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Magellan
Titled after Ferdinand Magellan but referring to all explorers and the spirit behind the drive. This drive is one of the reasons I create the music you hear.

Turning to You
This piece was composed and recorded shortly after the birth of our daughter, Lindsay. The time of new parents, a new baby and a new way of living.

Look Where We Are Now
The description of a classic day-dream: In the woods on a summer day, sunshine breaking through the limbs of trees, lying back and closing my eyes.

The Forgotten Season
A theme for the magic in the childhood of life. The Sunday dinners with all us kids, staying overnight in a playhouse telling ghost stories, swinging on a rope suspended from a tree along the bank of a river, holding my little sister's hand while walking through a spook house at a county fair. Even more special moments seem to find their way into this season.

Celebration in the Four Towers
Inspired by the mythological city of Christianopolis on the island of Caphar Salama (Johann Valentin Andrae, Reipublicae Christianapolitanae descripto Amsterdam, 1619.) Christianopolis consists of a square, some 700 feet across, fortified with four towers and surrounding wall. Eight other towers stand within and sixteen near the center. Four hundred people live in Christianopolis and a celebration is about to begin.

The Art of Spirit Bending
A collage to honor a craft which lies somewhere between the practice of a medium and an altered version of the sport "Jai A-lai". The "bender" is capable of weaving and manuevering up to several spirits at one time (with great velocity) around him/her self, others and especially in and out of dimensions. Let's go!

Lament
Music for returning to home from one of the most beautiful places and times you can remember being to. Overjoyed because of what you've seen and done. Sad, for it will never happen again. It's late in the afternoon, time to go home.

Extension of a War
An impression of WWII and its ways of reverberating through generations. In the winter, when I was young, I stepped from the bank of a frozen river to test its strength. A crack started and travelled down and around the bend. It created a sound that dreams may never recognize.

Waking the Icons
The setting is inside a Russian Orthodox Church. The piece opens with a theme for the Icons and their relationship to the church. All of the worshipers have left. Then a time comes when the church takes a breath and the Icons begin to come alive. Pulling themselves away from their bases, fixtures and walls, they gather together to follow in procession towards the altar. This will be their own mass tonight. A formal gathering in the light of God. They all return to their original placement as the Father of the church enters for another day.

Credits:
Composed, performed and produced by Richard Burmer
Executive Producer Michael Hoppe'
Recorded and mixed at The Base by Richard Burmer and Darwin Foye
Mastered by Clete Baker and Wayne Jesz
Sound Recorders Omaha, NE

Richard Burmer - Emulator II and III, EMAX, Roland JX-10 and JX-3P, EML-101, Prophet VS, Balalaika, Mandolin and percussion