Airto Moreira
Intensely spiritual, yet exuberant and endowed with abundant energy, the music of Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira has been delighting audiences for decades in his work with his wife Flora Purim as well as in gigs with luminaries like Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Weather Report, and Return to Forever. Highlights of his first U.S. solo recording in 20 years include the percussion extravaganza “Baba and Malonga Went Home” as well as “Let It Out, Let It In,” a true invitation to the dance. “Drawing upon every type of world groove and drum pattern under the sun, and adding liberal doses of the sultry sambas of his homeland, the legendary sideman steps out…. Fans of exotic, anthemic exoticism will dig heartily into the hypnotic tribalism of the opening track, ‘Ritmo Do Mundo,’ which bangs along joyfully as a choir of young singers chant along. Just as things are getting too bouncy, however, Airto shows the softer side of his artistry with the gentle acoustic guitar-driven mood piece ‘O Tunel.’ " - All Music Guide.
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Tim Timmermans
This collection of thirteen instrumentals re-connects us with the beauty and sacredness that is so much part of our lives, taking us to a timeless region where the great mystery of "life as we know it" becomes revealed. "Higher Octave continues its tradition of fusing ear-catching sounds and global awareness with multi-instrumentalist Tim Timmermans' lushly pastoral yet highly rhythmic Life As We Know It. A founding member of the pure pop-jazz ensemble Windows, Timmermans seems to enjoy the freedom and open air of a less commercial, more artistic project. While strong melodically, he seems equally intent on conveying images of some of his favorite natural locales (the rainforests, the Serengeti, Salt Point), as well as introspective places within his soul. Armed with an arsenal of guitars and keyboards, Timmermans combines sonic textures into friendly mosaics as effortlessly as the master of the art, Michael Gettel. Subtle synth runs are balanced by spacey percussion and loping acoustic guitar lines, creating atmospheres that breath long rushes of fresh air. Of his backing players, Richard Hardy's wistful woodwinds take precedence, yet no doubt Timmermans could function just fine as one man with a mission to save the planet." - Jazziz.
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Susheela Raman
This arresting second album by British-Indian chanteuse Susheela Raman - an exponential explosion of World Music - breaks free of musical and cultural boundaries to embrace Indian classical and devotional traditions, African drumming, nightclub dance music, Tuvan throat singing, and more (Raman calls it “global soul”). “Love Trap,” the title cut was inspired by a 1970s recording of an Ethiopian singer in an unusual tritone mode. The others include “Bliss,” “Half Shiva Half Shakti,” and “Blue Lily Red Lotus.” “Her mother made Susheela master the complex south Indian style of singing. And like any good teen-ager, she rebelled and she sang blues and soul. Now at the age of 30, she’s come full circle.” - NPR Weekend Edition. Remainder mark.
Lisa Lynne
"Some might consider the music of Lisa Lynne to be Celtic, however, this would not even begin to describe the vivid instrumental soundscapes this talented artist has to offer. The melodies of Maiden's Prayer are graceful and warm with a bit of renaissance flair. Overall the music quite upbeat, yet, at the same time, it always feels relaxed and calms the nerves. Lynne's harp-playing is pure enchantment and one of her many talents (she also plays Appalachian dulcimer, bouzouki and bandoura on the album). Assisting Lynne is George Tortorelli playing bamboo flutes, whistles and dumbek, as well as the Laim Ensemble and Musica Angelica..." - Music Design Review.
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The Soto Koto Band (starring Paps Touray)
These songs are primarily from the Mandingo and Wollof cultures of West Africa, which cover the areas now known as The Gambia, Senegal and Mali. The “Gumbay” music which originates there has rapidly achieved a worldwide following owing to its exhuberant call to dance. Modern Gumbay combines western instruments (particularly guitars and brass) with the scintillating rhythms of African percussion. This wonderful whirlwind of an album will have you stomping your feet and reaching for your dancing shoes in no time.
