Music by Ariel

Here are some mp3 files of my work for your enjoyment. Listen, download, enjoy, but please respect my copyright.

La Rosa Enflorece - Guitar and vocals. This song is sung in Ladino, the language of the Sephardic Jews, and dates from before 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain after the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors.

Eamonn a Chnoic - Harp and vocals. This is a Gaelic air about a man who has to flee his home or face deportation to Australia. He arrives at his lover's door in the middle of the night, wet from the rain, to say goodbye.

Greensleeves - Guitar and hammered dulcimer. (Dulcimer by Philip StrongMuehl) The ever popular Renaissance tune...

If you like what you hear, there's more on my SNOCAP store on my MySpace artist's page and the Romanza CD, available through CDBaby.com.

The samples on the SNOCAP store are shorter, but of higher audio quality. However, the lo-fi samples at the top of the page are full-length and downloadable. Be forewarned, however, that the compression distorts the harp, especially. Best audio quality of all is on the Romanza CD.

Anita Christy writes on CDBaby.com, “The purity of the instrumental music entwines with Ariel’s lilting voice and makes you feel as though you aren’t in this world anymore.”

Sarah Wilce writes, also on CDBaby, “It is Ariel Laurel Strong’s singing that gives this CD its subtle, haunting quality…Listening to Romanza leaves me at peace, transported to another time and place, with Ariel’s singing lingering in my mind for a long time thereafter.”