It is a rare album that slowly becomes part of a listener's daily routine, warming each day through its beauty and presence, an uplifting accompaniment of life. Yet the sheer sensual beauty of Yuriko Kodama's voice and the multi-layered depth of the music leads to repeated listening. As you live with this music new levels of beauty and detail unfold as each song finds its place in the heart. Yuriko Kodama combines elegant lyricism and sensitivity with saxophone-like improvisation in her amazing new debut CD "Music Of The Hours."