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Winter Gifts

Greensleeves As the Snow Moon Wanes Christe Redemptor Angels We Have Heard Snowflake Waiting For Winter When Autumn Brings Winter Greensleeves (unaltered mix)

The newest release from Peter Janson, Winter Gifts, is a winter theme album of mostly solo guitar works featuring original music as well as Peter's unique compelling arrangements of classic titles Angels We Have Heard, Christe Redemptor, and Greensleeves.

Music reviewer Denez McAdoo says "... [a] sense of ancient spirituality pervades the entire album; though Janson's decidedly contemporary finger-picking style manages to adopt this spirit, as well as the melodic patterns, and make it all feel quite at home in our modern world... Listen to his music: Janson simply plays for the passion of his art; a sentiment that shines through on every track of Winter Gifts."

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Beautiful Day

Mantra For Mieka Spirit Dances Beautiful Day Waterfall December Morning Sun Welcome Guests Dragonfly

Peter Janson & Friends - Beautiful Day, features all instrumental music with folk roots, world-beat grooves, post-Windham Hill guitar influences, Jazz aesthetics, and Celtic elements woven into a hauntingly beautiful original sound.

Winner of the 2006 NAR Lifestyle Music Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album it has received stellar reviews and was in the top 25 on the NAR National Top 100 Radio charts for five consecutive months, reaching as high as #3 in September 2006. NARs Bill Binkelman says, "Beautiful Day is a stunning album, to say the least. ...easily one of the best releases of recent years." RJ Lannan says, "...brilliant album that will add just the right musical ambience for just about any positive occasion. The music is that good." And Alan Fark for The Minor 7th says, ""Beautiful Day" is beautifully captivating in a way that a state of nirvana must willingly claim an ascetic practitioner."

Peter Janson, primarily a solo guitarist, created Beautiful Day, the first in a series of Peter Janson & Friends albums, as an artistic rendition of his belief that if we are to achieve true peace and joy in the world we must all learn to caringly and creatively work together. In addition to the captivating instrumentation, the vocalists only sing vowels and a few consonants, as a gesture of the recognition of the universal connections we all have in our most important form of communication, verbal speech, and as a symbol of the hope that once united we can indeed have a future of beautiful days.

For this album, his fourth domestic release on EWM Records, the guitarist chose to record with a variety of world-class musicians from a variety of musical genres – Jamie Bonk (Smooth Jazz Canada “Guitarist of the Year” nominee); Steve Hunt (keyboardist with Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Clarke, Alan Holdsworth); John Lockwood (bassist with Pat Metheny, Dizzy Gillespie, Boston Pops); Raymond Gonzalez (performed with John Renbourn, Peter Lang, Ellis Paul); Bertram Lehmann (performed with Joe Zawinul, Rebecca Paris, Natraj); Chris Lopes (bassist with Nina Ott, Jeff Parker); Henrik Bridger (bassist with Makoto Takenaka); Julie Woods (performed with Roberta Flack, Livingston Taylor, Jeffrey Osborne).

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Firelight Moonlight

Dancing Beneath the Stars Under a Shady Tree Wu Wei Purpose Simple Joys Moonlight Firelight Naissance Perched In the Soul A Clear Stillness

One of the most successful EWM Records' releases to date, Firelight Moonlight, was created as an audiophile recording, recorded direct (studio live) to two-track at Masterlink Recording Studio in Nashville Tennessee. This self-produced album was made in just two days and features eight original compositions, an arrangement of traditional Celtic/Folk song Shallow Brown, titled Purpose on this album, and an arrangement of Pierre Bensusan's Wu Wei.

Firelight Moonlight received two first round nominations in the 2004 Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and Best Engineered Album. It has been aired frequently on the nationally syndicated radio show Echoes, and in Canada on the nationally syndicated radio show Galaxie CBC Digital Radio. It has also been released in Asia on the Orange Music label, and in Sweden on the THETA Music label and re-titled A Clear Stillness.

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Sometimes From Here

The Ocean Under the Moon Still Towards Psyche Painting Australia How Can It Be Between the Sky and Sea Even When It Rains Sometimes From Here Fushigi An Ocean Reprise Memories Half Forgotten

Peter Janson's second self-produced recording offers further explorations of solo acoustic guitar music with ten original compositions. It was recorded in 2001 at The Kitchen Recording Studio in Chelmsford Massachusetts.

Sometimes From Here received several awards and much high praise including: Finalist for Album of the Year from NAV, and # 2 in national Top 100 Radio for three consecutive months. Guest artists on Between the Sky and Sea are percussionist Bertram Lehmann, and bassist Christian Fabian. Steve Hunt provides wave synth on Still Towards Psyche.

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Across the Bridge

A Morning Song A Dream Come True Berets & Chintz Hats In Sorrow's Wake Blue Like The Sky Love Is Sure Across the Bridge Message To My Friend Spirit Dance Closer To You

Peter Janson's debut recording and EWM Records' first release, Across the Bridge, displays the artist's first explorations of solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar music combining folk roots with New Age aesthetics, Jazz aesthetics, and Celtic elements. Like all of his subsequent recordings, the album was self-produced. It was recorded at The Kitchen Recording Studio in Chelmsford, Massachusetts in 1999.

Across the Bridge's ten tracks include eight original compositions as well as arrangements of Pat Metheny's Message To My Friend and Andrew York's In Sorrow's Wake. Acoustic Guitar Magazine wrote "Peter's version of Message To My Friend is like a captivating novel." Percussionist Jerry Bates is a featured guest on the album's closing song, Spirit Dance.

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