Rain Poems

Rain Poems

Going forward, my new music will no longer be released to streaming services. CDs won’t be mass-manufactured. I will create exclusively for Backstage, my new website and membership program. My work will only be available to members. BACKSTAGE This is the first album I...

Bare Wood 2

Bare Wood 2

This is the second album in the Bare Wood series. The album is available in High Definition from Bandcamp. The first single, "Black Rose", is now available from all streaming services. Bare Wood 2 contains four entirely new pieces plus new Bare Wood versions of music...

vision 2020 (full version)

vision 2020 (full version)

Last year we released vision 2020 (lockdown version) which was recorded in collaboration with Jon Gagan and without meeting in person. A few months later, we can now release the album vision 2020 (full version) which features Robby Rothschild on percussion, Char...

Dune (Remastered)

Dune (Remastered)

I remastered Dune and it is now available on Bandcamp in 24/88.2kHz high definition. Lawrence Russell writes about DUNE for Culture Court: http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/OL/DUNE.htm DUNE contains the haunting southwest border-country flamenco music Ottmar & his...

Winter Rose (Remastered)

Winter Rose (Remastered)

Remastered by OL in the Fall of 2020 and available as lossless files up to 16/44.1kHz. Go to Bandcamp to check out previews. Ottmar breathes new life into holiday favorites with sensitive, even haunting, arrangements of O Little Town of Bethlehem and O Holy Night. The...

La Semana (Remastered)

La Semana (Remastered)

This album was recorded in 2003 and released by SSRI in 2004. I remastered it in the Fall of 2020. Lossless files are now available for the first time. 16/44.1   On this album I used a more traditional instrumentation. Instead of playing multiple acoustic and...

In the Arms of Love (Remastered)

In the Arms of Love (Remastered)

This album was first released in 2002. In 2008 a new remaster by Jon Gagan was released on CD. Aside from the CD it was never released in the form of lossless files. I had a listen and remastered the album. To the original sequence I added three additional bonus...

vision 2020 (lockdown version)

vision 2020 (lockdown version)

I started working on music for this album sometime in 2019. Then the Rona came and heavily influenced the process, which became more solitary. The resulting music is upbeat, but I also detect a melancholy edge to the melodies. Can music be happy and sad at the same...

slow

slow

Sometime in 2015 I decided to record by myself, without the band, and that I wanted to create slow music. Love whispers while hate screams, and I decided to whisper so softly. I wanted to raise my guitar against the sound of billions of smartphones beeping with the...

Waiting n Swan

Waiting n Swan

Last year I decided to record an album of songs that mix elements of the Tangos Flamenco rhythm with Reggae beats. Reggae and Tangos Flamenco -- not to be confused with the Argentine Tango -- are deeply connected. Tangos has a lilt and features the same avoidance of...

Bare Wood 2002-2012

Bare Wood 2002-2012

Now available in High Definition from Bandcamp. Bare Wood is a compilation of pieces I created between 2002 and 2012. For this album I deleted all electric or electronic instruments from the original recordings and removed anything that was not Flamenco guitar or...

three-oh-five

three-oh-five

The bullfighter struts, cape extended to the right, weapon concealed to the left. Except he's a mariachi and his weapon is a guitar. Get funky in Madrid, Detroit, Santa Fe. Funky, but with the lyrical flamenco interludes we associate with OL & Luna Negra. Music...

Dune

Dune

  Lawrence Russell writes about DUNE for Culture Court:http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/OL/DUNE.htm DUNE contains the haunting southwest border-country flamenco music Ottmar & his band Luna Negra are famous for. This isn't old school flamenco, here acoustic...

Santa Fe

Santa Fe

Two versions of this album will be released in 2011. The SSRI release "Santa Fe" will only be available at Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra concerts, while Lifescapes will release the same album, albeit with a different cover, at Target stores nationwide in June. The...

Petals On the Path

Petals On the Path

Available from Bandcamp in High Definition - 24/88.2kHz. More info about the recording process, including photos and rehearsal recordings, can be found at https://ottmarliebert.com/pop/.

Spanish Sun

Spanish Sun

This is a compilation of music from the albums The Santa Fe Sessions, La Semana, One Guitar, and The Scent of Light, plus two previously unreleased tracks (03 + 13) Out-Of-Print

The Scent of Light

The Scent of Light

"This is my best album yet."- Ottmar "It's difficult to find fault with this album, either in terms of the compositions or the playing or the mixing design. These are instrumentals that talk..."- Laurence Russell / Culture Court Nominated for a 2008 GrammyEach of...

Up Close

Up Close

Now available in High Definition - 24/96kHz - from Bandcamp! A binaural dummy head recording, sometimes also called holophonics. The listener has to use headphones to experience the 3D surround-sound quality of the music since the recording uses the head-related...

In the Arms of Love (2008)

In the Arms of Love (2008)

Where are you? Gently rocking in the darkness, half-asleep, the shrouded landscape flickering past outside the window. You're on a train, perhaps traveling through the Rockies, snug in a roomette. The muted chatter of the wheels on the rails, metric, polymetric,...

One Guitar

One Guitar

Now available in High Definition - 24/96kHz - from Bandcamp. Read more about the Bandcamp release on my blog, here and here. Nominated for a 2007 GrammyMusic that is haunting in its beauty and depth. Highly recommended! - Ken Wilber Ottmar Liebert's new CD of...