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Alain Eskinasi
While best known as a founding member of the African tribal group, The Soto Koto Band and the jazz trio, Third Force, and as the multi-instrumental talent who performs on Higher Octave recordings by Craig Chaquico, Eko, and Shahin & Sepehr, "Many Worlds, One Tribe" is Eskinasi's colourful portrayal of a musical planet teeming with exotic and absorbing soundings of life and possibilities for a better future. While it includes the synthesiser washes that were his trademark as a leading New Age artist in his native Holland, most of this album is energised with the pulse of West African rhythms, and accented by solos from such guests as saxophonist Gary Herbig and trumpeter Jeff Elliott, as well as members of his bands. A self admitted "sound hound" who always has a portable DAT recorder at his side, he uses his samples from exotic locales to enhance his melodic excursions. Eskinasi explains, "My style, and the title of this album, comes because I move through many worlds, and from my experience I have found that in the end we are all coming from the same place, and make music to express that universal human quality."
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Robert Gass & On Wings of Song with Native America musicians
The 35 voices of the renowned choral group On Wings of Song (together with Brooke Medicine Eagle, Spotted Eagle and the Wil Numkena Singers) perform traditional American Indian songs and original compositions arranged by master composer/producer Robert Gass. The music is set into a background of natural sounds - the Colorado river, wind, thunder, songbirds, crickets, a red tail hawk - the music of living earth.
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Don Campbell
You know that music can affect your mood. It can make you feel happy, enchanted, inspired, wistful, excited, empowered, comforted, heroic. But music has an even more astonishing power, one you may have suspected from your own experience, but which you will now learn to be well documented. Quite simply, music is good for you - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Particular sounds, tones and rhythms, especially the music of Mozart, Gregorian chant, and some jazz, New Age, Latin, pop, and even rock music, can strengthen the mind, unlock the creative spirit, and even heal the body. The Mozart Effect offers dramatic accounts of how doctors, shamans, musicians, and health care professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, even mental illness. Whatever your listening taste, Don Campbell explains how to make the Mozart Effect work for you. Remainder mark.
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Various Artists
With flamenco, samba, mambo, and more, these 14 selections from a multitude of Chesky’s award-winning international artists combine to make a seductive and heavenly potpourri of world music sounds. Argentinian tango master Astor Piazzolla, Caribbean jazz superstar Mongo Santamaria, Cuban bandleader Paquito D’Rivera, and Brazilian singers Ana Caram and Badi Assad provide the Latin contingent, while Rebecca Pidgeon proffers Celtic balladeering, Babatunde Olatunji hypnotizes with West African percussion, Carlos Heredia fans the flames of flamenco, and the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York spotlights venerable, ancient melodies.
Janetta Petkus
"Music for Ayurveda is a three-cassette set that aids in Ayurvedic healing. Ayurveda's tenets include three body types - Vata (air based), Pitta (fire based) and Kapha (water based) - which require balancing for optimum health and freedom from disease. Each disc of Petkus' solo piano work applies to one of the body types, tapping into its needs and qualities and aiding in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual expression." - All Music Guide. The Vata music is ideal for relaxing. The Pitta has a soothing, calming effect. The Kapha music is invigorating.
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Ayurveda teaches that human beings are made up of three essential qualities, or 'doshas,' called Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and that only when these qualities are in harmony with one another can you experience radiant health, abundant energy, and the full expression of your potential. This beautiful musical program, created by an Ayurvedic clinician, is designed to harmonise the Kapha energies within you, to naturally enable you to be more alive in the present, dealing with life from a calm centred place. Listen closely for a 'musical meditation,' or play this unique recording in the background while you do other activities. Enclosed notes help you to identify your specific type (dosha) according to the principles of Ayurveda and clearly explain how this recording can be used to bring you tranquillity, aliveness, and optimal performance.
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Ayurveda teaches that human beings are made up of three essential qualities, or 'doshas,' called Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and that only when these qualities are in harmony with one another can you experience radiant health, abundant energy, and the full expression of your potential. This beautiful musical program, created by an Ayurvedic clinician, is designed to harmonize the Vata energies within you, allowing you to naturally experience states of deep relaxation, rejuvenation, and abundant energy. Listen closely for a 'musical meditation,' or play this unique recording in the background while you do other activities. Enclosed notes help you to identify your specific type (dosha) according to the principles of Ayurveda and clearly explain how this recording can be used to bring you tranquillity, aliveness, and optimal performance.
