The album features the Bolivian/Andean Ronroco, a ten-stringed instrument from the lute family popularised in recent years through the work of Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain, Motorcycle Diaries, The Last of Us). Cousin to the Charango (a smaller instrument whose rounded body was traditionally built from the shell of an armadillo) the Ronroco is a ten stringed instrument (5 pairs of 2 strings) which produces a warm, mellow tone that sits beneath and between the mandolin and ukulele.

1. Sweet and Subtle Sorrow-Luke Gartner
2. Chasing the Demon-Luke Gartner
3. Dire Frivolity-Luke Gartner
4. Sojourn-Luke Gartner
5. Bottled Spider-Luke Gartner
6. Fickle Fortunes-Luke Gartner
7. Desert Sands-Luke Gartner
8. Dance of the Idlewood-Luke Gartner
9. Eli's Revenge-Luke Gartner
10. North of the Andes-Luke Gartner
11. Scissor Dance-Luke Gartner
12. Lunar Grief-Luke Gartner
13. Seven Sorrows-Luke Gartner
14. Blackspire Ridge-Luke Gartner

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 03/21/2015
Luke Gartner-Brereton lives in Brisbane Australia

Tagged as: World, Folk, Instrumental World, Acoustic Guitar, Daydreaming, New Age Piano, World Influenced

1. Second Sight by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
2. The Chopin Variations (on piano, violin and cello) by Chad Lawson: Multi-award winning pianist and composer who is not afraid to put his hat in anything
3. The Book and the Flower by Mundi: Early music meets global folk at the Penguin Café
4. Cry Wolf by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
5. Amber Sands by Claudia Schwab: Irish, Indian, Swedish and Eastern European music styles overlaid with Austrian yodelling
6. Moving Inward by Rildrim: electronic music becomes poetry
7. La Faille by Justin St-Pierre: Acoustic percusive guitar
8. Around the World by Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
9. Opus2 by Superdirt2: highly danceable electro beats with virtuouso cello
10. Live At Bliss Gardens by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
11. Altitude by Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
12. Concerti and Serenate for cello by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
13. Harp Songs of the Midnight Sun by Aryeh Frankfurter: Timeless and enchanting folk music for the soul
14. Lullabies for the Apocalypse by DP Kaufman: ambient, melodic electronica meets neo-classical
15. Legends' Mist by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
16. Strange Slumber, Music for Wonderful Dreams by Barry James: instrumental music with an edge
17. Into the Void by Intersonic Subformation: Deep Space auditory exploration as seen through a prism of primeval human emotions
18. Breathing Beauty by Rildrim: electronic music becomes poetry
19. Unspoken by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
20. Timeless_ by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions

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