Soft and soothing, this track speaks to my heart optimistically. Violin is melting with tunes and my heart.

This beautiful and catchy instrumental music is both relaxing and uplifting, with dynamic and meaningful undertones. Gentle guitars and violins accent this journey into a new universe of sound, an exciting expedition leading to a deeper experience of the senses. The Present is relief for the soul!  The album was recorded and mixed in Samso, Denmark and Alicante, Spain, and is the successor to the best-selling album Harmony. (source)

Beth, I’m with you –Primavera is one of the best tracks and has the creativity and gentleness in creation to remain evergreen. I wish to review this The Present soon. And BTW, what a name!

The Present is a gift for those who understand, indeed!

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According to Gunn (CEO of Gemini Sun Records and produce of LIVE!), “Fans of our music are constantly asking us about performing concerts. By offering this Live! album as both an audio and visual package, we feel it gives those fans a very good indication of the experience of attending one of our shows. By offering the concert on CD and DVD, it makes it easy to enjoy the music anywhere, anytime.”

“It’s interesting that all four of us started our careers playing in pop and rock bands, and we are all experienced live performers,” explains Gunn. “By putting all of us into one concert situation, it really keeps the action moving. From artist to artist and style to style, there is lot of powerful music being presented in this Live! recording.”

You can purchase Live! in online outlets like Amazon and CDbaby which contains an audio CD as well as a DVD with 15 beautiful tracks and brief interview interludes of each artist’s personality and music.

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“Mantras for my children…and yours: Sanskrit chants to calm active children,” is a mantra meditation cd produced by stay-at-home mother, Nina Patel, to help calm and relax active children by means of chanting mantras. Her interest in producing the mantra cd came about by chance. She is Reiki Healer and practices Yoga, Tai Chi and Dahn Mu Do.

“I noticed my children became more relaxed as they heard me chant mantras and affirmations in the morning, a ritual that I practice for personal growth,” says Nina who goes by the artist name Mantra Mom. “So, I started chanting mantras with my children on our way to school to center them for the day and before bedtime to ease them to sleep. I also chanted mantras to soothe them during times of anxiousness. What I eventually found was that chanting became a great emotional release for my children when they had difficulty articulating their feelings,” she adds.

In the press release it is said that “Unlike any other mantra cd on the market, the mantras are performed like a rap to a backdrop of hip-hop music, making chanting fun and easy for children of today’s generation. The tracks are also purposefully arranged to slowly ease the child to a calm meditative state by gradually moving from hip-hop to moody new age music.”

This 10 track album was released on May 8th and it’s 10% of the sales would go to Vibha, a non-profit organization that helps builds schools and provide healthcare for underprivileged children in India. You can avail this CS at Mantramom.com, Cdbaby.com, Amazon.com (August) and Target.com (in August).

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RJ Lannan of New Age Reporter compares Jillian Goldin with Enya. In a review of Jillian Goldin’s Origins, he says

“Where Enya Brennan left off, Jillian Goldin could make a good beginning. Enya is noted for her ethereal vocals that are enveloped in New Age and Celtic themes. Jillian Goldin takes wing and soars aloft on her new album Origins, aptly named as her first foray into the genre. [...] Her voice is warm and her delivery is that of a friendly musical raconteur that will appeal to a vast audience. I can’t wait for the next album.”

I’m a big fan of Enya. And when one compares someone else with Enya, I cannot wait to listen to and compare each one’s merit. Adding to this album to my wishlist to review it soon!

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He says “What I’m really conscious of trying to avoid is the cheese factor…I don’t want this to be labeled New Age, light music. It’s an intense music in that it draws from the pure jazz tradition. It’s not watered-down music for meditation, not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

I can see Davis is more attached with the sounds of nature which is of course can be called New Age. But it’s the musical right of an artist to claim his creation in his own term.

While speaking about life in McGill University in Montreal, he said “It was a crisis, you could call it. I pulled out of school, and I spent a lot of time in the woods thinking about things.”

“There’s a certain aspect of being present in the world that’s harder to do today,” he added. “We’re not encouraged to be present to the sounds and sights around us. Not just in the wilderness – even just walking down Commonwealth Avenue – you can catch a rhythm of things, and hear things that are unique.”
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