Thanks! I am so happy I won the Amilcar poll giveaway :o) I am looking
forward for my new T-shirt and album.

I also would like to encourage the group to invite as many people as
possible. The more people join the group the higher the rank the group
gets in Yahoo since its rank is calculated by member head count and
not by activity.

Finally, I wanted to post a review I came across when I was looking at
the charts at Billboard. Hope you enjoy it! Now back to work,

Love,

Tammy :o)

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By Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Amilcar is a mono-named pianist whose sense of melody at times recalls
that of the California post-minimalist Harold Budd and of pioneering
new age pianist Liz Story. However, the Florida-based musician's
Vacuuming the Forest has a richer sonic texture than either of his
predecessors, with his watery grand piano solos supported
unobtrusively by ambient synthesizers.

Although these 12 tracks fade into each other quite nicely, there's
enough melodic variety to keep the album from sounding like a single
hour-long track; for example, the title track introduces acoustic
guitar, percussion, and eerily voice-like synth textures, and "Sunrise
Harbor" adds subtle nature sounds.

More melodic than many similar albums, Vacuuming the Forest has some
potential to attract listeners outside of the usual new age
demographic without sounding like a sellout to fans of the style.