Various Artist – iRelax: Leaving the Workday Behind

Pause, let go of the events of the day and enter your evening better prepared to enjoy the people and activities that give you pleasure. Enjoying your life is good for you and good for the world.

Taking a relaxing pause between day and evening gives the conscious brain the message that it can let go now and allow the unconscious to offer creative solutions. As you listen to the music, it’s good to be aware of your breathing. Exhale and let the events of the day drift away. Inhale and drop your awareness from your head down into your heart. Exhale and let go of any tension, stress or worry you might be holding. Inhale and drop deeper into your solar plexus where you can get a clearer sense of how you would like to spend the coming evening, a few hours that are yours. What would you most enjoy doing? What would be pleasurable? Then, refreshed and renewed, step into this evening you have imagined.

A nice compilation of songs from some of the best new age instrumentalists out there, iRelax: Leaving the Workday Behind takes 12 tracks from 11 different artists.

TrackList:
01. Dreamland Crescendo – Back to Earth
02. Bathed in Dawn’s Light – Kevin Kern
03. Flowing Bamboo – Karunesh
04. Pachelbel’s Canon (a variation in “C”) Hilary Stagg
05. African Princess – Back to Earth
06. Romancing the Moon – 2002
07. Blossoms Falling Like Snow – Gandalf
08. Turquoise Galleon – Govi
09. Whispers in the Dark – Yanni, performed – Danny Wright
10. Sometime – Bernward Koch
11. Eldorado – Peter Sterling
12. Passage into Midnight – Omar

Original Release Date: October 24, 2006
Size: 99,2 MB (MP3 Tracks)

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Various Artist – iRelax In Traffic

Various Artist – iRelax In Traffic

The sanctuary of the car can become your own private concert hall. Whether crawling along during rush hour or enjoying the freedom of the open road, this music will calm your nerves, lift your mood, and the time will fly.

When asked what they most desire, people overwhelmingly respond, “Relief from stress and worry.” Relaxation is critical in helping us cope with the noise and agitation everywhere in our world. The iRelax Music Series albums take you to a place of calm, balance and wellbeing.
All you have to do is listen.

TrackList:
01. Whispers In the Moonlight – Omar
02. Don Juan – Johannes Linstead
03. Dream Spiral – Hilary Stagg
04. Treasure Bay – Govi
05. Walk In a Meadow – Bernward Koch
06. Morning Celebration – Karunesh
07. Stella Maris – 2002
08. Gypsy Heart – Govi
09. Dazzled By the Light – Karunesh
10. Flight Being – Bernward Koch
11. Earth Story – Nicholas Gunn
12. Run Away With Me – Omar

Size: 79,9 MB (MP3 Tracks)

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Zakir Hussain – Making Music

Zakir Hussain is a poet of the tabla, but as this album makes clear, his interests extend far beyond Indian classical music. He’s joined here by an international cast of players, each of whom lends a different influence to the proceedings. While the dynamic remains largely on the low end, preserving the music’s meditative quality, there are elements of jazz (Jan Garbarek’s liquid sax lines) and folk (John McLaughlin’s pastoral acoustic guitar). These more Western influences contrast nicely with Hussain’s tablas, which seem to tell a slowly unfolding story to the listener. Famed flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia navigates the middle ground between Garbarek’s jazzy explorations and the traditional Indian bent of Hussain. While MAKING MUSIC would fit comfortably alongside the languid, atmospheric jazz that makes up the bulk of ECM’s catalogue, Hussain’s music is a singular animal–an utterly unique hybrid.

Recorded December 1986 – ECM 1349
Zakir Hussain: tabla, percussion, voice
Hariprasad Chaurasia: flutes
John McLaughlin : acoustic guitar
Jan Garbarek : tenor, soprano saxophones

TRACK LISTINGS
01. Making Music
02. Zakir
03. Water Girl
04. Toni
05. Anisa
06. Sunjog
07. You And Me
08. Sabah

Size: 70,91 MB @ 192 kbps (mp3 tracks)

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