Essential Touch

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
This CD is designed to resonate with vibrational energy that links touch to form, encouraging balance and healing. Featuring music from New Earth's roster of musicians, compiled specifically for rest and to reduce stress and anxiety, "Essential Touch" creates a postive oasis for unwinding and reviving. The recording is specially designed to accompany the healing arts as an instrument that facilitates relaxation, the combination of this music and touch creates an enhanced and elevated state of well-being.

Perfect for massage, reiki and other bodywork practitioners, a personal retreat is created every time it is played!

Essential Touch,New Earth Artists,New Earth Records,New Age / Meditation,New Age Collections,Pop

Essential Touch

Tracks:

Silent Wave - Deuter
Call Of The Search - Anugama
How Can We Be Sure - Al Gromer Khan
The Empty Sky - Anugama
Aum - Terry Olfield
Utopia Al Kahira - Al Gromer Khan
Olive Grove - Deuter
Cedar Tree - James Asher
Island In The Sun - Deuter

Album Description

This CD is designed to resonate with vibrational energy that links touch to form, encouraging balance and healing. Featuring music from New Earth's roster of musicians, compiled specifically for rest and to reduce stress and anxiety, "Essential Touch" creates a postive oasis for unwinding and reviving. The recording is specially designed to accompany the healing arts as an instrument that facilitates relaxation, the combination of this music and touch creates an enhanced and elevated state of well-being.

Perfect for massage, reiki and other bodywork practitioners, a personal retreat is created every time it is played!

Customer Reviews:

Very nice compilation with focus on "healing touch".......2005-10-26

This CD is another in the "body-spirit-wellness series" that New Earth Records has published. It is a compilation of works by some of their well known artists, and is a very good overview of some of their better works.

The idea of this CD is to provide background music for those who work in the field of "healing with the application of touch." The focus would be masseuses, Reiki practitioners, and in offices of therapists of all kinds where delicate, soft music would be beneficial. The music is generally light, airy, having basic melodies that can be focused on and followed. The choice of the Artists as well as representative works that are soft yet strong is expertly accomplished with this compilation. The total time for these nine tracks is 66:42.

Deuter has three offerings on this CD. Silent Wave is a piano piece, very soft, contemplative and is the first track on this CD, setting the pace for those that follow. Olive Grove, track seven, is flute and Indian instruments with an electronica fill, creating a lovely soundscape that is suggestive of Eastern music but orchestrated enough to be very familiar to Western ears. Again, the flow is soft, melodious, and relaxing. Deuter also closes the CD with the final (ninth) trackIsland in the Sun. This piece continues in the same vein as the previous works, soft, very melodious, with the suggestion of "Bali Bells" that give this an "Eastern Islands" feel. Again, very airy, very soft, and in keeping with the balance of the material on the CD.

Anugama provides this CD with two tracks. The second track Call of the Search is bamboo flute with electronic fill. This bamboo flute piece is suggestive of contemplative moments and gives a feel of soulfulness. It is very controlled so it remains in harmony with the other works on the CD. The fourth track, The Empty Sky is also provided by Anugama. This piece is different from the other work as it is lighter and airy, almost spacey at times, with tinkling bells and electronica suggestive of voices and an orchestra. Again, a delightful offering from Anugama.

Al Gromer Khan also has two tracks on this CD. Track three How Can We Be Sure is soft and mellow, with light Indian Sitar and keyboard in a mellow jazz beat. Very expertly rendered and very subtle in it's feel. The sixth track Utopia Al Kahira has a more defined Eastern beat, but not jarring, with soft sitar and electronica fill suggesting voices and keyboard. Another expertly controlled work that keeps to the softness yet adds to the strength of the CD.

Aum by Terry Oldfield, is the fifth track and this work has a very Eastern feel, with flute and sitar. It is one of the stronger pieces on this CD. There is electronic fill and bells, giving this piece a bit more presence and makes us take notice of it. But it remains melodious and relaxing, in keeping with the other works.

James Asher presents us with track eight Cedar Tree and this piece is much more Native American in feel. This is a flute piece with background fill that is non-descript enough to allow you to focus on the expert flute work. This piece is another contemplative, soulful work that calls to us but does not intrude. A very lovely offering from Mr. Asher.

