Secret Journey

Product Description SECRET JOURNEY reflects a musician in full stride, creating stride, creating compositions laced with unbridled passion and poised grace. Rooted in world themees layered in smooth jazz and new age influences, Omar's 3rd album has all the ingredients to be not only a chart topper but also a critic's darling - Michael Debbage" Review "After Omar's last release Free As A Bird this musician became a force to be reckoned with. Secret Journey gives us the one-two combination hit that reflects a musician who is in full stride, creating compositions laced with unbridled passion and poised grace. Rooted in world themes layered in smooth jazz and new age influences, Omar's music has become distinct yet highly accessible, and this album has all the ingredients to be not only a chart topper but also a critic's darling for 2007." -- Michael Debbage, reviewer for Solo Piano Publications "Clearly a fan of lyrical melodies that have a beginning, middle and end, Omar spins musical stories of love, loss and redemption, tales that open the heart and touch the soul... Omar plays piano and keyboards throughout Opal Fire. David Dial contributes synthesizers as well as handling the arrangements and orchestrations. For an exotic adventure with ports of call from the Caribbean to Europe to the Middle East, be sure to spend some quality time with the incendiary Opal Fire." -- Steve Ryals, New Age Retailer About the Artist Omar Akram encourages listeners to come with him on an exotic Secret Journey, an appropriate title for his new album since Akram's father was a United Nations Diplomat and the family lived in such diverse locales as the U.S., France, Cuba, Afghanistan and the Czech Republic. On this, his third CD for Real Music, strong melodies are presented within tapestry-like arrangements, Omar's acoustic grand piano interwoven with acoustic guitar, violin, duduk, flute and ethnic percussion, played by a group of world class musicians. "I look around me and see people who are bored, restless, stagnant," explains Akram, "and I know they often take `secret journeys' in their minds, daydreaming about other places they could be. The lucky ones take actual trips where they escape from the pressures of their lives. They see new places and have new experiences. I like to think the music on my album can serve as the soundtrack for people's journeys, whether