At the tail end of her official bio which illuminates the breadth, depth and international reach of her extraordinary multi-award winning career in music, Danaë Xanthe Vlasse states her powerful ongoing artistic mission: “My need to create is so profound that I would keep writing even if no one ever heard a note of my music, but my creative goals are very precise in what I hope to bring to listeners: Beauty, Truth & Elevation!” The French born contemporary classical composer

It’s not one of the Biblical Beatitudes, but it may as well be, considering the impact creative manic expressives like Holland Phillips have had: “Blessed are the Night Owls, for they shall inspire the world with the magic they create under cover of darkness.” In an extraordinary career that began in the mid-90s but has picked up its most freewheeling contemporary instrumental steam (and a slew of industry awards!) since the release of Daydream Alley in 2015, Phillips has cen

With composers and artists being particularly sensitive and empathetic to the goings on in the world around them in normal times, it’s hardly surprising that the year of COVID lockdown has resulting in a wealth of incredible, inspiring songs, albums and other projects that were not only directly inspired by this challenging era in our history, but may never even have existed without them. For prolific Barcelona based pianist, composer and producer Juan Sanchez, the past year

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." --- Jimmy Dean At first blush, The Groove Project’s use of a quote from traditional country music icon and sausage maker Jimmy Dean to pinpoint the inspiration for the snappy, funked up sax and piano driven title track to Volume 2: The Winds of Change – the follow-up to the ensemble’s critically acclaimed, commercially successful and highly streamed and viewed Volume 1: Fligh

Mega kudos to The Transonics, the fun-loving six piece power poppers from Columbia, South Carolina who sport not only a sly, sultry, full throated female lead singer (Patti Davis) who sounds delightfully like she just took the Delorean from the mid-80s, but also offer extensive, engaging and quirky details on how the six infectious tracks of their new EP Tides came to be. If they’re new on your radar, you might spend more of your listening time pondering the s magical punchy,

In addition to being one new age music’s true superstars with a discography extending back to the mid-90s, Michael Whalen is a two time Emmy winning composer and music supervisor whose musical innovations have been tapped by the worlds of advertising, TV, film and video games. He is also the Head of A&R and General Manager of the myndstream label – and the creator of a unique new series of seasonal collections featuring his handpicked selections, starting with Summer Flight.

Closing in on a decade since she began bringing her timeless, melodic and hypnotic guitarisma to the public via her 2012 debut releases Of Light and Illumination, the classically trained Michelle Qureshi – who made her myndstream debut with the epic 24 track collection Within in 2020 – has long viewed music as metaphor. While she performs regularly at house concerts, festivals, yoga studios and sound immersions, her music has international reach with millions of streams world

The title track to Bay Area acoustic slide guitarist Chris Haugen’s most recent album First Light – a work the artist called a “deep meditation steeped in hope and vision” – reflected that time in the early morning when you wait for enough light to paddle into the surf. His hypnotic, intricately textured new track “Water To Land” meditates further on this profound spiritual metaphor while showcasing his mastery with weaving haunting melodies created from crisp, precise (and s

Versatile fingerstyle guitarist Ryan Judd’s career as Billboard chart topping new age artist and ZMR Award winner with over 130 million total streams over the past five years is an outgrowth of his two decades as an internationally renowned music therapist for individuals with special needs – including children with autism and Down syndrome. His eloquent, poignant and wistful new solo acoustic track “The Lost Summer” is a mournful piece inspired by the impact the pandemic yea

Once best known for his work with 90’s Atlantic Records R&B group Men and Large, Carl Borden has been an unstoppable multi-talented Billboard charting force (composer, producer, engineer) in new age/ambient music since his Real Music debut Echoes of Bliss won silver medals for Best New Age Album and Album Production at the Global Music Awards. Subsequent releases have likewise been honored by the One World Music Awards. For those new to the emotionally enveloping Borden exper

A contemporary pianist based in Northern Ireland, Eamonn Karran has been playing since age seven and played for years in all kinds of bands – but only began pursuing his dream of being a solo artist after a mental breakdown and a life-altering car accident. Now a renowned artist with five albums on Real Music, his latest track, the contemplative and deeply meditative “The Edge,” is a thoughtful and powerful reflection on grief and loss, starting in a place of sorrow and despa

Perhaps the word “eclectic” is a bit overused in attempting to describe an artist who takes a loose, freewheeling stylistic approach to his or her artistry, but in the case of the buoyant, crisp and precise yet hard-swinging and grooving jazz, blues, reggae, funk/R&B driven guitarist Gaetano “Tom” Letizia, we can affirmatively add “on steroids” to the original adjective. Smack in the middle of Chartreuse, his wild-hearted, joyfully schizophrenic 11th album as a leader, the Cl