ShadowLands

Track Listings

1. Lone Cypress

2. I Will Love You

3. Reminisce

4. Solitude

5. Felicita

6. Roses Buried In The Snow

7. ShadowLands

8. Desert Stars

9. See To My Soul

10. The Beginnings

Editorial Reviews
Television Interview
"The mood of his melodies; A deep expression of melancholy . . . Thoughtful . . . Soul searching" - Michelle Miller WWL-TV

About the Artist
New Age composer/pianist Robbie Steiner discovered the piano just under four years ago. A sixteen year old native of New Orleans, Robbie is trained in a traditional classical style but has found his true love to be new age music. In these few short years, this high school sophomore has composed and released an album of original compositions and has played countless concerts to audiences all over the world. At fifteen, Robbie released his first album of original compositions. Robbie composes with immense passion and expression in a timeless rhythmic style. Inspired by memories of his childhood and having a quality belying a person much older, Robbie composes incorporate classical, jazz, new age, and pop elements melding together into a rich and unique sound.

ShadowLands,Robbie Steiner

ShadowLands

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Shadowlands: Original Film Soundtrack
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Moving and Beautiful

Exquisite!!

Heaven

One of the best soundtracks I have heard

Shadowlands: Original Film Soundtrack
George Fenton
Manufacturer: Angel Records
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Veni Sancte Spiritus: Front Titles - Daniel Cochlin
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Customer Reviews:

Moving and Beautiful.......2002-12-11

The score from "Shadowlands" is the most touching and beautiful that I have ever heard. It's wonderful from begining to end. I was determined to purchase the soundtrack as soon as I saw the film. Sadly, I did not see the film until years after it was made and the soundtrack was already out of print. But I keep hoping I'll find it somewhere.

Exquisite!!.......2002-04-30

This is the best soundtrack I have ever been moved to purchase. The themes are incredibly beautiful and emotionally stirring. I've owned it for years, and never grow tired of hearing it. It is just as moving every time I listen. I believe this is George Fenton's finest work.

Heaven.......1999-03-16

The film Shadowlands is my favorite love story, particularly because, like real life, this little story is messy. Everything doesn't work out fine in the end.

While watching the film, Fenton's music is a perfect complement to the heart wrenching narritive. Only when listening to the soundtrack on its own do you realize how much the music was a part of the emotion. This music grips you and carries your emotions back to those you felt during the film.

One of the best soundtracks I have heard.......1999-01-03

This soundtrack is one of my favorites. The melody is hauntingly beautiful and is introduced in various ways throughout the CD. I have played this CD many, many times and never tire of hearing it. I also loved the movie.

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Just blown away...didn't thik anyone was making music like this these days.
Nice, polite prog
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Album Description

Shadowlands combines the legendary talents of prog-icons Steve Babb and Fred Schendel, the incredible vocals of Walter Moore and Susie Bogdanowicz, a half-million dollar pipe organ, a string section, an arsenal of analog gear, and all the magic that modern recording technology has to offer. Symphonic Progressive Rock at its finest.

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Just blown away...didn't thik anyone was making music like this these days........2007-05-31

If there is someone else out there making better *classic* prog today, I haven't found them. And I have looked. I love the new modern prog, metal/prog scene as epitomized by bands like Porcupine Tree, Riverside and Dream Theater, but this is a different beast entirely. This is truly classic prog greatness reborn in the 21st century. This is the first GH CD that I have bought or listened to. After the second or third listen through I found myself thinking, 'this is right up there with classic Yes.' Now after owning the CD for a month I am back buying up the rest of their collection and agreeing with my initial impression. This is a really well done prog album and I can't imagine any true prog fan being disappointed with either the musicianship, complexity, songwriting, themes or orchestration. Sure, they are not breaking new ground. What they are doing is making music that would have been at home in a more complex and intelligent era. The Dan Fogelburg thing seems a bit cheesarific but I have to admit that I find myself enjoying their rendition. Overall I am very happy with this purchase.

Nice, polite prog.......2007-05-28

I want very badly to like this band, being from the same state as they're from (Tennessee). I've had this CD for well over a year now, but I just can't settle in with this band. I've never been bowled over by anything they've done. I am a prog fan of both old school and neo-prog, but this album sits on the fence twix the two. The writing is OK; the singing is understated. The musicianship, while competent, is pedestrian. If the band is perhaps passionate about what they're doing, then its a very restrained passion, without any edge, or any bite. People compare them to Yes; well maybe some of Yes' later albums (you know...Yes is in their 50s & 60s), but early Yes had bite! Some have said its because they're just not a bunch of show-offs. To hell with that, this is prog! And the type of prog they're attempting to play is symphonic prog...cut loose! The church organ was a great idea, ala going For The One, but once again, the execution is just too pedestrian.

Just way too polite for me. I'm sure they're just the nicest of people. But the execution here is just too church social, and I want to hear prog rock. The way they play reminds me of the backing band for Name That Tune; I wonder if any of these guys performed with or sang with, Up With People?

