“In music, I find freedom. Where words fall silent, the heart continues to speak.”
Where Music Was Born...
Music has accompanied me since childhood.
Long before I found words, I found melodies.
Over the years, music became a place of listening — a quiet language through which emotion, silence, gratitude, and hope could gently speak.
Each composition grows from that same place.
Not to impress.
Not to perform.
But to accompany.
Whether offered in hospitals, healing spaces, intimate gatherings, or through headphones in someone’s quiet evening, my intention has always remained the same:
To create music that brings peace.
A place to breathe.
A place to remember.
A place where the heart may simply rest.
Some passages ask for words. Others ask for silence.
My music is offered for those moments when listening begins beyond language.
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Piano Albums by MariDo — Marie-Dominique Rail
Mother Earth Vol. 1 | MariDo (2003)
Released in 2003, Mother Earth marks the beginning of the MariDo musical journey. Across 58 minutes of spontaneous piano improvisation, the album moves through freedom, emotion, memory, and connection.
Created intuitively, each piece unfolds in its own way — sometimes reflective, sometimes playful, sometimes searching — revealing the beginnings of a musical language that would continue to evolve across the years.
Track
1 Reality Check (bonus track)
2 Dust Myself Off (bonus track)
3 Mother Earth
4 Greensleeves Adlib
5 To My Messenger
6 The Clock
7 In My Sleep
8 Dive
9 The Sea
10 Minuit
11 Canon De Pachelbel Adlib
12 1999
13 La Plus Que Lente Adlib
14 Prodding
15 Bloom
16 Music Is My Child
17 Father Sky
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Available across online music platforms.
© 2003 MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
Father-Sky Vol. 2 | MariDo (2005)
Following Mother Earth, Father-Sky continues the early MariDo journey through a collection shaped by observation, emotion, imagination, and everyday life.
The compositions move between earth and sky, intimacy and openness — from Gaia’s Beauty and Twilight to Time Is Not on Our Side and Between Ithaca and Home. Together, they reveal a musical world becoming more expansive while remaining deeply personal.
Track
1 Father Sky Story Telling
2 Gaia's Beauty
3 Time Is Not on Our Side
4 Symbiotic
5 Home Free
6 Nation of the Stars
7 Pavane De Fauré Adlib
8 Twilight
9 Human-Matic
10 Between Ithaca and Home
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Available across online music platforms.
© MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
Nation of the Stars Vol. 3 | MariDo (2007)
With Nation of the Stars, the MariDo journey turns toward the sky. Recorded at Planet Studios in Montréal, the album explores wonder, imagination, love, and the sense of something larger than ourselves.
Original compositions meet familiar melodies reimagined through spontaneous piano interpretation, creating a musical journey that moves between memory and discovery, intimacy and vastness.
Allow these music-filled moments to carry you among the stars, lifting your spirit and opening your heart.
Track
1 Nation of the Stars (Remix 2)
2 How I Want You
3 Luv
4 Pavane
5 Tango
6 Thank You
7 Oceano Adlib
8 First Time
9 Fields of Gold Adlib
10 Love Is Like the Wind
11 Ne Me Quitte Pas Adlib
12 Time Is Not on Our Side
13 Canon De Pachelbel Adlib
14 Last of the Mohicans Adlib
15 Greensleeves Adlib
16 Aigle Noir Adlib
17 La Croix, L'étoile Et Le Croissant Adlib
18 Je T'écris De La Main Gauche Adlib
19 Nation of the Stars (Remix 3)
20 Nation of the Stars
A space to listen
Available across online music platforms.
© MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
LUV Vol. 4 | MariDo (2014)
LUV turns toward one of the most universal languages of all: love.
Blending piano, vocals, and orchestral textures, the album moves through tenderness, longing, memory, and connection. Original expression meets beloved melodies, allowing each piece to become part of an intimate musical conversation about the many ways love can be felt, remembered, and shared.
At its heart, LUV is simply that — a collection offered from the heart.
Track
1 Oceano
2 On This Night
3 Boléro
4 The Gift
5 Dante's Prayer
6 Tante Gâteau
7 Il faudra leur dire
8 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
9 Return to Serenity
10 Nothing Else Matters
11 Ave Maria
A space to listen
Available across online music platforms.
© MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
Mirror of Souls Vol. 5 | MariDo (2017)
Mirror of Souls turns the musical journey inward.
