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"This is, to put it simply, one of the most beautiful records I have ever listened to. This album stands outside of almost every recognized category of style or taste... and rather than making it an obscure niche work, instead this makes it universal."
Paul Kienitz - Oakland, CA

Spinning World: 13 Ways of Looking at a Waltz

Are you looking for that song from Sex and the City...

The one played at the end of the episode La Douleur Exquise - season 2-24.? The song they play when Carrie realizes she and Big are over? It's called Anna, and it's just one of many tunes from Spinning World: 13 Ways of Looking at a Waltz that were heard throughout the 2nd season of Sex and the City. Selections from this CD have also been featured many times on NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and This American Life - and in the Marisa Tomei film Just a Kiss.

The music is lyric, tempestuous, drunken, sad, always soul-stirring and goose-bump good. Who said a waltz has to be in 3/4 time? Some of THESE waltzes are in 5/4. And if you’re hoping for tradition, there’s one waltz that would make Johann Strauss sit up and wave his baton again. Dancers rejoice, for here is music you can twirl to all night long.

Imagine Rufus Wainwright and Randy Newman sitting down to write a movie soundtrack for Yo-Yo Ma and Cirque du Soleil in 1917, and you’re getting close. It’s beyond new age, it’s modern but old fashioned at the same time. Listen for yourself.

"This hearkens back to a time when music was uplifting and spiritual. With so many artists stumbling over their feet attempting to recreate music from the past (and failing miserably), this disc stands out from the crowd. Aesthetically and sonically delightful." Babysue Magazine