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Praise for “NOVEMBER”

 

Lovely, Robbin!  This is the time to enjoy all the gifts we have in this world — making music can be so healing, right?Happy to hear you putting your heart and love into your music!

       • Maria Schneider, Multiple Grammy-winning composer and orchestra leader, National Endowment            for the Arts “Jazz Master” award winner.

 

Who knew you were a songwriter all this time?  Lovely record and video!

     • Linda Lorence Critelli, Governor and past Chair, The Recording Academy, New York Chapter;                      Assistant Professor, Arts and Entertainment Industries Management, Rider University

 

 

This is a beautiful song (a hymn!) – and instant classic - and you created such a perfect video for it!

     • Katja von Schuttenbach, National Endowment for the Arts

 

Christmas came early to my home mailbox when your new CD “Two Journeys/Deux Voyages” arrived. "November" is a new seasonal "classic in the making"! (SERIOUSLY!)  I am really enjoying the tracks on each disk; it's fun to hear some of the songs sung in two languages. 

     • Robert Dale Klein, hit singer/songwriter, coordinator of the Nashville Songwriters                                                Association (NSAI) Washington DC chapter; see his new “outlaw country” chart topping

         album “This Side  of the Dirt” (Big Cyrus Records) 

 

Once I entered the romance of Robbin Ahrold’s “November “video, I didn’t want to leave! The song’s lyrics, paired with carefully chosen video clips, are inspiring in a calming way, and makes me want to really appreciate this season!
           • Paige Powell, singer-songwriter 

 

Que cette vidéo est jolie et quelle poésie s'en détache. C'est un gros travail aussi de de réaliser une synchronisation entre les images et le texte de cette chanson. Bravo et félicitations pour tout. Ce fut un réel plaisir de t'écouter.

           • Thierry Thiebaut, Président A Coeur Joie International

 

 

C’est avec un très grand plaisir que je suis en train d'écouter, à côté de la cheminée, le dernier CD Two Journeys – Deux Voyages. Quelle agréable découverte musicale !

Plusieurs titres m’ont accompagné sur le chemin du rêve comme Iowa Boy, Moonlight Rainy Evenin ‘in Old Georgetown, et Bailey Yard. Parmi les titres en français Paris, Je t’aime et Ratatatouille m’ont beaucoup plu. Je vais certainement écouter très souvent ces ballades musicales dans ma voiture 😊

Bravo Robbin pour cette belle réalisation dans laquelle tu as mis toute ta sensibilité et tout ton coeur. 

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It is with great pleasure that I am listening, next to the fireplace, to the latest CD Two Journeys - Deux Voyages.  What a pleasant musical discovery! Several titles accompanied me on my contemplative path, such as Iowa Boy, Moonlight Rainy Evenin' in Old Georgetown, and Bailey Yard. Among the French titles Paris, Je t'aime and Ratatatouille pleased me a lot. I will certainly listen to these musical ballads very often in my car 😊

Bravo Robbin for this beautiful realization in which you put all your sensitivity and all your heart.

     • Thierry Dachelet , Managing Director, Communications Center International

          Brussels (Belgium)
 

Merci et bravo! Quelle douceur, beauté et inspiration dans cette vidéo. Les images sont magnifiques aussi.

     • Pauline Fraisse Art & Culture

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Praise for "Two Journeys/Deux Voyages

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"Congratulations on a super collection of songs. So charming and nostalgic, especially the songs in French. Would sound great at a Left Bank bistro while waiting for a croque monsieur and dry white."

    • Marc Myers, journalist, author and music historian, principal contributor on contemporary music to the

       Wall Street Journal, and author of award winning music blog JazzWax. 

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"Christmas came early to my home mailbox when  “Two Journeys/Deux Voyages” arrived. "November" is a new seasonal "classic in the making"! (SERIOUSLY!)  I am really enjoying the tracks on each disk; it's fun to hear some of the songs sung in two languages."

 

     • Robert Dale Klein, hit singer/songwriter, coordinator of the Nashville Songwriters Association (NSAI)                    Washington DC chapter; see his new “outlaw country” chart topping album “This Side of the Dirt” (Big Cyrus             Records).

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A beautifully crafted tale of two cities, of two countries, pulled from years of travel and musical experiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Beneath the suave figure of the music industry executive hid the artist, a fine singer, song craftsman and scholar of many genres, as we discover with this unique double album. It was high time to reveal this, for the greater pleasure of those who have known Robbin for years, and for all those lucky connaisseurs de la bonne musique out there who will heed the call. Bon voyage !"

 

    •  Eric Dufaure, aka Private Pepper, producer, songwriter and artist, served as Managing Director at

         EMI Music  Publishing France and senior executive at SACEM, the French music rights society.

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“A midwestern song slinger, via New York and Paris, steps up with a new collection of songs that will touch your heart and get your toes tapping. Cross Jacques Brel with a Johnny Cash baritone. Eclectic, original, amusing with an unpretentious charm.”

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• Billy Seidman, CEO SongArts Academy, Director: BMI Contemporary Songwriter Workshop, Professor Of Songwriting: New York University

 

“A unique and personal expression, delivered with talent and emotion. His smooth voice and engaging lyrics tell stories that are a pleasure to listen to…over and over again… in two languages, no less. A tribute to family . . . .and a joy to the rest of us.”

    

  •  Dick Gary, founder and president of leading music ad agency The Gary Group, longtime Board member of               the Country Music Association and National Director of the T J Martell Foundation, the music

      industry’s foremost cancer research foundation.

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"Robbin has always had the gift of music in him. After years of helping others with their careers in music, he is sharing his well-crafted songs with us!  His has a flair for storytelling: clever, heartfelt and special.  I really love being transported to Paris by his beautiful songs of romance and love – in French!!!!! "

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• Charlie Feldman, career music exec as BMI VP Writer/Publisher Relations, New York and Vice President, EMI Music Nashville. 

 

   

"Robbin is a lover of France; of its language, its culture, its people, its music and its gastronomy. He has a passion and respect for words, (in both languages) and traditional song structure. His bilingual double album is a love letter to France, where he feels at home, while remaining intrinsically American. Feel free to drink deeply of this journey in song."

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• Emmanuel Legrand served as global editor for Billboard magazine in London, and today is editor-in-chief of Creative Industries Newsletter, the leading international bulletin on copyright and the creative sector.

 

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"His guitar slung on his shoulder, performing at a talent show on the beach at the age of 14, to a career in the highest echelons of international songwriters’ associations, he has pursued his passion for music and his support for musicians and songwriters. Robbin is the most French of Americans. Accomplished as both wordsmith and composer, he chooses with precision the lyrics to express his emotions. And his music is always there to support the lyric. His word-pictures parade before us; we joyfully accompany him on his Parisian promenades."

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• Thierry Thiébaut, choir master and orchestral conductor, is President of the French language choral organization À Cœur Joie International, coordinator of Conductors without Borders on the African continent, and vice-president of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) »

 

 

"Marvelous songs! One senses Ahrold’s deep respect for songwriting and composing. A lifetime of working with leading artists in genres from jazz and R&B to country and bluegrass has inspired his own singular voice. This is an album to savor again and again. Bravo!"

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• John Hasse, Curator of Music Emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington DC. and frequent musical contributor to the Wall Street Journal.