''In the Wake of the Wind'' is an album by David Arkenstone, released in 1991. It is the first album in a trilogy that includes '' Quest of the Dream Warrior'' and '' Return of the Guardians''. The music is based on a fantasy story contained in the booklet that tells of a strange wind called The Lion's Breath and a young man named Andolin who desires to vanquish it. This album contains some of Arkenstone's most evocative, varied, and sweeping compositions and arrangements, with frequent use of orchestral instruments. It reached #1 on the ''

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'' New Age chart and received a

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nomination. The track "Morning Sun on the Sails" is dedicated to Aaron Copland. Its first track, "Papillon (On the Wings of the Butterfly)", played once every twenty minutes in the loop of songs played at Innoventions Plaza at Walt Disney World's Epcot from 1994 until 2021. The Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps, from Toledo, Ohio performed arrangements of "Overture", "Morning Sun on the Sails", "The Lion's Breath", and "Sailing" as part of their 1993 field show for Drum Corps International, entitled, "A Voyage Through Imagination".

Track listing

#"Papillon (On the Wings of the Butterfly)" – 5:20 #"Dark Dunes" – 3:12 #"Not Too Far to Walk" – 4:13 #"Borderlands" – 5:36 #"The Rug Merchant" – 3:33 #"Firedance" – 3:55 #"The Southern Cross" – 5:21 #"Overture" – 3:51 #"The Stardancer" – 4:04 #"Morning Sun on the Sails" – 2:35 #"The Lion's Breath" – 3:18 #"Dances of Jankayla" #*"The Marketplace" – 1:02 #*"The Gypsy's Veil" – 1:12 #*"The Festival" – 2:51 #"Discovery" – 3:26 #"Emerald Dream" – 1:55 #"Through the Gates" – 3:10 #"Sailing" – 1:48 * All tracks composed by David Arkenstone

Personnel

* David Arkenstone – keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars,

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

, pan flute, fretless bass, pennywhistle,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

* Daniel Chase – acoustic and electronic percussion, data management * Tena Hess – flute * Nancy Rumbel – oboe * John Seydewitz –

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

and additional percussion on "The Festival" * Kostia – keyboards, orchestrations * Deborah Hanks –

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

* Jerome Franke, Eric Segnitz, Tim Klabunde, Mike Giacobassi, Robert Hanford –

violins The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

* Helen Reich – viola * Paul Gmeinder – cello * Gloria Hays –

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more trad ...

* The Milwaukee Jewish Day School Choir

References

{{Authority control 1991 albums David Arkenstone albums Narada Productions albums