The mood set by the collection is achieved with the expert choices of representative works of these Artists. The entire CD lends itself to being a background for those who work in the healing arts, relaxing your clients and offering both the practitioner and the client focus during the working process. I also found this to be good background music while I am working. Non-intrusive, yet calming and relaxing when I am focusing on what I am doing.

This CD is a good choice for those working in the healing arts, or someone who is looking for soft, contemplative music for background in their busy lives. A good addition to anyone's New Age library. mafoster

Relaxation for all ages.......2005-09-25

I have done massage and healing work for 28 years, and have over 80 CDs I use in my work. This album is one of the all-time best for relaxing people. Usually different clients require different kinds of music. This is the rare album that everyone enjoys and relaxes to. Most clients sink into a very deep meditative state when listening to it. If you work in the healing arts, I cannot recommend this highly enough!

Average customer rating:

Undertones - underrated
One of the best bands ever?

Positive Touch
The Undertones
Manufacturer: Essential
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

British Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004RCDN
Release Date: 2000-04-17

Tracks:

Fascination
Julle Ocean
Life's Too Easy
Crisis of Mine
You're Welcome
His Good Looking Girlfriend
Positive Touch
When Saturday Comes
It's Going to Happen
Sigh and Explode
I Don't Know
Hannah Doot
Boy Wonder
Forever Paradise
Fairly in the Money Now [*]
Julle Ocean [*]
Kiss in the Dark [*]
Beautiful Friend [*]
Life's Too Easy [*]

Album Details

This is a 19-track Reissue of the Band's Third Album, Including the Hits: It's Going to Happen and Julie Ocean (Album and Single Versions).

Customer Reviews:

Undertones - underrated.......2002-03-30

Every time I listen to this album, that was my very favorite in the 80's,I just enjoy the playful and surprisingly fresh sound of this band, that started as a sort of punk band, but realised their full and very great potential on this album. Maybe it was published at the wrong time, but I consider it an overlooked classic.
In this CD version five songs from singles (including the great single version of one of the songs from the album, Julie Ocean) are added - and extras can always be argued, but since you probably don't stand a chance at getting the singles, I consider them a bonus.

One of the best bands ever?.......2001-05-10

The Undertones released three amazing records. How many other bands can make such a claim? Positive Touch, their third release, was quite a departure from their previous efforts. Where their self-titled debut, and their second release, Hypnotised, showcased The Undertones' undeniable knack for writing short, hooky, revved-up pop gems, Positive Touch turned down the distortion and varied the tempos, resulting in one of the most consistently enjoyable pop records of all time. When this classic was first released, back in 1980, or thereabouts, I was vastly disappointed. I was (and still am) a huge fan of the first two records, and was shocked at how wimpy this record sounded in comparison. Twenty years later, I have rediscovered this disc. How could I have missed the obvious hooks of songs like Julie Ocean, Life's Too Easy, or It's Going To Happen? I blame it on my own youthful ignorance at the time.

With the exception of the more recently added extra tracks, Positive Touch runs from top to bottom, like the batting line-up of a National League All-Star team (the last track, Forever Paradise is a bit weak, kind of like having the pitcher take his at bat). Almost every song is a hit. O.K., maybe not in the popular music sense of the word, but they certainly get on base in my musical universe. In addition to the three tracks I've mentioned, check out His Good Looking Girlfriend, Hannah Doot, and the title track.

Unlike many records from the late 70's/early 80's, Positive Touch stands up under the test of time. It sounds as different today as it did 20 years ago. I would recommend getting all three of The Undertones first releases, but since they are out of print, you may have to settle for the excellent Best of The Undertones collection.

Seed of the Essential
Average customer rating:
Seed of the Essential

Manufacturer: Frank Mark Arts
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAELWQ
Release Date: 2000-08-15

Love You So Much (Import)
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Love You So Much (Import)
Kelly Chen
Manufacturer: Decca Records Taiwan Ltd.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music
ASIN: B000NPBFWY

Product Description

This is an import from Taiwan on the Decca label. It is in Mandarin Chinese. Tracks are: LOVE YOU SO MUCH, CARE TOO MUCH, YAWNING, WE ALL LOVE YOU, HEY ANYONE OUT THERE?, SHHH!, MY TENDER WILL, GET RID OF YOU, TRUE COLORS, IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME. It comes packaged in a standard cd jewel case that slides into a cardboard slipcase. It also includes a 36-page booklet.

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