Force for Good - Passions (2020)

We create uplifting music and films that encourage personal and global well-being, happiness, and respect for the environment.
We are optimists who promote peace, safety, equality, and compassion for all.

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Produced by Jonathan Sprout and Joe Mennonna
Engineered by Joe Mennonna
Recorded at Pine River Sound, Wurtsboro, NY and Double Rainbow Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Technical consulting and some guitar engineering by Leslie Chew
Mixed by Joe Mennonna
Mastered by Leslie Chew at Double Rainbow Studio
Watercolor painting by Carol Sprout
Accounting by Marge Innavera
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Heartfelt gratitude from Jonathan to:
Hillary Black for giving voice to our music with light-hearted grace
Leslie Chew for soothing guitar tracks and technical and musical know-how
Sharla Feldscher for spreading the word with bounteous enthusiasm
Kurt Gebauer for the encouraging early critiques
Rodney Whittenberg for adding inspiring, gorgeous sights to our sounds

Heartfelt gratitude from Joe to:
Lucyane Bouchardet for your generous love and support
Jody Jazz saxophone mouthpieces
John Patton for excellent repair on the mellophone
Tim Warnecke and the staff at Retrolinear for top-notch synth and keyboard maintenance

All songs ® ©2019 Kanukatunes (ASCAP)
All songs composed by Jonathan Sprout and Joe Mennonna with orchestration and enhancing instrumental performances by Jonathan Sprout and Joe Mennonna.

Angels Everywhere, Again:
The Story of Passions

Passions was a fantasy that lived in the furthest back pages of my musical bucket list. A personal crisis facilitated a perfect storm that blew me into uncharted career territory—and afforded me the opportunity to reinvent myself.
Every crisis has its gifts.
In September 2015, I began sitting an hour a day at a piano that had been given to me. Not knowing how to play piano, I’d experiment until what I heard resonated with something deep inside me. I was playing piano from the inside out, as each piece slowly revealed itself.
The Force for Good musical team is Jonathan Sprout and Joe Mennonna.
Joe and I are a recording studio duo since 1998, having co-produced three children’s albums for my American Heroes series. In the studio, Joe performed more than 90% of the tracks, including all piano, synth, string programming, horn, woodwind, and percussion parts.
Last but not least, the watercolor artist, Carol Sprout, is my mother. She and my father, John Sprout, died nearly six weeks apart in 2017 after having been married 67 exemplary years. I dedicate this album to the memory of these two champions who paid for the cost of my first album, Angels Everywhere, in 1978.

TRACKLIST

1. Force for Good - Force
2. Force for Good - Safe
3. Force for Good - Ice
4. Force for Good - Community
5. Force for Good - Refuge
6. Force for Good - Happiness
7. Force for Good - Exceptional
8. Force for Good - For
9. Force for Good - Organic
10. Force for Good - Solar
11. Force for Good - Harmony
12. Force for Good - Mountains
13. Force for Good - Courage
14. Force for Good - Hope
15. Force for Good - Grace
16. Force for Good - Good