Michael Whalen

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I Have Loved You For A Thousand Lifetimes 06:03 Tools
Love's Secret 00:00 Tools
Your Eyes In The Candlelight 00:00 Tools
Addicted To You 00:00 Tools
For You 00:00 Tools
Swimming In A Lovely Sea Of You 00:00 Tools
Hands Of Silk 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
The Shape Of Her Face 00:00 Tools
Impossibly Blue 00:00 Tools
Two As One 00:00 Tools
First Light 00:00 Tools
The Other Coast 00:00 Tools
Tantric 00:00 Tools
The Mother Knows 00:00 Tools
Soliloquy 00:00 Tools
The Softest Touch 00:00 Tools
Land of Seduction 00:00 Tools
Morning Coast Drive 00:00 Tools
I Move (muscles) 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
Life Is A Circle 00:00 Tools
The Puritan's Dream 00:00 Tools
Through The Parched Land 00:00 Tools
Before I Close My Eyes 00:00 Tools
SHAPE OF HER FACE, THE 00:00 Tools
Moments In Love 00:00 Tools
Birth: The Journey Of Life 00:00 Tools
When I See Your Face 00:00 Tools
One Becomes A Trillion 00:00 Tools
The Waiting Time 00:00 Tools
A Dangerous Place 00:00 Tools
While My Love Is Sleeping 00:00 Tools
The Distance From Heart To Mouth 00:00 Tools
Unsung Heroes 00:00 Tools
Rain 00:00 Tools
The Feather 00:00 Tools
Autumn Color Fields 00:00 Tools
Together With You 00:00 Tools
Through The Parched Land: Desert Flower 00:00 Tools
My Linda 00:00 Tools
All The Things I Could Not Say 00:00 Tools
Footsteps - In The Snow 00:00 Tools
Sunrise Dance 00:00 Tools
A Living Machine 00:00 Tools
A Forest of Feelings 00:00 Tools
Woodland Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Up All Night 00:00 Tools
My Arms That Ache to Hold You 00:00 Tools
Rhythm of the Saints 00:00 Tools
Just Saying Your Name, Hurts 00:00 Tools
Outside Columbus 00:00 Tools
If I Could Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
Forgiveness is a Grace 00:00 Tools
A New Heart 00:00 Tools
Forever_ The Wedding Song 00:00 Tools
Peril In The Timberland 00:00 Tools
Protected & Nourished 00:00 Tools
My Best Friends 00:00 Tools
I Am (brain) 00:00 Tools
Canyon Wind 00:00 Tools
Through The Parched Land (Desert Flower) 00:00 Tools
Open Spaces 00:00 Tools
Acquainted With The Night 00:00 Tools
Sea Of Trees 00:00 Tools
Months of Constant Change 00:00 Tools
Ahead of the Game 00:00 Tools
Dust to Dust_ The Memorial Song 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Everglades 00:00 Tools
Morning Aire 00:00 Tools
The Great Highway 00:00 Tools
Just Saying Your Name 00:00 Tools
Eyes Ears & Fingers 00:00 Tools
The Dark And The Light 00:00 Tools
Winding To Infinity 00:00 Tools
Breezes In New England 00:00 Tools
Ocean Of Glass 00:00 Tools
Killing To Survive 00:00 Tools
Life in Cramped Quarters 00:00 Tools
The Curved Sky 00:00 Tools
Building A Nest 00:00 Tools
Survival 03:02 Tools
Hunting The Lusitania 00:00 Tools
Spirits 00:00 Tools
To Be Or Not 2b 00:00 Tools
Welcome to Mexico 00:00 Tools
Cathedral Of The Woods 00:00 Tools
Half Light 00:00 Tools
Muir's Paradise 00:00 Tools
The Journey Starts 00:00 Tools
The Hawk Appears 00:00 Tools
Winter Rain 00:00 Tools
Walking The Dog 00:00 Tools
The Cheetah Hunt 00:00 Tools
Another Hollywood Sunset 00:00 Tools
The Wood Cock 00:00 Tools
How Different You Are From The Darkness 00:00 Tools
Life In The Nest 00:00 Tools
New Forests 00:00 Tools
Hudson Valley 00:00 Tools
Basement 00:00 Tools
Night Creatures 00:00 Tools
Full Moon Dance 00:00 Tools
Phantom Of The Forest 00:00 Tools
Imagine The Sun 00:00 Tools
Kingdom Of The Sun 00:00 Tools
Seasons Of The Wind 00:00 Tools
Forever - The Wedding Song 00:00 Tools
Brink Of Extinction 00:00 Tools
Times Of Change 00:00 Tools
Mountain Gorillas 00:00 Tools
Killer Instinct 00:00 Tools
The Forest Edge 00:00 Tools
The Wilderness Of The East 00:00 Tools
