This album by Steve's new part-time band is wonderful. He has his 2 sons Virgil on keys and Dylan on drums, and the music is a real mixture of bluesy rock, jazz, experimental guitar synth, and closes with a spacey solo guitar that really belongs on a "stress-relieving" CD. There are some vocals here, but it's mostly instrumental, and to top it all, it has Roger Dean artwork.

This album sounds a bit like Tangerine dream's "White Eagle", "Hyperborea" and some of their soundtracks of the corresponding years. There is omnipresent, varied and lively beat sequencers and many discrete keyboards layers. There are melodic keyboards and background floating streams of keyboards. All is recorded in very interlocking multi- sequenced patterns; it is mostly repetitive, but never dull.

If you like Enigma, specially their album MCMXCa.D., you are going to love this album from Gala. This mexican band was able to make an album as good any one from Enigma, possibly better.

The long awaited debut album from composer, Chris Field, is now here. A beautiful combination of film, classical, and groove; this is music in the twenty-first century.

German musician Bernward Koch (kahtch) has experienced a most astonishing rise within the international New Age music scene over the last decade. Koch's fame began to ascend when the artist (among greats such as Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Basia and Ottmar Liebert) contributed a track for two Aids-benefit compilations initiated by California radio stations KKSF and THE WAVE. Today Bernward Koch is considered by many as among the genre's leading artists.

An hour of flowing melodies to bathe you in dreamy relaxation. Koch's piano compositions, enriched with flute, guitar and soft percussion, open the window to a peaceful, healing breeze. German pianist Bernward Koch adds his indelible touch to Real Music's extensive catalog of relaxing and awakening music. They are delicately crafted and clearly show their creator's sense of form. Koch is joined by a group of equally talented musicians on flute, guitar and soft percussion.

When I bought this album several years ago, it immediatly became one of my favorite album's. I found out about Davol on a program called "Currents", and there was no question that I had some catching up to do, not only with this album but with his two previous releases. One of my favorite tunes from Davol is on this album, called "Gates of Ishtar". It is just absolutely magical and inspiring. Davol covers musical territory that no one else has come close to matching.

This album suprises you with various creative tunes. Davol knows how to push the right buttons with music. The album is fresh and alive. It's food for the soul. My favorite track is "The Rescuer", a haunting and inspirational piece that is sure to capture anybody's attention. This album, as with all of Davol's releases, remains as one of my most treasured album's.

The fourth release from Davol, Open Book, is a collection of honest and imaginative works that fans and new listeners will welcome. Using a colorful palette of sounds, his keyboard compositions make strong and distinctive musical statements. From rhythmic landscapes to cinematic vistas, each piece takes the listener on a soulful journey. Since 1989 Davol has been one of New Age music's leading voices, and after many quiet years, Davol has returned to satisfy listeners with his Open Book.

One afternoon in 2004, I was reading an article with various stories about the wives and children of 9/11 firefighters. One story was about a young boy and his mother traveling on a benefit flight to Hawaii for the families of the firefighters. Apparently the boy looked out the window and saw his father's face in the clouds. He tried to show his mother, but she could not see the face. Everyone on the plane looked, and they could not see the face either. Nevertheless, the boy could see his dad and stared at the face until it was out of view. It was a short part in a long article, but it moved me deeply. I wrote the title track, "A Face in the Clouds," that afternoon. The album would be written and recorded over the next two years.

Over the past decade, Mythos has produced a series of best-selling recordings featuring their unique fusion of classical music, jazz, pop, electronic, ambient, and musical influences from around the world. Written and performed by pianist Bob D'Eith and guitarist Paul Schmidt, with contributions from some of Canada's most outstanding musicians, the music Mythos makes is hauntingly beautiful and otherworldly. Purity is the Vancouver-based duo's latest CD release, and it continues their unique musical fusion. Veteran jazz bassist Rene Worst teams up with worldbeat percussionist Pepe Danza to ground Mythos's seductive melodies with sensuous, juicy rhythms. Another Vancouver-based jazz stalwart, vocalist Jennifer Scott, contributes ethereal, soaring vocals to the evocative mix, and violinist Cameron Wilson and cellist Finn Manniche add hypnotic string embellishment to this edition of the band's singular sound. Mythos has sold over 100,000 recordings over the course of three previously released albums. Mythos, Reality of a Dreamer, and Eternity share a similar artistic focus with the recently released Purity. Each features Gil Bruvel's surrealist, dream-like illustrations in the cover artwork, underlining the recordings' singular sound and vision.