Chris Spheeris – Crystal Dream

Chris Spheeris – Crystal Dream
MP3 @ 160 Kbps | 1:02:24 min | 77.3 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Another very early Chris Spheeris release.  A masterpiece of pure inspiration.

Chris Spheeris – Allura

Medwyn Goodall – Priestess: Return to Atlantis
MP3 @ 160 Kbps | 47:28 min | 59.5 MB | 10% Recovery Record

One of Chris Spheeris’ earliest albums.  Beautiful flamenco flavored mastery.

Chris Spheeris – The Best Of Chris Spheeris (1990 – 2000)

Chris Spheeris – The Best Of Chris Spheeris (1990 – 2000)
MP3 @ 320 Kbps | 1:08:50 min | 174 MB | 10% Recovery Record

The Best of Chris Spheeris: 1990-2000 is an exciting look back at his extraordinary musical achievements over the past decade. For the 13 previously released tracks, Spheeris drew from his popular 1990s releases Culture (1993), Desires (1994), Europa (1995), Mystic Traveler (1996), Eros (1997), and Dancing With the Muse (2000). Every tune is a completely different expression, coming from a unique place melodically, rhythmically, and spiritually. Among the highlights are “Lovers & Friends,” “Enchantment,” and “Dancing With the Muse,” which captures this experience perfectly. The two new Spheeris compositions are the Celtic-flavored (and appropriately titled) “Looking Back” — which pays homage to the styles and feelings of many of the other works on the collection — and the graceful solo piano piece “Rendezvous.”

Chris Spheeris – Eros

Chris Spheeris – Eros
MP3 @ 192 Kbps VBR | 48:21 min | 66.9 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Listening to Chris Spheeris’ gently rhythmic but ultimately sleepy flamenco guitar based Eros, you might think you’ve stumbled upon outtakes from Jesse Cook or today’s current master of easygoing pop flamenco, Ottmar Liebert. But those two usually have the keen sense to vary the tempo just enough to avoid each tune from bleeding into the next they’d never create a whole album of lullabies. A noted new age multi-instrumentalist who plays everything here himself, Spheeris’ intention seems to be not to excite much passion, just to go with the flow and create some charming, acoustic guitar based bedroom music. An insert photo of him playing a secondary instrument, accordian, as a couple chats at an outdoor café bears this out. Taken individually, tunes like “The Arrow” and “Mediterraneo” are graceful and gorgeously textured, with subtle piano harmonies and light percussion accents behind crisply played melodies. And he uses the real accordian quite effectively on the trance-inducing “Juliette.” It’s just that overall, it comes across much like the atmosphere at a French café – lovely enough to put you in the mood, but ultimately too easy to forget when morning comes.

Chris Spheeris – Desires Of The Heart

Chris Spheeris – Desires Of The Heart
MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 46:03 min | 67.7 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Desires of the Heart is a balanced collection of ten instrumentals whose common attribute is beautiful melodic writing and excellent production. The emotional coherence, warmth and heart in this music makes for a combination that works great.

Chris Spheeris – Europa

Chris Spheeris – Europa
MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 51:47 min | 78.0 MB | 10% Recovery Record

While the title Europa may have you expecting some sort of connection to the Santana masterpiece, what guitarist Chris Spheeris and keyboardist Paul Voudouris achieve is stirring in its own right. Often when artist credit is billed to two equals, one winds up playing all the melodies while the other provides some supportive harmonic structure. Here, there is an even trade off. Spheeris takes command acoustically before his partner slinks in for an extended solo, and vice versa on the next track. As is typical of artists associated with the gray area between jazz and new age, the two aim for a soothing vibe rather than a chops explosion. The effect of the exotic if understated percussion is gorgeously hypnotic, like a hang glider soaring into a fertile terrain of clear sky and wind. Despite the soft veneer, Spheeris stands out as a surprisingly plucky guitar master. In time, some of the pieces run calmly together. But for all intents and purposes, it’s a conceptual project, so it must be part of the grand design.

Chris Spheeris – Pathways to Surrender

Chris Spheeris – Pathways to Surrender
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 41:58 min | 85.9 MB | 10% Recovery Record

On Pathways Spheeris takes us through pieces that are distinctly Greek, electric, choral and ethereal, finishing off this heartfelt, romantic album with graceful sounds that allow one to drift off in a new feeling of completion, a true “rite of passage” toward an unnamed peace. For an album that has lasting appeal and depth of expression which invites intimate, serious exploration, Pathways to Surrender offers a vocal and instrumental mix which are a perfect match, as he excels on guitar, keyboards and emotional expression.

Chris Spheeris – Mystic Traveller

Chris Spheeris – Mystic Traveller
MP3 @ 320 Kbps | 56:05 min | 132 MB | 10% Recovery Record

This is the kind of music that shows Chris Spheeris as being more than just a New Age artist but a visionary who is a master of thematic music. Each of the select tracks tells a story and you can imagine travelling to these various realms- hence the title “Mystic Traveller”. The beauty about each track is that exotic sounds, and real-life episodes help create an adventure that seems to take you on a journey far far away. From South America to China, to the Middle East, the Americas etc, one gets the feeling that this is an extraordinary soundtrack to an extraordinary adventure.

