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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
:Album Description:Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts appears downright visionary. With its 'found' vocals, cut-and-paste arrangements, funked-up rhythms and embrace of influences from all around the globe, the duo's controversial work anticipated the creative cross-pollination and technological innovation of contemporary dance music, world music, hip hop and alternative rock. You can hear echoes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in the anthems Moby built around vintage vocal samples, in the outrageously exotic beats of Missy Elliot and ...
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Sound Medicine: Music for Healing
:Album Description:Music touches our hearts and resonates within our bodies. The right music can truly renew us, helping us to feel relaxed and rejuvenated. Great musicians have always recognized this therapeutic power of music, and researchers are finally proving them right. THE SOUND MEDICINE SERIES features the works of inspired musical pioneers who are exploring music’s healing power. Natural Balance and Harmony Your body is a self-healing instrument. If you give it a chance it will always tend toward homeostasis or healthful balance. Sound healer ...
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Play
: 's Best of 1999 :Those who have followed Moby's career are familiar by now with his deep convictions and spiritual connection. On his 1999 release, Play, he celebrates his faith in a masterful, unobtrusive way, channeling gospel and other inspirational samples through beats so earthy they could grow grass on a cement dance floor. It's impossible to separate the joy of the message from the joy of the grooves. --Beth Massa Amazon.com essential recording:The great iconoclast of techno returns with a smooth, sacred, and exhilarating ...
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Thought So...
: :The venerable Nightmares On Wax return with ''Thought So...,'' a sun-drenched collection of dub and heavy drums arriving just in time to wrap up summer madness. After paving the way for soul-minded beat-smiths like Madlib and Flying Lotus, this latest LP is another important step in an already iconic career. Buoyant and supremely catchy, ''Thought So...'' is another skillful combo of advanced production and vintage groove. In short, the record gives fans everything they have come to expect from Nightmares On Wax.
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Sleep Soundly
: :One of the fundamental criticisms of New Age music is that it puts people to sleep. Here, Steven Halpern, one of the founding fathers of New Age, makes that his mission and, as you might expect, does an effective job of it. Drawing on catalog material from the early 1980s, Halpern builds an attractive collection of delicate, lighter-than-air sonic textures that nicely serves the intended purpose--to fill the silence with something prettier than white noise. Halpern does so by blending electric and acoustic piano, plus ...
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Reiki: Hands of Light
:Album Description:This bestselling CD, loved by therapists and healers around the world, is excellent music for any kind of deep work: Reiki, meditation, massage, or relaxation. Long sonorous tones and a rhythmic underlying pulse create a gently supportive, ambient soundscape. An essential addition to any healing collection. Reviews '...an exquisite creation of sounds to promote deep states of relaxation.' --New Age Retailer magazine Finalist: Best Meditation/Healing --New Age Voice Music Award
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Letting Go of Stress
:Album Description:This bestselling CD, loved by therapists and healers around the world, is excellent music for any kind of deep work: Reiki, meditation, massage, or relaxation. Long sonorous tones and a rhythmic underlying pulse create a gently supportive, ambient soundscape. An essential addition to any healing collection. Reviews '...an exquisite creation of sounds to promote deep states of relaxation.' --New Age Retailer magazine Finalist: Best Meditation/Healing --New Age Voice Music Award
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Shamanic Dream
: :Shamanic Dream by Anugama is especially suitable for trance meditations and relaxation. A heartbeat drum accompanies the continued low repetition of the mantra 'So Be It'.The second part is a journey through and meditation on the chakras, the energy centres of the human body.
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Chakra Suite
: :Shamanic Dream by Anugama is especially suitable for trance meditations and relaxation. A heartbeat drum accompanies the continued low repetition of the mantra 'So Be It'.The second part is a journey through and meditation on the chakras, the energy centres of the human body.
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Fear of a Blank Planet
:Album Description:This starkly beautiful elegy on the numbness, apathy, and isolation brought about by the constant barrage of television, video games, advertising, prescription drugs, sex, and violence of everyday life is emphasized by the symphonic arrangement of metal guitars, synthesizers, fat basslines, and virtuosic drumming. :On Fear of a Blank Planet veteran progressive-rock act Porcupine Tree takes up the task of exploring the alienating forces of the media and its impact on our youths and ourselves. Fear's titular cut features lyrics rife with allusions to ...
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