Flute Favourites/ Various - Flute FavouritesFrom it's origins as one of the oldest musical instruments known to man to the sophisticated mechanics and elegant design today, the flute has been highly significant for every culture and historical period. Prized for the vocal character in it's sound, composers such as Bach and Mozart used it for some of their most beautiful, aria like melodies. Spectacular virtuosity later became part of the flute's nature as can be heard in Doppler's Rigoletto

Engineered by Curran Murphy (Nevermore

a mercenary trader who deals with both Chinese natives and the Japanese invaders with an equal lack of conscience

thus generating quite a stimulating hybrid narration

Sahar Hassan sings this truly beautiful program

performed by a wide array of artists including some of the original soul vocalists that initially inspired the movement

there are a few that come to mind: from Fadoul's "Sid Redad

This is a cult classic well worth rediscovering

and entrepreneur whose musical interests and tastes ranged widely

however this one is most likely near the top of most best-of list and for good reason

never reaching bottom

Vocalist Erik Gronwall and songwriter/producer/multi-multi-instrumentalist Jona Tee

intertwining punctuated piano lines with her sensitive voice