Dream - A Liquid Mind Experience
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 4.3
MainlyPiano.com
Dream: A Liquid Mind Experience is the eleventh installment in keyboardist Chuck Wild’s series of “sedative music” collections. Presented in three tracks that are ten, twenty, and thirty minutes in length, this is music with a purpose. It is intended for passive rather than active listening as well as for meditation, music therapy, sleep, napping, and relaxation. There is no beat to the music, and the notes and tones are engineered to avoid arousal or startle responses. Filters remove mid- and higher-frequency levels because research has shown that low frequency pressure waves relax muscles and affect autonomic reactions. In a nutshell, this is music that is intended to be background music that will not attract attention to itself. It creates an atmosphere of peace and tranquility intended to reduce anxiety and promote healing. The sounds are ethereal and suggest vast open space with a very calming, floating feeling. Instrumentation is on keyboards, but there are also occasional wordless voices and atmospheric sounds. Chuck Wild started creating his ultra-slow “Liquid Mind Musical Healthcare” compositions as an alternate therapy for his own clinical anxiety and panic disorder. The Liquid Mind recordings are currently utilized in anxiety and panic management, chemotherapy centers, treating sleep disorders, hypnotherapy, chiropractic, massage therapy, and yoga. The first track, “Dream Ten” is previously unreleased music, and is titled for its ten-minute duration. “Dream Twenty” comes from Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby and Relax: A Liquid Mind Experience. “Dream Thirty” is from Liquid Mind VII: Reflection, Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep, and Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby. Because the music is so slow and organic, it is difficult to distinguish one track from another, but that is part of the design of the music. I would seriously consider the wisdom of driving with this music in the car or trying to wake up to it! As promised, it is extremely soothing and relaxing. Again, this album is music with a purpose, and the primary purpose is to soothe and relax. If that is what you’re looking for, be sure to check this album out. It is available wherever Real Music releases are sold. Kathy Parsons MainlyPiano.com 5/17/11
New Age Retailer
Chuck Wild (a.k.a. Liquid Mind) has been at the forefront of healing, sedative music since the first Liquid Mind release in 1994. He first recorded these calming soundscapes for his own benefit and relaxation, but before long, word had spread and now his many CDs are featured in numerous wellness and healing environments, including hospital ICUs, pediatric units, and pain clinics. Dream features both a new 10-minute track and two “specially mixed” cuts featuring excerpts from previous releases. This is an ultimate serenity-inducing listening experience designed to enhance sleep, healing, meditation, or just “letting go.” Bill Binkelman New Age Retailer
Michael Debbage
Liquid Music is the mastermind of keyboard player Chuck Wild who in the early to mid 80’s was very involved in the mainstream musical scene, specifically the band Missing Persons, probably best known for their Top 40 hit “Word”. By the early nineties Wild found himself seeking solace and found it by creating his own solo material under the name Liquid Mind with the goal of allowing his sedative music to find escape from his own frantic pace and lifestyle extending this relief to his listeners. Dream: A Liquid Experience continues to hold true to that theme which also includes previously released material from his past recordings. The album includes three very long tracks simply entitled “Dream Ten”, “Dream Twenty”, and “Dream Thirty” whose titles essentially represent the length of the recordings. The first recording is previously unreleased material that continues to focus on the airy and flighty keyboards of Chuck Wild with his non-obtrusive understated melodies that allow the listener to focus on relaxing and placing their heartbeat and pulse to a slower beat. The two additional tracks according to the liner notes are newly edited former released material intentionally chosen by Wild as his most relaxing compositions from the Liquid Mind series. “Dream Twenty” pulls from Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby and Relax: A Liquid Mind Experience. Meanwhile “Dream Thirty” seamlessly draws from Liquid Mind VII: Reflection, Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep and once again Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby. For fans of Liquid Music, one new track may not be enough to entice you to buy this record. For the uninitiated this is a great place to start. But please pay close attention to Wild’s warning on his cd’s that his music “may cause drowsiness. Use care when operating vehicles or dangerous machinery. Slow Music may cause a heightened state of suggestibility.” Take heed, as Liquid Mind can quickly take you to Neverland at the blink of an eye, pun and plan fully intended.