DANIEL SCHMIDT - Cloud Shadows CDEdition of 300 copies, incl. 24 page booklet Cloud Shadows is the third album by the American gamelan composer, Daniel Schmidt. The pieces are quite varied and more current than the work represented on his first two albums In My Arms, Many Flowers & Abies Firma, mostly came about each in their own way. For example, the cloud shadows on the mountains of central Nevada, unimaginably old, invited Daniel into their realm, resulting in the opening