The natural bridge between Rock N Roll and Classical Music was the new genre of New Age Music.
I totally believe that this music was created to take the true spiritual seekers
from the 60s generation and take them higher into or within themselves.

I have been listening to this music since the late 70s and with the help of Hearts Of Space Radio Program
it was natural that we incorporate this musical genre into my life

For many years theHearts of Space producer and presenter, Stephen Hill,
has applied the term "space music" to the music broadcast on the show, irrespective of genre.

Whether you are a healing practitioner, massage therapist,
Wall Street broker, old hippie still living in your bus, or whoever--
this music is a beautifully balanced blend and true bridge from the 60s Music
we have grown to love and play over and over again.

Please make note that most of the musicians in this genre were in the 60s Movement
or were inspired by it in some way...assisting us into higher dimensions...
higher consciousness and realizing our own inner beauty. So please Enjoy!!

LionHeart
December 2007

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A Message of Sound
by Kitaro
I send a message of sound
towards the Sky
Engulfing empty Space
Soaring far beyond grasp
High above Mountain Tops
Beyond Ocean Waves
Stretching to Reach the Andes
and Lightly touching Nepal

Watch as the Sounds flow
Listen as you feel the Wind blow
is colored with Romance
Unfolding a Drama day by day
Plants breathe in Rhythm
Insects play their Melody
Light flies as Wind cries

Now catch the Sound...Feel the Light
By feeling things which are with Life
Innocents respond to the delicate Sigh
of the World, Weaving their own Dreams
Dreams which spread throughout the World
People begin to Sing Harmonies of Love, wordless

This is a beginning
Connecting the Dream
to the Color of your breathless Heart

Peace and Tranquillity, you need only to sing
It is for you.

The Crimson Collection!
It is hard to beat this beautiful, warm, mystical music.
The music is incredibly enchanting with its
amazing harp and the beautiful voice of Kim Robertson.

There are many Vedic (Hindu) chants here-that-
if Not knowing the deity mantra or spirit of the 'guru' ,
that will not spoil the enjoyment of this incredible collection of Sing Kaur.

If you are building a collection of music to heal by, work by or teach by,
these are an absolute MUST-HAVE.
They will aid your work in ways you can't imagine.

The repetition of Indian chant
and the soothing sound of Celtic harp make a wonderful combination.

This is not for pure etertainment or dinner music;
it is for meditation, sensuality, and relaxation.

Sheila Chandra
Sheila Chandra (b. 1965-03-14) is an English pop singer of Indian descent.
Sheila Chandra first came to widespread public attention as an actress,
playing Sudhamani Patel in the BBC school drama Grange Hill.

As a teenager she formed the band Monsoon,
and created a fusion of Western (synthpop) and Indian pop styles.
She married Steve Coe, who became the band's producer
and along with Martin Smith, the band evolved into this talented trio.

They made a lone album Third Eye in 1982
from which they had a surprise hit single "Ever So Lonely".
Monsoon recorded a varied selection of songs.
The album also includes a cover of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows",
featuring the distinctive EBow guitar sound of Bill Nelson.
However, resenting pressure from their record company over musical direction,
Monsoon as a band dissolved and Coe and Smith set about promoting Chandra
as a solo artist on an independent label.



Since 1992 she has shifted from the Indian-Western fusion
of synthesizer-centered pop to styles that draw
on British and Irish traditional singing traditions.

Chandra is a much-respected performer
on the world music scene and remains active into the 21st Century.
In 2002 she performed the song entitled Breath Of Life
with Howard Shore for the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack.

Kitaro
Kitaro (born Masanori Takahashi on 1953-02-04,
in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist.
His stage name was given later by friends because of a Japanese television
anime character named Kitaro, from Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro.
He is the son of shintoistic farmers.

Inspired by the R&B music of Otis Redding,
Kitaro taught himself how to play guitar.
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, 'Whose song is this?'
I write my songs, but they are not my songs."

Kitaro is very modest.
"Nature inspires me.
I am only a messenger", he has said.
"To me, some songs are like clouds, some are like water".
Since 1983, his reverence for nature has led Kitaro to annually give thanks
to Mother Nature in a special "concert" on Mount Fuji
or near his house in Colorado.
On the day of the full moon of August
he beats on the Taiko drum from dusk to dawn.
Frequently his hands become bloodied, but he continues to pound.

Deuter
Born Georg Deuter in 1945
in post war Germany in the town of Falkenhagen,
he taught himself the guitar, the flute, harmonica
and "just about every instrument I could get my hands on,"
though it wasn’t until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties
that he decided to pursue a career in music.