Dust to Dust - The Memorial Song 00:00 Tools
Prayer 00:00 Tools
As the States Go By 00:00 Tools
Being 00:00 Tools
Original Sin 00:00 Tools
On The Road 00:00 Tools
Footsteps 00:00 Tools
Theme To Forever Wild 00:00 Tools
Part Four 00:00 Tools
The Shape Of Her Face (Passion/Romance Version) 00:00 Tools
Quiet Beauty 00:00 Tools
Part One: Light-Sky-Stars 00:00 Tools
Part One 00:00 Tools
The Elephants 00:00 Tools
Kiss the Quiet 00:00 Tools
Bathroom Escape 00:00 Tools
Ridge Running 00:00 Tools
Compared to a Summer's Day 00:00 Tools
The Sea Cucumber 00:00 Tools
Rest Stop 00:00 Tools
On the Side of the Road 00:00 Tools
Close Your Eyes, The Right Approaches 00:00 Tools
Vanilla 00:00 Tools
Sailing Into History (The Lusitania Theme) 00:00 Tools
Cycles Of Life 00:00 Tools
Fire And Ice 00:00 Tools
Part Six 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Stolen Season 00:00 Tools
The Road of Ghosts 00:00 Tools
Dreams 00:00 Tools
Mysterious Ways 00:00 Tools
Virginia 00:00 Tools
Predators Of The Predators 00:00 Tools
Night On The Serengeti 00:00 Tools
After The Rain 00:00 Tools
Flight of the Moon Jellies 00:00 Tools
Cell Phone 00:00 Tools
Sunrise in the Desert 00:00 Tools
A Sea of Ecstasy 00:00 Tools
The Truth 00:00 Tools
Ever Closer Ever Nearer Ever Sooner 00:00 Tools
Part Two: Journey Towards The Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Hunting for a Hunter 00:00 Tools
If Only For Tonight 00:00 Tools
Love Begins Again 00:00 Tools
Blink of an Eye 00:00 Tools
First Light (Passion/Romance Version) 00:00 Tools
Her Infinite Embrace 00:00 Tools
All My Stars 00:00 Tools
Hunting Along the Bottom 00:00 Tools
The Crash 00:00 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
Part Four: Love 00:00 Tools
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen 00:00 Tools
A Perfect Body Plan 00:00 Tools
My Obsequious Tear 00:00 Tools
Meine besten Freunde 00:00 Tools
Sailing Ancient Seas 00:00 Tools
Coming back to New York 00:00 Tools
Vultures 00:00 Tools
Dream Cycle 00:00 Tools
Queenstown / The Search For Titanic 00:00 Tools
The Hyena And The Melons 00:00 Tools
Homeward 00:00 Tools
Lost On The Plains 00:00 Tools
Wild Pups 00:00 Tools
Chimps 00:00 Tools
Heart so Filled with Joy 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Shadows 00:00 Tools
Daunting Questions 00:00 Tools
Nature's Similarities 00:00 Tools
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Sending Signals 00:00 Tools
Two Families 00:00 Tools
Eyes, Ears & Fingers 00:00 Tools
Jacana And The Fish Eagle 00:00 Tools
An Adventure in Nature 00:00 Tools
Part Three 00:00 Tools
Part Three: Faces 00:00 Tools
You Are My Home 00:00 Tools
A Landscape of Brittle Stars 00:00 Tools
Winter Blues 00:00 Tools
Diving for Sponges 00:00 Tools
Part One: The Heart Of Midninght 00:00 Tools
Seasons of Light 00:00 Tools
I Am 00:00 Tools
Waiting To Be Carried Off 00:00 Tools
Part Two: Passages 00:00 Tools
Meerkats 00:00 Tools
The Prayer Box 00:00 Tools
Gail Wakes Up 00:00 Tools
Soul to Soul 00:00 Tools
An Oasis From The World 00:00 Tools
A Memorial For The Empress 00:00 Tools
Rescue In The Fog 00:00 Tools
The Big Sleep 00:00 Tools
Journey Of The Thousands 00:00 Tools
A Forest of Feelings (RainyMood) 00:00 Tools
Flamingos 00:00 Tools
Diving on Flowers 00:00 Tools
Window to the Soul 00:00 Tools
Do Not Allow Me to Forget You 00:00 Tools
Hush the Night 00:00 Tools
The Distant Light 00:00 Tools
African Sunsets 00:00 Tools
The Expidition Begins 00:00 Tools
Traveling Back in Time 00:00 Tools
Cupid Blindfolded 00:00 Tools
- Final Showdown 00:00 Tools
Amber Waters 00:00 Tools
Land Of Seduction (Passion/Romance Version) 00:00 Tools
Almost Touching Heaven 00:00 Tools
The Survival Game 00:00 Tools
In the Deep Water 00:00 Tools
