The Winding Path
Kevin Kern has become a universal name for beautiful, relaxing music. This intimate, piano-led path through nature creates a resonance of tranquility and peace for pure listening pleasure. “The Winding Path” is ideal for masage, meditation and relieving stress. Kern is joined on several tracks by top new age duo, 2002.
Customer Review: Exceptional music for massage
I’m learning massage and have found this CD to be particularly helpful as a way to pace my sessions and relax into a very giving attitude. The pieces seem perfectly timed to allow an amazing ebb and flow. I have a few other CDs that are pleasant, but this one truly makes me feel transcendent.
Customer Review: An Easy Winner
A strange thing happens every time I listen to this album – I hear the first few cuts and then there’s a blur and the last cut is going by. This isn’t meant as a negative, but it does point out that this is one of those albums that quickly blends into whatever I’m doing and becomes part of the environment.
Much to my surprise, Kevin Kern is a native Detroiter (there’s not a lot of New Age music getting made up here). His training is classical, with a lot of mentoring by George Shearing. The combination has made him a master of improvisation, with a knack for taking the melodic path. Winding Path is his sixth album, done in 2003. It spent some 15 weeks on the charts, which is a pretty solid accomplishment.
This is a ‘group’ album – Pamela Copus on various woodwinds and Jeff Kinski on Guitar are the core players, (listen to the first two cuts – Touch of Love and Way of the Stream) but several others add their talents to make the album something of a surprise to those who think of Kern as a solo pianist. He also experiments a bit with sound effects and such (High Above the Valley).
I’m hesitant to say this is his best album, but once I decide to pay careful attention to it, it is certainly one of his most interesting. A lot of the work is quite subtle. I give this one an ‘A’ for listenability. Yet another reason to put a stereo in the woodshop. Click here for more info on this massage product