His first release in 1970,
entitled “D,” is widely acknowledged as a Krautrock classic.
“D” marked the beginning of Deuter’s spiritual and musical journey,
ostensibly paving the way for a new genre of music known as “New Age,”
which combined acoustic and electronic elements with
ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds,
such as whale and bird song, the open sea, wind in the trees, et cetera.

During the Seventies and Eighties,
Deuter traveled extensively in Asia in search of
spiritual and creative inspiration,
settling for long periods of time in Pune, India,
where he took on the spiritual name Chaitanya Hari
and became a sannyasin or student of the
controversial spiritual teacher Bhagwan,
who later changed his name into Osho.





Daniel Kobialka!
World-renowned violinist Daniel Kobialka embraces both the
classic and the avant-garde in his search to create sounds that enliven and heal.

At age 15 Daniel made his concert debut at Carnegie Hall,
and also appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Four years later, he made his critically acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall.

Daniel Kobialka was Principal 2nd Violinist
with the San Francisco Symphony for over two decades,
occupying the Dinner and Swig Families Chair.
“I found years ago that music creates a healing environment."

Michael Tilsen Thomas states,
“Daniel Kobialka brings to life music of the past,
present and future, and communicates true joy.”

Kobialka is widely sought after internationally
as a performer and lecturer, as well as composer.
He has performed at major events in Europe,
Taiwan and Japan where his recordings are best sellers.

In order to freely pursue his own interpretations of the classics,
as well as his profound interest in more avant-garde music,
Kobialka founded his own record label, LiSem Inc.
which has sold millions since its inception in 1981.

Daniel Kobialka's albums span the musical territories of
Celtic and American folk melodies,
expressing the universal language of music
as well as the intimacy and familiarity of family and friends.

On "Celtic Fantasy" you'll find timeless folk melodies including
Amazing Grace, Auld Lang Syne, Loch Lomand and the Greensleeves Fantasy.
"World on a String" takes you on a journey around the planet,
from Japan, to the Caribbean, to Africa, and more.
"Going Home Again" presents classics that evoke the intimacy
of a quiet dinner, time spent with family and friends,
and the home we experience as a child and as an adult,
deep within the heart.

Merlin's Magic
Merlin's Magic was one of the pioneers in developing music specifically for Reiki.
The CDs are a wonderful background for treatments, classes or discussions.

These albums can also be enjoyed while meditating, studying, sleep disorders,
making love, working on the computer, and to relieve stress and anxiety-LH_

Reiki has a very unique history.
Although the Reiki energy itself goes back over 2500 years,
as evidenced in Sanskrit Sutras,
and the writings of Tibetan Monks and Enlightened Masters,
the history of Reiki at taught today is much more modern.
It begins in the early 1900s.
Evidence of Reiki from before World War II remained in Japan
and has been rediscovered to the rest of the world very recently.

Reiki is a Japanese word meaning "Universal Life-Force-Energy".

The "Ki" part is the same word as Chi or Qi,
the Chinese word for the energy which underlies everything.
Reiki is a system for channeling that energy to someone for the purpose of healing.

Steven Halpern
There is a scientific principle called entrainment.
If two items are vibrating side by side at different speeds then the item that vibrates
at the lower speed will adjust to vibrate at the same frequency as the other object.
Examples of this are swings in a playground that are swinging out of sync and adjust.
Also, in a clock store you may notice the pendulum clocks of the same size swinging back and forth in unison.

Applied to sound your different chakras or energy points vibrate
at different frequencies and notes vibrating at a specific rate for a prolonged period
will cause your energy points to reattune themselves,
and bring your chakras back into balance, and promote a sense of well being and peace.

Steven Halpern's music and all his work applies these principles using
swirling harmonics and overtones and beautiful instrumental sounds
such as chimes and Tibetan and crystal bowls , also the Rhodes piano to create an atmospheric sounds.





Raphael
Raphael (no last name) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised by Benedictine nuns.
Under their tutelage and encouragement, he developed a love for music,
first learning about classical music and Gregorian chant.

As a young man, after playing gypsy violin on the streets and utilizing his talents in rock bands,
Raphael studied the piano formally at the San Francisco Conservatory.
He later spent a decade at Esalen, the renowned Northern California spiritual community.
It was during his time there that he began to blend his various influences,
draw from multiple cultures for compositional inspiration,
and forge his signature style of healing and relaxation music.

