David Lanz

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风格: #器乐独奏　#成人另类
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外文名 David Lanz

原名 David Howard Lanz

出生日期 1950年6月28日

出生地华盛顿，西雅图

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David Lanz出生于1950年6月28日的蓝兹，（靠着）与当地的一些摇滚乐队一起弹奏键盘（几年后便成了他的独奏）、在一些烟雾弥漫的小俱乐部中灵巧地弹奏布鲁斯和爵士歌曲，他在60年代十几岁（时）便开始了他的演奏生涯，直到80年代早期他选择了一条截然不同的道路。

“我的一个朋友主持了一场关于身体能量中心的研讨会，想（通过）音乐说明经过这些区域能量的流动，有时是指像查克拉（这样的东西）”，蓝兹说，“我也对音乐的治疗特性和它对身体和精神的影响颇感兴趣，因此我为研讨会制作了一小段钢琴音乐的录音，（结果）彻底出乎我意料，几乎每个听到它的人都想要一份（音乐的）拷贝！”

“那时还没有和它类似的音乐风格，”他说，“（因此）理所当然不会叫做新世纪音乐”。我用这段为研讨会写的音乐为基础，我创作了在Narada（公司发行）的第一张独奏钢琴专辑《Heartsounds》。

《Heartsounds》帮助Narada公司进入80年代主流，并引领着蓝兹（开创了）一个辉煌的职业生涯，发行了九张最畅销的独奏专辑和三张与新世纪摇滚吉他手PaulSpeer（保罗.斯皮儿）精诚合作（的专辑）——《Natural States》（效仿平和爵士专辑《Behind theWaterfall》）、《Desert Vision》和《Bridge of Dreams》。

Lanz的独奏录音包括代表作《Cristofori's Dream》（在Billboard的adult alternative/newage榜上雄踞27周冠军，成为永恒的白金畅销盘）、《Nightfall》、《SkylineFiredance》（一张双碟精选，以一些歌曲的钢琴改编曲目为特色，与管弦乐团一道）、《Return to theHeart》、《Christmas Eve》、《Beloved》、《Sacred Road》、现场录音《An Evening WithDavid Lanz》，以及包括《The Ultimate David Lanz NaradaCollection》和《Romantic》在内的多种“精选”的合集。

大卫还制作了一段教学用的钢琴录像——《Through the Hands of David Lanz》（1997年）。片中通过对他所钟爱的旋律的讨论、示范和表演，他展示了自己多才多艺的风格。

专辑列表

1983 — Heartsounds

1984 — Nightfall

1985 — Natural States (with Paul Speer)

1985 — Solstice

1987 — Woodlands

1987 — Desert Vision (with Paul Speer)

1988 — Cristofori's Dream

1990 — Skyline Firedance

1991 — Return to the Heart

1993 — Bridge of Dreams (with Paul Speer)

1994 — Christmas Eve

1995 — Beloved: A David Lanz Collection

1996 — Sacred Road

1996 — Convergence

1998 — Songs from an English Garden

1999 — An Evening with David Lanz

1999 — Cristofori's Dream (remastered with additional track)

1999 — The Christmas Album

2000 — East of the Moon

2000 — Angel in My Stocking - Limited Edition

2001 — Love Songs

2002 — Finding Paradise

2002 — Romantic: The Ultimate David Lanz Collection

2003 — A Cup of Moonlight (Limited Website Edition)

2003 — The Symphonic Sessions

2003 — Heartsounds / Nightfall (Re-released / re-mastered 2-CD set)

2004 — The Good Life

2005 — Spirit Romance

2005 — The Best of David Lanz

2006 — Sacred Road Revisited

2007 — A Cup of Moonlight (Revised Official Release / additional tracks)

2008 — Living Temples

2008 — Painting the Sun

2009 — Liverpool: Re-imagining the Beatles

2010 — Liverpool Trio: Live in Seoul

2011 — Here Comes the Sun

2011 — Here Comes the Sun (Solo piano edition)

2012 — Christofori's Dream— Re-envisioned

2012 — Joy Noel

2013 — Movements of the Heart

2014 — Forever Christmas (Compilation with Kristin Amarie)

2015 — Silhouettes of Love (Compilation with Kristin Amarie)

Life and career

GRAMMY NOMINATED PIANIST DAVID LANZ is a contemporary instrumental legend whose deeply-felt compositions helped forge the New Age music movement over 20 years ago. Since then, countless fans around the world have embraced his music which is infused with a passion and tranquility much sought after in the face of today's world.

David Lanz never dreamed that his music would follow the course that it has. It was rock music that actually provided a launching pad for the Grammy-nominated virtuoso from Seattle and ultimately led him to the music that would define him. Journalists have agonized over what to call Lanz’s style—words like refined, pioneering, regal, comforting and pensive have all been used to describe his work—but Lanz has a favorite tongue in cheek catchphrase that suits his sound perfectly: “heavy mellow.”

For more than three decades, the visionary recordings and live performances of David Lanz have served to heal, to inspire, to provide spiritual nourishment and, simply but so vitally, to soothe frazzled nerves in this increasingly stress-filled world of ours. But it wasn’t until Lanz had already honed his chops as a rocker, a funkster and an all-around journeyman musician that he contemplated how his talents might best be utilized. “I asked myself, ‘What does the world need?’” he says today. “And I said, ‘The world needs healing.’ This is a good path for me to take.”