Chris Spheeris – Essentials

Chris Spheeris – Essentials
MP3 @ 320 Kbps | 45:52 min | 117 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Chris’s songs are unforgettable and beautiful. The “Essentials” by chris spheeris, is another execellent collection of chris’s best songs. These songs u won’t find in his best of chris 1990-2000. Chris is a talented multiinstrumentalist. His music is blend of greece ryhms, spanish guitar, beautiful keyboards, smooth rythms with some nice enchanting voices. His music can’t be described, It can make u sad, happy, joy, and can give u so many inspiration.I have been chris’s fan for almost ten years. I grew up with his music. Chris’s resume is impressive, he has produced and witten and performed a beautiful songs which will take u away and leave u with passion and desire. His songs helps to heal the sad hearts and wounds, and it gives u a inspiration and hope to achieve and see the world from another vision. His albums such as culture, desire, mystic traveler, eros, enchantment, europa,dancing with muse,pathway to surrender and many more are all greats. Essentials is another collection of his best songs of these albums which I mentioned. Chris’s songs are journey of love, romance,sadness, desire, heartbroken, inspiration, destiny, hope, passion, homecoming.I love his works, My dad and whole my family and friends love his works. Chris thanks for ur great and vivid imagination and vision for making such a heartfelting and beautiful musics over years. I really recommend this album to u who read this review right now. Experience the Essentials of heart and passions.

Chris Spheeris – Desires

Chris Spheeris – Desires
MP3 @ 320 Kbps | 42:37 min | 106 MB | 10% Recovery Record

The warm, touching side of Chris Spheeris takes center stage in this instrumental album, which seems to be a reorganized release of his earlier recording for Sony, “Desires of the Heart”. Composer Spheeris is featured on keyboards and guitar, joined by David Peterson on oboe and English horn, and accompanied by Christopher Bock on light accoustic percussion, Darryl Wright on electric bass, and occasional recorded nature sounds. As with much of Spheeris’ work, the selections on “Desires” don’t fit neatly into any particular stylistic category. Accoustic and electronic instruments blend together seamlessly to create music that is emotive, heartfelt and approachable. Some pieces are pervaded by a subtle electronic ambience that lingers discreetly in the background, creating a relaxing, timeless atmosphere. Other selections are gently upbeat, bouyed by tasteful world percussion and moved forward by a progressive harmonic structure. All are pleasant and interesting, with good, appealing melodies and engagingly varied construction. Much of Spheeris’ work on “Desires” reminds me of Yanni’s style, and fans of one should enjoy the other too. Try “Reflections of Passion” by Yanni, and for a more intense musical journey, inspired by many world-music elements, check out Spheeris’ “Dancing with the Muse”.

Chris Spheeris – Dancing With The Muse

Chris Spheeris – Dancing With The Muse
MP3 @ 320 Kbps | 1:03:47 min | 146 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Chris Spheeris’ 20-odd year, 16-recording career is characterized by an incredible diversity within a worldbeat and new-age framework. The best way to begin digging into the vast global texturing of his Higher Octave Music debut Dancing With the Muse is to list the genres mentioned on the CD-insert beneath “File Under: Contemporary, New World, Neo-Classical, Jazz, Trance, Instrumental.” It’s clear that when the multi-instrumentalist’s muse started to dance, he whisked him all over the world with a pot to put his wild musical souvenirs in. There’s a gong reverberating behind a hypnotic piano melody and female Indian vocal chants on “The Joy of the Longing.” A Dramatic percussive string section introduces the galloping charms of the title track, which builds in intensity with a soaring Middle Eastern flute (the ney) before Spheeris pays homage to his Greek heritage with a bouncy yet graceful ballet between acoustic guitar and synth. “Marionette” begins with a distant vocal call over floating atmospheres, then uses cello and chimes to grow into a film score suspense line, complete with tablas laying a percussion line beneath a soaring oboe melody. The song concludes with a melody led by human whistling that fades out. The genius of Spheeris here is that he’s under no time constraints; he allows themes to build and motifs to drift, then recur, and tackle several different melody and harmony lines over the course of one tune. After his last, much more straightforward, flamenco-edged album Eros, this glorious circus of sounds comes as a welcome surprise.

Chris Spheeris – Culture

Chris Spheeris – Culture
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 49:15 min | 102 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Chris Spheeris captures many ambient energetic cultural sounds on this CD. The musical flavour of the Meditarranean, Asia, and a bit of the Middle East is expressed in an elegant array of style and creative expression. This is music for a quiet dinner … romance … relaxation. Experience the vibrant dynamic life of diverse exotic places. This CD will energize the listener and release the imagination. It is delightful music which expresses the sounds of enchanted locations from around the globe. Erika Borsos

From the exotically atmospheric “Aria” to mellow, relaxing “Embrace,” Culture is another very well received work by artist Chris Spheeris. A variety of world fusion themes are interwoven with Spheeris’ original ambient compositions: south of the border sounds on “Margarita,” Native American-style chanting on “One,” east Indian rhythms and sitar on “Bombay,” and Spanish-influenced guitar on “Allura.” Definitely recommended for both fans of the artist and listeners who enjoy the best of ambient music.