专辑简介

Steven Fletcher was born in a small town in northern California. His father was a high school teacher who returned to university twice and ended his professional career as a university professor. His mother was an artist, a nurse and his spiritual forerunner. Steven left that small town of Healdsburg, California in his last year of high school and has been traveling geographically, vocationally and spiritually ever since. His love for writing started with a college English teacher (Mrs. Connie Mundrick) and he has been writing stories and poetry ever since. His great love for music, writing songs and specifically his chant-like, folk style, music started on a beach on Vancouver Island. Dwight Druick was the channel for that gift. Since the merging of those two gifts in 1969, he has never been far from a guitar, a collection of flutes and something to write on. This album is a collection of songs that have flowed out of Steven’s spiritual and geographical travels. In addition to this CD, Steven has two anthologies of short stories in print, a CD of instrumental music, a documentary, two CD’s of stories with music and one CD of chanted and spoken prayer. He has a children’s book in the process of publication in English and Chinese. He has several other CD’s of songs, in the pipeline. He is currently teaching at Lanzhou University in China.

Like every other artist, I want to share the contents of my head and my heart. Also like every other artist, these songs were inspired by things that I cannot fully understand. They are flavors, feelings, glimpses of truths that I do not really know. For example, included in this album is the song “Joy and Pain”. I’d like to tell you that I really understand what this song is about - but the reality is - I don’t. I am learning from these songs. They are, among other people and things in the world, my teachers. I hope you enjoy these songs and that they bring you some comfort along the road of life. And when we meet, here in this earthly plane or in the world of dreams or in some future, timeless place, I hope that both of us will smile as we are passing. Steven Fletcher, October 2015