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	Heaven Sent	Soft Wave	Moment in Time	Sound of Feelings	9-11-01	Sound Travels	Pacific Lounge	Lets Connect	Visioning

HEAVEN SENT  An album of music and environmental sounds
New Album Cover Digitally Remastered by Bernie Grundman	Track Listing: 1. By The Ocean 2. Morning Tide 3. Reflections 4. Solitude 5. In The Night 6. By A Stream 7. In The Mountains 8. A Rainy Day 9. Cosmic Creation 10.  By The Ocean 11.  Evening Tide  ALBUM REVIEWS SAMPLES  ORDER A CD
Now a New Age Classic, HEAVEN SENT celebrated it's twenty year anniversary in 2003. HEAVEN SENT first played by Tom Schnabel on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Played on Music from Hearts of Space and Musical Star Streams. Used in medical operation rooms, workshops, stores, restaraunts, and by yoga teachers throughout the world for it's calming effect. "The Monart Drawing Schools play inspirational music for our students as they draw. Heaven Sent is a shared favorite for 20 years..." Mona Brooks, owner 35 schools, author, founder Compositions by Jessie Allen Cooper and Buddy Kithara Jessie Allen Cooper, Soprano Saxophone Buddy Kithara, Kalimba Remastered for CD by Bernie Grundman Produced and Arranged by Jessie Allen Cooper Environmental Sound Effects by Jan Brodin Engineered and Mixed by Frank Sparks Album Cover Concept by Jessie Allen Cooper Cover Painting by Simeon Guyot Special thanks to Linda, Lester, Merlin, Drew, my freinds and family for their support. © 1983/2003 (p) Cooper Sound Waves (ASCAP) September 30th, 2001        In the mid 1970's I was at a jam session in Machias, Washington (about 45 miles north and a little east of Seattle). When I was leaving the session, I struck up a conversation with a guy I had just met named Buddy. I mentioned to him that my birthday was coming up and maybe we could get together and have a pizza. He asked "when is your birthday?", I told him the date and he said, "Oh! that's my birthday." Anyway, we were both born the same year, same day, in the same town: Everett, Washington, thus making us astrological twins.     Soon there after, we started writing songs together. I had moved to Bellingham, WA to study jazz improvisation at Western Washington University. The university had an alternative branch called Fairhaven. At Fairhaven there was a recording studio. Buddy and I started to record our first album together there called "The Joyous Celebration". One night we had booked the studio and our engineer was unable to make it to the session. I had always wanted to record in a large room with natural reverberation. Buddy and I moved a recording set up and our instruments into a four story cement hallway near the studio and started to record. That evening within a one-hour time period, in a stream of consciousness improvisation, Buddy and I recorded what has become HEAVEN SENT, which received it's name because of the speed in which the music was recorded. Soon after that, I toured the Northwestern States and Canada with a group called Aurora. After a dispute with one of the band members, I quit the band and soon moved to Los Angeles. I kept playing all my recordings for musician friends that I had met in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting with a friend, we came up with the idea of adding environmental sounds to the music tracks.   original cover  The rest is history. HEAVEN SENT was my first album to be released, and was originally available on cassette only. The previous album cover, shown above, connotated a religious experience to some people. That probably hurt sales. However, it was a spiritual event to me. I also really feel so very grateful to have music in my life, and to create and perform music. I also know that music is the highest gist that I could have ever imagined to be part of my life. So in that way, all my music feels to me like it's heaven sent.    -Jessie Allen Cooper

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