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AMBIENT SLEEP
If somehow you have never heard of the National Sleep Foundation or Sleep Awareness Week®, consider yourself enlightened about an...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 10, 2022


WILL ACKERMAN Q&A on Positano Songs
Legendary Grammy winning guitarist and new age icon Will Ackerman makes a humble and fascinating confession in his insightful liner notes...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 5, 2022


MICHAEL GETTEL, The View From Here
As a veteran journalist/reviewer, I’m not always inclined to insert myself into my musings about any specific project, but it’s...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2022


SHERRY FINZER, Connections
If you ask recording artists of any genre what their primary goal is with any specific project, they will no doubt tell you it’s not only...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 9, 2022


STEPHEN WALLACK, Colors
For a masterful solo pianist and composer so deeply dedicated to acoustic new age music and the rich expressions he creates on his home...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 15, 2021


BRIAN HAGEN, Portraits
Sometimes the old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” applies to a collection of emotionally impactful, intimately and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 11, 2021


TREVOR GORDON HALL, This Beautiful Chaos
Often times, those who most appreciate the deeply intricate work of master guitarists – and are quoted the most often - are their peers,...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 18, 2021


JANET NOGUERA, "Favor From the Wind"
The title of Janet Noguera’s hypnotic, soul seductive fingerstyle meditation “Favor from the Wind” feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy,...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


DAVID BARON, "End of One Thing"
Among David Baron’s most fascinating credits as a musician and arranger in the pop world – a list that includes everyone from Lenny...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


LARRY FAST/SYNERGY, "Insects"
A true pioneer of synthesizer music, Larry Fast created the conceptual alter ego Synergy to create a series of nine groundbreaking...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


KARLIJN LENGENDIJK, "The Golden Hour"
Since releasing her debut album, a dual project with Tim Urbanus titled Leap of Faith in 2015, 26 year old acoustic guitarist and...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021


BERNWARD KOCH, "An Old Fairy Tale"
Though his 2020 myndstream debut album Becoming launched him into his incredible fourth decade of timeless new age recordings, it feels...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 15, 2021
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