Elfenworks Healing Music Project: Rejuve
In Harmony with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Package of Prevention
[tammyhall.com] • [Leukemia-Lymphoma Society] • [Package of Prevention] • [press release]
Check your NPR station starting February 26
'08 for a Piano
Jazz program featuring Marian McPartland and Tammy Hall!
Editor's Picks: Media
--Body & Soul Magazine, July 2007
"On the transporting CD Rejuve
(February 2007), jazz pianist Tammy Hall breaks from the tradition of performing covers and plays mesmerizing songs she composed
with the express intention of helping listeners recuperate from illness."
All-original music to comfort, inspire and encourage—played in a soft, soothing style using specially tuned pianos, with violin and percussion.
We are honored to be working in partnership with the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and we applaud their efforts. We are working together to bring this soothing music those whose lives have been affected by blood cancers. We are also providing discs in support of Package of Prevention, a nonprofit which advocates for cancer awareness, and would welcome additional partners in our effort to reach out and support those who would find comfort in this soothing music. If you work with such an organization and would like to discuss a joint effort, please contact us. Members of the press, please contact our regarding Tammy Hall and her concert schedule.
About the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society's mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. We are in harmony with the Greater Bay Area Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's efforts to comfort, help and heal.
About Package of Prevention
We are also providing discs in support of Package of Prevention, a nonprofit which advocates for cancer awareness whose founders believe it is necessary to educate people about cancer prevention at a young age, because cancer can strike anyone at anytime. We are in harmony with Package of Prevention's dedication to educating all individuals about detection and prevention regardless of age, race, gender, and income level.
Where to Find Rejuve
Although the CD is available for download-purchase through Digstation, we'd prefer you to donate to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To get your own copy of Rejuve, send your tax-deductible donation (please, consider postage and processing costs) to: Jennifer Fagerstrom, Executive Director, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - San Francisco Chapter, 1390 Market Street, Suite 1200 San Francisco, CA 94102
Editor's Picks: Media--Body & Soul Magazine, July 2007 "On the transporting CD Rejuve (February 2007), jazz pianist Tammy Hall breaks from the tradition of performing covers and plays mesmerizing songs she composed with the express intention of helping listeners recuperate from illness."
Technical Details
The sessions were recorded using a combination of vintage tube analog microphones and state-of-the-art modern microphones. Two grand pianos were used, a 7' concert grand which has a brighter sound, and a 9' concert grand with a richer, more earthy sound. Both pianos were specially tuned by John Callahan of Callahan Piano in a variant of the historical well temperament rather than the equal temperament to which most pianos are customarily tuned.
Some notes from John Callahan, piano technician, about the tuning
Modern keyboard tuning has been in "equal temperament" for nearly the past 100 years. This means that each half step in an octave is spaced equally from the rest, a compromise which makes all of the intervals slightly out of tune, but allows for exactly the same sound in every key signature. Historical, or "well temperament" means that the half steps are not equally spaced—the result being that some key signatures have a more harmonious, in-tune sound, while others sound more dissonant. The pianos were tuned in an historical "well temperament" and Tammy Hall specifically composed and performed these melodies in the key signatures that can be perceived as more harmonious in this tuning. The effect is a calming, soothing musical experience.
rejuve Audio
| MP3 128Kbps Audio Clips | |
| The Awesome Moment |  |
| Grow | |
| Home | |
| Love Source | |
| Maui Shimmers | |
| Atmosphere | |
| Current | |
| My Light | |
| Rest | |
| A Joy Restored | |
| Gratitude | |
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Recording Details
Rejuve was recorded August 22 and 23, 2006 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California using two specially tuned pianos, the highest resolution practically available and an array of vintage and state-of-the-art microphones to provide the listener as much depth, clarity and organic warmth as possible. It was released in 2007 association with the Greater Bay Area Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
- Producer / Executive Producer: Lauren Speeth, elfenworks LLC.
- Engineer: Stephen Hart, Fantasy Studios, www.fantasystudios.com.
- Session Musicians: Tammy Hall, piano; Lauren Speeth, violin; Michaelle Goerlitz, percussion.
- Composer: Tammy Lynne Hall, www.TammyHall.com. Listen to Ms Hall on NPR's PianoJazz.
Liner Notes from Tammy Hall
Most of us are familiar with the concept that music can be a healing force. I believe it to be an absolute truth. I also believe that part of what makes music healing is the intent of the composers and performers behind the music. The concept that sounds can have physical and emotional effects on listeners has been studied, argued, validated, and disputed, for hundreds of years. After all of the research that Lauren [my best friend, producer, and musical collaborator in this, our latest effort] and I have done on the subject, we have reached the conclusion that the power of music as a healing force is dependent on the intent within it.
When we recorded the music you are about to hear, our aim was that the listener experience wellness, comfort and resolve. These original compositions were inspired by our own life journeys. With this project we hope to reach those who struggle in ways that we can only imagine: those who suffer from serious illnesses, those recovering from radical procedures and those experiencing deep emotional or spiritual trauma or loss. We believe in the power of music to help heal, comfort, inspire and encourage.
These pieces were composed to serve as a kind of blank palette—uncolored by past associations—so that you, the listener, can interpret them for the first time, taking from the music what you will for your own well-being. Rejuve never felt like work; instead it has been a labor of love, a work of gratitude. We invite all who listen to take solace in the sounds. Please find whatever comfort you seek in these songs. They were written for you, with a singular intent...to Rejuve.
Thank you.
Tammy L. Hall
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