Postcard from Heaven
Excerpts from selected reviews:

“This is an incredible album...unlike anything you’ve probably heard. It’s one of the best things I’ve heard in a long while, and well worth discovering.”
David Toub, Sequenza21, January 10th, 2007

“It is impossible to describe what 20 highly electronically manipulated harps sound like, but it certainly confounded my expectations...there is much delicacy here, fantastic detail, and sound combinations that are unique.”
Peter Burwasser, Fanfare, May/June 2007

“I rarely get the sense of sheer beauty or spacious spiritual or physical realms when I listen to John Cage’s music...It’s often more of a witty practicality that comes to mind, or an auditive intellectualism with a quirky smile added in the corner of the mouth....but not this soaring beauty. That’s why this music is so surprising, as it approaches in some kind of free fall, totally relaxed and yet powerful, like the orbit of the International Space Station as it keeps on falling and falling around the Earth...”
Ingvar Loco Nordin, Sonoloco Revews January 2007

“Cage's prophetically-titled Postcard from Heaven, a mesmerizing, roughly 40-minute 1982 composition scored for 20 harpists, receives its world premiere recording on this new disc from ArpaViva...Jordanova’s approach has given the work new life and, in fact, the work does sound like a postcard from heaven written by John Cage.”
Frank J. Otery, NewMusicBox, 2007

“The “heaven” connection, with visions of spaced harpists playing without a coffee break for eternity, is half tongue-in-cheek. But only half. Victoria Jordanova does the harp honors, oscillating between a solo setting to rippling overdubs of 20 harps. Pamela Z supplies sustained and delayed sung tones, in what is a strangely cool and cooling listening experience.”
Notes on Film, Josef Woodard, February 1, 2007

“I hear polyphonic texture of various melodic parts, often in different rhythms, while other times I hear cascades of complex, ravishing chords. Jordanova performs with a wide range of sound quality and with the greatest devotion to the music's profound absence of dramatic rhetoric. She also adds Cage's ossia vocal part...beautifully performed by Pamela Z.”
Haskins, American Record Guide, May 2007