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I am dedicated to a new and fresh vision for music, one founded upon the noblest instincts in humanity, a music of the spirit – just as spirit has appeared in music from age to age, throughout the generations, from the ancient harp, the lyre, in Egypt and Greece;  to the plainchant of the Medieval church, to the glorious choral music of the Renaissance, to the magnificent Baroque; and Bach, the master of music, to the classicists, the sublime Mozart, to the Romantics, Impressionists and right up to the 20th century, age after age, composers have been struck by celestial music, by the hand of God, as it were, each one creating the masterworks that have accumulated into the music literature of spiritual music. The chants, the songs, the masses and requiems which glorify our spiritual nature in sound – these have molded me all my life into who I am today.
In the 1970's, without realizing it, I was creating music for healing and spiritual upliftment and became one of the acknowledged founders of what is today called "New Age Music". As I evolved as an artist, I drifted into my own style, somewhere between new age and classical. Somehow I found myself in "no man's" music land. No large record company could figure me out, nor wanted me. I was not rhythmic or danceable.
So I was set alone to drift upon my own waters, eventually bringing my music directly to the opinion of the public through self-distribution in Fairs, Festivals, Exhibitions, and Art Shows throughout the United States. I first starting in the San Francisco Bay area, then extending to southern California and Arizona. Later to the Pacific Northwest and finally to the East Coast, South, Texas and the Midwest. Wherever I traveled, I found a genuine public that overwhelmingly endorsed my work with an enthusiasm that often brought me to tears.
During this time, I traveled the country, taking my keyboards with me everywhere. During the midweek, between the weekend fairs, I would stop and beautiful locations and record music in the wilderness. My keyboards and digital recording equipment were taken by 4 wheel drive into nature. Powered by truck batteries, converted from DC to AC power, I had the unbelievable honor and privilege to be one of the first composers to record original music directly in nature and possibly the first keyboard artist to do so with multiple keyboards.
Just imagine what it's like to be fully setup with a temporary recording studio in the mountains, near a waterfall, with magnificent views,  the fragrance of pines, feeling the beauty all around me take my musical compositions to new heights by rearranging them in the inspiration of the moment! This is where my music is born, in the beauty of nature, in my memories of it when I was a child, and later in the immersion of being in the moment with the one, the whole, the all of it, in the spectacle of being alive at the moment of musical creation, letting the beauty all around me impinge upon my psyche, creating my best work.
From 1984 to 1995, I sold almost one million copies of my albums which was considered an amazing success for one to one direct public sales. In a 12 year period, I spoke directly with a million people. How many people have actually conversed with so many people? An estimated five million people have heard my music on LP, cassette and CD, millions more on the radio throughout the world from time to time. In 1995 after 12 years on the road, I stopped, elated, exhausted, needing a long sabbatical. Since then, I have recorded a number of new albums and collected my works for publication.
The Internet has risen to the primary global means of communication between people.
Paul Lloyd Warner
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