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Renowned music educator, lecturer and artist Don Campbell, who has written many books on the healing power of music, has found in his research that the music of Mozart has a particularly profound effect on the body-mind. To accompany his bestselling book, The Mozart Effect, he has created audio programs, selecting, sequencing and mastering Mozart’s music to realise the transformative powers found in the artist’s compositions. This program features music for intelligence and learning, designed to “charge the brain” – to achieve the effect documented in the famed University of California at Irvine study, which found measurable IQ increases after listening to certain Mozart pieces.
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Renowned music educator, lecturer and artist Don Campbell, who has written many books on the healing power of music, has found in his research that the music of Mozart has a particularly profound effect on the body-mind. To accompany his bestselling book, The Mozart Effect, he has created audio programs, selecting, sequencing and mastering Mozart’s music to realise the transformative powers found in the artist’s compositions. This program features music for creativity and imagination, works to open channels of free-flowing imagination and the energising life-force of creativity.
Dr Joseph Nagler
Rejuvenation comes from rest. Our cycles of activity and rest are part of hundreds of invisible daily rhythms of the human body. These circadian rhythms regulate all aspects of our physiology, from our blood pressure, temperature, body chemistry, brain waves, and hormone levels to our sleep patterns and more. Periods of rejuvenating rest come naturally when these circadian rhythms flow harmoniously. But when unnatural aspects of our lifestyles, like work and family stress, poor eating and sleeping habits, and environmental pollution, interfere with these cycles, real rest becomes an elusive goal. This recording is designed to emulate the tempo, rhythms, and breathing patterns of the peak rest periods of our daily rhythms. It features piano, soprano saxophone, hand-drums, trumpet, guitar, and violin along with ambient electronic textures to create an uncommon blend of sensuous, relaxing music. It is a unique opportunity to give yourself the most precious gift - time to reflect, heal, and energize. The technological breakthroughs used in this recording were originally developed for use in clinical studies at the New York University Medical Center's Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
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Tony Scott
In 1959 jazz-clarinet great Tony Scott left the US for the Far East, searching for fulfilment in other musical cultures - years before this was a trend. With his first LP, Music for Zen Meditation, he found not only artistic but spiritual gratification, as a master exponent of enlightenment through pure, restful sound. This, his follow-up effort, features as well the great Colin Walcott on sitar.
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Brian Scott Bennett
Brian Scott Bennett is a meditation teacher and Hollywood film score producer who learned about inner exploration from Fritz Perls, Stan Grof, and many others. His entrancing compositions can serve as a guide to relaxation, meditation, and physical and spiritual well-being. Resonant vocal tones combine with piano, flute, bass violin, ocarina and temples bells.
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Jim Oliver
Music touches the heart and resonates within our bodies. The right kind of music can truly renew you, helping you to feel relaxed and rejuventated. These warm and intimate compositions for grand piano, violin, guitar, and gentle global percussion touch your heart and breathe with the flow of your soul and spirit. The deeply moving performances by this extraordinary artist create room for you to feel the music and to get InTouch with tranquility and peace within yourself. Emmy award-winning performer, educator, and composer, Jim Oliver has been creating music for massage and healing for over 30 years. His work has been a consistent favourite among massage therapists, body workers, and health professionals.
David Darling & the Adagio Ensemble
Master cellist David Darling has brought together the Adagio Ensemble to create a soulful and uplifting listening and feeling collage. Elegant performances on cello, piano, wind synth, bass clarinet, guitars, English horn, and percussion create a unique and organic sound-space which is as tranquil as it is beautiful. Maverick cellist, educator, composer, and internationally acclaimed recording artist, David Darling has been enchanting audiences with his unique explorations of the cello for decades. David has performed with the Paul Winter Consort, Bobby McFerrin, and is the Artistic Director of Music for People, a non-profit organization that promotes self-expression through musical improvisation.
Jorge Alfano's World Ensemble
On Resonance, Jorge Alfano’s World Ensemble creates a hypnotic and pleasing panorama of music that employs Tibetan bowls, didgeridoo, sitar, bass, and a variety of flutes to manifest a pure, ringing vibration. This CD is great for massage, meditation, yoga, and general relaxation.
