Faithful

Faithful is a new sound for Paul Cardall that infuses his composition skills with a polished keyboard style and merges new age piano with down tempo rhythms. According to Cardall, "An artist always has doubts about his or her creative abilities. This was the case for me when I began recording music for FAITHFUL. I wanted to do something new and fresh but was afraid some fans who love the 'quiet solo piano guy' would be turned off by my desire to be experimental and search for a new sound. As an artist, I believe you have to stretch yourself if you're going to grow. You have to be faithful to yourself if you are to be faithful to others."

Faithful features all new music including an arrangement of Antonin Dvorak€s New World Symphony No. 9 and Scarborough Fair, the traditional folk tune made popular by Simon & Garfunkel.

Cardall adds a latin groove with the song, "Danza Del Amor", features a soprano on "Eye To Eye" and scores over 100 tracks of midi sounds on co-writer Joshua Waldron€s "The Noise." The album also features a solo guitar anthem on "Faithful", and highlights cellist Steven Nelson on "Sweet Escape" and "Embraced."

Two songs on the cd, "Sacred Nature" and "Sacred Nature II," were created during Cardall€s December 2002 concert at Soularium Studios in Midvale, Utah. During that concert, Cardall chose a young girl from the audience to pick three notes anywhere on the piano. The improvisational tune created that evening resulted into two songs on the new cd.