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1. Song for the Morning Star 2. Daybreak Vision 3. Ancestral Home 4. Echoes of Time 5. Inward Journey 6. Creation Chant 7. Canyon People 8. Turquoise World 9. Cleft in the Sky 10. Spiral Passage 11. World of Rainbows 12. Waking Song 13. The Sacred Reed 14. Kokopelli Wind 15. Departure 16. Into the Maze 17. Homage to the Ancient Ones Format: CD More from R. Carlos Nakai Earth Spirit Winter Dreams for Christmas Mythic Dreamer: Music for Native American Flute Inner Voices Inside Canyon de Chelly Inside Monument Valley Changes: Native American Flute Music Migration Desert Dance

December holds the distinction of single-handedly putting Windham Hill on the map and being the new age album most likely to find its way into music collections of all ilk. In spite of being relentlessly overplayed during the holidays, the solo piano recording has aged quite well. Winston shapes holiday war-horses and original compositions into a captivating contemporary statement. His spare, understated style captures the feel of the dark season, employing ample resonance to evoke a reflective spaciousness. The album's straightforward simplicity conveys both the celebration and quietude that characterize the best of the Yuletide spirit. --Richard PriceA quintessential example of George Winston's "folk piano" style, December speaks to the spirit of the season. Mixing traditional carols, a couple of classical works, and his own originals, Winston drops notes with icy clarity into a winter silence, rippling through "Carol of Bells" and coaxing dark, introspective moods from his own suite, "Night." The pianist's liner notes are also a trip as he cites the numerous sources for his music. Who would've thought that the gentle melodies of "Peace" were inspired by the soundtrack to TV's The Outer Limits? This 20th anniversary edition, which includes two bonus tracks, is a vast sonic improvement over previous releases. --John Diliberto

Shamanic Dream by Anugama is especially suitable for trance meditations and relaxation. A heartbeat drum accompanies the continued low repetition of the mantra 'So Be It'.The second part is a journey through and meditation on the chakras, the energy centres of the human body.

This top selling New Age/World beat CD is smooth, silky, calming and peaceful. Featuring Deva Premal's transcendant voice, ambient grooves, keyboard and hand percussion, THE ESSENCE invokes the heart healing power of ancient chants and mantras. The Gayatri Mantra, the oldest known to mankind, is the centerpiece of this truly meditative CD. Ideal for yoga, healing work, meditation and dancing.

"This is the music of Earth Angels, listen with your 3rd ear!" Gabrielle Roth

It's been called the album that opened "a new chapter on steel-string guitar playing," and it's unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. Though Hedges had released the excellent Breakfast in the Field on Windham Hill in 1981, the Grammy-nominated Boundaries came as an unexpected revelation in 1985. On stirring, complex compositions like "Rickover's Dream," "Spare Change," and a deft instrumental reading of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," Hedges unleashed a stunning new vocabulary of finger-tapping, hammering, and harmonic slaps--processed with electronics and reverb--that still resounds today in the playing of artists from Ani Di Franco to Preston Reed. Steeped both in classical harmony and the fingerstyle guitar tradition of Leo Kottke, Martin Carthy, and John Renbourn, Boundaries remains the late composer-guitarist's seminal work, and its innovations in technique, tuning, tone, and intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles. --James Rotondi

This bestselling CD, loved by therapists and healers around the world, is excellent music for any kind of deep work: Reiki, meditation, massage, or relaxation. Long sonorous tones and a rhythmic underlying pulse create a gently supportive, ambient soundscape. An essential addition to any healing collection.

Reviews "...an exquisite creation of sounds to promote deep states of relaxation." --New Age Retailer magazine

Finalist: Best Meditation/Healing --New Age Voice Music Award

Don't let the incessant tinkle-pounding of the opener "Tamarack Pines" detour you from Forest. It's a lovely CD that meanders like a Montanan stream through the poetry of Winston's signature cinematic style. "Forbidden Forest" gently muses with an introspective, solitary air, while "Cloudy This Morning" emulates the varying shades of gray melancholy that come with an overcast sky. These are some of Winston's best moments, when his inspiration sings through his fingers and pierces the listener's soul, forcing an aching response void of language or any conscious behavior. Winston's choice of covers reflects this transcendent, poetic tension well. Unlike the more rural Plains, where several covers come across clearly as another artist's voice, the majority of covers on Forest--particularly those of Howard Blake's music to The Snowman--match Winston's emotive paintings of sound. Forest is a beautiful collection that does justice to the sublime mystique of its namesake. --Karen K. Hugg

A Chant Album from the Sacred Writings of the Sikhs to experience Love.

Prem means the experience of love, deep love. It is the love that you have the courage and wisdom to feel in yourself for yourself, it is the love that God feels for you.

We project ourselves through every moment of time and space whether it is through sounds, thoughts, or feelings. The gift of every human being is to truly express the soul through the intelligence of the mind and body. In order to project the reality of the honest self, the soul, Yogi Bhajan has taught the science of Naad Yoga. Naad means sound current. It is the primal sound that connects the basic elements of the physical body to the etheric elements of the soul. Naad Yoga uses sacred mantras from the writings of the Sikh Gurus in the beautiful poetic language of Gurumukhi. These mantras are traditionally practiced with a straight spine, in a meditative posture. As the mantras are sung the energy of the sound current creates a channel of healing energy through the spinal chord and out the top of the head. In yogic practice we call this the turning of the lotus. Through Naad Yoga the Kundalini energy rises from the base of the spine to the top of the head. At this time the lo! tus flower turns upside down and rains nectar down upon the yogi. In spiritual terms the sweetness of angels caresses each and every cell.

Often times people tell me, " I don't have a good voice, I can't sing." I tell them that the very sound of your voice is what will heal you if you just allow it to be you. By practicing Naad Yoga we can obtain the experience of heaven on earth in our own body. This experience will in turn bring light to the rest of your life simply by the natural flow of energy that you have created within yourself. Prem is my new album that is created so that anyone can take it, listen to it, chant with it, and be with it. It is called Prem because in the beautiful process of figuring out which mantras to do, creating the tunes, and bringing them to the studio it gave me a deep sense of self love and healing. May it also bring self-love and healing into your life.

Release Date: 1995-04-11, Audio CD, RCA Victor

"Reduce stress without Valium!" -- Vogue

"With ocean, heart beats, choral voices, and dolphins, this is what nurturing would sound like if it could be recorded." -- Body, Mind, Spirit

"Combines haunting music, a soft choir, and a human heartbeat with the sound of rolling waves and dolphins." -- CD Review

"A sonic environment created for the birthing experience, Dolphin Dreams features the sounds of ocean, human heartbeat, choral voices, and dolphins. Both children and their parents love the soothing and nurturing music on this recording. Many of the sonics were specifically designed to induce deep relaxation and open new listeners up to higher aspects of consciousness." -- All Music Guide

"One of the Top 5 most popular new age musicians of all time." -- New Age Retailer

With sounds of ocean, dolphins, heart beat, choral voice, and more! Named Best Special Production of the Year by WholeLife Times. Great for birthing mothers and children--a sonic environment to assist birthing mothers, neonatal infants, and young children. Combines sounds of the ocean with heartbeats, choral voices, and dolphin sounds. Used in homes, hospitals, and birthing centers throughout the world. Also excellent for relaxation, stress reduction, sleep enhancement, and meditation by people of all ages. Created by Jonathan Goldman, a world-renowned pioneer and authority in the field of sound healing who presents lectures, workshops, and training sessions on the power of sound around the world.