Petals On the Path - After touring Japan last fall with the new Luna Negra trio, everyone realized this was a special group of musicians. “Instead of crafting the songs in the studio, one track at time, we decided to record the group playing together as we would on stage, says Liebert.” With Jon Gagan on bass and Michael Chavez on drums, the trio set out to record the album in four sessions with very few overdubs. “I wanted to capture an old-fashioned organic drum sound and to keep a well-defined space by mixing the bass to one side, the drums to the other, and the guitar up the middle... a production nod to the 60’s that created a big canvas with an intimate feel to it.”
The Scent of Light - Each of these ten instrumentals draws a picture, and each picture tells a story. It's music as a smell that triggers unexpected memories. India, 1978... Granada, 1992... each track has a strong atmosphere of time and place, like the journal of an itinerant poet or painter.
Tracks range from over 5 minutes to almost 12 minutes. Each piece shifts and evolves, sometimes going through several tempo and rhythm changes, "The River" features Tangos, Rumba and 6/8 rhythms, sometimes building from a haunting solo-guitar performance to the full drive of the band, as in "Silence: No More Longing".
Up Close - A binauraldummy head recording, sometimes also called holophonics. The listener has to use headphones to experience the 3D surround-sound quality of the music since the recording uses the head-related transfer function. Recorded live-to-stereo in August of 2007. No edits were made and the volume was not compressed. This album is not as loud as most music and you might have to turn up the volume on your computer or mp3 player. You will NOT experience the binaural surround effect when you listen to one of the previews below as the previews are in mono. Also check out this article on culturecourt.com
SSRI Sampler - Free downloads (128kbps only) of selected songs by SSRI artists. We will add songs and replace others, so check back from time to time.
You are free to share the files contained in this album. You can podcast the music and you can use it on your web site with proper credit and a link back to ListeningLounge.org
Under the Rose - We are giving this music away for free and hope that you will be moved to make a donation to International Committee of the Red Cross, who have given hope to victims of conflicts for over 140 years.. You can find a couple of the tracks here, in the form of 128kbps mp3 downloads, or head over to ottmarliebert.com/rose for all ten songs in high quality 320kbps mp3 or CD-Quality FLAC files.