Description
Featured sounds: Latin percussion, Pan Flute, Steel Drums, Classical Flute, Saxophone, Keyboards, Bass, Drums and Nature.
Caribbean Dream has nature sounds to include rain, thunder, birds, crickets and the ocean to enhance your ability to encounter the uplifting experience.
Brannan wrote the music, produced and performed the keyboards, percussion and drums on the project. Stan Lane his father, performed the flute and saxophone tracks. The project took two years to complete.
Testimonials
"Caribbean Dream" is the debut release of a promising new star who shows an amazing amount of maturity and innovative talent." -Wind & Wire Magazine
"This is a fine album." -AcousticCDiscoveries Radio Show in Syndication Worldwide, Tucson, Arizona
"This dream-time CD is a must! It goes beyond world music." -New Frontier Magazine
"It is a wonderful CD!" -102.3 FM Fresno, CA
"This is a great addition to the music programming here!" -91.5 FM New Orleans
"It's light and playful feel is welcoming and fun!" -WFIT FM, NY
"...super stuff. I will do my best to see that it gets the air play it deserves." -WOUI 88.9 FM Chicago
"We love it!" -Luis Carlos Pavan, Radio Municipal-Brazil
"I was suitably impressed." -2NCR-FM, Lismor, Australia
"It's great!!!" -Israel Broadcasting Authority
"It is on the NAV report. Nice work." -KSKA, Anchorage, Alaska
"Satisfying, yet shimmering." -Nashville Music Guide
"Beautiful, peaceful and more important, happy." -Radio Vladivostak
"I have listened. I like. And will be airing selections." -WDBX, Music from Beyond the Lakes, Carbondale, IL
"Great Stuff!!" -KDUR, Durango, CO
"Caribbean Dream is well received and in high rotation." -WELY, Ely,MN
"Caribbean Dream is one of the best examples of the fusion of world music and adult contemplative that I've seen come down the pike." -WVPN, Charleston, WV
Tracks
1) Welcome
2) Rain Forest
3) Rainbow Sky
4) Caribbean Sea
5) Distant Past
6) Rast Pasta
7) St. Tom Tom
8) Safarirama
9) Stars To Sea
10) No Hurry, No Problem
11) Volcano
12) Fire Dance
13) Market Sq.
14) Rainbow Sky (reprise)
15) Bananas
16) Until Then
Artist Profile
Brannan has performed in the USA, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. He has been performing music for 26 years. At age 13, he started performing in night clubs and private parties in his father's jazz big band and combo bands. At 17 years old, Brannan started college on a full scholarship with a double major in piano and percussion. Brannan draws from a wide range of influences. His debut solo release, "Caribbean Dream" illustrates some of these diverse elements of his musical palette. Words like contemporary, world, ambient, new age or jazz, would be used to describe different tracks. "Caribbean Dream" reached #10 on the NAV Top 100 Airwaves. (NAV is a magazine out of Atlanta, GA that tracks airplay of new age and world music in the USA, Canada and seven other countries!) This air play helped Brannan's record label, World Circle Records, to receive distribution in all the major book and record stores in the USA and on the World Wide Web. He is currently working on international distribution of his music.
Brannan makes his living as a full time musician. He works regularly with pop and country star, Skeeter Davis, performing weekly radio and TV shows at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. He records and works with a band from Baton Rouge, LA.- Delicious Blues Stew. Currently the Stew is recording their third release. You can hear Brannan on the latest release from the Music City Blues Society, and he has been recording Americana music in Nashville, TN and Austin, TX for The Ballistic Pintos' debut release, "Pintomania". He also performs live gigs with the Pintos.
Brannan also provides material or can produce customized music for motion pictures, documentary films, computer games, TV movies & shows, soap operas, TV & radio commercials and CD ROMs. He is currently working on two more solo projects to be released soon!
"I want to thank everybody for all their support and help, thank you so much." -Brannan
Credits
(c)1999 Brannan Darryl Lane
Label Name: World Circle Records
Produced by: Brannan Lane