Tuesday, May 13, 2008







































Tropical Paradise of the Head

Switch off. Take time out. Practice breathing. Put yourself in that other place. That safe place away from the noise & the hustle & bustle of everyday life.

Get your priorities sorted out. How? It’s not easy in a life bombarded by external events. Find a quiet spot.

An alternative approach & one that I would recommend is to grab hold of a good ambient recording that you really enjoy & wont get bored with over time.

Those Windham Hill or ECM jazz records used to do it for me, but now I am more inclined to natural sounds. Not the new-agey, whales, wolves or loons type sounds but more likely Chris Watson albums or Geir Jensens superb recordings from Tibet.

Certainly I would avoid at all costs the Conet Recordings of the numbers stations or Ghost Orchid’s Introduction to EVP as they would either freak you out or make you think too much.

I would ignore some of the Touch label items like The Runaway Train or the other one about a UFO sighting for the same reason given above, but the Touch label has a wealth of other natural sounds.

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