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In the middle of April 2010, Chris Dorman traveled from his new home in Vermont to a neighborhood in Lansing in his Michigan home and brought together a houseful of music makers for a few days that we each will always remember. We were creating the album “Sita”, which was officially delivered to the world on 10.10.10 and is now part of everything. We all slept, cooked our food and recorded the record in a four bedroom house owned by a dear friend. There were microphones and cables everywhere except the kitchen, dining room, one of the bathrooms and the backyard.
Recording "Sita" was heavy. It was joyous and it was intense. It was a healing process, a grieving process and a celebration. Having listened to it now I can say I feel it offers the same energies to us as listeners. It is a calling to honor the feminine principle and the earth. It is a calling to be brave and look at ourselves.
Chris Dorman has an incredible way of bringing us into our own heart space by sharing himself as authentically as he can. He has inspired all of his fellow musicians and co-producers to do the same with "Sita".
-Samuel Seth Bernard
LISTEN TO TRACKS FROM SITA AND TO BEGIN AGAIN RIGHT NOW!
REVIEW of 'To Begin Again'
Chris Dorman is both dreaming and living a dream shared by perhaps a small fraction of people living and working and playing and dreaming on this planet, a slice of the population striving to get back to, or forward to, a simple way of life in which it is possible to slow down, live true and begin again. This is the message on Dorman's new release, To Begin Again, a hybrid of contemporary folk tunes merging grass roots instruments like banjo, harmonica and saw with instruments commonly associated with orchestras, such as cello and oboe.
Driven by Dorman's guitar and insistent vocals, To Begin Again unites a whole slew of vocals and a wide range of instruments from marimba to udu to viola compliments of Dorman's musician friends. The lyrics on the cd are both reflective and urgent.
Dorman dares to be hopeful in a time saturated with cynicism; he asks questions and provides prescriptions without being preachy. The title track, "To Begin Again", presents Dorman's primary message: community can come together; people can start over if they choose to. The horns on All Roads Lead Home are mellow while the finger picking and strings are fast-paced and poignant. "Slow Down" pits a pre-adolescent dream of contentment against that moment of crisis when innocence is outrun.
If there is an ounce of hesitation in the heart, a small part of the self stored away in the heart's drawers and closets, as is the case with most of us, the textured combination of Dorman's breathy, piercing vocals and the music on To Begin Again will coax it out and onward.
-timlane (SCENE Metrospace)
www.chrisdormanmusic.com
In the middle of April 2010, Chris Dorman traveled from his new home in Vermont to a neighborhood in Lansing in his Michigan home and brought together a houseful of music makers for a few days that we each will always remember. We were creating the album “Sita”, which was officially delivered to the world on 10.10.10 and is now part of everything. We all slept, cooked our food and recorded the record in a four bedroom house owned by a dear friend. There were microphones and cables everywhere except the kitchen, dining room, one of the bathrooms and the backyard.
Recording "Sita" was heavy. It was joyous and it was intense. It was a healing process, a grieving process and a celebration. Having listened to it now I can say I feel it offers the same energies to us as listeners. It is a calling to honor the feminine principle and the earth. It is a calling to be brave and look at ourselves.
Chris Dorman has an incredible way of bringing us into our own heart space by sharing himself as authentically as he can. He has inspired all of his fellow musicians and co-producers to do the same with "Sita".
-Samuel Seth Bernard
LISTEN TO TRACKS FROM SITA AND TO BEGIN AGAIN RIGHT NOW!
REVIEW of 'To Begin Again'
Chris Dorman is both dreaming and living a dream shared by perhaps a small fraction of people living and working and playing and dreaming on this planet, a slice of the population striving to get back to, or forward to, a simple way of life in which it is possible to slow down, live true and begin again. This is the message on Dorman's new release, To Begin Again, a hybrid of contemporary folk tunes merging grass roots instruments like banjo, harmonica and saw with instruments commonly associated with orchestras, such as cello and oboe.
Driven by Dorman's guitar and insistent vocals, To Begin Again unites a whole slew of vocals and a wide range of instruments from marimba to udu to viola compliments of Dorman's musician friends. The lyrics on the cd are both reflective and urgent.
Dorman dares to be hopeful in a time saturated with cynicism; he asks questions and provides prescriptions without being preachy. The title track, "To Begin Again", presents Dorman's primary message: community can come together; people can start over if they choose to. The horns on All Roads Lead Home are mellow while the finger picking and strings are fast-paced and poignant. "Slow Down" pits a pre-adolescent dream of contentment against that moment of crisis when innocence is outrun.
If there is an ounce of hesitation in the heart, a small part of the self stored away in the heart's drawers and closets, as is the case with most of us, the textured combination of Dorman's breathy, piercing vocals and the music on To Begin Again will coax it out and onward.
-timlane (SCENE Metrospace)
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