Astral Meditation

Track Listings

1. Song of Two Giants {From Second Best}

2. Maint Title/Don't Want Out/End Title {From Grand Canyon}

3. Sirens {From Sirens}

4. Mer {From Okoge}

5. David and Lia/The Bank {From Year of the Gun}

6. Subito Pianissimo {From Lito Vitale}

7. El Vuelo {From el Lado Escuro del Corazon}

8. Forro {From el Viaje}

9. Mantras Organics [From Baraka]

10. Necropolis {From Split Seconds}

11. So Sad {From Kuffs}

12. Titulos {From la Noche Mas Larga}

13. Una Gran Decision {From Caidos del Cielo}

14. Estar Vivo Hoy {From Lito Vitale}

15. Te Eres Destino Veronica {From Caidos del Cielo}

Astral Meditation,Various Artists,Milan Records,90's,Classical Music,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop

Astral Meditation

Tracks:

By the Seaside
Soul of the Sea
Microcosmos
Beat
Fire
Mu
Dawn of the Astral
Endless Dreamy World
Kaiso
Astral Voyage

Customer Reviews:

Debut album and I believe his finest, of what I've heard from him.......2006-03-30

Astral Voyage was first released in Japan in 1978 under the title Ten Kai (the original LP also gave the English title of Astral Trip). This album got released in the United States in 1985 with the the slightly altered Astral Voyage title (but doesn't matter since "Ten Kai" pretty much translates the same), when he was signing up with Geffen Records to break through the American market. The cassette version has this gold print with the album title and artist name printed on the plastic casing itself, so if you own the Geffen cassette and don't have the print on the casing, you probably have a version where someone replaced the casing (after all cassette casings do have a habit of breaking even if just dropped by accident). Prior Ten Kai, Kitaro was a member of a prog rock band called Far East Family Band, in which he was going under his real name, Masanori Takahashi. The group released The Cave: Down to the Earth (1975), the English-language version called Nipponjin (1975, which also omitted a couple of songs in favor of a song from a band called Far Out, which was one of Kitaro's bandmate's previous bands) and Parallel World (1976) before jumping ship for a solo career. Far East Family Band continued for one more album without him and with a shortened and altered lineup for the album Tenkujin (1977).

Although I've seen sources that states that Oasis was his debut and released in 1976, it was actually a 1979 release, so Astral Voyage (Ten Kai) was actually his first. In my opinion, this is perhaps one of his less New Age-y, more experimental albums. He really created some really nice and interesting Moog sounds, plus he tended to use a lot of Solina string synths here. There's also use of acoustic guitar and sitar, and he does tend to explore some World music here, when he does, it (unsurprisingly) has a strong Asian feel. One cut has Koto, with an obviously Japanese feel (meaning Kitaro was exploring his Japanese roots there, no surprise), to another more Chinese-influenced number. But throughout all that, the synthesizers are quite present and the album is quite electronic. It's too bad this album really gets overlooked. He never even bothered to perform any of this live (his 1980 album In Person Digital only bothers with the Silk Road and Oasis albums), or include any of this stuff on compilations. Great stuff and if you can get a copy, it's really worth it.

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Smothered Under Astral Collapse...

Astral Collapse
Angus MacLise
Manufacturer: Locust
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00007FZHA
Release Date: 2003-01-28

Tracks:

Smothered Under Astral Collapse
6th Face Of The Angel
Beelzebub
Cloud Watching
Dracula
Dawn Chorus

Customer Reviews:

Smothered Under Astral Collapse..........2005-02-24

For those of you who like Throbbing Gristle, Coil, William S. Burroughs, Aleister Crowley, magick and experimental electronics, this is right down your alley. Angus Maclise was a composer, master percussionist, poet, mystic, calligrapher, occultist and former Velvet Underground member. His music runs the gamut of the experimental realm: drone, electronics & noise, tape cut-ups, spoken word, minimalism. Though he created a vast body of work from the 60's to 70's, it went unreleased, the master tapes sitting in a box in someone's closet. Only recently has his music been seeing the light of day via several releases on the Quakebasket label. The latest, Astral Collapse, compiles his more electronic/noise workouts:

1. Smothered Under Astral Collapse - Angus recites his Tibetan Buddhist poetry over prepared tape cut-ups. his source material for the prepared tapes is Tibetan chanting and some odd drum loops. the way he manipulates it gives it a really churning, eerie feeling.

2. 6th Face Of The Angel - Pure droning. 17+ minutes of transcendant, tape-delayed organ with little intricate change ups in oscillation and resonance.

