by Brian Kelly — Kelly on piano, keyboards, percussion and pennywhistle heads into contemporary jazz territory with memorable melodies, fluid chops and richly detailed arrangements. These upbeat piano jazz instrumentals include world-class talents joining Kelly with occasional sax, flute, trumpet, trombone, acoustic guitar, drums and percussion. The music is rollicking jazz one moment and soft, […]
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Celestial: Clavinova Improvisations
April 16, 2012
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by Suzy Jimerson-Overholt — During stressful times, this is the perfect CD to listen to. You will quickly find your body relaxing as you listen to music that is serene and lush, and floats the listener along in a tranquil healing stream of sound. The electronic sounds serve as therapy and help you relax deeply […]
First Light: The Best of Golana´
April 16, 2012
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by Golana´ — This is a “best of” collection of eight-time NAMMY (Native American Music Awards) nominee, Golana´, an acclaimed master of the Native American flute. Drawn from six widely acclaimed albums of meditative, relaxing and nature-inspired music, the 10 compositions, created in the rugged mountains of Southern California, are a stunningly beautiful evocation of […]
Scheherazade
April 16, 2012
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by Al Conti — With an appropriate Mideastern world-fusion sound, the music tells the story of the storyteller known as Scheherazade, the woman who, in order to save her life and the lives of others, spun a new tale for the king each night for 1,001 nights, keeping him entranced and wanting more. Conti writes […]
A Place Called Peace
April 16, 2012
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by Randy Granger Granger, a Native American flute player, explores his ancestry that includes American Indian tribes from the Southwest — Chol, Athabascan, Apache, Comanche and Dogrib. The evocative and haunting peaceful original songs are inspired by the deeply spiritual landscapes and cultures that are New Mexico. ]The recording features wooden flute on every tune, […]
East Wind
April 16, 2012
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by Timothy Cooper The 30 selections on this solo piano CD show the influence of various forms of Asian art, such as a Japanese haiku poem, a Chinese watercolor-on-silk drawing or a tiny cultivated bonzai tree, perfect in their sparseness and simplicity. The music sounds delicate and crystalline one moment, but forceful and resonant the […]
Siyotanka
April 16, 2012
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by Michael Brant DeMaria Share the adventure and discovery of the first flute through this moving musical odyssey, played on indigenous flutes, keyboards and percussion. DeMaria presents an ancient native world where a boy, Takoda, leaves his village on a journey that brings life-altering encounters with Nuka the woodpecker, the sage owl Hinhan and the […]
Jhoom: The Intoxication of Surrender
April 16, 2012
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by Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors The ensemble is back with their 17th album, a smoking collection of tripped-out tribal rhythms that will send you into a state of trance ecstasy. The CD is a hypnotic blend of drums, bass, strings and female chants — an adrenaline rush and a whirl of electrifying tribal grooves […]
The Color of Sunshine
April 16, 2012
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by Lawrence Blatt Guitarist and composer, Blatt has been performing his finger-style-guitar compositions for over 30 years. After spending years studying classical music as a violinist, Blatt’s melodic yet intricate interaction of moods that lay beneath his alternate tunings are balanced by careful dynamics and intonation. In this album he explores the natural relationship between […]
A Song for You
April 16, 2012
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by Irene & Her Latin Jazz Band Smooth and seductive with a dash of spicy, summer nights, these love songs will set the mood in this collection of Brazilian and Latin jazz tunes with a mix of samba, bossa nova, bolero and other rhythms. There is something completely refreshing about the smooth, gentle, sultry sound […]
Drive Time RX: Listen, De-stress and Be More Relaxed and Alert
April 16, 2012
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by Steven Halpern The series of suggestions in this music CD were sourced with assistance from professional driver skill enhancement trainers. The words are subliminally encoded so softly into the music that you usually can’t hear them. Your subconscious mind does, however, and responds automatically. The first eight songs are more rhythmic; the next seven […]
Ascension
April 15, 2012
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by Phoenix Rising Mystical, lyrical, dramatic at times, but always thoughtful and emotionally compelling, the dual musical vision of the two artists on piano and flute, accompanied by revolving guest artists, drives a deep sense of transcendence and spirituality that can only be captured in metaphoric terms. Drawing on their dynamic synthesis of jazz, New […]
Ten Million Moons
April 15, 2012
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by Gaura Vani and As Kindred Spirits This second album from the group transforms your heart and fills you with visions of a divine world. Epic and cinematic arrangements, lush vocal harmonies, hypnotic ethnic rhythms and grooves, magical textures and instrumentation — this is kirtan as you have never heard it before. Conjuring images from […]
April 16, 2012
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