Winter Rose

Winter Rose

Ottmar breathes new life into holiday favorites with sensitive, even haunting, arrangements of O Little Town of Bethlehem and O Holy Night. The CD also includes fresh interpretations of classical music, including Fauré's Pavane and Les Roses D'Isphahan and...

La Semana

La Semana

On this album I used a more traditional instrumentation. Instead of playing multiple acoustic and electric guitars and lutes, I played a single Flamenco Negra guitar. Instead of lots of drums and percussion, I mostly used the cajon (boxdrum) and Palmas (handclaps). I...

The Santa Fe Sessions

The Santa Fe Sessions

What is “The Santa Fe Sessions” not? It is not a compilation of old recordings. It is not a “Best of……” album. What is “The Santa Fe Sessions”? The Santa Fe Sessions contain new recordings of ten compositions that...

Best Of Ottmar Liebert

Best Of Ottmar Liebert

Greatest Hits album #2 from Epic Records/Sony Music.The first one was Rumba Collection.

In the Arms of Love (2002)

In the Arms of Love (2002)

No longer available, this was the original release of In the Arms of Love. Licensed to Higher Octave, it was manufactured and distributed by EMI worldwide. Re-released by SSRI in 2008

Little Wing – Radio Sampler

Little Wing

Little Wing was my last album for Epic Records.Previews are high quality stereo, but limited to 2 minutes.

Barcelona Nights

Barcelona Nights

Ottmar Liebert Greatest Hits album #1 by Higher Octave, using tracks from Nouvea Flamenco, Poets & Angels and Borrasca.

Nouveau Flamenco 1990-2000

Nouveau Flamenco 1990-2000

Engineer Gary Lyons used only what he found on the original multi-track tapes. Nothing new was added, however, the original 1/2" analog tapes were copied to 2" analog tape. With only minor changes, the running order of the limited edition release Marita: Shadows and...

Innamorare: Summer Flamenco

Innamorare: Summer Flamenco

From the liner notes:Innamorare is Italian + means 2 inflame with love, 2 B enchanted...This album was inspired by seven weeks in Tuscany in April + May of 1997.Previews are high quality stereo, but limited to 2 minutes. After recent excursions into classical and...

Spanish Steps 12″ 45

Spanish Steps 12″ 45

12" 45 Vinyl single with two songs.Spanish Steps was done in Italy, but the mixer is not listed.Previews are high quality stereo, but limited to 2 minutes.

Rumba Collection

Rumba Collection

The first compilation appeared in 1997, released by Epic Records. It featured two previously not released tracks: an edit of Tremulo (from the album Opium) and a "speed merengue" version of Barcelona Nights from 1997.

Wide-eyed + Dreaming – LIVE

Wide-eyed + Dreaming – LIVE

5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound DVD version of the live show filmed and recorded at the Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Canada, during the Opium Tour 1996. With additional footage from Santa Fe. Too much talking, if you ask me, and I don't like how the flow of the music...

Leaning Into the Night

Leaning Into the Night

Leaning Into the Night features a collection of classical pieces with familiar themes and five Ottmar Liebert compositions gracefully interwoven to make a unique whole. Four of the Liebert pieces are known to his fans from other albums and one, "The Winding Road/La...

Opium

Opium

Previews are high quality stereo, but limited to 2 minutes.

Havana Club 12″ 45

Havana Club 12″ 45

We bought a thrift store guitar for $25 and drove out to the Camino Real, South of Santa Fe. There I proceeded to throw the guitar into air while Eric Swanson took photographs. Having protected guitars all my life, it was quite a strange feeling to destroy this one....

¡Viva!

¡Viva!

Recorded during the "2 hours between night + day" tour in the Summer of 1994.

Euphoria

Euphoria

Music. Sound. It is not with our ears we hear. We hear with a mind that organizes the information received by our ears. Reality is shaped by the software we use to analyze the data. Mind structures reality. Data has no life separate from the software that organizes...

The Hours Between Night + Day

The Hours Between Night + Day

Breaking new stylistic ground, the 1993 CD The Hours Between Night & Day finds nouveau flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert combining the intimacy of the nylon-string acoustic guitar with electric musicianship. Spanish flamenco, the signature sound so strongly...

Solo Para Ti

Solo Para Ti

We filmed a video for the song Reaching Out 2 U in Santa Fe in February of 1992. You can find it on iTunes.Previews are high quality stereo, but limited to 2 minutes.

Borrasca

Borrasca

Borrasca means tempest or storm, and that's exactly what Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra have created in the new age/world music arena. This CD had been eagerly anticipated and the reception was nothing short of phenomenal. This third release augments the "power-trio"...

Poets & Angels

Poets & Angels

The first of three Christmas albums - also see christmas + santa fe and Winter Rose.The first Japanese pressing of the album included a live performance of Poets + Angels from 1991.

Nouveau Flamenco

Nouveau Flamenco

Ottmar Liebert's most famous album gave a new genre its title, and the New Age market a new champion. From the liner notes:Nouveau Flamenco represents a spirited new sound eminating from Santa Fe. Its magic blends the heart and soul of the Spanish gypsy guitar with a...

Marita: Shadows and Storms

Marita: Shadows and Storms

Ottmar's first CD was released during Santa Fe's Indian Market, in August of 1989. The album was a collaboration between Liebert, who wrote and recorded the music and Frank Howell, who contributed drawings and poetry. Frank Howell's printshop Master Editions produced...