In 2004, Emma Ninel took 4 days off her life to go into a studio and record herself with a piano. She captured something beautiful. Here is a 9-song collection of intimate, bare, personal, revealing, and acoustically tender emotional compositions that stop you. You stop, and realize that there is a time to listen - and then a time to stop and listen - a time to close your eyes and have real human communication with the musical vibrations that fill your immediate distracting universe with peace. The simplicity and profundity begin with the very first track, "Earth is Silence". The piano works a D# note dynamically while Ninel caresses the earth in her words with a melodic strength that ascends. Tough to compare her voice - but we hear nuances of Joni, Bjork, and Sinead - tremendous quality company to keep. Track 2, "In My Garden", is simple and pure as Ninel sings, 'in my garden all is peace'. She writes as a metaphor for a world without violence and light and joy and wonder for all to share and experience. And to that end, so does her music paint a picture that seems to transcend politics and socially-conscious lyrical content and musical aspirations. The world is where we perceive it - and forever in the past and forever in the future there will always be terror - yet, for a while, we can share a garden of peace. Track 4, "Light in You", showcases Ninel's technical vocal control as she is able to uphold notes almost endlessly - while painting inflection and acrobatics with finesse. Lyric, "when you smile" is an example. "Violet Flame" taps Enya's reverb setting for an incredibly beautiful composition with vocal timbre that sounds as if it reaches into a soprano boys choir - yet it's Emma. It makes sense that the CD would end with the folk-vocal sounding, "One Little Spark". The song describes the cycle of life and fire acapella. And then it's over. .and, if like us, you push track 1 again and know you've added more music to the soundtrack of your life.