Across 37 minutes, the album explores reflection, tenderness, memory, and the quiet spaces within us. Through contemplative piano and the heartfelt presence of Love Story with vocals, the music becomes an invitation to listen more deeply — not only to the melodies, but to what they may awaken within.
Allow the music to carry you into a space of calm, reflection, and deep presence.
Track
Mirror Of Souls
A space to listen
Available across online music platforms.
© MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved
Semper Fidelis – Relaxation Meditation Vol. 6 | MariDo (2022)
Semper Fidelis — Relaxation & Meditation brings music and reflection together in a contemplative companion to the book Semper Fidelis.
Through piano, meditation, affirmations, and healing intentions, the album explores faith, resilience, forgiveness, inner strength, and the quiet process of returning to oneself. Each piece offers a space to pause, breathe, and listen inwardly.
For me, Semper Fidelis carries a deeper understanding of faith — not as certainty, but as an inner fidelity that can remain with us through uncertainty, vulnerability, grief, and transformation.
The book offers the words. The music offers another way of listening. The book Semper Fidelis is available (in both editions, English and French) on Amazon creating a dialogue between music, reflection, and inner listening.
Track
1 Positive Affirmations - Pachelbel's Canon
2 Energy Healing Intentions
3 Healing Heart
4 Inner Strength
5 Healing Past
6 Reinforce the Focus
7 World Peace
8 Aloha - Living in the Present
9 Ho'oponopono Forgiveness Mantra
10 Reiki Master Mantra
11 Lullaby
12 Sleeping at Peace
A space to listen
Available across online music platforms.
© 2022 MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
Semper Fidelis – relaxation et méditation Vol. 6 | MariDo (édition française 2022)
Semper Fidelis — Relaxation et Méditation réunit musique et réflexion dans un album contemplatif qui accompagne l’univers du livre Semper Fidelis.
À travers le piano, la méditation et différentes intentions, l’album explore la foi, la résilience, le pardon, la force intérieure et ce mouvement silencieux qui nous ramène vers nous-mêmes.
Pour moi, Semper Fidelis porte une compréhension plus profonde de la foi — non pas comme une certitude, mais comme une fidélité intérieure qui peut demeurer à travers l’incertitude, la vulnérabilité, le deuil et la transformation.
Le livre offre les mots. La musique offre une autre manière d’écouter.
Liste des plages:
1 L'expression de la pensée
2 Affirmations positives - Canon de Pachelbel
3 Centrer sur sa force
4 Grâce à la vie
5 Il faudra leur dire
6 Paix dans le monde
7 Jacques Brel 1968
8 Beauté
9 Ho'oponopono - Le pardon
10 Berceuse celtique
11 Dormir en paix
12 Prière Maître Reiki
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© 2022 MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. Tous droits réservés.
Beatitudo Hymn Renaissance – Vol. 7 - 2024
Beatitudo Hymn — Renaissance holds a particularly meaningful place in my musical journey.
Composed and recorded during a season of recovery, it emerged as 76 minutes of uninterrupted piano — a single, continuous movement shaped by the highs and lows of that passage through my life. The music moves through vulnerability and strength, tenderness and intensity, silence and rising. It carries something of the many dimensions through which we experience difficult seasons — physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual — while remaining anchored in hope.
During that time, music became a sanctuary for me. In moments when words could not reach what I was living, the piano could. Through silence, I found music. Beatitudo Hymn — Renaissance is offered in that same spirit: as a musical presence for anyone moving through a passage of their own.
Track
Beatitudo Hymn — Renaissance
76-minute continuous piano composition
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Available across online music platforms.
© 2024 MariDo · Marie-Dominique Rail. All Rights Reserved.
Piano for the Soul | A Space of Sound and Presence
These piano compositions are created as spaces to enter — where sound becomes stillness, and stillness becomes listening.
Each piece carries a quiet intention: to accompany reflection, meditation, rest, and those moments when we need to step away from the noise of the world and return to a quieter place within.
There is nothing to achieve.
Simply listen.
Simply receive.
Simply be.
A Living Experience
Music is different each time we meet it.
Sometimes it brings calm.
Sometimes it opens a memory.
Sometimes it creates space for something we have been carrying quietly.
And sometimes, it simply gives us a few moments in which nothing is being asked of us.
The music meets us where we are.
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MariDo’s music may also be experienced live, offering a contemplative musical presence for intimate gatherings, meaningful occasions, and spaces of reflection.