(NEW) The Long Journey Called Home (CD)

Beginning in the early 1980’s, Gemini started focusing on music for children and families. But the twin brothers had been writing, recording and performing for adults for more than ten years before that. This is a compilation of the best of their music — both vocal and instrumental — for adults. Includes “The Waltz of the Old Lovers,” (about an elderly couple dancing in a rock ‘n roll bar) “Percy’s Song” (about Percy Danforth, the man who taught San to play the “bones”) and “The Lawn Chair that Flew!” also known as “Sixteen Helium Balloons” (Based on the true story of the man in California who tied weather balloons to a lawnchair and went ten-thousand feet up in the air!)

Full Track List

1. The Waltz of the Old Lovers
2. Lizzie Lindsey
3. The Long Journey Called Home
4. Pennywhistle-Bones Duet
5. Percy’s Song
6. A Yohr Noch Mein Chasene
7. Helélelaine
8. Anne’s House
9. Grow in Love
10. Sharika
11. Moving Again
12. The Lawn Chair that Flew!
13. Legacy
14. Lullabye
15. Bones-Guitar Duet
16. Waltz of the Old Lovers (Live)
17. Who Will Love?
18. Peace Song
19. When I Leave

Seder Songs: New Melodies for the Haggadah (CD)

Eighteen new melodies for the Jewish holiday of Passover. The lyrics are passages from the Haggadah, the book that is read and recited during the Seder, the traditional Passover meal. Includes our original settings for familiar songs such as "Dayenu," and "Elijahu," and also settings of passages from the Haggadah that are not traditionally sung. Read more...

Full Track List

1. Ha Lachma Anya
2. Ma Nishtana
3. Avadim Hayinu
4. Dayenu
5. B'chol Dor Vador
6. L'fichach Anachnu
7. Kos Sheini
8. Eliyahu
9. Kos Yeshuos Eso
10. Me’es Adoshem
11. Ki L’olam Chasdo
12. Eelu Finu
13. Kol Atzmotai
14. Yishtabach
15. Shuvi Nafshi
16. Chasal Sidur
17. L’shanah Haba’ah
18. Eliyahu

NEW! Hafiz & Mystical Companions: The poetry of Hafiz, Rumi, Rabia, Mira, and Kabir rendered into song (CD)

This is the fourth CD in Laz’s series of Rumi / Hafiz poems set to music. Working from Daniel Ladinsky’s four books of translations (The Gift, I Heard God Laughing, The Subject Tonight Is Love, and Love Poems From God) Laz has rendered into song poems by Hafiz, Rumi, Rabia, Mira and Kabir — poet saints of the ancient East. These are timeless poems that transcend cultures and religions, and they continue to inspire and guide people all over the world, 500-1200 years after they were written. Read more...

Full Track List

1. A Great Need
2. It Happens All the Time in Heaven
3. Looking for God
4. I Got Kin
5. The God Who Only Knows Four Words
6. And for No Reason
7. Ten Thousand Idiots
8. Kabir Blues
9. No More Leaving
10. Isn’t That Something?
11. To Build a Swing
12. A Productive Day
13. A Hole in a Flute
14. Our Union
15. The Way They Held Each Other
16. Just Rest
17. It Acts Like Love
18. And Love Says

Give Light: The poetry of Rumi set to music (CD)

Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th Century Sufi mystic, is considered by many to be the world's greatest spiritual poet. His powerful poems on the longing of human beings for reunion with the divine, on the many-faceted mysteries of love, and of encouragement on the spiritual path, have inspired countless people for centuries. Read more...

Full Track List

1. Come
2. The Reed Flute's Song
3. Love
4. Looking for You
5. I'll Meet You There
6. Don't Go Back to Sleep
7. Come to the Orchard
8. Give Light
9. In Your Light
10. The Stronger Pull
11. Keep Walking
12. The Music
13. In Praise
14. One Light
15. In the Garden
16. What Was Said to the Rose
17. The Guest House
18. Today

Gamble Everything for Love: The poetry of Rumi set to music (CD)

This is Laz’s second CD of his original musical settings of Rumi’s poetry. (See above for information about "Give Light," Laz’s 2007 release of his first Rumi CD.) Once again, working with distinuished poet and translator, Coleman Barks’ award-winning versions, Laz has set to music 15 classic Rumi poems. Mystical love lyrics, as well as powerful words of encouragement on the spiritual path, these poems uplift and inspire, and the music makes them even more memorable and accesible. Read more...

Full Track List

1. Gamble Everything for Love
2. Love Is a River
3. Some Kiss We Want
4. I Used to Be Shy
5. Two Insomnias
6. Stay Together, Friends
7. Work
8. The Lame Goat
9. The Clear Bead
10. Only Breath
11. Sing Loud!
12. On the Day I Die
13. Hidden Instruments
14. This We Have Now
15. Grace

A Divine Invitation—The poetry of Hafiz set to music (CD)

Hafiz, 14th Century Sufi mystic, is the most beloved poet of Persia. It is said that there may be some homes in Iran that do not contain the Koran, but no home is without the Divan (Collected Poems) of Hafiz. There is a tradition that on every Nourouz (New Year’s Day in Iran, which coincides with the Spring Equinox) people open Hafiz’s Divan at random and whatever poem they open to gives them a message to focus on for the year. Read more...

