Fresh from their first tour of Spain in 2006, Mundi (based in Austin, Texas) entered the studio with their strings, drums and harmonium to create an album of contrasts.

At the time of the album's release, Mundi was hailed by the Austin American Statesman as '...among the most intoxicating inventions this music-mad city has distilled.'

1. Funeral Games
2. The Book and The Flower
3. Dum Pater Familias
4. The Alphonse Suite
5. Song of the Birds
6. Stories from the Tree
7. Lamento for Tristan
8. A Very English Eestampie
9. Night at the Caravanserai
10. Funeral Games Reprise

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 07/28/2016
Mundi lives in Texas USA

Tagged as: World, Folk-Rock, Folk, Medieval, Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar, Arabic influenced, Cello, Violin, World Influenced

1. Music of Waters by Shira Kammen: early folk and celtic music.
2. Tasabasaba by To Life!: Music as a journey through tribal landscapes, rhythmic dance, hypnotic trance.
3. Bootleggers by Barbepeste Official Orchestra: Ahoy and shiver your timbers to some Irish World music with a smattering of pirates
4. Daydream by Robin Stine: jazzy, bluesy numbers that immediately sound like comfortable standards
5. Lines Build Walls by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
6. New Moon by Beth Quist: electro-Balkan / Indian meets New Age.
7. Down the Rabbit Hole by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
8. Goode Christemas Musicke by Stephane Potvin and the Con Brio Choir: choral conductor extraordinaire
9. Christmas Guitar by Jeff Wahl: acoustic new age and jazz guitar.
10. Quadretti di una esposizione - 18 Quadretti musicali per violoncello ed orchestra by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
11. Songs and Dance Music of Europe East and West by Panacea: Eastern and Western European folk music.
12. Welcome to Our World by Lisa DeBenedictis: lilting, textural alt-pop
13. Reflections by Joseph Nimoh: uplifting solo piano pieces with influences from classical, jazz and gospel music
14. Hidden Sky by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
15. Legends' Mist by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
16. Cello Circles by Kalyan and Sambodhi Prem: Celebrating the Sound of the Cello
17. Second Sight by Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
18. Trad by Barry Phillips: Scandinavian folkish cello
19. Around the World by Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
20. Ambiencellist by Claire Fitch: ambient cellist

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