Secret Call

Ginkgo Garden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Earthtone
• ASIN: B00000IGQZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,722 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Secret Call

2. Blossoms from India

3. Aquamarine Lake

4. Ginkgo Biloba

5. One and Twain

6. Song from the Treetop

7. Woodland Ride

8. Open Windows

9. Rhythm of the Living Thing

10. The Maidenhair Tree

11. Feast of Secrets

12. The Concert of the Garden

13. The Ginkgo Biloba

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My most played CD, April 1, 2006

By 

James E. Downs (Everett WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secret Call (Audio CD)

I have loved this collection since I first heard a track at a Barnes & Noble store. This music has moved me in the wee hours of the morning, in the dark with headphones. It has helped me on long, and short, drives up and down the American West Coast.

My very favorite track is 12 "The Maidenhair Tree". "Feast of Secrets", on the other hand, has provided the dreamiest sound scape for my mind to wander about.

Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A clear,crisp new sound for New Age music,A great debut !, February 10, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Secret Call (Audio CD)

When I first heard a track from this artist on a Earthtone Various Artists CD[actually two tracks],I was very much impressed! I actually wanted the CD right then and there.So, since I was in a Borders,I decided to look for the album.As a big coincidence, the exact album I was looking for was in a front row of CDs! So, I got it.It was pretty darn good! I liked all the tracks from 1# to 9#, including the poem at the end of the CD.The other tracks, to me ,were dull and boring.That's why I decided to rate this four stars instead of five.Overall, this CD still should be in everybody's New Age collection[except for those who like the quieter version of New Age]. And so, this is Ed signing off.

5.0 out of 5 stars New Age" or "New Instrumental" or "World Music" can only partly describe this music, September 2, 2011

By 

Yvonne Worthman (Muenchen) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Call (MP3 Download)

Ginkgo Garden is the name of the musical project of the German composer and musician Eddy F. Mueller. Ginkgo stand for the hommage to ginkgo biloba, a tree, the oldest plant of Planet Earth. Ginkgo Garden is also named "living fossil" It is a unique phenomenon in the plant world and myths as well as tales have been created about it, inspiring Eddy F. Mueller to use the theme ginkgo for his music.

"Garden" stands for a musical garden in which Eddy has planted his complex instrumental titles to let them flourish in a symbiotic way and in order to sensitize the listener's senses. At the same time Eddy has adopted William Shakespeare's motto: " I want to touch the people's hearts".

The first Ginkgo Garden album was entitled "Leaves of Hope (1993) and a year after the release of the first album Eddy could not put down his thoughts of the fascinating theme of Ginkgo and its varied symbolism. It was not to be long until Eddy continued working on Ginkgo Garden, which had been intended to be a one-CD project only at the beginning. Inspired by a "Secret Call" Eddy F. Mueller wrote new instrumental titles and tried to do even more musical justice to the "wonder tree" Ginkgo as a symbol of the uniting of opposites (East/West; day/night; black/white; loud/low); nevertheless Eddy F. Mueller did not neglect the entertaining aspect of music.