That path was toward a contemplative, impressionistic style, both solo and in tandem with other musicians, that put the spotlight squarely on Lanz’s piano, an instrument he uses to communicate one-on-one with each listener. Many have tried to define his style, to put it in a box—they’ve called it New Age, classical crossover, contemporary instrumental, adult alternative and other descriptives—but in the end it’s always come down to this: David Lanz plays David Lanz music. As both composer and interpreter, his approach to music is often larger than life, breathtaking in its breadth, yet accessible and down-to-earth as well. Through his music Lanz connects in an intimate manner with his audience, tapping into their emotions, thoughts and dreams like an old friend—which is precisely what he has become to so many.

David Lanz was only five when he first placed his hands on a keyboard, inspired by his mom and grandmother, both of whom played. By his teens, Lanz had begun working with local rock combos in the Pacific Northwest (his first was called the Towne Cryers), then a regional hotbed for R&B-flavored garage-rock and, later on, the new artsy, progressive-rock sound. He eventually landed in Canada with a band called Brahman, and in 1974 Lanz’s piano found its way to a national number one single, Terry Jacks’ Seasons In the Sun (which he admits now he was never that crazy about, although his fee for the session paid for a new amp!). (See Downloads for mp3's from The Towne Cryers and Brahman)

A full decade passed, during which Lanz took gigs playing rock, funk and even disco, anything to pay the bills and get his name out there. Then came the epiphany. “I had been doing yoga and meditating and getting into Eastern philosophy,” says Lanz, “and slowly I started thinking about how music could help. With music you could get people to dance or you could get people to meditate or to march off to war. I was aware of a few other musicians who were doing light, ambient music and I was always into what the classical East Indian musicians were doing, creating trance states. By the early ’80s I was really into the idea that this kind of music would be an interesting path to take.”

Lanz created a tape of light piano music for a project by a friend, who then asked him, “Why don’t you make a record like that?” Lanz had never considered it before. “I said, ‘No, you’re kidding me. It’s corny. Who wants this?’ I was still trying to write the great American pop hit at that point. But slowly I went, ‘Maybe there is something to this.’ I wrote a few more pieces and that ended up being my first solo piano record.”

That album was Heartsounds (1983), released on a new label called Narada. It was received favorably and Lanz was off, pursuing his new direction and exploring the various ways he might touch an emerging listenership that sometimes just got tired of all the racket. “I’d always had this secret melodic, easy side,” Lanz says. “And I put that together with the desire to help people—if they want, they can use the music for relaxation or de-stressing, or for introspection. So all those different influences started to roll together.”

What set Lanz apart from other artists recording in a similar vein at the time was his penchant for not eschewing melody and rhythm. Where some in the so-called New Age scene (a term that Lanz accepts but doesn’t love: “It’s a lifestyle,” he says, “not a musical genre.”) sought only to soothe, often by presenting a theme and then repeating it ad infinitum, Lanz’s work is dynamic, alive. “If you listen to my stuff, even if there are no drums, my left hand is my rhythm section,” he explains.

Lanz’s big commercial breakthrough arrived in 1988 with Cristofori’s Dream. Consisting of six Lanz originals—including the opening title track, which has become a classic—and a cover of Procol Harum’s 1967 rock hit A Whiter Shade of Pale, Cristofori’s Dream became an enormous success, topping Billboard magazine’s first Adult Alternative/New Age chart and remaining for a remarkable 27 weeks.

Never one to stay in one place, Lanz followed that massive release two years later with Skyline Firedance, for which he recruited an 80-piece orchestra, and cut several more albums for Narada—among them 1998’s Songs From an English Garden, his first to tap into the British Invasion repertoire of the ’60s. He then moved to Decca Records for three more releases, including 2000’s East Of the Moon, which earned Lanz a Grammy nomination. More recently, with Liverpool: Re-Imagining the Beatles and Here Comes the Sun, Lanz both revisits a favorite place in his life—and the lives of millions—by offering his take on the music of the world’s greatest-ever rock band and ventures forth into uncharted territory.

With the release of Cristofori’s Dream…Re-Envisioned, David Lanz has, in a sense, come full circle. Returning to the music that launched him as an international phenomenon a quarter-century ago—when he recorded the original Cristofori’s Dream provides the world-class pianist and composer with the perfect opportunity to take stock of his art and both assess where he’s been and where he hopes to go.

Cristofori’s Dream was a million-selling musical thank you note to Bartolomeo Cristofori, the man who invented the piano in the 17th century. It resonated with a wide array of listeners and topped Billboard’s Adult Alternative/New Age chart for months. The title track remains hugely popular today—countless piano students have purchased the sheet music to learn how to play the piece—and Lanz’s interpretation of Procol Harum’s classic, A Whiter Shade of Pale on the original album is considered one of the most popular of the countless covers of the song. But Cristofori’s Dream was not the beginning of Lanz’s career, and although the new Re-Envisioned brings new light to an established work, Lanz still has many ideas he plans to pursue in the future.

That’s how Lanz likes it, always heading into the unknown in order to expand his artistry and share what he’s found with the world. David Lanz is a welcomed retreat back into music with heart, soul, guts, splendor, surprise, musicality, humanity, meaning, depth and all of the other things that really matter.

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