New Age Vibe

 One of the popular new age music labels, Gemini Sun Records has just released its concert recording: LIVE. This 74-minute concert album features the company’s 4 best-selling musicians – David Arkenstone, Loren Gold, Nicholas Gunn and Johannes Linstead. The four featured performers spotlighted on their main instruments with energy and bubbling zeal –– Arkenstone on electric guitar, Gold on acoustic grand piano, Gunn on flutes and Linstead on nylon-string acoustic guitar. The concert remained an unique  global fusion sound of both energetic new age and world music.

According to Gunn (CEO of Gemini Sun Records and produce of LIVE!), “Fans of …read more

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Oh my midos! I got a great news for you who love Buddha Lounge. Amazon provides amazing offer on Buddha Lounge albums. You get 24% off on every purchase of Buddha Lounge Vol.5 and Buddha Lounge Vol6.

Starting from my musical exposure to New Age Music, I have keen interest in Buddha Lounge releases. These albums are quite well known and are almost listened by new age lovers and meditaters. Even once, Shankar has written about his favorite Buddha chill outs which include Buddha Lounge. Please do share if you got any thing special or discounts on Buddha Lounge albums.

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5 days passed since Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia’s 70th birthday. Living in Pondicherry in South India, it was not possible for me to attend the grand function in Mumbai (24hrs travel by train from my place) for Hariji’s bday. I hoped for some fans of Harji who have been to the function to upload the perforamance on youtube. At last here is a video from the function — Sonu Nigam, “India’s best playback singer or as the Golden Voice of Indipop”, performing live at Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia’s 70th birthday celebration. I wish Harji’s fans upload more video music …read more

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In my ever longing search to understand the Upanishads, I found this album UPANISHAD AMRUT by Panit Shivkumar Sharma to be an excellent one for mediation and thereby understanding Upanishad personally. The sanskrit slokas receited by Shankar Mahadevan and Dewaki Pandit take the listener to ethereal space and bring peace and harmony to the listener. I’m listening to it @ work where my DJ D.M., plays this album so often and I cannot describe the joyfulness I feel after listening to the album, especially to the Yan Manasa Na Manute Yena track.
Pitiably, there isn’t any review on this album …read more

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Neither I’m married nor am I a father of a child who has known all the patting and pissing of children. Yet I can present you with Mantras for your children.
“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 …read more

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Dear Readers, my friend Mohanraj Thangarasu is joining with me on this blog and am very happy to invite and introduce him to my readers. Mohanraj and I are friends since childhood sharing a common music interest for more than 10 years. He is graduate in English literature doing his post-graduation in the same.
A quick intro of his music interest and his taste of language is already seen in his first post on hang. And as far as the other interesting bits about him, physically, he occupies much space on a seat than I (like the bulldog on the right) …read more

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Music has the magic of turning sadness into happiness, reality into dreamy, death to life (I have heard death-to-life Indian tales!). Often it happens… I found myself missed somewhere amidst New Age music, World, Celtic, Ambient, and Carnatic. I guess the title “I lost myself when I see them in Hang” may mean something dramatic if you are unaware of a relatively new musical Instrument “Hang”.
To my Enya and Yanni friendly ears, this very strange instrument become too close to heart as I do with Jim Brickman’s piano and Kitaro’s bells. Hang was created in Jan 2000 at Switzerland …read more

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Jonathan Still, classical guitarist and composer, makes me no wonder in producing so relaxing and peaceful album “Under the Bodhi Tree” for he came from a musical family. If he missed mom teaching him piano sure he would hear his sister play them on. That’s how Jonathan gets himself into music. Jonathan has composed and produced music for television and radio advertisements, music libraries, and independent movies and documentaries.

It was a fun experience which pushed him to record a second album which would eventually be known to the world as ‘Under the Bodhi Tree.’ The album picked up where the …read more

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It’s Father’s Day, time to greet and thank your dad for all he has done for you. Let Father’s Day be your way to spread the message of love. You can convey your feelings for your father with special gift. Midos, I do remember a Jewish proverb: “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
Presenting your dad with a light music CD will be a great idea. After a busy day he might feel difficult to sleep. A soft and soothing New Age Music can help clear his mind …read more

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Kitaro,Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist, has gifted us highly melodic synthesizer music often associated with the new-age. He says of teaching himself, “I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings.” He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. “This music is not from my mind,” he said. “It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don’t read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder, ‘Who’s song is this?’ I write my songs, but they are …read more

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