Sylvia Nakkach
Unwind is a simple and deeply relaxing way to enhance your meditation and help you let go of the tensions of the day. Specially composed melodies and rhythms, based on years of experience with thousands of people, carry you to a place of inner stillness and quiet joy. The Utne Reader selected Silvia Nakkach as being one of the 'top 40 artists who will shake the art world.' A composer, psychologist, author, and leading-edge healing music artist, she is recognized internationally as an exceptionally gifted singer and an expert in cross-cultural music therapy. The contemplative tracks on this recording are blessed with insistent, memorable melodies, and Nakkach’s voice is also multi-tracked to create an ethereal chorus. A highlight of the disc is the delicate oboe, English horn, and whistle playing of jazz musician Paul McCandless.
Russil Paul
Nada Yoga is a spiritual and healing system which evolved out of the Vedic tradition of ancient India. It developed alongside the more traditional hatha yoga system of postures and physical movements. Nada Yoga is a sophisticated system developed and proven over centuries of practice. The basis of Nada Yoga is that sound and music are a subtle but very real force which can harmonize and guide the flow of energies throughout the body. The proper music can lead toward harmony, relaxation, balance and healthfulness. To create the music on this recording, Russill Paul invented his own ten-stringed hybrid instrument called a Unitar. Bansuri flute, vocal chanting, traditional Indian drums, Sarangi, Tanpura, and nature sounds enrich this uniquely ethereal and spirited recording. The benefits of this recording can be experienced through background listening or through a more focused listening meditation. The enclosed guide includes optional meditations, which you can use to enhance your listening experience.
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'Higher Octave's Night & Day is a double-disc sampler of the label's artists, assembled as two separate albums -- one that has dark, atmospheric music associated with night, one that is a bit brighter, intended to capture day. The set features 20 tracks from 19 different artists, thereby offering a good introduction to the label's roster. However, it stands on its own as a musical experience, since its themes give each disc a focus. The result is the rare sampler that may be of as much interest to fans of a particular label as it is to neophytes.' - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide.
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Ottmar Liebert
Nouveau Flamenco has sold more than one million copies and has now spent an absolutely phenomenal six years on Billboard's New Age chart. This virtuoso album also won the NARM Award for Best Selling New Age Album of the Year in both 1991 and 1992. Ottmar's "nouveau" flamenco guitar touches a wide range of emotional chords, from tracks of fiery passion to compositions of touching simplicity and tranquil beauty. Truly a masterpiece.
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Craig Chaquico
The fourth album from the acclaimed guitarist whose 3 previous albums have been among the most popular and critically praised genre releases of all time. Top quality contemporary instrumental music is once again turned into a deeper experience - Chaquico textures gentle atmospheres with energetic rock rhythms and eases a rich mixture of blues and soul into cool, thoughtful melodies, that are all at once romantic and environmentally conscious. Featuring contributions from some of the best 'smooth jazz' professionals today, this album boasts a brilliant array of styles, rhythmic foundations and melodic inspirations. Also featured is the Native American flute of Douglas Spotted Eagle.
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Badal Roy
Badal Roy is a master of the small, tunable Indian drum called the tabla. (He has played with jazz musicians Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Pharaoh Sanders, among many others.) On this CD, he collaborates with saxophonists and guitarists to create an alluring East-meets-West effect on 10 engrossing tunes, including "Bombay Boogie," "Geeta’s Shuffle," "Dadaism," and "Endless Radiance."
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Shahin & Sepehr
Gifted guitarist Shahin and keyboardist Sepehr, two Persian musicians living in Washington DC, blend the music of their adopted home with Middle Eastern influences to form an exciting contemporary sound that is universal in its scope and appeal. Titles like "Yasmine," "Persia," and "Body and Soul" wrap you in swirling melodies and sensuous rhythms. This is wonderfully happy sounding music, perfect for enhancing - or inspiring - a warm and intimate evening. Highly recommended. "...this Washington D.C. based duo’s debut album is a complete joy." - L.A. Jazz Scene.
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