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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Since when I got this album last week, I kept listening to it for I don’t want to take a quick sip and base my review on it. First, I like to thankful for the Goldin’s wonderful work of art. Having a taste for Wordsworth, Francis Thompson, Robert Frost and so forth, I couldn’t keep myself away from commenting on the simple yet deep moving thoughts and feelings captured through the lyrics–short crisp well chosen words, to be concise.

Into light
Into sound
Into time
Let love surround
Let love surround

Lyric (from Deliverance of the Heart) as simple as above through her enigmatic voice conveys a lot, emphasizing the lines in the liner notes:

Noting the lack of lyric-centric works in contemporary New Age music, through Origins Jillian emphasizes her belief that words and music together have the potential to traverse exciting terrain, weaving an elaborate tapestry of sound and thought that is unique to one’s own perceptions.  The album is as much an exploration in text as in music, unified by themes of mystery, plight, and catharsis.

Reading the credit section of the album, I was quite surprised to note that Jillian Goldin has written the lyric for all songs, performed all of them and composed music for most of them. Origins composed of 9 vocal tracks and 2 instrumental tracks (11 in total) is a creation of Jillian Goldin (lyric, music, and performance) and Andrew Aversa who has taken the production and Engineering for the album.

Track Listing

1. Hajime
2. Red July
3. The Winds of Change
4. The Secret Guards of Kalé
5. Wildland                             (Instrumental)
6. Twilight Chaser
7. To the Forgotten Temple…    (Instrumental)
8. Breathe and Dive
9. Avalon
10. Shadows
11. Deliverance of the Heart

To be fair, I must acknowledge that the very first track Hajime hasnt impressed me anyway. I felt the lyric howsoever good doesn’t fit into the music and the music seemed like a foot cutout (and puffed in) to fit the size of the shoe. Except for that track, I enjoyed listening to Origins and it’s a worthy collection in my music library both for its literary and musical value. I wish Jillian Goldin and Andrew Aversa a very good future and look forward for more promising albums in future, also.

PS: About the Enya vs Goldin stuff, I still feel that Enya stands apart for what her music feels like. Goldin may or may not be compared to Enya, but all that, I feel, cannot be concluded by Origins, alone. Time decides….

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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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Artist: LVNMUZIQ            Label:Self Released

Artist: Star Anna            Label: Malamute Records

Artist: Global Noize            Label: Shanachie

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This Bavaria born sitarist Al Gromer Khan recently added a new album in his discography. On April 25th Al Gromer Khan’s New album Negus has been released following his previous album Indian Music II – Tea Time Ragas which hit themarket on January 01, 2008. Artist khan derived his inspiration for music and his musical instrument sitar from master sitarist Imrat Khan, Gromer and Vilayat Khan. Fans can purchase Al Gromer Khan’s Negus in his site, hope I don’t find the album in other online shopping sites.

Khan says in his official site about his new album NEGUS , “The title NEGUS started as a tongue-in-cheek idea: Aid for the spiritually developing countries of the white man. I want this music to honour three principles: African culture, the sovereign and that of translating traditional and popular music onto a plane sublime. The latter has been my endeavour during the last thirty years: through a kind of abstraction and reducing the entertaining aspects, a more profound satisfaction in music should be achieved, similar to what Wassily Kandinsky did in visual arts a hundred years previously. I gathered that if I could draw bliss from this type of music there is bound to be others in a global context experiencing similarely.”

Tracklistings

1. The Enthronement of Hank W (King of Loisiana)
2. Dance the Negus
3. Sadness and the Scorpion
4. Das Prinzip König
5. The Silent Aspect of Marvin Gaye
6. Female Sexuality (enjoyed – reflected – worshipped)
7. The Crowning of Emperor Haile Selassie
8. African Solutions to Global Problems (and the reasons thereof)
9. Gone to Timbuktu ( with Mr C )

Image source: Rasateatime.com

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Recently Phil Coulter has released his new album “Timeless Tranquility: 20 Year Celebration” which I’m planning to add to my music collection. Since from his first “Tranquility” album, I’m a fan of Phil Coulter, one of the best-selling instrumental artists of the past twenty years and a man with profound music sense with high tour profile.

Track Listings:

1. Nancy Spain
2. Black Is The Colour
3. The Red Rose Café
4. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. Ellis Island
6. The Dutchman
7. Caledonia
8. Grace
9. Long, Long Before Your Time
10. Macushla
11. The Rose Of Allendale
12. The Voyage
13. You Raise Me Up
14. Cal/Local Hero

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Track Listings:

1. In the beginning
2. Lucky Star
3. Don t you know
4. Marimba
5. Closer
6. Return of the Rainman
7. Blew my mind
8. Constellation of Dreams
9. Don t you know pt 2
10. Keep movin on
11. Revival
12. Till the next time
13. Take 1

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