Category: Music Reviews

In this new era of “conscious entertainment,” one would be challenged to find more positive music than Michele de Wilton’s mystically beautiful Myths & Legends. In her new album of musical storytelling via piano solos, the artist delivers soothing music sophisticated enough for adults, yet also enjoyable for children of all ages.
The artist — an [...]

The Renewing
Isaac Shepard (2009): 33mins (approx)
http://www.isaacshepard.com
Review by Kate Russell
“The Renewing” is the third album by Isaac Shepard. A composer for twenty years, Isaac finds inspiration in travel, the beauty of life and, perhaps most importantly, his faith. In his words “(He’s) just trying to do (his) small part in sharing the peace and joy that [...]

Modern Meditations series (Rock classics, Beatles Songs, Modern classics)
Paradise Music Ltd. (2009) various lengths, approx one hour each
www.modernmeditations.com
Review by Kate Russell
Do you have a problem with pan flutes or wind chimes? Does the vast majority of meditation music makes your ears bleed and send you running for the hills? Do you wish that meditation music [...]

Rise by Jim Chappell
Unspeakable Freedom Music (2009) 57:50 minutes
www.jimchappell.com
Review by Kate Russell
This album is from a relative veteran of the New Age Music Scene. Now some twenty years since his first album was released, and with many more of them under his belt, Jim Chappell’s new release, ‘Rise’ describes itself as a “soothing, inspiring, solo [...]

The New Seed by Zera Vaughan
Media in Sync / Orson / Sledge (2009) 55:00 minutes
www.zeravaughan.com
Review by Kate Russell
Created alongside French producer/composer Cyril Morin, Zera Vaughan’s new album “The New Seed” is a time warp back to the early ’90s when moody, after-dark, trip-hop such as that played by predecessors such as Portishead, Massive Attack and [...]

Nature Angels by Andreas
Paradise Music Ltd. (2009) 53:05 minutes
www.paradisemusic.co.uk/www.paradisemusic.us.com
Review by Kate Russell
A celebration of Goddess energy, Andreas’ “Nature Angels” album is a story told through music; an escape into the world of the ‘little people’ and those stewards of nature they watch over. For those of you wondering what Nature Angels are, the album describes [...]

Love by Paul Avgerinos
RoundSkyMusic.com (2009) 63:17 minutes
www.roundskymusic.com
Review by Kate Russell
Seeing in technicolour, feeling goosebumps and a slowly spreading pleasant warmth. What`s this feeling? It`s “Love” by Paul Avgerinos.
Touchingly dedicated to his parents, who Avgerinos credits with showing him “… by their selflessness and devotion, what true Love really is”, this hour and a bit, nine [...]

Through Memory’s Perception by Transcend with Time (Mark M)
Transcend with Time (2009) 62:00 minutes
www.myspace.com/transcendwithtime
Review by Kate Russell
Listed on Transcend with Time’s myspace page, composer and musician ‘Mark M’ states that he would “like to do music for films, commercials etc”. I feel he should extend this list to making music for video games, as this [...]

Drive Time Rx by Steven Halpern
Steven Halpern/Inner Peace Music (2009) 69:12 minutes
www.innerpeacemusic.com
Review by Kate Russell
Of all the types of albums one can review, ‘subconscious messaging’ types have to be the hardest. It seems that so much depends on subjective factors, such as personal suggestibility, or the severity of the problem one seeks help for at [...]

Ten Million Moons
By Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits
Mantralogy & Equal Vision Records Inc. (2009) 68:11 minutes
www.gauravani.com / www.equalvision.com / www.mantralogy.com
Review by Kate Russell
Trying to make traditional forms of music more appealing to the mainstream is certainly a challenging prospect, especially when dealing with a form as ancient and obscure (at least to most western [...]

Lullabies for Grownups: The Moon
By Kate Kohler
Piano Music For/Kate Kohler (2009) 65:00 minutes
www.pianomusicfor.com
Review by Kate Russell
Kate Kohler’s ‘Lullabies for Grownups’ ‘The Moon’ CD is the newest of three in her Lullabies for Grownups Series. A singer and pianist with a few albums to her name, this latest piano-only offering of moon inspired compositions offers some [...]

Harp Therapy
By Lizary Rodriguez Rios
Libre Productions (2009) 58:18 minutes
www.lizary.net
Review by Kate Russell

Walking through a glade of shimmering notes, “The Purple Bamboo” marks the beginning of what is to be a magical journey through Lizary Rodriguez Rios’ Harp Therapy CD, a perfect hideaway of songs for an escape from the heat and stress of your worldly [...]