Spring Hill Music Announces the Release of
CHANT: SPIRIT IN SOUND
The Best of World Chant
Compiled by ROBERT GASS
The Newest in the Books & Music Series

Innovative Boulder, Colorado based indie label Spring Hill Music is pleased to announce the release a new compilation, Chant: Spirit into Sound - The Best of World Chant. In this new double album package, Robert Gass surveys the breadth of chant with twenty-five tracks from some of the world's premier chant artists to create two distinct volumes: Ecstasy: the fire of devotion and Stillness: the journey within.

Gass, a best-selling recording artist with sales of over 600,000 of his own chant albums, is a noted lecturer, writer and authority on vocal traditions from spiritual traditions around the world. Now, with the release of Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound (Broadway Books 1999), he has written the first major book on chanting, one of humanity's oldest and most universal oral and spiritual practices. The book explores chant styles from a wide range of cultural and spiritual traditions, the nature of sound and voice, and guides readers in integrating chanting into everyday life.

Chant: Spirit in Sound - The Best of World Chant, is an accessible and comprehensive survey of musical traditions from across the globe. An important tool used by people everywhere to heal the body, quiet the mind and bring the sacred into daily life, chanting speaks to modern audiences with a purity and spirit increasingly rare in contemporary culture. Through this carefully selected compilation of chant from around the world, Gass provides powerful music for anyone to chant by - music with a proven ability to evoke both community and spirit.

Thirteen year-old Spring Hill Music is a leader in adult instrumental music of all types in the North American and international marketplace, and was the original home of famed chant artists Robert Gass & On Wings of Song. The label is also home to the best-selling, Music For The Mozart Effect series by Don Campbell, with 48 weeks on the Billboard charts and domestic sales of over 300,000 units. Chant: Spirit in Sound, to be released on April 6, is the third recording in the companyÍs Books & Music series and is another unique release destined to bring powerful and beautiful music to new audiences.