Part Seven 00:00 Tools
Saying Goodbye 00:00 Tools
The Slowpoke Cub 00:00 Tools
Living on Toxic Exhaust 00:00 Tools
World Changed 00:00 Tools
Evening Blurs Into The Neon - Alternate Mix 00:00 Tools
Faces 00:00 Tools
Passages 00:00 Tools
A Lady Travels Alone 00:00 Tools
Part Two 00:00 Tools
Footsteps (In The Snow) 00:00 Tools
Silver Shores 00:00 Tools
Train To Quebec City 00:00 Tools
The Night Of The Disaster 00:00 Tools
Launching Titanic / Brown's Photographs 00:00 Tools
Step into My Fire 00:00 Tools
Unsinkable 00:00 Tools
The Heart Of Midnight 00:00 Tools
The Animal Eve 00:00 Tools
An Ageless Survivor 00:00 Tools
The Jade Man 00:00 Tools
No More Secrets 00:00 Tools
The Tree of Life 00:00 Tools
For the Blue Dream of Sky - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Science's Turning Point 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
A Moment In Time 00:00 Tools
Titanic Sinks 00:00 Tools
The Desert Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Waiting For the Lights To Change 00:00 Tools
Launching Titanic/ Brown's photographs 00:00 Tools
The Train to Quebec City 00:00 Tools
First Dive/History/Wreck Site 00:00 Tools
Crossroads of the World 00:00 Tools
Life's Ballet 00:00 Tools
The Muse 00:00 Tools
The Small Hours 00:00 Tools
Two Ships Pass In The Night 00:00 Tools
In a Different Time Frame 00:00 Tools
The End of the Line 00:00 Tools
Light -sky -stars 00:00 Tools
Evening Blurs Into The Neon 00:00 Tools
The Survivors 00:00 Tools
Dawn on the Lofotens 00:00 Tools
Forever the Wedding Song 00:00 Tools
Introduction and Theme to Slavery and the Making of America 00:00 Tools
Battery Park 00:00 Tools
Queenstown/ The Search for Titanic 00:00 Tools
Titanic's Legacy 00:00 Tools
A World Without Light/ Lights On 00:00 Tools
Passage to Paradise 00:00 Tools
Seasons of Wind 00:00 Tools
An Age Gone By 00:00 Tools
The Shape Of Her Face - Passion/Romance Version 00:00 Tools
Dust to Dust (The Memorial Song) 00:00 Tools
Building the Twins 00:00 Tools
Towards the sunrise 00:00 Tools
Part Five 00:00 Tools
A World In Fast Forward 00:00 Tools
Finding The Damage 00:00 Tools
Forces Building/1500 Voices 00:00 Tools
Titanic Steel/ The Laboratory 00:00 Tools
Niorth From The Riverside 00:00 Tools
A Battle for Turf 00:00 Tools
The Shadow Voyage 00:00 Tools
An Age Gone By (theme from 00:00 Tools
Little Star (Twinkle) 00:00 Tools
It Happened On A Sunday - New Track 00:00 Tools
Fire on the Water 00:00 Tools
Evening Blurs Into The Neon (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Work Song / Black Women in the Colonies 00:00 Tools
Ahead of the Game [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
She's A Lite Sleeper (Interlude) 00:00 Tools
Unpacking The Suitcase 00:00 Tools
Standing in the Rain 00:00 Tools
Copper Cross 00:00 Tools
Immigrant Trade 00:00 Tools
Installing The Lights On Wreck 00:00 Tools
I Move 00:00 Tools
A Flower On The Sea 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
It Happened On A Sunday 00:00 Tools
Sea and Sky 00:00 Tools
Hush 00:00 Tools
Russia 00:00 Tools
Building The Twins (Soundtrack Remix) 00:00 Tools
Heart So Full of Joy 00:00 Tools
For You (RainyMood) 00:00 Tools
Antarctica 00:00 Tools
Always 00:00 Tools
Sailing Into History 00:00 Tools
Part Four Love 00:00 Tools
Indians and the Slaves 00:00 Tools
Hitting The Bottom 00:00 Tools
A Small Victory 00:00 Tools
The First Elevent 00:00 Tools
A Vision of Black and White 00:00 Tools
The Hearing 00:00 Tools
River To The Sea 00:00 Tools
The Distance from Heart to Mou 00:00 Tools
Land Of Seduction - Passion/Romance Version 00:00 Tools
Dreams (feat. The New Tarot) 00:00 Tools
Love\'s Secret 00:00 Tools
Finding The Wreck 00:00 Tools
Into the Darkness, Pt. 2 Journey T 00:00 Tools
Forever: The Wedding Song 00:00 Tools
