Chocolate Suite - Japanese Music for Chocolate Lovers

1. Midnight Rain

2. Milk Chocolate

3. White Chocolate

4. Dark Chocolate

5. Festival Drums (Matsuri no Taiko)

6. Blossoms (Sakura, Sakura)

7. Cloudscape

Editorial Reviews

Dirty Linen, Aug/Sept 2004
The pair confidently engages in humorous interplay, dramatic and sweeping waterfalls of notes....it's definitely uplifting because, well, it's chocolate!

Product Description
At last -- Japanese music for chocolate lovers! An iParenting Media "Hottest Products of 2004"and Parents' Choice Recommended award winner! Koto virtuoso Elizabeth Falconer combines forces with her son Brian to play koto music as smooth and uplifting as chocolate. You don't have to be a Japan expert or practice Zen meditation to enjoy this. Inspired by her son's love of chocolate, Falconer composed music that is warm and inviting, sophisticated yet accessible. The sound of the koto evokes images of delicate blossoms and soft clouds. A delicious album for all ages to enjoy.

Chocolate Suite - Japanese Music for Chocolate Lovers

Tracks:

Midnight Rain
Milk Chocolate
White Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
Festival Drums (Matsuri no Taiko)
Blossoms (Sakura, Sakura)
Cloudscape

Album Description

At last -- Japanese music for chocolate lovers! An iParenting Media "Hottest Products of 2004"and Parents' Choice Recommended award winner! Koto virtuoso Elizabeth Falconer combines forces with her son Brian to play koto music as smooth and uplifting as chocolate. You don't have to be a Japan expert or practice Zen meditation to enjoy this. Inspired by her son's love of chocolate, Falconer composed music that is warm and inviting, sophisticated yet accessible. The sound of the koto evokes images of delicate blossoms and soft clouds. A delicious album for all ages to enjoy.

Customer Reviews:

Music for chocolate lovers (and koto lovers, too).......2004-05-09

This album just won the iParenting Media Award, and it's recommended for both kids and parents. But there's nothing childish about this interesting assortment of compositions. This is not traditional Japanese koto, but Ms. Falconer and son Brian's duo interpretation. Brian's fondness for chocolate, and Elizabeth's love for the koto combine to form delicious assortment of music that is relaxing and stimulating all at the same time, just like a box of fine, dark chocolates, waiting to be tasted. A very pretty album which would make a great gift along with a box of sweets.

It made me hear koto differently.......2004-03-14

I told my kids that I've got a tune called "Chocolate Suite" in a CD and they got very curious. I played the CD for them and they started dancing! I liked the CD very much, too. It is so original and beautiful. Since many of the pieces in the CD do not use the traditional Japanese scale, it does not make me tune out, which I guess I, like most young people from Japan, typically do when I hear a traditional Japanese music. Instead, the pieces made me focus on the sound of koto. Actually I didn't know that koto had such a beautiful sound! It reminded me of a phrase "kinsen ni fureru" in Japanese, which literally means to touch the koto strings or a string in someone's heart. The music in this CD really did that!

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