TOM EATON, weathering
If you’ve been a fan of new age at any point since the early 90s, chances are that even if you don’t know his name, you’ve heard the...
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Jonathan Widran
- Mar 19
CRAIG PADILLA & MARVIN ALLEN, Weathering the Storm
In 2019, when veteran electronic music veteran (and longtime Spotted Peccary artist) Craig Padilla joined forces with his longtime...
Jonathan Widran
- Jan 12
BODHIHEART, Out of Doors: Meditations For Piano and Nature
Though still driven by the lush, spacious and delicately beautiful melodies of founding pianist Wells Hanley, Bodhiheart’s exquisite...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 28, 2022
MEG BOWLES, Voices from the Ethereal Forest
As veteran composer-synthesist Meg Bowles boldly ventures from her early 2022 epic album Pilgrimage to explore, on her latest recording,...
Jonathan Widran
- Dec 19, 2022
CURTIS NOWOSAD, CNRMXD
Though Curtis Nowosad has been a major force in The Harlem Sessions local arts collective for about a decade and released two previous...
Jonathan Widran
- Nov 22, 2022
ROB MULLINS, Holidays 2022
While for sheer contemporary jazz holiday cheer, no artist can quite match the prolific output of Dave Koz (now up to eight albums) and...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 19, 2022
LIQUID MIND XIV: Simplicity
In my comprehensive review of Liquid Mind: Musical Healthare, a compilation of the some of the more recent representative recordings in...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5, 2022
HOLLAND PHILLIPS, Standing in Motion
When listening to instrumental new age music, sometimes it’s conducive to fully immersing in the artist’s journey when he/she explicitly...
Jonathan Widran
- Aug 3, 2022
MATTHEW SHELL & ARUN SHENOY, Elemental
It’s been both delightfully inspiring and energizing - yet admittedly also a bit challenging - trying to keep up with the ever-evolving...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 3, 2022
ANAYA MUSIC: How a Woman With a Post-Doctorate in Technology Became An International New Age Icon
A timeless composer and ethereal vocalist passionate about elevating the human spirit through the power of music and universal vibration,...
Jonathan Widran
- May 23, 2022
MEG BOWLES, Pilgrimage
Generally when we reflect on lengthy and successful careers in music, it’s customary to frontload with length of discography and...
Jonathan Widran
- Mar 19, 2022
PALM READING, Joshua Tree
Many new age and ambient projects are based on impressions of a certain location, but not until musical veterans Scooby Laposky and...
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