Topic: Dyan Garris
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This is New Age music for self-healing, relaxation and vibrational attunement of mind, body, and spirit. All you do is listen. Dyan's CDs have earned the "National Health & Wellness" Stamp of Approval. Tracks of soothing instrumental music, for both the seasoned meditator and the novice. The journeys are a refreshing escape. Take off the burdens of the day and put on this serenity for the soul. Dyan’s music can be heard internationally on www.RADIOnuages.com and numerous radio stations. Music charting #1 on Music Choice’s “Soundscapes” cable TV channel. Her "Spiritus Sanctus Vol. 1 and Volume 2 and "Release" were nominated for New Age Reporter Lifestyle Awards.

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Topic: Harlan Mark Vale
My name is Harlan Mark Vale. I am a musician. I live and breathe music. Without music, there is no life. I am also spirit. The journey that got me to this realization is also the journey that created the album, Bright Angel. The music I have created here is a free-flowing river of the Divine expressing itself through me. My formal music training began at The Evergreen State College in Washington State in the 70’s, where I studied electronic music and audio engineering. Later, I performed with Trillium, The New Art Orchestra, and others creating free improvisational jazz and experimental genres playing piano, synthesizer and percussion. After years of playing and recording electronic music covering many genres, I have finally returned to my beginnings; the piano. This is where my hearts speaks to me most clearly. The album title, “Bright Angel” came about after spending time at the Grand Canyon. There is a feature in the canyon called Bright Angel Point as well as a trailhead by the name of Bright Angel Trail. These features are moving and inspiring by their very nature. While at the canyon, I discovered a baby grand piano on the mezzanine above the lobby at the El Tovar Hotel, situated on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was here that I gave birth to the music portrayed on the Bright Angel CD. These pieces are my attempt to capture the majesty and serenity I feel being and performing at the Grand Canyon.

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Topic: Randy Granger
Randy Granger is an innovative award-winning songwriter, composer and independent recording artist based in New Mexico. His distinctive Southwest Americana style fuses New-Folk, Native American Flutes and the modern and mesmerizing Hang Drum. This new CD presents eight original peaceful, haunting, joyful songs evoking the rich and ancient spirit of the Desert Southwest. Relaxing, meditataive flute music that paints a vivid soundscape from this native musician and songwriter who's music is heard on RADIOnuages as well as other radio series like Hearts of Space, NativeRadio, Audiosyncracy and many public, community and internet radio stations and podcasts. Uplifting, peaceful, transcendently earthy Native American flute music. Solo flute, hang drum by panart and percussion. Perfect for studying, writing, meditating, yoga.

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Now Playing: Anewday
Topic: Rob Miller

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There is nothing I like better than New Age and Celtic music performed by an orchestra or an ensemble and the new album by Anewday fills the bill rather nicely. Their recording called Autumn Musings is chock full of haunting piano, lush strings and memorable compositions. The music is perfect for counting the silver of scudding clouds, observing the yellow of goldenrod fields and watching the ochre flurry of falling leaves. I was fortunate enough to first hear this music the day after the first thunderstorm of fall and the air was clear, almost sharp and the subtle changes of the season made their first appearance. The music was perfect.

The birth of Canadian duo Anewday is simple really. A chance meeting at a music store brought pianist Rob Miller and orchestrator Rob Huestis together. What they had in common, music, ambition and potential, would forge an alliance that was more than strong enough to produce great songs. Anewday was formed when the duo realized that they had enough music to fill an album. They also had common histories. Both had families that had deep musical roots. Both had classical training, but stretched their imaginations to embrace other genres and both share a passion for everything they do on and off the musical playing field. ----------R J LANNON, NewAge Reporter

Beyond The Edge of Time
Now Playing: This long-awaited follow-up to Yrsan Daro's debut CD,
Topic: Yrsan daro

A powerful fusion of New Age and World music, "Beyond the Edge of Time" builds on the passion first expressed in "Dreams of Wind and Water", adding multi-layered synthesizers and percussion to Daro's virtuoso piano stylings. Daro's passionate style and melodic inventiveness have been rapidly gaining him fans around the world, and his teaming with Ed Bonk of LAZZ Promotions has made "Dreams of Wind and Water" a staple on New Age radio playlists. His latest CD, "Beyond the Edge of Time" is a companion piece to "Dreams of Wind and Water", it still features the scintillating piano work of the "Dreams", but the songs also include hard-edged percussion, synthesizers, and a variety of world and ethnic instruments.

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The chant craze has been over for a decade, but Paul Schwartz continues with his State of Grace project, setting Latin texts and hymns to modern settings. On the third album in the series, he leads with his strong suit, the powerful, impassioned voice of Lisbeth Scott. She's been the featured singer with State of Grace since the first album, which no doubt led to her being the voice of John Debney's score to The Passion of the Christ. Over a chugging electronica beat, she intones the Latin hymn "Christe Redemptor" like a plea to a lost lover, recalling her performance on "Veni Redemptor Gentium" from the first CD. Scott shines throughout the album, including on the urgent plea of "To You" and the Abbess Hildegard-like strains of "Somnium." Schwartz has a good ear for the ancient, but perhaps it's beginning to sound antique even to him. That may be why the album sounds like such a hodgepodge of neo-gothic pop-classical romanticism. There are orchestral opuses ("Lux Aeterna") and a piano-violin duet ("Soledad"), gospel hymns ("Beams of Heaven") and pop songs that wouldn't sound out of place on a Celine Dion album ("Center of My Heart"). It tends to undermine his initial concept without providing a breakthrough into something new. --John Diliberto

 

 

RECONNECTIONS
Now Playing: Native American Flute
Topic: R. Carlos Nakai

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The fluid resonance of traditional cedar flute, luminous guitars and the undulating rhythms and textures of electronica weave sonic excursions into the night lounge of the world reconnecting past and present. Cliff Sarde, William Eaton and Randy Wood join Nakai on this beautiful album.

"When Nakai rides the waves created by Sarde, Eaton, and percussionist Randy Wood on "Dreaming Worlds," it makes you realize again why he's the Miles Davis of the Native flute, exploring new terrain, bringing the best out of his musicians, and creating cogent, centered solos. He's not only a defining voice on the flute, but he elevates anyone playing with him. Reconnections wires up new connections in R. Carlos Nakai's continuing evolution". --John Diliberto

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GNOSIS Round Sky Music
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Topic: Paul Avgerinos

A rich soundscape of Greek Ambience, GNOSIS journeys deep into our ancient roots to find a resonance for today .
GNOSIS means knowing & knowledge - Gnostic wisdom comes to life in this rich tapestry of ancient Greek chants, Tabla, Oud, Sarangi,Cello, Angelic Choirs . . . Awaken now, journey to the center of your heart into pure being into G N O S I S

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With 5 Grammy nominations, Avgerinos is one of the giants of Ambient music All Music Guide
In 2005, Paul’s albums MAYA & Phos Hilaron won Best album art and Top Five Ambient / Relaxation / Meditation awards and were Top Ten on the New Age radio chart for Four months . Paul Avgerinos is a classically trained composer and studio owner whose music is broadcast all over the world . [Ed Bonk Lazz Promotions]