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Price in the USA: $17.75 including shipping and handling. Add $3.50 outside the USA.
To order, send a check or money order to:
Chris Snidow / Cowrind Studios
9320 Biscayne Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75218
Orders will be filled based on date order.
For questions, contact Chris / Cowrind Studios at:
cowrind@sbcglobal.net
or
Tel: 214-327-4579
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'NUMBER OUR DAYS' CD
NEW AGE RETAILER, Jan./Feb. 2000
Chris Snidow composes and records fresh contemporary instrumental music. His inspiration often seems drawn from the Bible, offering a sense of serenity and peace that goes to the bone. Nature sounds, including running water and birds, float around the edges. 'Number Our Days' seems particularly suited to traveling or entertaining friends, since it’s excellent compositions aren’t at all intrusive. Still, careful listening has many rewards.
Snidow carries the album completely on his own talents, which are many. He plays all the instruments, including synthesizers, keyboards, electronic drums, and various noisemakers. He composed all but two tracks and did the production work as well. Songs range from the uptempo title track to the beautiful 'Adagio for Strings.'
Jeff Berkwits, ASTERISM, July 1999
Though the song titles, liner notes, and even the artwork contain quite a few Biblical references, there are actually no overtly religious melodies on this impressive instrumental album. The nine electronic compositions evoke echoes of mellow music maestros such as Deuter or Edgar Groese (of Tangerine Dream fame), yet the tunes remain undeniably distinct and unexpectedly engaging. While an interpretation of Samuel Barber’s 'Adagio for Strings' is a highlight, original tracks like 'Living Water', with it’s appealing aquatic-sounding arpeggios, provide an opportunity to hear some genuinely heady, and apparently rather heavenly, harmonies.
M. Montes, AMAZINGS.COM, January 2000
After 'New Dawn', 'Leprechaun Hill', 'Crossing Over', and 'From the Foundation of the World', Chris Snidow presents his new album: 'Number Our Days'. It contains 9 themes, all composed by the author except two, (which anyway have been arranged by him). The music is very melodic, sometimes rhythmic, sometimes near ambient. The main inspiration for this work seems to be the Bible. The instrumentation is rich and electronic, and there are multicolored waves of sounds which suggest various types of environments, always full of pleasant harmonies. The album is also a collection of quite atmospheres. Really great stuff for people who like innovative and original electronic instrumental music.
Bill Binkelman, WIND & WIRE, Issue 12, July/August 1999
Chris Snidow’s latest release, 'Number Our Days', (Cowrind, 1999, Time: 39:49), is a big leap forward for the electronic keyboardist. His last album, 'From the Foundation of the World', was solid but had its small flaws. Such is not the case with 'Number Our Days'! The CD opens with a simply terrific slice of EM and tribal rhythms, 'En Gedi', and never stops for a breath after that. I consider the first track my favorite, but only by a hair. This is a fantastic recording which bowled me over on the very first listen. Chris’ sense of melody and rhythm has grown exponentially. 'Number Our Days' is less overtly dramatic than his last release; it’s more about nuance and shading now. Engineering and production are faultless.
The title track is gorgeous, with twinkling synths and underlying washes of gossamer-smooth keyboards, while in the background, sequenced rhythms and chimes repeat in a pleasant mid tempo beat. Eventually the song swells up and a more rhythmic element is introduced. I’m really impressed with the new-found sophistication in Chris's layering of his keyboards. It reminds me of Meg Bowles, although lighter in emotional “feel”. He follows the title track up with a splendid version of Barber’s 'Adagio for Strings' which I never get tired of. The synth strings are quite realistic, comparing favorably to the standard-bearer, Paul Sauvanet.
Chris adds a touch of environmental sounds on some tracks, like the sound of wind that opens the mid-tempo drama of 'Chasing After the Wind.' This has a Tangerine Dream-like feel to it, with it’s pounding bass line, soaring synth leads and lush strings. Other songs include the sweetly flowing “Living Water” with harp arpeggios, the somewhat celestial/new agey-sounding 'A Thousand Year Day', anchored by synth flute and dramatic percussive effects, and a quirky treatment of Rachmaninoff’s 'Vocalise' with distorted vocal effects.
'Number Our Days' is a great electronic music release that, hopefully, will find a big audience. It certainly deserves to be widely heard and appreciated. Highly recommended!
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