GATHERING LIGHT CD
Gathering Light is Lee Underwood's third solo recording, and his final musical offering.
Over the years, he has played guitar, notably with the late singer and songwriter Tim Buckley, and then on his own solo acoustic guitar cassette, California Sigh, produced by noted synthesist Steve Roach. In November 2003 Underwood recorded Phantom Light, his first solo piano CD, which received high praise from its listeners. ln late 2008, he recorded Gathering Light, almost entirely improvised on the studioís Yamaha grand piano.
Gathering Light's music is not rooted in the values of excitement, novelty, or hysteria. It is arhythmically gentle and free-flowing, following the luminous contours of Underwood's spiraling in-the-moment consciousness. Its melodic lyricism is sensual and sparkling, sonically intimate, emotionally uplifting, and spiritually energizing. The colorful cover was created by the well-known artist, photographer, and graphic designer Jon Bock.
"I feel proud of Gathering Light,"Underwood said. "The music is daring, even evolutionary, because it transcends modernity's tumult and leads us into the expansive domain of inner peacefulness, strength, courage, hope and unbounded love. There is brightness and tenderness in its melodies, without sentimentality. Over the course of 56 minutes, Gathering Light touches the heart and awakens the mind to its own capacity for selfless compassion.
"This final CD is something I will pass on to those who follow me. My journey has led out of darkness and confusion, into the light of radiant beauty. I am still gathering light, and will gather light as long as I live, because the psycho-spiritual journey at every stage unfolds into ever-greater compassion and ever-wider embrace. Music is forever, beauty is forever, light is forever, and so is the luminous spirit energizing all that exists."
To purchase, send $16 plus $4 for packaging and shipping to Lee Underwood. Mailing address: 50841 Rd. 632, Oakhurst, CA. 93644. Outside of the USA, add $5. Send cash, check or money order, in American currency only. Contact: undrwd@sti.net
PHANTOM LIGHT CD
Lee's debut solo piano CD, recorded live in November 2003, was entirely improvised, no overdubbing or inserts — original style, unique and natural unfolding, organic thematic development, rhythmically free-flowing, aural spaciousness, intricate subtlety.
"Different colors, different frequencies. So many pieces attain that meditative ideal, like the perception of a river, of a flowing stasis-ecstatic in its attainment of flow."— Dan Sapen
"Lee, not only do you touch upon guitar portals to the soul, but your piano pieces navigated us to oasis of bliss and divinity."— George Douvris
"A wonderful CD and so full of light and love and goooooood energy and vision."— Adele Swann
Special Edition of 100. Only a few copies left. Autographed to you personally by LU. $15.95 plus $4.95 shipping and handling in U.S. Cash, checks or money orders only. Contact: undrwd@sti.net
BLUE MELODY: TIM BUCKLEY REMEMBERED
Publisher's Description:
Celebrating the personal and musical legacy of Tim Buckley, Blue Melody tells the untold story of an exceptionally gifted and charismatic singer-songwriter rebel of the 1960s.
Written by Buckley's lead guitarist and close friend, this combination of fond memoir and incisive biography is a remembrance of concerts, tours, recording sessions, friends, family, and fellow musicians - and the tumultuous times in which they lived.
It is also an informed appraisal of Buckley's dramatic creative odyssey, offering in-depth insight into his complex and sometimes self-destructive personality. The vivid narrative depicts Buckley's panoramic evolution across folk, folk-rock, jazz, avant-garde, and funk-rock, highlighting his refusal to be defined by critical or commercial success.
Revealing Buckley's poetic intelligence and captivating humor, Blue Melody recounts dozens of behind-the-scenes stories, plus new information on the circumstances surrounding his alcohol and heroin overdose in 1975 at age 28.
For customer reviews, see "Responses to Blue Melody" in the Tim Buckley section.
Twenty copies available, autographed by the author to you personally.
$20 plus $4.95 shipping and handling in U.S.
Cash, checks, or money orders only. Contact: undrwd@sti.net
CALIFORNIA SIGH
Collector's item. Cassette only. Recorded in 1988. Very few copies left.
Melodic and visionary acoustic steel-string solo guitar music, inspired by the Colorado Rockies and by California's mountains, streams, and Big Sur coastline. Heartfelt, candlelight dream-music, with synthesist Steve Roach, synthesist Kevin Braheny, and pedal steel guitarist Chas Smith on three separate tracks. Unique stylistic approach, spacious, elegant, soaring and serene.
"Lee Underwood is a gifted and sensitive writer. Now he has proven himself to be a gifted and sensitive musician. California Sigh is an album of beautiful and imaginative compositions, peaceful and soothing to the soul."— Paul Horn, flutist.
"Flawless technique and open-minded musical intelligence... An eclectic album with wide-spectrum appeal."— Stephen Hill, 'Hearts of Space' radio show and recording label.
"A unique style of tempered solo guitar work. . .Speaks the truth in the language of the heart. . .A finely-tuned debut, brimming with integrity."— Steve Roach, synthesist, composer, recording artist.
Only ten copies remain. $25, plus $4.95 shipping and handling in U.S. Autographed to you personally by LU. Contact: undrwd@sti.net