Hey, if you're going to cover a well known pop song like Dan Fogelberg's Longer, the way YES covered Paul Simon's America, then you need to "hit it outta the park", the way YES did. GH didn't; it wasn't even a double. Just another example of milk toast execution. I could only recommend this to someone who might be looking for an ELP fix, albeit a very reserved ELP.

Glass Hammer - More Great Retro Prog.......2007-04-20

Shadowlands is another strong album from Glass Hammer. If you already like them you will love this CD. If you don't like them, this album will probably not change your mind. This is more retro-oriented prog done in conjunction with many of the classics of the genre. The band is augmented by a string quartet that is used effectively especially in the closing Kansas influenced epic "Behind The Great Beyond". Several female vocalists are also used including occasional leads. Walter Moore is also here on vocals, but unfortunately is used sparingly. All of the trademark Glass Hammer pieces are here, big keyboards, and soaring guitar lines. Fred Schendel even throws in a pipe organ recorded in a church (similar to Rick Wakeman with Yes). The songwriting is good for the most part. The album is another conceptual piece, although what exactly it is all about is a bit of a mystery to me. All in all this is another solid Glass Hammer disc. If you are already a fan you should love this one.

Attractive, if unoriginal, music from band essaying old-school prog.......2005-08-15

Glass Hammer haven't got an original idea in their heads, but the ideas they do have make for often rich and enjoyable music. You'll hear lots and lots of symphonic prog clichés here, mostly cribbed from Yes. The Wakeman-esque Mellotron and synth arpeggios, the not-quite-Steve-Howe guitar work. It's all there. And that's Glass Hammer's strength and weakness rolled into one; they have firm roots, all right, and know how to play this kind of prog expertly. But unlike The Flower Kings, they don't feel much urgency to forge their own territory, preferring the comfort of the familiar. If that's what you prefer, you'll love this band.

I don't love them (yet), but I like them, since this is nice to listen to, after all. Album opener "So Close, So Far" sounds, at first, like it's all over the place, but once it's over you realize what a tightly composed track it was, despite its throwing one theme after another at you. The end result is a song fans of epic, big sounding prog will doubtless embrace. "Run Lisette" opens with some Chris Squire-y sounding bass (see what I mean?), but then a nice and unusual organ lick comes in, followed by soaring guitar that grounds the intro. The church organ (recorded in an actual church, you know, just like Wakeman did for Yes' "Awaken") sounds appropriately grand.

If there's an Achilles Heel to Glass Hammer's sound, it's in the unremarkable vocals. The vocals do come to life at times, as in the often stunningly beautiful interplay of several female singers on "Run Lisette". The addition of female backing vocalists is the one fresh idea Glass Hammer adds -- and, unlike that hag in Kaipa who brays like a donkey, Susie Bogdanowicz (who occasionally takes a lead) can carry a tune. But regular band members Steve Babb and Fred Schendel are only adequate singers. When you think of prog's best male vocalists over time -- Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel, John Wetton, and others, all of whom have distinctive singing styles -- these guys are mostly just okay.

I like this album enough to check out other work by the band, and I'm glad I discovered them. "Run Lisette" is already in heavy rotation on my iPod.

Glass Hammer's Best to Date.......2005-07-21

Glass Hammer has improved steadily over the course of its seven albums, and, accordingly, Shadowlands represents its strongest effort to date (as of the time of this writing I have not heard their latest release, The Inconsolable Secret).

I've always appreciated Glass Hammer's enthusiasm in embracing their identity as a progressive rock band and, to a lesser extent, their ability to infuse Christian sensibilities into their music subtly enough as to not alienate a secular audience. However, in my opinion, the band was always plagued by certain shortcomings. Shadowlands, for the most part, successfully addresses these.

First of all, all five cuts on Shadowlands are strong with no real drop off in quality, something that has plagued even the group's later, stronger efforts. There is no sign of the "limpness" of some of their very earliest works-all the cuts are dynamic, melodious and grab the listener's attention, even in the softer parts. Some people have taken issue with the inclusion of Dan Fogelberg's "Longer"-and it probably is the weakest cut-but the arrangement is interesting and I think the band should get some kudos for doing something different.

The first two cuts, "So Close, So Far" and "Run, Lisette" are among the strongest compositions the group has ever recorded. "So Close, So Far" is complex but catchy, even as it moves through its distinct movements, "Run, Lisette" was the first cut I ever heard by this band and it absolutely grabbed my attention. In a musical genre where it becomes harder and harder to come up with something of note, I dare say "Run, Lisette" is unforgettable. The delivery of the story, well-documented in other reviews here, is heartfelt enough that the first few lines still manage to send chills up my spine. And I love the intricacies of the multi-layered vocals, male and female.

Which brings me to my next point-the vocals. Glass Hammer's vocals have always been kind of an issue with me-I think they absolutely wreck Chronometree in parts-but the incorporation of female vocalists, which began in earnest with Lex Rex (their previous release), is really what kicks Shadowlands into the stratosphere. In my opinion, there should be more female vocalists in prog, and that Glass Hammer utilizes as many as four on this album makes it distinctive.

