In the Arms of Love was the first album I recorded for SSRI. It was licensed to Higher Octave Music and distributed by EMI. In 2008 In the Arms of Love was remastered by Jon Gagan and released by SSRI with the catalog number 90202.
culturecourt.com wrote this in their review:
Where are you? Gently rocking in the darkness, half-asleep, the shrouded landscape flickering past outside the window. You’re on a train, perhaps traveling through the Rockies, snug in a roomette. The muted chatter of the wheels on the rails, metric, polymetric, isometric… coming and going, going and coming. It’s music. Are you dreaming? Must be. The stars seem larger, their astrological patterns obviously navigating your journey. Anxiety is a thing of the past. Although you are alone, somehow you feel you are in the arms of love…. This is the ambiance of “Dreaming On The Starlight Train”, just one of several such quasi-mystical tracks on Ottmar Liebert’s CD, In The Arms Of Love. Yes, he actually uses a recording of a moving train as part of his instrumental. It’s background, almost a whisper, a subtlety in the overall mix of the soundscape… yes, “soundscape”, for that’s what this CD is. The 13 tracks make up a narrative, which is like a radio play without the dialogue… or a movie without the picture
The music is, at least to my ears today, introspective and a little melancholy. When my melodies are not accompanied by a strong rhythm their melancholy nature takes on a different hue. Although I think that is not true for slow, which makes me think it was just my headspace when I recorded this album around 2001. There are plenty of beautiful moments, but also haunting ones. Perhaps somebody was quite right to change the piece called Quiet Dawn into Quiet Down, which is how it appears on Apple Music. :-)
A few notes about the tracks… I added three bonus tracks, Canton Becker’s 2003 remix of Quiet Dawn and versions of Dreaming On the Starlight Train and In the Arms of Love with Jon Gagan playing bass. Those are from around 2007, I believe.
The newly remastered In the Arms of Love will become available Friday morning, tomorrow.
This will be my third time buying the album. It very well could be my most listened to of the catalog. I had a cd copy that was played so much it got laser burn.
Beautiful. (Great titles/names for songs too)
Thank- you for creating & sharing music/thoughtful posts.
Clean mind. Clean body. Clean soul. Kind heart. In the world of beautiful music, there is no finer composer than Ottmar Liebert.
His music will continue to touch hearts and minds for generations to come, long after we’re gone.
We’re incredibly fortunate to be a small part of his space here, and that our voice is welcome.
I feel gratitude each time I post.