Harriett's Theme 00:00 Tools
It Happened On A Sunday (New Track) 00:00 Tools
Isle of Skye 00:00 Tools
First Light - Passion/Romance Version 00:00 Tools
The Story of Emmanuel 00:00 Tools
The World Changed 00:00 Tools
A Flower On The Sea (Featuring Mary McLaughlin) 00:00 Tools
At the Touch of a Lover 00:00 Tools
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Reflection of My Affection 00:00 Tools
All of My Heart. All of My Soul 00:00 Tools
Tobacco Suite 00:00 Tools
A Sea of Blood 00:00 Tools
From People to Poverty 00:00 Tools
Colonel Ti 00:00 Tools
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Swimming In A Lonely Sea Of You 00:00 Tools
Three Voyages 00:00 Tools
Brink of Civil War 00:00 Tools
Quack and His Wife 00:00 Tools
Part Two Passages 00:00 Tools
The Border Of Dusk 00:00 Tools
The City of Lights 00:00 Tools
Mother and Son 00:00 Tools
A Hard Life 00:00 Tools
Black Soldiers and the Call to Arms 00:00 Tools
Stono Rebellion 00:00 Tools
Part One Light - Sky - Stars 00:00 Tools
The Immigrant Trade 00:00 Tools
Pt. 1: The Heart Of Midninght 00:00 Tools
Subterranean Daydream 00:00 Tools
Voices of Change 00:00 Tools
The Road to Freedom 00:00 Tools
Forever 00:00 Tools
Serendipity 00:00 Tools
City of Lights 00:00 Tools
Polar Bears in Central Park 00:00 Tools
The South Wins the Peace 00:00 Tools
Stealing the Planter 00:00 Tools
The Immigrants 00:00 Tools
Sold Down the River / The Plantation 00:00 Tools
David Smith and the Next Generation 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman 00:00 Tools
By The Time I Close My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Pt. 1: Light-Sky-Stars 00:00 Tools
Home At Last 00:00 Tools
Pt. 2: Passages 00:00 Tools
Phases Of The Moon, Pt. 3: Faces 00:00 Tools
Pt. 4: Love 00:00 Tools
Small Comes Home 00:00 Tools
Noxontown Adagio 00:00 Tools
A Blessing (End Titles) 00:00 Tools
On the Road After the War 00:00 Tools
The Red Shirts 00:00 Tools
Under a Full Moon / Uncle Abe 00:00 Tools
Winding the Clock Back 00:00 Tools
Windy & Ripply 00:00 Tools
The Titanic Sinks 00:00 Tools
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While you probably haven't heard Michael's music on the radio, you've undoubtedly heard his work in one of the literally thousands of commercials he scored for clients like Apple, Coca-Cola, Disney and Nike. But he's not just a composer-for-hire: Michael is also building a significant discography -- 22 CDs to date -- as a solo recording artist, working in pop, jazz, classical, electronic and those fascinating, unclassifiable spaces in between. Released in January of 2009, “The Tree of Life” (Spout/MWM), is a free download of ambient compositions inspired by the awe-inspiring visits that he has made to the Redwood forests of central California. Also coming in 2009, “The Road of Ghosts”, a recording where Michael’s ambient, film scoring and classical voices meet together on the same project at the same time along with one new element - the boy can sing! Stay tuned for this one. Also coming, “Dancing in Black and White” - a collection of Michael’s best solo piano recordings. Michael manages to draw extraordinary performances from a wide range of artists who have joined him on his recording projects. On “Songs Without Words”, an album he produced for Windham Hill, Michael convinced several major songwriters and film/theatre composers to step out from behind the scenes and re-interpret their own work as instrumental solo-piano pieces. The resulting collection boasted a line-up of magical, one-of-a-kind tracks from such legends as Stephen Sondheim, Brian Wilson, Carole King, film composers Howard Shore and Michael Kamen, songwriter-to-the-stars Diane Warren and über-producer David Foster. It