Blue Lunar Monkey (Daniel Gradilla) is a long time musician/producer who believes the deeper meaning behind music, a communication without words that can take you into higher states of consciousness. Full of Psychedelic synths, organic bass lines and rolling rhythms, plus a few appearances by the amazing voice of Wendy Stock this album is certain to help ascend any person into a bliss filled state.
Blue Lunar Monkey aka Daniel Gradilla returns after years of silence with a new album entitled "Essential Oneness". "As we become aware of the interconnectedness of existence, we weave a golden thread that brings into our everyday life the reality of oneness. This golden thread is the unbroken link that exists between the One Essence and Its infinite ways of expression, Its creation. Developing relational consciousness builds bridges of understanding among different people, traditions, ideas, and faiths and empowers individuals to live an integrated life ensouled with meaning. By perceiving the essential oneness that exists among all things a new sense of living and belonging is born."
The co-leaders of this date first met back in the 70's, when pianist Marc Copland's instrument of choice was the saxophone. Whereas the teaming of the pianist's trio with sax great Dave Liebman reflects a natural extension of their fairly recent collaboration at the Santa Fe, New Mexico Jazz Festival. With this release, Copeland brings his elegant touch to the forefront, which is a characteristic that intrinsically complements, his partner's lofty excursions on both tenor and soprano saxophones.
Innovative Communication has honored that historic mission with Lunar Landing, a package which includes an official Apollo 11 patch and a special commemorarive CD combining tracks from IC's most distinguished New Age composers and actual radio transmissions between Apollo 11 and NASA Mission Control to recreate the riveting drama and transcendant awe of those heady days in 1969.
Lunar Clock aims to bring back the combination of adventure, suggestion, sound and melody. Formed in 2014 by Robin Boer.
"The Scream Of Nature" album contains music that is inspired by the painted works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. The music is melodic with adventurous instrumentals with influences from Genesis, Moody Blues, and Kayak.
This double-CD set more or less supplants – though in some ways it also enhances – the 1993 compilation Echoes: The Retrospective. With a slightly longer running time and a fair difference in song content; though the same number of tracks, the overlap between the two is surprisingly limited. Gone are "Unevensong," "Breathless," "Skylines," the studio versions of "Lunar Sea" and "West Berlin," and "City Life," among other tracks – in their place as "Stationary Traveler," "Long Goodbyes," "Slow Yourself Down," "Nimrodel," "The Great Marsh," and "Spirit of the Water," plus live renditions of "Lunar Sea" and "West Berlin." The sound here is also improved somewhat, although Echoes was very good in that department as well, and, to be fair, there's a limited amount that one can do with the earliest recordings in terms of raising the fidelity. The annotation is extremely thorough, and the overall quality of the package makes a worthy addition to any Camel collection, as well as a good introduction to the band for the uninitiated.