Originally issued in 1989,
Music To Disappear In was his first recording for the label Hearts of Space.
A bit dated by this juncture, these nine songs,
all original compositions but for the traditional opener ("Disappearing Into You"),
use piano and keyboards as a central voice,
creating a lulling web of atmospheric string sounds complemented by flute and percussion.
Long used by body workers, Music To Disappear In is the very definition of New Age relaxation music. --Paige La Grone-

Medwyn Goodall
From his home and studio in rural Cornwall,
Medwyn Goodall has devoted himself to reflecting
the beauty and inspiration of nature through his music.

He plays over a dozen instruments,
although his main instrument is the guitar,
with which he has evolved a unique style melodic and expressive.
His range is amazing,
including double bass, mandolin, piano, drums, harp, percussion,
flute, glockenspiel, panpipes, vibraphone, and synthesizers of all types.

He has designed and built his own recording studio,
stocking it with many varities of synthesizers, guitars and a wealth of acoustic instruments.

Medwyn Goodall uses traditional instruments and rhythms to celebrate the power of the Feminine.

"Through this balance, we can achieve a greater harmony with the expansive,
nurturing side of ourselves.nd graceful a music that is both inspiring and calming." -M.G.-

Liquid Mind
Liquid Mind is the name used by
Los Angeles composer and producer Chuck Wild.
There are few composers with as much love for
slowness in their music as Wild.
Chuck draws from classical and pop influences as varying as
Beethoven and Brian Eno, Bartok and Rachmaninoff,
Bach, Chopin and Fauré, Duruflé and Brahms.

"I originally wrote the music of Liquid Mind to be of service
to myself, my friends, and family
in dealing with the anxiety & stress of working long hours,
and also for friends and family dealing with the stress of
life-threatening illnesses like cancer & HIV.

The Liquid Mind albums seem to have an immediate
"slowing down" effect on many listeners,
and may also help some people get to sleep,
and relax deeply after a tension-filled day.

The ultimate compliment to me is that people fall asleep to my music.
This is functional music,
it seeks to serve the purpose of assisting us to be tranquil,
when that is not easy in today's world.
Thatās why the compositions are longer than normal,
and very slow in tempo.
This music is very special to me, it is my labor of love,
I hope you enjoy it.

I am a shameless advocate of life in the slow lane.
For many years, I worked eighteen or more hours a day, seven days a week.
Your body will always exact a toll for such abuse.
I started composing slow music to help me find some peace and quiet,
to get back in touch with the fact that I am responsible for
the pace of my own life, to help me unify body, mind, and spirit."

-Chuck Wild-

Gary Stadler
Gary Stadler is a New Age pianist, composer, songwriter and producer,
specializing in contemporary Celtic-influenced themes and atmospheres.
Stadler's six albums generally focus on imaginative concepts
loosely based in Celtic mythology, especially stories of the realm of Faerie.
His music combines melodic elements of rare world instruments,
mastery of synthesizer orchestrations and studio techniques.
Three of his albums feature collaborations with female vocalists
Singh Kaur, Stephannie and Wendy Rule.

The artwork on Stadler's first two albums
was created by Las Vegas artist Katlyn Breene of Zingaia
(who also wrote some of the lyrics on Fairy NightSongs
and Fairy HeartMagic) and San Diego artist Scott Thom,
known for his original airbrush paintings
coveted by collectors and his line of New Age greeting cards.

There are many faeries on the artwork for the albums.
Some of them are painted or drawn,
but some of them are real people made to look small with wings like faeries.
One of the faeries is Stephannie, who sings on one of the albums.

Michael Jones
During mid - career,
Michael stepped aside from his leadership consulting practice
to devote more time to his first love, the piano.
This led to the recording of Pianoscapes.
His first recording also became the first release for the newly formed
Milwaukee- based record company Narada Productions.
Pianoscapes went on to be Narada's best selling recording
and served as a benchmark for the popular emerging genre
of contemporary instrumental music.

Since then,
Michael has produced 15 more quality recordings
of his original piano compositions including Seascapes,
Touch and After the Rain.
His compositions have appeared on more than 30 compilations,
sold over two million units world-wide,
lead to a Juno nomination (A Canadian Grammy)
in the category of Best Instrumental Artist and established Michael
as one of the most influential pianists of our time.
Over the years Michael Jones has quietly established himself
as an inspired speaker and facilitator,
an accomplished pianist/composer, an evocative storyteller,
a thoughtful mentor, writer and communicator.
He is a gifted voice in weaving together metaphors from the arts
to introduce fresh perspectives in leadership development,
collective learning and organizational change.

