WASTELANDER, What Is Left of Me
As he segues from years as a bustling sideman in Americana bar bands and numerous NYC groups – most notably, post-punk art-rock...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Jul 31
JULIET LYONS, "Breathe III"
Like many spiritually impactful new age/ambient artists, Juliet Lyons has found great success using her talents as a melodically and...
Jonathan Widran
- Jul 26
KIRSTEN AGRESTA-COPELY, Aquamarine
While musical and spiritual inspiration can come from anywhere, in the new age/ambient realm, one of the most common touchstones is...
Jonathan Widran
- Jun 29
CARLOS DENGLER, Private Earth
Back in the 90s, during that era’s heyday of new age and ambient music, the Higher Octave label released popular recordings from numerous...
Jonathan Widran
- May 31
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...
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...
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