Keys of Life: Piano Music from Celestial Harmonies
Keys of Life represents the finest of contemporary piano  music. This release offers an excellent sampler of the music of Celestial  Harmonies' most celebrated artists. According to Stephen Hill and Anna  Turner from Music From the Hearts of Space, "Keys of Life is an elegant  collection of solo piano music selected with great care and understanding  from the last five years of Celestial Harmonies releases".  Without any intellectual pretensions toward doing so, Keys of Life  documents the twentieth century European post-Romantic attempt at the  direct stimulation of consciousness (rather than emotion) through music.  From Cecil Lytle's sensitive performance of six miniatures by Russian  mystic composer Alexander Skryabin, through the enormously dignified  pan-Eurasian temple music of G.I. Gurdjieff and his pupil Thomas de  Hartmann, to the latest just intonation piano experiments of Terry Riley,  we hear a living artistic tradition unfolding through time. Florian  Fricke's spacious and beautiful Spirit of Peace, Hans Otte's hypnotic,  delicate music from The Book of Sounds, and the rippling, minimalistic  patterns of Peter Michael Hamel's Transpersonal complete the collection.  For those who appreciate clarity, intelligence, and the unique aesthetic  world of refined subtlety, Keys of Life will completely satisfy.Listeners will enjoy this beautiful combination of styles and artists that  celebrates music as the key to life.