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The singer offers her brand new album for charity: download the acapella album This Way, Sweetheart! from BandCamp and any amount paid above $5 for the full album or above $1 for individual tracks, will be donated to the same volunteer organization supported by the Haiti Aid Through Music compilation

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Download the cross-genre compilation album Haiti Aid Through Music from BandCamp, and 100% of the sales go to volunteer ministers, check out who they are and what they are doing in Haiti

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Buy CDs or download Andrea's other albums, and CD Baby sends $1 from each full album purchase to American Red Cross or Mercy Corps.

Madárka, madárka (Little Birdie) Haunting A Cappella folk songs from various regions of the historical Hungary:

Árva az a madár (Lonely Is The Bird) New Age/World fusion, traditional Hungarian melodies with tunes from the Middle East and Northern Europe, Caribbean rhythms, wrapped in modern technology:

Authentic Hungarian Village Music Traditional Hungarian folk, with Transylvanian band Barozda:

Andrea Gerak wishes a great year to everyone with these words: 

"After the holidays mood, celebrations, parties, tomorrow, Monday morning everything goes "back to normal": people start the ordinary working days, kids go to school. Christmas decorations are already hidden in boxes, but hopefully the spirit of love stays with us and new year resolutions stick longer than a couple of enthusiastic days or weeks.

Despite the worldwide financial crisis and very hard, challenging events in my personal life, I can say 2009 was a great year for me, in terms of creativity and activity: I became an endorser of World March for Peace and Non-Violence, opened an online webshop with photo gifts, performed with excellent musicians in new collaborations, amongst others with Fabatka, created a few videos, like this one: There Is No Greater Sadness, started to write reviews on fellow artists and articles that are hopefully useful for others, published a new album: This Way, Sweetheart!,and got many new friends, fans, followers and contacts on various sites.

If I Was A River, at Celebration of Hungarian Jazz 2009, Budapest Jazz Club

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2010 looks even better, with more exciting works with my composers Cambridge 2003 and Effi Shoshani and with other musicians to perform with, and I am looking forward to new collaborations with a few other international artists, to be named a bit later, festivals and other concerts, more songs, videos, perhaps one or two books and photo exhibitions.

This was the self-promotion part :-) but the point of my message is this:

No matter what happens, if you are able to keep on creating and giving out good stuff, life will be good to you - that's a stable datum I am operating on.   

That's my wish for you in the new year and the new decade: have you all a happy life, and create it in the way as it is the best for you and for the most people around you.

Love, Andrea"

Andrea's birthday wish

The first buyers already got Andrea Gerak's second acapella solo CD, with mostly Hungarian folk songs and an Irish, a Turkish and a Solomon Islands traditional tune, and the album is now available for download as well.

It's been more than eleven years now that Andrea recorded her first album, Madárka, madárka (Little Birdie), and the haunting Hungarian folk songs are still flying around the world, giving joy to listeners and being downloaded on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Last FM and other music sites, the CDs travel continents.

With a few thousand singing hours, more versatile vocal technique and performing skills, extended repertoire and intense life experiences under Andrea's belt since then, the time was well ripe for a new release. For many listeners loved the idea of having a voice only album, here is another one: the new album This Way, Sweetheart! features some of Andrea's most successful acapella songs, those that have become standard pieces of her performances through the years, as well as new favorites.

The songs tell us about various stages and emotional aspects of love, the meaning of one's homeland, and we also find soothing lullabies on the album.

"All these are traditional folk songs, old melodies, yet several of them reflect the exact situations in my life right now...", says the singer. "Since a long time I wanted to make another CD with my voice only, because I believe that the human voice is the most perfect music instrument: you don't need to carry big cases, spend a fortune on an excellent quality piece, it will not get lost or robbed from you, and what is most important: you don't need to use any physical object as a via, to communicate feelings and stories with your songs. In an ideal case for a live concert at a place with brilliant acoustics, you don't even need a microphone - what you scream and shout, lull and whisper, hum and chant, will be carried to the listeners only by air. And this is probably what I like most when I perform: to convey a piece of my soul to others, with as less things in between us as possible. Therefore I would like to give the feeling that on this album, I am there in your room when you want to chill out, or walking in the forest with you, sitting on a rock by the sea, laying in the grass and watching the clouds, standing on a mountain top, and I would just sing for you...

All I wanted with this CD was to try and see how can one communicate through these old songs, in their purest simplicity. No fancy effects, no lines recorded twenty times - just as you were here with me and I would sing for you, all the things I have to say.

Feelings of love, happiness, joy, sorrow and longing were the same in 1809 as they are today, in 2009..."

17 tracks, total time 45:24
Recorded in November 2009, Eskilstuna (Sweden), at fortissimo CD production

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with a song: Yay, I've Been Freezing
a podcast: Electrical Language #193
and a few thoughts: Lonely Christmas, Lovely

She sang for the event Road To Copenhagen, together with Ewa Wikström and Julien Matei. This song was her solo part.

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For the Tuesday evening cultural program and coctail, world star opera diva Barbara Hendricks was expected in the Council Chamber of Malmö City Hall, but she is not able to perform, due to her upcoming concert in France. Thus the Matei-Gerak-Wikström trio gives a longer program for the attendees before the gala dinner, performing together as well as each artist solo.     

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The first few songs from the new album This Way, Sweetheart! are uploaded on the website:

1.Jaj, de sokat aztam-faztam (Yay, I've been freezing)
5. Erre gyere, rozsam (This Way, Sweetheart!)
12. Szivaroztam (I Had A Cigar)
15. Asiye
16. Rorogwela

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Listen to 2 hours of beautiful New Age/Electronica music, download LostFrontier Podcast #615

01  Deuter: Light, ©1982 'Cicada'
02  Anewday: Early Rising, ©2009 'Summer Reflections'
03  Kori Linae Carothers: Blue Ice, ©2009 'Trillium'
04  Kori Linae Carothers: Dancing in the Clouds, ©2009 'Trillium'
05  Lisa Hilton: Pandemonium, ©2009 'Twilight & Blues'

06  Lisa Hilton: City Streets, ©2009 'Twilight & Blues' 07  Andrea Gerák: There Is No Greater Sadness, ©2009 'Àrva az a Madár'
08  Dithmar: Inside Eiszeit (short mix), ©2009 'Electronic Musique Compliation 2'
09 Uwe Reckzeh: Metamaterial, ©2009 'Electronic Musique Compliation 2'
10  Sam Vitoulis & Sergio Koval: Art and Science, ©2005 'Léonard'
11  Sam Vitoulis & Sergio Koval: Sectio Aurea, ©2005 'Léonard' 12  Frank Van Bogaert: Breathe, ©2009 'Air Machine' 13  Slumdar: A Través de la Lluvia, ©2009 'Dentro'
14  David Clavijo: Dancing on the Moon, ©2009 'The Landing' 15  Riad Michael: November Dreaming, ©2009 'Ambient I' 16  Paul Avgerinos: Love Is, ©2009 'Love'
17  Bruno Sanfilippo: Poema Electrónico, ©2009 'Auralspace' 18  Fridrik Karlsson: Crystals, ©2008 'Spiritual Fitness'

Compiled by Javier Bedoya

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