Goes Well with Wine

Harp music by Mike Nielsen

Here are 20 tunes, composed mostly by me that I recorded between 1998 and 2003.  They are all true expressions of my spirit. I put them all on this CD to create a kind of sonic pillow for you to rest your weary mind at the end of a long day.  I composed or arranged them in the spirit of creating pretty music that touches the heart with a gentle hand.  Enjoy!  

1.     Finger Painting: A nice tune about the using my fingers to create images in your mind.

2.     Wyoming: A little place in Delaware with lots of history and great peaches.

3.     Chanteuse: Beautiful women deserve beautiful music.

4.     Mirror Lake: Another tune about a special place in my little town.

5.     Mamas Music: For my wife and best friend, Betsy.

6.     Deborah Dancer: For DHC, the jazz harpist with a sense of humor and a zest for life.

7.     Butterfly / Breathing Room: A great Irish slip jig followed by my own tune about having time to do my own thing.

8.     Renate: A commission by my friend Jeff in honor of his wife.

9.     Heroic Theme: Because it is the closest I can come to something faintly majestic.

10.  Hector the hero: A tune by Scott Skinner about a great man done in by the system.

11.  Mea Culpa: To love is to always say you are sorry when you do stupid stuff.

12.  Chet Chat: One of my early compositions created in a very hot music room during a long sultry summer.

13.  Dry Spell: Another summer tune about how it feels when rain first comes after a long drought.

14.  All I Need to Know: Some things are more important than others; music is way up there in my life.

15.  Pay the Piper / Burning of the Pipers Hut: Ah the life of a musician, sometimes the hero, sometimes the goat.

16.  Women of Ireland: By Sean O'Riada, one of the real founders of the Chieftains.

17.  Kleptomusica: I steal ideas from the best.  Is there any other way to make music?

18.  Bobbie Casey: Lived in London and played great Irish fiddle

19.  Song for John: For a friend who died too young.

20.  Still Awake? If so, take another sip of wine and replay the album until you have really let go of the day.

 

To get a copy of Goes Well with Wine, please email me at harpermike@gmail.com