As a culture, we have been ultra-Disneyfied for so many years and via so many media that when we see an album called Magic Kingdom, our minds can’t help but run first to all the Disney-connected songs we (and maybe our kids and soon our grandkids) grew up listening to and singing along with. But a quick glimpse of the mystical, mind-tripping titles on multi-instrumentalist Peter Sterling’s latest new age masterwork lets us know that we’re in for, to draw from one of the eight

For more than a decade now, Jeff Oster has been one of new age music’s most transcendent anomalies, carving out a major, multiple-award winning niche in the genre while playing lead instruments (trumpet and flugelhorn) much more common to and associated with jazz. His music has long been the place where Miles Davis jams with Pink Floyd, and his many accolades (including four Zone Music Reporter Album of the Year wins and many #1s on NPR’s influential “Echoes” program) – and t

When Roy Orbison died at the age of 52 in December 1988, he was in the middle of an extraordinary comeback. The Traveling Wilburys, the supergroup he was part of with fellow rock legends Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Bob Dylan, had recently released their first album, and he had just finished recording Mystery Girl, which would posthumously hit the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 (his highest charting album ever) and spawn “You Got It,” the singer’s first Top Ten hit

Celebrating a prolific decade as one of new age music’s most acclaimed and innovative artists and performers, Erik Scott follows his chart-topping, two time Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Award winning 2016 album In the Company of Clouds with a fresh, soulfully exotic new collection whose provocative title, A Trick of the Wind, reflects another aspect of the powerful natural forces around us. In 2017, the veteran bassist, composer and producer won ZMR Awards for Album of the Year

To appropriate the title of 2002’s sweeping, soul enveloping latest full length album, that year seemed A World Away when multi-instrumentalists Pamela and Randy Copus launched their incredible two and a half decade run as vocal and instrumental masters of the sweet crossroads where ambient/atmospheric/symphonic new age/neo-classical meets infectious exotic grooves. And now of course, with the world more chaotic than ever – and every difficult twist and turn right at our fing