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  • Charles Darling was an incredible Cellist!!!!!

  • amherst in the 70's just after john mayall and bruce springstein at the cage....

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  • The CD is indeed available..I got it last Christmas. Check Paul Winters web site..

  • I still have my original vinyl of Icarus. I never was able to see them live but I love this and all their work.

  • Awesome ! I've been looking for this version for a long time ! Many thanks

  • I grew up watching the band play in fields and concert halls. This song will always uplift and power me on to greater heights!I will never forget playing the big wooden xylophone on stage at the age of 14 with a young autistic kid ! we both had the biggest grins ever.... {:> Much love to Dave Darling, Paul Winter and Ralph Towner. Respect for posting this fave of mine! that whole album is a real journey!

  • @Peacenrespect I remember the big wooden xylophone, too, and loved it when the band, one by one, would put down their instruments and pick up sticks and join in, until the entire band was playing on the thing in the middle of the floor. I think they did that for the song 'Minuit'.

  • wow this just such a soothing piece of music had it on vinyl but solld all of lp"s a long time ago

  • i have this album on a record (vinyl) its on paul winters earthdance album, and on the record sleeve it tells the story of the astronauts taking this album to the moon with them and the whole story of them naming the two moon craters after there two favorite songs on the album, icarus and ghost beads!! its pretty intresting!!

  • An epic of gargantuan proportions. I am transported across time and space each time I listen to this masterpiece...

  • I remember a concert I saw where they referred to this as a "song of hello" It made me purchase the album and write lyrics to the tune...

  • @myrddred I remember their concerts from the 70's also, and you are probably thinking of the song 'Minuit', when they would play the big wooden xylophone in the middle of the floor, both are beautiful songs. I remember one of their concerts where they brought a Canadian Timber Wolf (it was a puppy, but it was as big, or bigger, than an adult German Shepherd) and let it wander free through the audience.

  • @bokkenneth2 The "Amadinda" was an African instrument made with 2X4s similar to a marimba.....saw the group at Western Connecticut State College in 72....

  • Paul Winter always pisses me off with his douche bag rythm section overkill - truly beautiful song - but all I can here is his stupid fucking bells and traps

  • @fondueset01

    You piss me off with "geek" comments. I saw the Consort perform it live at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Devine and it was one of the most inspiring pieces of music I ever heard. I listened to it on my walkman when I ran the Sri Chinmoy 24 hour race in Queens in 1983 and it helped me through a very rough patch. Take your negativity and move on.

  • do you know what paul winter albums were recorded by Tom Duffy?

  • A BEAUTIFUL morning song !!!

  • Beautiful piece of music that still holds up after all these years ! p.s. It's an Instrumental and not a song... song's have lyrics !

  • I have a cassette, now worn and distorting. Thank you for posting this. As an oboist, this is the song of my life. It always makes my cry.

  • I saw Paul Winter "Free" in Hartford, Connecticut

    in the late 70's I think it was Kite day ? It is still one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard. It was a beautiful day in my life I still treasure,with my then beau Timothy Sweet time

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  • Mr. Winter performed this song live at the memorial service for John Denver in October 1997...that is where I first was introduced to it. I was fortunate to have found it on CD back then. Thanks for your post.

  • Thank you for posting this song... It brings back alot of memories.

  • OMG........Sooo glad to have found this vid for this song!!!!!!!!! Have LOVED it since I first heard it back in  '92 - when I bought a compltn. CD of New Age (kind of obscure) songs!!! Thanks!!!!!

    Auto-Good-Mood Song!

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  • thanks for posting..... this inspired me in many respects. Later to "free fly"........ soar.... it's what dreams are made of....

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