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Elements Series: Water
Elements Series: Water
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Peter Kater
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Product Details

  • Artist: Peter Kater
  • Binding: Audio CD
  • EAN: 0046286400424
  • Label: Real Music
  • Manufacturer: Real Music
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Product Group: Music
  • Publisher: Real Music
  • Release Date: 2005-08-30
  • Studio: Real Music
  • Title: Elements Series: Water
  • UPC: 046286400424
Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: Pianist Peter Kater has orchestrated a gentle, introspective series of ambient chamber works dedicated to the four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Each CD is distinctive, with Water living up to its title by being the most free-flowing of them all. Using long, pensive pauses and melodies that elongate over time, the music borders on classical--often echoing classical themes, such as the Satie-like ostinato of "Water Ballet," without overtly lifting from them. Water comes close to the painfully serene sound you might associate with Arvo Pärt. Accompanied just by guitarist Mike Hamilton and reed player Paul McCandless, they explore pensive chamber moods, many of them built around improvisations I suspect Kater pieced together into compositions later. Conceptual albums like this are often as much about marketing as music, but on Water, Kater's compositions genuinely do seem to float in slow tide changes and gentle pools. He stays just to the right side of sentimentality and, at times, reaches the sublime. --John Diliberto


Customer Reviews


5 stars Relax & Heal
I have seen Peter Kater perform. I purchased this CD for the purpose of healing from my husband's death. I found it to be just exactly what I was looking for. Great for meditating or just relaxing.


4 stars Well Worth The Price
I enjoyed this particular CD. It was all that I expected and more. I am considering purchasing the rest of the series.


5 stars Real music.................
Peter Kater delights all the lovers of sensitive, melodic and romantic music. He is one of those artists that know how to take us into musical landscapes full of harmony. Not being quite tragic, "Water" maintains a certain melancholy air. Most of the pieces can be labelled within the New Instrumental Melodic Music, although they also have Symphonic and Classical characteristics. The eight themes are slow, though not static.


5 stars A Waterfall of Melody
Peter Kater's classical background (and I presume he has one!) is brought into focus here -- broken chords, hints of classical themes, some of which are Chopinesque while others remind us of Beethoven, cadences and scales. As with the rest of the Elements series, his music has the ability of pulling the listener deep down into himself, regardless of where you listen to it - in the car, in your living room, at work, you name it. Again, not overly sentimental, and just the right amount of ambience. This is music which helps you keep in touch with yourself, in the most spiritually intimate and soulful sense of the phrase.


5 stars Excellent
This is a wonderful piece of music. It is delicate, soft, peaceful...you can read or write listening to this CD...A very good companion when you are alone or in a tranquil mood.


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