ALBUM INFORMATION

QUIETING      FOREIGNLANDER      THE MOON OF WINTERTIME
THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH      ENTRANCES      SABBATH DAY’S JOURNEY

QUIETING
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BM1050 — October 2008
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

Acoustic Instrumental Music by Lydia McCauley

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • Black Walnut and Willow Waltz 1:36
  • Hawthorn 2:51
  • Cottonwood 4:42
  • Searching for the Clovis Point 7:19
  • Every Bug, Every Bee, Every Breath 4:43
  • Willow 2:22
  • The Busy Bees of Sansepolcro 4:01
  • For My Daughters 3:23
  • Porcero Danza (Dance of the Pigs) 1:37
  • Monarch 3:26
  • Blue Vale 3:58
  • Black Walnut Reprise 1:40

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – piano
  • Jami Sieber – Cello
  • Nancy Rumbel – Oboe, French Horn
  • Lee Mohler – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Frank Jackson – recorders, wooden flute, whistles
  • Phil Heaven – viola
  • Lynne Givler – double bass
  • Froggins and The Pond Chorus – ribbets

Recorded at Brimstone Studio
Mixed by Kurt Scherer
Mastered at Soundings of the Planet by Phil Heaven

FOREIGNLANDER
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BM1048 — June 2004
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

“Swallows Return” written by Lydia McCauley
All other songs Traditional.
Arranged and adapted by Lydia McCauley
except “The River Trilogy” arranged by Kurt Scherer

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • One Morning In May
  • Swallow’s Return
  • Pretty Saro
  • The Cuckoo
  • Barbara Allan
  • Stella
  • The River Trilogy
  • I Will Give My Love An Apple
  • Softly And Tenderly
  • ForeignLander
  • Soldier Boy
  • Margaret’s Waltz
  • Lover’s Lament

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – vocals, piano, Appalachian dulcimer
  • Brian Cunningham – acoustic guitar
  • Frank Jackson – recorders, wooden flute, whistles
  • Phil Heaven – viola
  • Lynne Givler – double bass, harmony vocals
  • Jason Darling – percussion
  • Grant Donnellan – violin
  • Paul Englesberg – concertina

Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
Mixed and mastered at Soundings of the Planet by Phil Heaven

THE MOON OF WINTERTIME
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BM1031 — Oct. 2002
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

All lyrics Traditional
except “Gifts of the Magi” music and lyrics written by Lydia McCauley (Trad.)
All music arranged by Lydia McCauley except
“Farewell to Glasgow” and”Trotto” arranged by Frank Jackson;
“Down in Yon Forest” (2nd Version)”arranged by Brian Cunningham

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • The Moon Of Wintertime
  • Ideo Gloria
  • Gifts Of The Magi
  • Good King Wenceslas
  • Childgrove
  • Down In Yon Forest
  • Star Of The East
  • Farewell To Glasgow
  • Trotto
  • Bring Us In Good Ale

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – vocals, piano, synth, appalachian dulcimer, chimes
  • Brian Cunningham – guitar, mandolin, synth, electric guitar
  • Frank Jackson – recorders, wooden flute, penny whistle
  • Phil Heaven – viola
  • Lynne Givler – double bass
  • Jason Darling – percussion

Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
Mixed and mastered at Soundings of the Planet by Phil Heaven

THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH
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BM1028 — May 2002
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

All lyrics written by Lydia McCauley
except “Lark in the Morning” (Trad.)
All music written by Lydia McCauley
except “Burning of the Piper’s Hut” (Trad.)

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • The Beauty Of The Earth
  • I Want To Be Free
  • The River Of Life
  • The Lark In The Morn
  • In The Silence
  • Aeternitas
  • The White Heat
  • When You See
  • Burning Of The Piper’s Hut
  • Kyrie Eleison

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – vocals, piano, keyboards, synth
  • Brian Cunningham – guitar, mandolin, synth, electric guitar
  • Frank Jackson – recorders, wooden flute, penny whistle
  • Phil Heaven – viola
  • Lynne Givler – double bass, harmony vocals
  • Jason Darling – percussion (doumbek,ashiko,bodhran,muzhar,
    bendir,darambuka,conga,shakers,cymbals,chimes,bells)

Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
Additional recording at Sharp Nine, Brimstone, and Soundings of the Planet
Mixed at Soundings of the Planet by Phil Heaven
Mastered at Turtle Recording, by Larry Anschell, White Rock, BC

ENTRANCES
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BM1015 — September 1999
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

All songs written by Lydia McCauley except
“Come All Ye Fair” (Trad.) and”Foggy Dew” (Trad.)

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • Entrances
  • Hope Grows
  • Garden Room
  • Preghiera Semplice
  • The Fire
  • The Cloister Within
  • Ashes
  • Foggy Dew
  • Come All Ye Fair
  • Traveling Moorland

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – vocals, piano, keyboards
  • Brian Cunningham – guitar
  • Frank Jackson – alto,soprano, sopranino recorders
  • Phil Heaven – viola, doumbek
  • Frank Olsen – double bass
  • Marc Murray – doumbek, percussion
  • Kurt Scherer – synth, chimes

Recorded and mixed at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, B.C.
Mastered at Oceanview Digital Mastering by Joe Gastwirt Los Angeles, CA

SABBATH DAY’S JOURNEY
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BM1012 — September 1998
Produced by Kurt Scherer and Lydia McCauley

All songs written by Lydia McCauley
except “Black is the Color” (Trad.)
and “O Beautiful Earth” (Trad.)

ALBUM TRACKS:

  • Mother’s Heart
  • Buon Giorno, Buena Gente
  • O Beautiful Earth
  • Assisi
  • Black Is The Color
  • Burning Bush
  • Apples On The Tree
  • Graceday
  • Brimstone
  • Holy Drone Of The Valley
  • All Shall Be Well

MUSICIANS:

  • Lydia McCauley – vocals, piano, keyboard, synth
  • Phil Heaven – viola, violin, doumbek
  • David J. MacVittie – bouzouki, guitar, sitar,doumbek
  • Frank Olsen – double bass
  • Larry Knechtel; Musician’s Hall of Fame and member of the legendary Wrecking Crew – piano
  • Paul Englesberg – concertina, penny whistle
  • Frank Jackson – alto, soprano, sopranino recorders
  • Jud Sherwood – drums
  • Kurt Scherer – bells

Recorded at Brimstone Music and Soundings of the Planet
Mixed and mastered at Soundings of the Planet
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