It’s science: chill out music music is good for you
According to research presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008), listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day can significantly reduce high blood pressure.
By rhythmically homogeneous, they mean music with little or no variation [...]

Anno Domini is a new Spotted Peccary release from Deborah Martin & J.A.Verner. Verner is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s released a series of recordings featuring his unique ambient guitar stylings. Martin also has several previous releases on the Spotted Peccary label, and contributes vocals to this cd.
The music is ambient music in [...]

Touching the Serpent’s Tail, the latest CD from synthesist and composer Robert Fox, is a polished new age/space music release.
Fox describes himself as “master of the grand soundscape and one of the UK’s leading exponents of melodic orchestral instrumental music”. He’s released twelve solo CDs and also works with label mate David Wright [...]

Catherine Duc’s Visions and Dreams is a melodic new age CD in the vein of groups like Deep Forest, Enigma and Enya. Her music combines elements of world music, with a Celtic vibe and the use of sampled “world music” instrumentation.
“Fusing world music with electronica has become quite popular,” Duc said. “Often artists choose Middle [...]

 

 Essence Of Dreams: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Stephen Hill sends word that Hearts of Space is discontinuing free anytime access to the weekly HOS show on November 20th, 2006.
“Our hope was that our free service would be an on-ramp to the full Archive service,” said Hill, “but many found that the free weekly show was enough. We’ve done the math and [...]

InTRO is the latest CD from Bruno Sanfilippo, an Argentinean composer and musician now living in Barcelona, Spain.
Sanfilippo claims the like of Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield as influences. The music of Intro, though, is more reflective and ambient than these influences would suggest.
Sanfilippo describes the tracks on InTRO as soundscapes. Sanfilippo masterfully combines [...]

Hearts of Space, the pioneering public radio syndicastor, has opened what they are calling a “next generation Internet music service”. The service builds on the success of the original service launched in 2001, providing deep content within the HOS niche of contemplative and ambient music.
The Hearts of Space radio program has been syndicated to over [...]

Brannan Lane is a multi-talented musician, composer and sound designer who has recorded extensively and taken his style of chilled ambient music around the world.
Lane has a number of solo releases and has collaborated extensively with Ashera, Amir Baghiri, Robert Carty, Vidna Obmana, Biff Johnson, Zero Ohms, Jason Sloan, and Matt Borghi.
Lane has been featured [...]

Ready to chill out? The Law of Miracles has some free music to help!
Shibu Narendran records as The Law of Miracles, and his music is perfect for relaxation, meditation and just chilling. The Law of Miracles’ music is a blend of western and eastern music, using instruments like indian flute, shakuhachi, harp, piano and Rhodes, [...]

On this release, Steven Halpern creates a musical fusion that combines some of the best ideas of new age music with the timeless appeal of the blues.
Halpern manages to avoid rhythm and blues cliches, and also avoids creating music with no soul. Instead, the music on Deja-Blues seems inspired by the underlying ideas of soulfulness [...]

When Chariots of Fire was released in 1981, it came with a unique soundtrack by Vangelis. At that time, putting a soundtrack of electronic music on a period film was unheard of. The music worked, though, because of the simple, beautiful melodies and the way Vangelis used synthesizers in an orchestral way.
Chariots of Fire captures [...]

Vangelis has been one of the most acclaimed electronic musicians of all time. He has recorded a great variety of music over the last thirty years, won the academy award for musical score, composed hit songs, and written the scores for several ballets. Vangelis is best known for his music that was featured in the [...]

Hearts of Space began as a radio show in the early seventies, and moved to public radio in 1983. For twenty years, HOS has been a leader in promoting new age, ambient, and space music.
Their site features playlists of all their shows, information about the music and musicians, and offers streaming audio of past programs. [...]

The music of Stephen Halpern has lived outside of the electronica mainstream for 30 years, yet it’s been very influential, especially in the world of New Age music.
Most of Halpern’s music is peaceful and calm, and is free of the rhythmic pulse of most music. Instead, it uses a longer pulse, based on the [...]