Through exploring the intersections between
art, leadership, and collective innovation,
Michael articulates a new leadership story;

"....in times of uncertainty we need to look to the spaces
between for order and coherence - to gifts, beauty, voice and wholeness -
what may be called the commons of the imagination.
Awakening to the presence of the commons in both the
personal and public imagination is our new art form.
It is also the leader's new work. ....."

Michael Gettel
The way Michael Gettel blends the sounds
of his piano with whales, wind, water and birds
in his albums San Juan Suite and San Juan Suite 2,
it sounds like they are all part of his band.
His precise placement of the nature sounds
is so finely positioned that at first the listener might hear
them as other musicians working from the same score.

They are all part of the inspiration he draws
from the islands in the Puget Sound, Washington.

San Juan Suite, his first recording,
which featured solo piano with these nature sounds,
was recently remastered with two new cuts added.
After several other albums featuring more of a "fusion type of sound"
as he described it, he wanted to go back to a more stripped down sound.

He chose to collaborate with Sandin Wilson,
who had played fretless bass on other albums with him,
to create San Juan Suite 2.
Gettel's highly unusual choice results in stunningly beautiful music.
With only these two instruments, piano and fretless bass,
they have created something so rich and beautifully textured
that I found myself checking the liner notes to see if there were other musicians.
The only other human participation was from Randy Sherwood
who contributed vocals on two cuts.
I wondered how these elements were assembled so seamlessly.
The fluid fretless bass weaves smoothly in and out of the piano lines.
Some musicians simply use the nature sounds as a background
and place the music in the foreground.
Gettel's method is similar to the way Paul Winter
blends nature sounds and music.

Constance Demby
An internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated,
award winning performing and recording artist,
Constance Demby has been hailed as the 21st century’s
Mozart / Bach / Beethoven,
a tall order for anyone to be associated with,
but in Constance’s case one founded on the most
extraordinary musical and creative talent that is testimony to
her prolific output and the profound healing
both listeners and participants experience,
alongside critical acclaim that has followed her
every step of progress in a career spanning decades.

As a pioneer in her field,
Constance creates sounds you'd swear you never heard before;
yet, somewhere in some dim memory,
there is a faint memory echo - rich and compelling -
calling up archetypal experiences which access the deeper,
more profound levels of the mind-body-spirit.

One critic described the experience as,
" Constance weaves a symphonic journey that is essentially a transmission from above,
yet connects from the inside out - almost like you lose your feet but gain your soul.
As the tones are transmitted, a dimensional shift occurs, allowing listeners to open,
release and merge into states of expanded consciousness."




What is the
New Age Movement?

"The New Age movement is hardly novel!
Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions,
often based on mystical experiences, each within a different context.

Anthropologically, there have always been (wo)men within "primitive" societies
who were looked upon as possessing special knowledge and power.
Medicine men, or shamans, had undergone a spontaneous catharsis,
or were initiated and felt called upon
to maintain contact with the spirit world for the clan.
When communities became more complex and organized
there was little place for these loners.
Society began to specialize,
people realized and felt drawn to form groups, guilds, or societies,
to ensure continuance and growing perfection.

Contact with the spirit world was given
into the hands of organized religion,
which also provided an established answer
to questions about the unknown and the Highest Power.
People who felt endowed with special powers could hardly
adapt themselves to the corset of established faith.
They went underground.
Yet they endeavoured to contact kindred spirits and pupils
willing to follow in their footsteps to pass on the work.

Esoteric tradition became handed down
in spiritual groups, communes, or fraternities.
Their mutual devotion resulted in a high degree of perfection
comparable to the guilds of craftsmen.
In their mystical experiences they beheld a spiritual reality
that could hardly be reconciled with the dogmatic
representation given by the churches.
When passing on their experiences,
they had to exercise extreme caution, lest being accused of heresy.
Yet knowledgeable minds would understand their veiled writings,
symbolic representations, or even gestures.
In spite of all hindrances and opposition,
hidden (occult) spiritual tradition reached unknown shores!
One of them being Europe, where interest in ancient traditions was revived.

Interest in these traditions alternated.
After periods of decline,
often as a result of cultural and political conditions,
a growing need for revival of old almost forgotten values followed.
The occult tradition seems so tremendously
powerful that it cannot be suppressed.
It develops in cycles of flourishing and decline -
each renaissance with a fresh approach, adapted to the spirit of the times.

Renewed interest in these spiritual,
religious and magical traditions had a tremendous impact on the minds of humankind.
The latest revival in a popularized form is that of the New Age movement in the late sixties.

The common values held by New Agers and the Native Americans
have to do with attitudes toward the land, nature, reverence for all life,
spirit communications, healing ceremonies, and the knowledge of UFOs and star people.

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