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A Musical Visit to Cappadocia with Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy

Cappadocia - Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy
Cappadocia – Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy

Along with Timothy Wenzel’s Running Away, Cappadocia by Jeff Johnson and Phil Keaggy has been in my music rotation for several weeks now.

Cappadocia is the third recording as a duo for Jeff Johnson and Phil Keagqy. The inspiration for the album is Cappadocia, a visually spectacular area in central Turkey. Christians have regarded Cappadocia and the surrounding area, as a place of great spirituality for several thousand years.

About Cappadocia and It’s Impact on Jeff Johnson

The colorful soil of Cappadocia has eroded over the millennia leaving steep cliffs and tall rock spires known as fairy chimneys, and into that rock ancient inhabitants carved houses, churches and even entire communities sometimes partially exposed and other times entirely underground. read more

Meg Bowles – Evensong: Canticles for the Earth

Evensong - Meg Bowles
Meg Bowles – Evensong: Canticles for the Earth

I discovered an album the other night, when I was moving some CDs around. When I first looked at it I thought -what’s this?  Oh it’s probably an advanced copy of a CD that I got to review. I guess I’ll give it a listen. But I bet it’s a vocal album that I really won’t like that much.(I have a tendency to not like new Age female (vocalists sorry ladies)  So I put it in the CD player and then smacked myself up the side of my head when what came out was not vocal,at all, but wonderful ambient music! read more

Peaceful Being by Richard Noll leads to Being a Peaceful Being

Over the last month Peaceful Being the debut album from Richard Noll has been he soundtrack for many of my morning yoga routines and meditations. Overall, it has become one of my favorite albums. And listening to it has led to some of the most relaxing and calming meditations I have ever had.

About Richard Noll’s Music

Richard Noll is one of the few recording artists who plays primarily recorder and he is amazing! On Peaceful Being he plays both tenor and alto recorders. He also plays an electronic wind instrument, the EWI 4000s. But he doesn’t stop there. He also plays electronic keyboards. He uses the keyboards to create piano, percussion gamelan-like tones and other instrumental sounds. read more

The Cage by Bob Holroyd – Let’s Everything In!

The Cage – Bob Holroyd -U.K. Multinstrumentalist

Sometimes an album just strikes the right chord with you! Such is the case with The Cage the new release from U.K. master sound manipulator and musical space-shaper Bob Holroyd. The first time I listened to the album, I knew it was for me. Subsequently it has been the soundtrack for my morning yoga and meditations. And every time  I listen to it I hear something new!

Holroyd Explains The Cage

Holroyd states the premise behind The Cage is: “Freedom is a larger cage, a longer page, a wider stage. True freedom comes not from escape, but allowing everything in” read more

A Fine Morning Meditation, A Good Run, Then the Fall….

And I Don’t Mean the Season…..

Morning Meditation Music

Yesterday morning I started my day with a 30-minute meditation. The soundtrack for the meditation was Weightless (Ambient Transmissions Vol 2) from the Ambient New Age band Marconi Union. According to their website Marconi Union….

…… were asked to write a piece of relaxing music in consultation with Lyz Cooper, the UK’s leading sound therapist and founder of the British Academy of Sound Therapy. During the process of recording the track, a number of musical ideas captured their imagination. Unable to explore them all in a one piece but keen to work further on them, it soon became apparent that this was turning into an album-length work. Feeling like this was a natural follow-up to Beautifully Falling Apart (Ambient Transmissions Vol.1), it was decided that this album should become part of their Ambient Transmissions series. read more

Voices from Heaven Vol. II – Halonen and Syversen

Yoga and Meditation with  Voices from Heaven Vol. II -Halonen and Syversen

This morning’s soundtrack for my morning yoga and meditation was one of my favorite new New Age albums. Voices from Heaven Volume II from Norwegian keyboardist Tron Syversen and wordless vocalist Runar Halonen

Every time I have used this album for meditating it has been great. That’s to be expected since the album was designed to take listeners on a deep journey into their inner self. From TronMusic….

The Voices II music heralds a channeled arrangement on both piano and keyboard combined with voices floating on the waves of music to achieve a powerful sound healing album that creates unique frequencies that will be received in to your body. These frequencies will release your energy when the sharp and high notes are heard, stimulating a needle-energy similar to the ancient of acupuncture without needle. read more

A Five-Mile Run with the Music of Jim Stubblefield

2017’s First Five-Mile Run and I’m kept in stride  by the music of Jim Stubblefield

So yesterday was a running morning and things looked pretty good. Except for that morning humidity. At eight o’clock the humidity was still above 90 percent so I decided to wait a little before heading out.

I wanted to up my distance a little so I spent part of the time I spent waiting plotting out a 5 mile run. Even though tim he temperature was fairly low it was pretty sunny, so I decided I wanted to get as much shade in the run as possible.

The only bad part was that there would be a fairly good hill at about the three-mile mark. But that also meant there would be a down hill stretch during the run! read more

AM Workout: Tabata with Meditation Music From Nathan Speir

A Tabata Workout Followed by the peaceful music of Nathan Speir

This morning I really did not feel like doing a full 60 minute workout. I seriously considered only doing a light yoga workout. But the. I thought maybe a short 20 minute Tabata workout. So I created one on the workout app that I use. It consisted of 8 – 20 second intervals followed by 10 second rest of the following

  • Jumping jacks
  • Squat thrusts
  • Sit ups
  • Mountain climbers
  • Push-ups/ squats 5 push outs 3 squats

Of course I counted how many of the exercises I did in each interval. If you had told me T the beginning of the exercise I would be doing

  • 200 jumping jacks
  • 64 sit-ups
  • 64 squat thrusts
  • 240 mountain climbers and
  • 40 push ups

I would have said you were nuts! But that’s what I did. And although the workout only burnt. Calories according to my Fitbit I think it was pretty damn good workout! read more

Beautiful New Age Music along Nancy Shoop-Wu’s Rainbow Road

Rainbow Road – Nancy Shoop – Wu 

Rainbow Road the second release from violinist Nancy Shoop-Wu has been one of the various albums that I have used as the soundtrack for my morning workouts and meditations over the last few months. And it has been one of my favorites!

About Nancy Shoop-Wu

Nancy Shoop-Wu’s music is a wonderful blend of New Age , Hawaiian and classical music. Shoop-Wu started her musical journey at the age of nine in her home state of Connecticut. She came from a musical family. Her father played the trumpet and her mother the piano. She became determined to dedicate her life to music when her father passed away when she was nine years old. read more

A Night of Native American Flute Music

From Six of My Favorite Native American Flute Players

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R Carlos Nakai – Canyon Trilogy, Emergence, Feather, Stone and Light

R. Carlos Nakai‘s music leads off and ends this playlist. He is my favorite Native American flute player. The three albums that I have taken tracks from are among my favorites. They have all been soundtracks for yoga exercising and also helped to keep me sane during stressful times at work. What I really like about Nakai’s music is that he is alwaus changing things up. Some albums are solo, some are with Will Clipman and William Eaton. I have several of the albums that he recorded with pianist Peter Kater. read more