Prayer for Compassion

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Prayer for Compassion
David Darling, Prayer for Compassion.jpg
Studio album by David Darling
ReleasedJanuary 20, 2009
Genre New-age
Length43:46
Label Curve Blue
Producer Mickey Houlihan, David Darling

Prayer for Compassion is an album by David Darling, released through the record label Wind Over the Earth in 2009. In 2010, the album won Darling a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. [1]

David Darling is an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He has performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin and Spyro Gyra and has released several solo albums.

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Grammy Award accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States

A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. The Grammys are the second of the Big Three major music awards held annually.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by David Darling.

  1. "Untold Stories", for cello and ambient sounds – 4:49
  2. "Prayer for Compassion", for cello, chorus and ambient sounds – 4:18
  3. "Stones Start Spinning", for cello and ambient sounds – 4:15
  4. "As Long as Grasses Grow and Rivers Run", for cello, flute and ambient sound – 3:44
  5. "Music of a Desire", for cello and ambient sounds – 2:48
  6. "Remembering Our Mothers", for cello and ambient sounds – 3:19
  7. "Beautiful Life", for cello, kalimba and ambient sounds – 2:36
  8. "War Is Outdated", for cello and ambient sounds – 4:09
  9. "September Morn", for cello, voice and ambient sounds – 4:35
  10. "Shoe Strings", for cello and ambient sounds – 2:50
  11. "Heaven Here on Earth", for cello and ambient sounds – 2:20
  12. "When We Forgive", for cello and ambient sounds – 4:03

Personnel

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