Whether you are a healing practitioner, massage therapist,
Wall Street broker, old hippie still living in your bus, or whoever--
this music is a beautifully balanced blend and true bridge from the 60s Music
we have grown to love and play over and over again.

Please make note that most of the musicians in this genre were in the 60s Movement
or were inspired by it in some way...assisting us into higher dimensions...
higher consciousness and realizing our own inner beauty. So please Enjoy!!

LionHeart
December 2007

We are travellers in a cosmic journey -
star dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.
Life is eternal.
But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.

Buddha once said
"This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
To watch the birth and death of beings
is like looking at the movements of a dance.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky."

We have stopped for a moment
to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.
This is a precious moment, but it is transient.
It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
If we share with caring, light heartedness and love,
we will create abundance and joy for each other.
And then this moment will have been worthwhile.
(Deepak Chopra) 

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Paul Horn
Paul Horn is widely known for his innovations
on both metal and traditional wood flutes,
and has recorded some truly exotic albums.
Perhaps most famous of these are his "Inside" recordings,
which feature airy, echoing sounds created
in places of spiritual importance.

The series began with Horn sneaking
a tape recorder into the Taj Mahal
during a trip to India in 1968 and continued later
with recordings inside Great Pyramid of Giza,
and a return to the Taj Mahal in 1989.
Horn has since made similar recordings in a cathedral,
in the canyons of the Mid-West with Native American
flautist R. Carlos Nakai, and with orca whales.

In 1998 he was able to record within the walls of the
Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.

Horn was the first westerner to be granted permission
to perform inside this massive structure considered
the spiritual nexus of Tibetan Buddhism.

Horn was to return to Tibet in 2003 to film
on the holy Mount Kailash,
where Horn would scatter the ashes of
a former travelling companion, Buddhist monk Lama Tenzin.

While he is undoubtedly a jazz musician,
many of his works defy categorization.
As well as the Inside series he has recorded other albums
of jazz with musicians from a range of cultures
and backgrounds including China and Africa.

R. Carlos Nakai
"The Native American flute is not inherently versatile and R. Carlos Nakai,
the Yo-Yo Ma of this instrument, knows it.
That's why he's always looking for novel settings that range from
Japanese ensembles to acoustic piano to global music groups.
So to stand there naked with an instrument that has a one octave range
takes a depth of resources that are both technical and spiritual.

Nakai has both and he deploys them across these gently searing album's .
Serene, meditative, soothing; these are all easy adjectives for his CD's
that will become a staple of lover's bedrooms and yoga studios.

But Nakai goes even deeper than that,
calling up the spirit of the desert southwest
with every breath he exhales into his vibrato-tinged melodies. "





Coyote Oldman
There are dozens of Native American-flute groups out there,
but there's no one like Coyote Oldman.
That's a group, not a person, named for the
Native American mythological figure Oldman Coyote.
But these coyotes aren't tricksters; they're sonic magicians.

Coyote Oldman explores the inner workings of the flutes' textured sound,
putting a magnifying glass over resonances and shadings,
building an abstract melodic architecture that vaporizes in this deep-space music for acoustic winds.

Masayuki Koga
Japanese Shakuhachi Music

Masayuki Koga's powerful shakuhachi sounds will bring you
face to face with your unadorned true self.
They are nature made manifest in all it's complete force and abundance.
At times sweet and serene, at other times like a gale blowing right through you.
Koga stands out above all the masters, incorporating and transcending the traditional.
This is the first and last in Shakuhachi music--the real thing.

Paul Winter

"Paul Winter is that rarity among musicians,
one who can successfully reinvent himself repeatedly,
not so much as a concession to changing tastes among listeners
as it is his fascination with how - and by whom (and for that matter, by what) -
music is made.

With a 40-year body of work thus far, the only "constant" over these four decades
has been the sound of his saxophone.

A little over two decades ago,
Winter founded his own record label (Living Music) so that he could pursue
his musical interests without concern for whether the label
itself would influence his artistic direction.

Excepting a number of guest appearances on the albums of musical friends,
all of his releases since 1980 have been on the Living Music label,
and all of them reflect and showcase his artistic interests."

Instruments of Enlightenment
Tibetan Musical Intruments

Singing bowls were historically made in Tibet, Nepal, India,
Bhutan, China, Japan and Korea.
Today they are made in Nepal, India, Japan and Korea.
The best known type are from the Himalayan region
and are often called "Tibetan singing bowls."

The use of singing bowls in Tibet is the subject
of much debate and many stories.
Some people say they were used for meditation
while others say they were magical tools
for transformation of self and of matter.

Singing bowls are played by the friction of rubbing
a wooden, plastic, or leather wrapped mallet
around the rim of the bowl to produce overtones
and a continuous 'singing' sound.

Genuine antique singing bowls produce
a complex chord of harmonic overtones.
Singing bowls may also be played by striking
with a soft mallet to produce a warm bell tone.

Traditionally, antique singing bowls were made of Panchaloga
(literally meaning "five metals" in Sanskrit):
an alloy of bronze, copper, tin, zinc and other metals.
Antiques often include silver, gold, iron and nickel.

Antique singing bowls produce multiphonic and polyharmonic
overtones which are unique to the antique instruments.
The subtle yet complex multiple harmonic frequencies
are a special quality of the high quality bronze alloy.
The art of making singing bowls in the traditional way is considered a lost art.

The term Gong is Malay-Javanese in origin but widespread throughout Asia.
The instrument itself appears to have origins in the bronze drums of China,
cymbals of central Asia, and perhaps even in European bell-casting techniques.

The gong has been effectively used in the orchestra to intensify
the impression of fear and horror in melodramatic scenes.

Tibetan tingsha's are small cymbals used in prayer and rituals
by Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.
Two cymbals are joined together by a leather strap or chain.
The cymbals are struck together producing a clear and high pitched tone.
Typical sizes range from 2.5" - 4" diameter.
Tingsha are very thick and produce a unique long ringing tone.
Antiques were made from special bronze alloys that produce harmonic overtones.

.Today, tingsha are used along with singing bowls
and other instruments in meditation, music and sound healing.
Traditionally, however, tingsha are used as part of specific Tibetan rituals,
such as offerings to "hungry ghosts."
While they are commonly found today in musical recordings
and yoga classes, their real function is as a religious ritual tool.

Crystal bowls are often categorized together
with metal singing bowls but they are very different.
The use of the word "crystal" is misleading because crystal bowls
are actually made from silicon glass.
Their manufacture was an offshoot of medical containers like test tubes.
Crystal bowls produce what is referred to as a pure sine tone .
This pure sine tone can be very intense and piercing.
The tone is qualitatively different from the warm timbre
and complex polyphonic experience of antique singing bowls.
Crystal bowls do not produce multiple harmonic overtones
and lack the warm and mellow quality of antique singing bowls.