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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Back after too long away from his fans, Koch is re-energized but not straying too far from the field that made him such a hit with his fans. Knowing how to work the relaxing side of new age to the fullest, these melodic tapestries and filigrees are just what you need to hear in a world gone upside down. Living up to its title handily, this is a soothing set of non-muzak that will always be welcome.
“…Koch dedicates this set to one of the pioneers of 19th century aviation and it really does sound like drifting through a limitless sky that isn’t crowded like now, whether with planes or microwaves, making the blue a little less blue. Far too gentle and soothing a record to describe with words like mind-blowing, this is a mind-blowing set that is the perfect escape hatch for these times we’re living in. By reaching for the heavens of another time and place, Koch really has taken it to the limit this time around. A winner throughout.”
I hate it when people think they have out grown their influences and try to wear other skins because of what other people will think. If you were ever a cat that thought space was the place, David is right there with you to re-launch that mindset. Like Tomita and Holst taking on the planets, David takes on the cosmos with some weightless, gravity defying ‘music’ loaded with ambient and ambience. Slip this in your headphones and tune out the rest of the world. You need to do it and this is the prescription to take.
After her hippie conversion, revered 60s Ivory Snow girl, Molly Scott, was telling me how everything is interrelated. These long ago thoughts drifted into my head when first listening to Amberfern’s latest entry into Real Music’s Distant Horizons Series. Their take on a Turkish melody sounds an awful lot like one of Paul Winters desert explorations. With the Mediterranean being a sprawling body of water, there are a lot of different textures it touches along the way and you’ll get to taste them as this record goes along its way.
These flute meditations sound like Native American Indian introspective soundscapes but the surprise is that they are Eastern Indian soundscapes based on classic ragas. They are performed on flute with nary a sitar in earshot. While Oprah has yet to put the high sign on bansuri flute mediations, since nobody’s watching her network anyway, use your own powers of discovery. A masterful player that really knows the art, Teredesai knows the use of white space and melds the sound and the silence into a perfect new sonic trip for those that need music to lead them into the chill out zone.
