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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093791201220 Label: Inner Peace Music Manufacturer: Inner Peace Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Inner Peace Music Release Date: October 29, 1996 Studio: Inner Peace Music Sales Rank: 4941 MPN: 2012
Amazon.com: One of the fundamental criticisms of New Age music is that it puts people to sleep. Here, Steven Halpern, one of the founding fathers of New Age, makes that his mission and, as you might expect, does an effective job of it. Drawing on catalog material from the early 1980s, Halpern builds an attractive collection of delicate, lighter-than-air sonic textures that nicely serves the intended purpose--to fill the silence with something prettier than white noise. Halpern does so by blending electric and acoustic piano, plus additional keyboards, to create soothing, improvisational, cloudlike musical abstractions that often convey the tranquil randomness of wind chimes in a soft breeze. The liner notes also promise your subconscious will be exposed to a series of subliminal, sleep-encouraging affirmations along the quiet, unstructured way. This may sound like so much frou-frou to the unconverted, but for anyone sincerely interested in a sleep aid, Halpern's disc is a certified snoozer, a New Age music box. Other New Age discs may accomplish the same purpose as Sleep Soundly, but few will do it as persuasively. --Terry Wood
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Meh
Warning: I do not fit in with the "new age" hippie folk who bought and reviewed this album.
I got this album because I wanted something soothing to fall asleep to - this mission was accomplished, ... Read More
Rating: - best of the sleep CD's I tried
I tried many CDs as I weaned myself off of sleep aids during a very difficult year. A lot of them had lovely music, some had delta and theta wave-stimulating tones underneath... but almost all of them had annoying ... Read More
Rating: - OK maybe it's just me
There were a few cuts on this CD that I liked well enough. But for me, most of the music was a little like being trapped in a slow-moving elevator, and I couldn't wait to get off. I guess I found the music rather ... Read More
Rating: - Fall Asleep CD
This CD really relaxes you and makes you go to sleep fast...I highly recommend it.
Rating: - Dreams
I purchased this CD for the same reason that most do...insomnia. I do not want to depend on pills or artificial means to sleep. I read the reviews of this CD on Amazon and decided that it sounded pretty good. The first ... Read More
- Meh
- best of the sleep CD's I tried