Format Details: Lp
Release Date: 22 May 2020
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Special
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093070619616
Genres: Electronic New Age
Description
The sonorous drift of four trombones, like gentle waves lapping at the edge of a celestial shoreline, opens Craig Kupka's second album for Folkways, Crystals: New Music for Relaxation 2. Featuring two side-long compositions for trombone and synthesizer, the album is intended as an aid for meditation, a guided journey inward towards self-discovery. Before its original release in 1982, Kupka and his wife Nancy took these recordings to relaxation classes and dance studios, field-testing them with participants primed for a meditative experience, and received extensive positive feedback. Like works by contemporaries Michael Stearns, Iasos, and Steve Roach, this is healing music that opens the outer reaches of the mind.
Tracklisting
Joseph Spence
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Various Artists: Mike Seeger
Dom Flemons
Elizabeth Cotten
Sunny Jain
Various Artists
Phil Thornton
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena
Terry Wright-Tregear
Tom Principato
Fresh Pepper
Aziz & Friends
Nonlocal Forecast
Various Artists