3. Beelzebub - This is the only percussion piece on the album. The way he plays the drums and then sonically treats the mix creates a feeling musique concrete or early electronic pulse music. it's very glitchy.

4. Cloud Watching - a beautifully sinister piece. it's a murky blend of organic instruments that just twinkle and drone along in a hazy impressionistic cloud.

5. Dracula - Trial by noise. Angus rips apart the air with an ARP modular synthesizer. This kind of destruction wouldn't be heard again until Coil's Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil.

6. Dawn Chorus - several layers of prepared tapes cut up into a collage of white noise, eastern drone and field recordings from the East. Angus leads us back into more Tibetan poetry before letting us go.

You can really hear the sound that Coil would take on and expand. It foreshadows the concepts of Moon's Milk: Spring Equinox or Under an Unquiet Skull, Astral Disaster(they are eerily similar in more than just name) and Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil.

To quote Jhonn Balance, Angus is a "liminal genius".

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Ascension to The All That Is

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0009KT2LO

Product Description

Music created to capture the feeling of ascending through the astral planes to the seventh level -- the Godhead, the Universal Mind...The All That Is. A masterpiece of synthesized inspirational music. Angelic choirs, celestial strings, and a cathedral organ blend with gentle wind chimes to draw you ever upward into the realms of peace, light, and love. Created and produced by Robert Slap. Digitally mixed and mastered at Valley of the Sun Studios, Agoura Hills, CA. Program Length: 61:35.

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Astral Meditation
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Milan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

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1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Song of Two Giants [From Second Best]
Maint Title/Don't Want Out/End Title [From Grand Canyon]
Sirens [From Sirens]
Mer [From Okoge]
David and Lia/The Bank [From Year of the Gun]
Subito Pianissimo [From Lito Vitale]
El Vuelo [From El Lado Escuro del Corazon]
Forro [From el Viaje]
Mantras Organics [From Baraka]
Necropolis [From Split Seconds]
So Sad [From Kuffs]
Titulos [From La Noche Mas Larga]
Una Gran Decision [From Caidos del Cielo]
Estar Vivo Hoy [From Lito Vitale]
Te Eres Destino Veronica [From Caidos del Cielo]

New Age Music For Relaxation And Meditation "Over 60 minutes of music Written & Performed by Michline Allaire - Alain Lemay

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New Age Music For Relaxation And Meditation "Over 60 minutes of music Written & Performed by Michline Allaire - Alain Lemay
Crystal Water , Whispering Winds , Shadow Dancing , Aurora , Tranquility , Dreams of Tomorrow , Skywalk , Crimson Waves , Lavender Blue , and Sea of Green / Mood Swings / Cosmic Meditation / Astral Sleep / Distant Shore
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000QQBKAM

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Astral Currents

Manufacturer: Evenfall
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA7JD4
Release Date: 2005-02-22

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Into The Arms of the Night

Dreams of Flying
Astral Jazz
Manufacturer: White Cloud
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000024B9
Release Date: 1996-03-12

Tracks:

West Of The Moon
Body Talk
Dreams Of Flying
The Small Hours
Floating Forms
Indigo Mood
Into The Arms Of The Night

Customer Reviews:

Into The Arms of the Night.......2000-08-01

Several years ago, I heard "Into The Arms of the Night" on Nightcrossings, a lite-jazz/new age program that runs Monday -Saturday nights on Radio Kansas out of Hutchinson,Ks(89.5 KHCD-FM).This is a great song for a candlelight dinner and a little night-time romance. For those of you looking for "mood" music,look no further. There are no loud or fast songs that pop up, and ruin the mood. These are all slow and easy, the way we like them. Do not pass this up!

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Floating
Energy and Joy

Eternity
Gene Newton
Manufacturer: NEZ Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

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Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

Electronic | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000003LSZ
Release Date: 2000-05-20

Tracks:

Etheric Dawn
Solar Wind
Stardust Rain
Approaching the Portal
At Eternity's Gate
Safe Passage
Caressed by Eternity
Surrender

Album Description

Luxuriant soundscape with occasional energetic phrases. Synthesizer music filled with energy and joy.

Customer Reviews:

Floating.......2000-05-27

The synthesizer sounds that Gene Newton produces are unique and refreshing. The sounds will relax you weather you are reading, meditating, or sleeping! I have all four of his CD's and find them equally wonderful. Take your pick!

Energy and Joy.......1998-08-07

Space music fans will rush to embrace this vitalizing trek though the astral planes. Luxuriant soundscape with occasional phrases. Synthesizer music filled with energy and joy.