EVE AWAKENING (BEYOND 2012) - Various Artists. Including Yarnstone. Oreade Music CD ORM 65802 As a first step, heading their own CD, Yarnstone is included on the compilation album Eve Awakening (Beyond 2012), released worldwide by Oreade Music. The CD features eleven international musicians and groups. Inspired by the ancient Mayan calendars and a time cycle of 26.000 years, ending on the winter solstice of December 21st 2012. An enigmatic point in time. According to some a date of a catastrophe, or even the end of time itself. In the view of others a date of a spiritual awakening. The Oreade artists look beyond 2012, focusing on the brand new cycle in an optimistic and relaxing way. The Seven Sisters is Yarnstones contribution to the album. It is based on the cycles of the open star cluster the Pleiades. In Mayan religion and astronomy these seven stars are their ancestral home. As well as Yarnstone, Eve Awakening (Beyond 2012) contains known new age artists like Karunesh, Sangit Om, Aeoliah and Larisa Stow. The album is available in (new age) record shops and can be purchase online at Oreade Music too: http://oreade.com/products/97037 Yarnstone can be freely described as a patient stone, shining in the sunlight at dawn and with stories of old to tell to those who'll listen. Yarnstone is a collaboration of Dutch composers and multi instrumentalists Robert Nicolai and Henk Werkhoven. They've now started working on their mainly instrumental debut album The Tidings of a Wave. The filmic music of Yarnstone offers a nice blend of (Celtic) folk, classical music, world and new age music, featuring several guest musicians. The heart of the album will be a lengthy piece called: Elaine the White, based on the Arthurian legend of The Lady of Shalott. Robert Nicolai and Henk Werkhoven played together in two rock bands in the mid-eighties and have been working as a songwriters duo. Robert Nicolai is also a published novelist, as Robert Piersz, with his recently released book Leegtevrees (Free Musketeers, Zoetermeer) and Henk Werkhoven is the author of de new age muziekencyclopedie (Kosmos-Z&K, Utrecht/Antwerp) and The international guide to new age music. (Billboard Books, Watson & Guptill Publications, New York). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.