Aha! Retreats

11 Passionate & Intelligent Songs from Aha's Founder!

How often do you find a music album with the wit, strength and beauty as is found here?  Breakin' Out is made up of 11 breathtaking song adventures that constantly surprise and move listeners with lyrical genius, compelling musical surges and brilliant song themes    It's really a musical journey where the listener finds himself in new locations and environments each song, caught up in fascinating new -- sometimes subtle, sometimes outrageous experiences, and coming up against a wide variety of human and social  barriers.   

            The 11 songs on the Breakin' Out album are: 

1) The Light Around You   (Single)

2) Dream Come True

3) Breakin’ Out/New Millennium    (Single)

4) Not Supposed to Be Here

5) Do You Wanna Wake Up?  (Single)

6) Thank God for the Internet (Single)

7) Gonna Be a Better Man

8) Hidden History

9) Rocks on a Roll

10) Give Him a Hand

11) Dad if You Could Hear Me Now

If you haven't already done so, check out samples of Boomer's Work below.

Adventurous Listeners Only!

There is a warning for some music fans:  Breakin’ Out has a tendency to drive away lazy listeners:  those who avoid the mind or spirit, those who favor overly hypnotic pop themes, or those who abuse or even overdose on the trendy song themes or monotonous lyrics or phrasings.    Those who are convinced songwriters shouldn't really attempt to say anything new or possibly inspirational or important, and those who believe rock and roll is too primitive a form of music to convey any intelligence, reason, virtue or higher message are also known to shun it. 

  However, Breakin’ Out does reach out to adventurous listeners!  In direct and indirect ways it lures the better than average listeners – those who appreciate well written lyrics, song stories and more developed themes than "pop songs" -- with fascinating communications, some that haven’t been delivered in popular songs for a long, long time.   

A Journey to New Realms

The songs on Breakin' Out aim for the listener’s exposed or under-exposed heart and where they miss that mark, they are sure to hit other vital locations relating to one's thinkingness or livingness.   Listeners' only real complaints are those of being woken up, having to go on a journey or, sometimes, of imagining new things  - but hardly ever of boredom.  Sometimes a listener takes feeling something new for being preached to.  But eventually the feeling wins out for them and their journey unfolds, and they begin to contribute their own imagination and thoughts to the songs.  They become their own teachers and even enjoy it! 

The opening song -- "The Light Around You" -- shows that Boomer is no formula writer for the teen models, easy-listening idols and country icons of today’s popular music culture.  One immediately begins feeling a sense of a new journey, or maybe an old one.  But even if it is an old journey, it invariably leads to new destinations.  (But you'll have to hear these songs in full to get and know the full story!)  Click here to listen to "The Light Around You."

"I've lived off of tofu

And blown through some bamboo

Even studied some kung fu

For wisdom

"I rode on an emu 

And built my own igloo

Even practiced some voodoo

But that's dumb! 

"I yodeled from mountains

And bathed in great fountains

Even spent my allowance 

To feel it

"I searched every impulse

And stroked sacred symbols

But wound up in Limbo

That's bull shit!

But I hear the sound of your heartbeat

And I feel your love coming through

And I know the strength of your powers 

And I see the light around you

From the song "The Light Around You", Boomer's thoroughly passionate 

adventure into life and higher  love from Breakin' Out. 

Music with a Playful, Challenging Spirit

Breakin’ Out  breaks new ground!  It is full of life, full of spirit and full of dreams.  But these things are not what is new about it.   It is how the musical work accomplishes its purpose and its direction that is new.  In fact this may be the most appealing component of the CD:  its unrelenting optimism, provocative and challenging nature, and its spirit to make a game of life, love and the journey of being human.   

If you are alive and you breathe, and you listen to the Breakin' Out CD, then you will no doubt learn to play along with it.  The journey truly becomes yours!   And fans and listeners regularly report that they are the better for taking that journey.  From the song "Do You Wanna Wake Up?":  Click here to listen to "Do you Wanna Wake Up?"

"Falling from the heavens in the middle of your sleep

You were awestruck in a grand but puzzling dream

Your wings were melting fast

You were wrestling to awake 

And you were doing your best to try to scream

"And while you were tumbling through your nightmare

You Captain with a smile returned to view 

She stroked your hair and kissed your head

And these were the words she spoke to you?

Do you wanna wake up

Do you wanna feel alive

Do you wanna pinch yourself

Do you wanna rub your eyes?

"Do you wanna wake up

Do you wanna be a king

Do you wanna take the helm

Do you wanna sail your dreams?"

From the song "Do You Wanna Wake Up?" one of the treasured hits from 

Breakin' Out.  It's a sensitive and haunting, yet extremely uplifting composition.

Breakin' Out is a must for any music listener who enjoys songs that not only go somewhere and do something, but do those things in a way that makes sense and has a purpose, both to and for the listener.   

Do You Have Your Signed Copy of the Breakin' Out CD Yet? 

Get 11 brilliant new songs, beautiful cover artwork, 58 minutes of adventure and music along with a 16-page information, and lyric booklet when you purchase your own signed copy of the Breakin' Out CD by Boomer. - Click below to Order Your Copy Today!  Only $10.00 (includes Sales Tax) plus $2.00 shipping.  

Experienced Artists Contribute to Production

All of the songs on the Breakin' Out CD were written by Boomer between February 1998 and September of 1999.  (One song is a parody, for which Boomer wrote the lyrics.)  The songs were recorded at a Southern California studio in the Spring and Summer of 2000 with full 24 track sound.

The Breakin' Out music album was arranged and produced by songwriter and popular Southern California music teacher Tom Fair, former member of the 60's rock band Left Banke (known for the hit song "Just Walk Away Renee").  Tom, in addition to his arranging and producing work, is also a songwriter of over 1500 of his own tunes and solo recording artist of 3 independent music albums.   The project was recorded and engineered by multi-instrumentalist and touring bass player of the Righteous Brothers, Alan Kuehne.  In addition to playing bass on Breakin' Out, Alan played various electric guitars and added harmonies.  Other great contributions on the album came from session players Marc Bosserman (piano), Nelsen Adelard (guitars), Doran Eskinazi (drums) and Juan Bogan (bass).