was a daunting task to assemble all this heavyweight talent for a single record, but that's business as usual for Michael, who can calmly juggle several amazing works-in-progress at once. Michael's fertile imagination and inquisitive mind are in full effect 24/7. He's not so much an impressively busy man as an artist possessed. It's been that way ever since the day a very young Michael Whalen walked into a movie theatre with his father, and then and there found his calling. As he explains, "The musical turning point of my life was hearing John Williams' 1972 score to “The Cowboys” [one of the last of John Wayne's last films, directed by Mark Rydell]. Even after so many years, I watch that movie with reverence and awe. Writing music for a genre like a western can be so full of cliches. His approach was so fresh while being true to the spirit and the needs of the film. The excitement and the themes of the movie made me listen to film music in a new way and piqued my interest -- even when I was just seven years old! At that moment, I decided I really had to do something that was involved with music and film. After hearing The Cowboys, all the great scores of the 1960's, 70s and 80s solidified my growing interest in this music into a passion." He channeled his enthusiasm for music into hard work. During summer breaks from high school, Michael interned at suburban D.C. recording studios and found spots on sessions, sometimes in front of a mike as a player, other times behind the board. To finance his own basement studio as a college student, he "started writing music for local commercials in Washington D.C. Eventually it occurred to me that working in television, film and advertising could be an area where I wouldn't have to limit the stylistic scope of my music and maybe I could start applying my love of film music into a career." By 1989, Michael had already come back in New York City with several dozen National commercials under his belt and had started a thriving business of his own. Key to Michael's success has been his love of collaboration - with his fellow performers, filmmakers and the assorted creative thinkers who get involved in his projects. Film/television composer's task, he knows, is to embellish someone else's vision while trying to create something musically he can call his own. For Michael, "Scoring is about trust and relationships…The process of going back and forth with a client is about communication. Sometimes clients come to the studio and we run cues and get feedback on the spot. I enjoy that the most, and I think that clients enjoy the process of being 'hands on' with me." Collaboration is also essential to the more personal projects Michael is developing: his albums, his classical composing, and, especially, his boundary-pushing Music in the Dark series. A live event that he first produced in New York City in 2003, Music in the Dark is an improvised performance by Michael of acoustic and electronic music to accompany newly commissioned silent film shorts. The next installment is scheduled for June 2009. This is movie scoring at its most adventurous, a duet in real time between sound and image. Coming in 2009, Michael’s string of solo concert performances will continue. Michael also goes back to school as an adjunct professor at CCNY (City College of New York) and New York University. Does this guy sleep? But, as we said before, you probably know him already. It's Michael Whalen's music that often keeps you glued to your television set. That causes your heart to swell in a darkened movie theater. That draws you closer to the radio. Our world moves to his melodies...Stay tuned for much, much more. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.