If I have one complaint, it's that the drumming is a bit sub-par. I know that Glass Hammer is basically two people, keyboardist Fred Schendel and bassist Steve Babb, together with a number of for-hire musicians, and while I appreciate how far Schendel has come as a guitarist, I can't help but feel he's laboring as a drummer here. I understand the economic necessities that are probably driving these decisions (I think they had something to do with the band's past decisions on vocalists), but enlisting a studio drummer would be a prudent move.

All in all, I would recommend Shadowlands to any fan of progressive rock. The band is really carving out its own style, improving its songwriting and losing nothing in complexity. With the recent demise of Spock's Beard after Neal Morse's departure, they may be (and probably are) America's best practitioners of symphonic prog.

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Where Does Music Like This Come From?
A Passion for Piano!

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I Will Love You
Reminisce
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The Beginnings

Customer Reviews:

Where Does Music Like This Come From?.......2001-06-28

As a personal freind of Robbie's, I was completly skeptical about him making a CD. As a teenager, I never thought anyone my age could create sush a masterpiece as Shadowlands, Robbie's debut CD. The next thing that completly shocked me was the fact that he was doing this in New Orleans, a city in which music was born. The diversity of music here is basic and thats why i thought Robbie wouldnt make it, but he has. To compete with the "famous" musicians in the Big Easy had to have been a huge struggle for this now "famous" composer of music. Folks, at the age of fifteen, its not like Robbie is making a career like all of those teeny-boppers out there. Shadowlands has absolutley blown me away, because i know that this is something that will continue and be present in the world of classical music for a long long time; he's not going to fade out like Britney, Chritina, and all of the other "boy bands" out there. I cannot wait untill the release of Robbie's follow up album entitled "Red". To be honest with you, as a freind i have had the privelage of hearing bits and pieces from the songs on his new album, and I will be the first one to admit: IT'S GOING TO BE BETTER THAN THE FIRST. So, in conclusion, if you havn't done so yet, go out and buy Robbie Steiner's Shadowlands. Once you have purchased it, throw it into your CD player, kick back, and relax.

A Passion for Piano!.......2001-06-15

Shadowlands is a very beautiful album from a new and incredibly
talented, young, New Age artist. I first met Robbie Steiner at the
Royal Cafe in New Orleans where he regularly plays acoustic piano for
the dinner crowd. When I first entered the restaurant I immediately
noticed the beautiful piano compositions that were being played so
passionately. I assumed an older and very accomplished pianist was
playing. When I looked toward the piano, I was shocked to realize just
how young Robbie was. I could not believe that someone so young could
play so beautifully and so passionately. Since I didn't know about New
Age piano then, I thought that Robbie was playing classical
compositions from a composer I was not familar with. After hearing a
particular composition that really knocked me out, I went over to
Robbie and asked him the name of the piece he had just played. He
replied "I haven't titled it yet." I was absolutely blown
away! I said, "You wrote that???" Robbie smiled and said,
"Yes, I write everything that I play." I was so very
impressed. And then Robbie told me that he was 15 years old. I almost
fell over. I simply could not believe that someone so young could not
only play so passionately, but could also compose such beautiful
compositions with such beautiful melodies. I became Robbie's Number
One fan right then and there. I was simply blown away by his
incredible talent and his incredibly beautiful music.

The most
important thing to keep in mind as one listens to Shadowlands is the
young age of this very talented artist and the skill levels and
techniques he has achieved. For example, the pretty and catchy melody
of "Felicita" (Track 5) is the first composition that Robbie
ever wrote, at age 13, for his best friend. Another example is
"Lone Cypress" which Robbie wrote at age 14. This very
simple and yet very beautiful composition was inspired by the
world-famous lone cypress tree that stands at Mission Ranch in Pebble
Beach CA, where Robbie also plays. The ending to this song is so very
pretty.

The next thing to understand is that Robbie's talent is
still evolving. Shadowlands, which is Robbie's first CD, was recorded
and released when Robbie was 15 years old. Now 16, and entering his
senior year in high school, Robbie is currently recording his second
CD, "RED", which will be released in July 2001. Greatly
influenced by world-famous New Age piano composer David Lanz, Robbie
continuously strives to fine-tune his technical skills and his playing
style.

Every single composition on Shadowlands is so beautiful that
it is difficult to choose favorites. After much debate, I've decided
that mine are the title cut, "Shadowlands", and "Roses
Buried In The Snow." "Shadowlands" is a hauntingly
beautiful melody where the notes just naturally resonate with Robbie's
very passionate playing style, it is one of the most beautiful pieces
I have ever heard. "Roses Buried In The Snow" is a very deep
and dramatic composition, it is very sad and reflective, full of
melancholy, and packed with emotion. The first time I listened to
"Roses", I envisioned a female Olympic skater skating to it,
I could envision ballet improvisation throughout the routine in
parallel with the deep emotion this composition evokes. I could
envision just where the triple axles, the double toe loops, the
spirals and laybacks would occur. "Roses Buried In The Snow"
is one of Robbies best.