MYSTIC
WINNER
ZMR Lifestyle Music Award
Best World Album
WINNER
One World Music Radio Award
Album of the Year
WINNER
One World Music Radio Award
Best World/Global Fusion Album
NOMINEE
ZMR Lifestyle Music Award
Album of the Year
Walk the path of the mystic through medieval landscapes expertly crafted in this powerful album from Grammy®
nominee Al Conti.
A new album by Al Conti holds the promise of transporting us to another place and time. With this artful, sweeping blend, Conti leads us to explore the eternal, while inspiring the mystic within us all to embrace our surroundings and live a conscious life. Ideal for creating a relaxing and meditative space, MYSTIC begins with the tolling of distant bells calling us to introspection.
In addition to this dramatic title track, another eight compositions feature the captivating medieval sounds of chant, udu, hurdy gurdy, cittern, lutes, violins, lush electric guitars by Jeff Pearce, haunting harps by Pamela Copus and alluring ambient vocals from Charlee Brooks and the talents of Grammy winner Ricky Kej.
Album Credits
All titles composed, arranged and performed by Al Conti.
“Pilgrimage” and “Devotion” loosely based on traditional music, arranged and adapted by Al Conti.
Additional programming and keyboards:
Ricky Kej & Vanil Veigas.
Additional arrangements: Ricky Kej.
Monks choral and Charlee Brooks’ vocal arrangements: Al Conti.
Additional musicians:
Charlee Brooks: vocals (tracks 1, 9); Jeff Pearce: electric guitars (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 6, 9); Pamela Copus: harp (track 6); Jenevieve D’Silva: ghatam (tracks 1, 5), cajon (tracks 7, 8), assorted percussion (tracks 2, 4); Karthik K.: mridangam (track 1), tabla (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9); Butto: flute (tracks 1, 4); Ricky Kej: harmonium (track 2); Vanil Veigas: santoor (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9); Manoj George: violin (tracks 2, 3, 5); Varsha Kej: darbuka (track 8); Ganesh Mathur: esraj (track 9); The Oxford Court Monk Choir (track 1).
Recorded at:
Al Conti’s private studio in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Raveolution Studios, Bangalore, India
Rusk Recording Studios, Hollywood, California, USA
Galactic Playground Music, Plano, Texas, USA
The Outer Circle Studio, West Point, Indiana, USA
Engineers: Randy Copus, Ricky Kej, Jeff Pearce, Jill Tengan, Vanil Veigas.
Mastered at: Raveolution Studios, Bangalore, India.
Engineer: Vanil Veigas.
Studio coordination and management (India): Varsha Kej.
Produced by Al Conti.
Associate Producer: Ricky Kej.
Album package design: Shadowside Music.
Al Conti’s personal manager: Kevin Manion.
All songs © & ℗ 2016 Shadowside Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Artwork and packaging © & ℗ 2016 Shadowside Music Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.