
R.R., Raleigh, NC  Sound Healer, Musician, Artist
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Grateful Day is an amazing emotional journey taking the listener to a higher realm of consciousness celebrating the reverence and joy of life. Beloved's talents as composer and pianist are extraordinary, uplifting and energizing the soul through her artistry, transporting you to the heart of love. You feel the experiences of a day lived in sacred union with the power of nature and the exquisiteness of its beauty. 

Grateful Day is a mystical wave radiating pure heart energy, exemplifying the path of love and light. This is perfect music for meditation and spiritual contemplation; it is a must have for your collection of sacred and loving music to listen to over and over again!
Drinda Pennini, Austin, TX,  Author, Healer, Workshop Leader
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Beloved is pictured in one of this CD’s pictures smiling broadly while playing a piano surrounded beautiful trees. And this smile is the perfect picture of Beloved’s music, which is consistently warm and inviting. 

All of Beloved’s music is instrumental and mainly piano-focused. Beloved’s notes for Grateful Day help explain the unique order of these songs. “As I looked at the final arrangement, I noticed that the titles to the tracks all lined up nicely and in proper order as the events of a day; from “Dolphin Sunrise," to “Ribbon Sunset," to “Dreamtime Mist," and "Into the Deep”. 

Instrumental music can be tricky to describe, which is why you’ll be grateful – no pun intended – for these CD notes. For instance, “Dolphin Sunrise” was inspired by “dolphins frolicking in the water,” as Beloved puts it. So when you listen to the flute and acoustic piano sound interaction of this track, it’s easy to picture those gentle sea creatures putting on a show. 

There is also a spiritual element to Beloved’s music. The composition “On The Bridge of Our Love” was written for “those who are missing or longing for someone.” To experience this song therapeutically, “close your eyes, visualize a bridge in a beautiful garden and see your loved ones smiling as you meet them there with an open heart.” 

The story behind “Into the Deep (The Whale Song)” is given extended detail in the CD booklet. It was inspired by the nearly tragic beaching of 75 false killer whales, which – according to Beloved – are a species of dolphin that look like whales. She describes this song’s inspiration as follows: “As I received this song, through my subtle awareness, I felt and saw whales swimming in circles deep in the ocean – under my piano. They seemed to be stirring the consciousness of humanity. As the song ended, they would swim into the deep.” 

Beloved also matches her piano playing with various inviting instrumental combinations. Although it comes off a little on the sad side, the bouzouki of “Until You’re Here” helps the song express a deep sadness. 

Without a doubt, Beloved’s soul is in touch with nature. From the forests on the back cover, to the mountain tops on the front along with the whale and dolphin-inspired tracks, Beloved draws peaceful feelings from what she sees and feels in nature, then puts these deep emotions to music. 

If you’re a city guy like me, you may not make connections similar to Beloved. It’s hard to get stuck on the 405 in Southern California and end up with a Grateful Day happy feeling. But after you get home, and once you find a place where you can listen to music without being disturbed, Grateful Day might just put your mind into a different, better place. 
Dan McIntosh,  for Indie Music, August 2007
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Grateful Day is a stirring and meditative compilation of 17 instrumental songs which feature the piano played by Beloved. The music represents the experience of spiritual experience, harmony with nature, and unfolding journey. Grateful Day gives me the feeling of a movie soundtrack that presents an inspiring visual landscape, but then I realize it is the soundtrack to Beloved’s Life. In addition to piano, you will hear a world class performance on guitars, bass, bouzouki, tamboura, sarod, synthesizer, shakuhachi, and percussion by Richard Raven Williams. Silver flute is played by Gary Cooper. The music style is a blend of classical and new age influences. There is a surprising versatility in the instrumentation and uniqueness of each track, considering how well united they are in a single minded expression of inner peace and love. 

“Passionate Words” (Track 7) reminds me of the music that might be put to Leonard Cohen lyrics. If you like to read poetry, Beloved’s music will help you go deeper with the words. This is not music with showiness or an attempt to be overly dramatic. It gives the listener freedom to be present in the depths of the moment. 

About “On The Bridge Of Our Love” Beloved writes: “I encourage you to close your eyes, visualize a bridge in a beautiful garden and see your loved ones smiling as you meet them with an open heart. Love may change shape, yet love is the truth that lives forever.” The music flows joyfully from track to track with a quality that is eternal. 

Beloved lives in Mt. Shasta, CA and it is one of her greatest passions to share her healing music with others. She previously lived in Durham, N.C. Grateful Day will serve well as background music, massage accompaniment, with meditation, and along side other healing practices. 
Ron Rudin, for Innerchange Magazine, June/July 2007 Issue
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