Full Track List

1. A Divine Invitation
2. The Subject Tonight
3. This Place
4. Fear Is the Cheapest Room
5. This Flute God Carries
6. Pulling Out the Chair
7. The Happy Virus
8. Don’t Surrender Your Loneliness
9. Admit Something
10. The Vegetables
11. This New Tune
12. When the Violin
13. The Door to God
14. I Am Determined
15. An Old Musician

Home From Work (CD)

San and Gabe Bolkosky formed a friendship in 2000 when Gemini collaborated with the Phoenix Ensemble on a concert. After that, they looked for more music they could play together – Home From Work is the result. Picture a violin, guitar and voice, blend in some serious credentials in classical and folk music, add a common love of jazz, mix in some virtuoso playing and a genuine sense of ease on stage, and you've got Home From Work. Read more...

Full Track List

1. Hobo's Blues
2. Gavotte in G minor
3. Ain't She Sweet?
4. I Will
5. Humoresque
6. Red Roses for a Blue Lady
7. Moon River
8. On the Sunny Side of the Street
9. Deli
10. Hobo'sBlues (Reprise)

Mr. Bones (CD)

This is a compilation of songs where San plays the bones. San learned to play the bones from Percy Danforth in 1976, and the music on this CD first appeared in various Gemini recordings. Includes songs such as, "Mr. Bones," "Dry Bones," "Mary Mack," "Mama Don't Allow" and "I Can Feel It In My Bones."

Music of My Family, Music of My People (CD)

San's solo recording of joyful traditional and original Jewish music. Includes familiar Eastern Eauropean songs such as "Tumbalalaika," "Belz," and "Chiribim," Hebrew songs such as "Elijahu," "Rabbi Akiva" and "Yibonne," and original songs by San such as "Deli" (a hot new version), the humorous "Gefilte Fish" and "Mama Loshen" and several lively new dance tunes and San's settings of Hebrew lyrics.

Full Track List

1. Shalom Aleichem
2. Mama Loshen
3. Deli
4. Gefilte Fish
5. Chiribim
6. Elijahu
7. Amar Rabbi Akiva
8. V'erastich Li
9. Tumbalalaika
10. Tumba Tumba Ba
11. Simen Tov
12. A Yohr Est Noch Mayne Chasene
13. Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
14. A Yidele Nigun
15. Belz
16. Aani Maamin
17. Szól A Kakas – Yibonne
18. Shalom Chaverim – Heveinu Shalom

Harbor of the Heart (CD)

Children will enjoy this solo recording by Laz, with its lively rhythms, variety of instruments, and positive messages, but "Harbor of the Heart" is especially meant for parents, teachers, and other adults who care for children. Imagine your favorite motivational speaker or inspirational writer breaking into song, singing to encourage and uplift you—"Harbor of the Heart" was written with this intention. Including songs about perseverance, generosity, and giving to oneself in order to be able to give to others, "Harbor of the Heart" reminds us of, and strengthens us in the power we each have to make a difference.

Full Track List

1. A Golden Day
2. Let Your Heart Smile
3. I Believe In Love
4. Coming Home
5. Dig Down Deep
6. Give The Best
7. Give Yourself
8. Movers & Shakers
9. One Or Two
10. A Little Step
11. Little Song Of Peace
12. Up To Me
13. Harbor Of The Heart
14. May We Work

In the Same Sky: Eagle and Condor Flying Together (CD)

Hear the ancient, indigenous music and made-from-nature instruments of the Andes (panpipes, agave drums, and seed-pod shakers) woven together with Celtic harp, guitar, flute and violin, and the song-writing tradition of North American folk music. This CD is the fruit of the connection between two families—The Slomovits family of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Santillán family of Agato, Ecuador—brought together by a shared love of music and a desire to contribute to harmony and healing in the world. Read more...

Full Track List

1. Primero Vuelo
2. Dia Del Sol
3. Children of the Sun
4. Dos Mukus
5. Sumak Warmigu
6. Before Dawn
7. Land of the Blue Flower
8. Pachamama
9. Kuillkipik
10. Eyes of Light
11. We Have Come From So Far
12. Inti Raimi

Our Eyes Are Its Wings: Notes in a Heartland Journal (Book/CD)

Published in November of 1999, this is Laszlo's first book of poetry for adults. The poems range from tiny haiku-like reflections on nature to powerful images from two world events that touched his family—the Holocaust and the 1956 Revolution in his native Hungary. In the CD which is included in this book, the reading and singing of each poem is enhanced by original music for harp and flute composed by the author.