Visionary new age music for nourishing and rejuvenating body, mind and spirit
Visionary new age music for nourishing and rejuvenating body, mind and spirit
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You’ve got to give New Ager, multi-instrumentalist Koch a lot of credit for keeping true to his original vision and not selling out while keeping his aim true as it ever was. A gentle set that celebrates living in the light, this almost one man band has developed a deeper feeling for tranquility over the years and makes it really shine here. A gentle set that is not twee, Koch opens the door to a new phase in his instrumental music career in fine form. Well done throughout.
A collection of music that arose organically as a vocalist that was using the muso’s music to put her kids to bed for years ran into a chance meeting with the composer who has been recovering from a bad traffic accident and using his music to heal himself. A different flight of fancy from what you might expect from healing music, the synth and voice are there, expertly intertwined, but the special sauce ladled out freely makes all the difference since this is coming from a personal place from both main participants.
Ashaneen takes it a step further this time out as he continues his path of taking traditional new age into the future. The electronics are all there, the soundscapes are all there, but this time you get the real feeling of them turning into actual starscapes with an undercurrent that defines the limitlessness of outer space. Clearly music for escape, (and it’s understandable wanting to escape earth’s bounds these days), but when you take this trip, you’ll know you can come back from it.
Forest Bathing is an ancient Japanese ritual of walking in the forest and bathing in the resonance nature gives off that they believe rejuvenate the body and ward off disease. This various artists collection, which stretches back to those at the birth of the label 30 plus years ago, is music for walking the in the woods and giving your mind a rest. These tracks were dandy in their original incarnations, and they work well here as a repurposed whole.
“OM” is regarded to be the first sound in the universe, and within this newest release from Sayama all the instruments here are tuned to that frequency. This is thought to be the wave length to which you need to tune your heart radio in order to “connect” with the Supreme Being. Those thoughts are too big for most of us to deal with, but since Sayama has made other healing arts records for Real Music, we’ll defer to one who can back-up their thoughts cogently and knowingly.
