First Light

Matthew Shell

Record Details

Released:
2017
Genre:
New Age

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Record Tracklist

  1. Intimate Awakening -:-- / 6:23
  2. Euphoria -:-- / 8:45
  3. Infinite Love -:-- / 3:00
  4. Exhilaration -:-- / 1:18
  5. Altered Perspective -:-- / 4:00
  6. Peaceful Connection -:-- / 2:19
  7. Flavor of Desire -:-- / 2:19
  8. The Awakening -:-- / 2:42
  9. Amplification -:-- / 1:35
  10. Romantic Emotion -:-- / 2:06
  11. Dancing in the Rain -:-- / 5:25
  12. Embracing Time -:-- / 1:46
  13. Dare to Live -:-- / 0:53
  14. The Escape -:-- / 1:47
  15. Breathe Again -:-- / 5:00
  16. Soul Stabilization -:-- / 5:20
  17. Actualization Celebration -:-- / 7:10
  18. The Christmas Song -:-- / 3:31

  • Release Date: August 30, 2017
  • Primary Artist: Matthew Shell
  • Label: Narked Records | MTS Music Productions
  • UPC: 191924034353
  • Catalog Number: NAR4353
  • Distribution: CDBaby
  • © 2017 MTS Music (BMI)
  • ℗ 2017 Narked Records | MTS Music Produuctions

The hour-long jazz opus boasts of a complex arrangement featuring 17 key changes and 20 tempo changes, all created by Shell in a single twelve hour session.

  • Production, songwriting, arrangement and guitar by Matthew Shell
  • Vocal artistry by Kenny Wesley
  • Flute and saxophone by Nicolas Laget
  • Piano and upright bass by Vahagn Stepanyan
  • Rhodes keyboard by Kenny Darby
  • Percussion by Curtis McCain
  • Tracks 17 and 18 feature cello ensemble arranged and performed by Yoed Nir String Productions
  • Track 18 features vocals by Zane Alan Latta | Saxophone by Marcus Mitchell | Flute by Wouter Kellerman | As written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Torme | As made famous by Nat King Cole
  • Recorded, engineered and mixed by Nicolas Laget and Matthew Shell at The Sweet Spot Studio, Annandale, VA
  • Mastered by Nicolas Laget and Matt Veirs at the Sweet Spot Studio, Annandale, VA
  • Art design by Alexandra S. Haris
  • Executive produced by Arun Shenoy, Terra Tuono-Shell and Matthew Shell