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Deep Breakfast

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I've never been confortable with the term "New Age" as it applies to music. It has a ring of superficiality, and Ray Lynch's music is anything but. Following his 1983 debut (The Sky of Mind), the clasically-trained Lynch released Deep Breakfast in 1986. It is his masterpiece. Sometimes playful ("Rhythm in the Pews"), sometimes majestic ("The Oh of Pleasure"), always enchanting and engrossing, Lynch makes music that both comforts and challenges.

Though mostly a solo effort by Lynch (keyboards, piano, guitar), he is joined by Tom Canning (additional keyboards on "The Oh of Pleasure") and Beverly Jacobs (Flute) and Ron Strauss (viola).

I was first introduced to Deep Breakfast by a co-worker. It had the same emotional impact on me as the first time I heard Enya. This is powerful music. No surprise that this is one of the few New Age albums to sell more than 500,000 copies. ESSENTIAL

It's always sold as "new age" music, but it's so much more -- bright, uplifting, conscious, multidimensional -- the refinement and subtlety and balance you usually only find in classical music, with a freshness and energy that never get old. It's "evergreen" -- a classic that keeps showing up as new and lively. I first heard it years ago, and recently bought my FIFTH copy. I listen to all kinds of music, but this is probably my all-time favorite album of any genre.

If you haven't had the opportunity to listen to Deep Breakfast, then you are missing one of the modern worlds newest masterpieces. This album contains uplifting, soul moving sounds, driving the spirit into ecstasy. It is truely candy for the ears, love for the soul and all the while pearcing the heart with exhilrating sounds of pure inspiration. A sneak preview of heaven.

I've listened to this on so many Sunday mornings and it just gets better. The same for track 2, The Oh of Pleasure. I'll relax with a pillow on the floor and imagine songs of whales and just feel chills from how beautiful this song is!

Before hearing this album, whenever I heard the term new-age, I thought of hippy-chicks (and Gypsies) smelling of Patchouli, buying crystals, and other like-minded "weird" stuff. I also assumed it was the Devil's music, because that's what my church taught me. So isn't it ironic that it was on a church outing almost 15 years ago that I first heard this album, shattering my misconceptions about new-age music.

Imagine a pop artist making classical music using 80's keyboards. Then take that mental-image and improve the quality of the music by a hundred-fold and you would have a very loose idea of what this album is like. This is not an album of whale calls, ocean tides or anything of that ilk. Right now scroll to the top of the page (or go to the first page of this listing) and listen to the sample of "Celestial Soda Pop"; if you are like me, you will be sold on this album in 10 seconds.

This album ranges from intelligent melody driven songs like "Celestial Soda Pop" and "Rhythm In The Pews" to the ambient outer-space sounding "The Oh Of Pleasure", which reminds me of Space Mountain at Disney World for some reason. I can listen to it while driving, falling asleep, reading...you name it, it is the perfect all-purpose listening album.

Maybe the best way to explain this album is like this: whenever I listen to "Deep Breakfast" I feel like I am transported to another world (to use a hackneyed phrase); it evokes feelings within me of far-off non-earthlike places, and that there is something out there bigger than I am (not in a physical or religious sense). So, basicaly, it's quite hard to describe, but it definitely hits an emotional center within me, because listening to this album always puts me in a mood. Not a good mood, not a bad mood, just a mood.

I recently bought a car through the internet in New York state. I took 3 tapes and this CD with me to keep me going on the 3400-mile trip back. The tapes were hardly listened to, but this CD would have been worn out, if it were possible. "Pastorale" is SUPEROUTSTANDING as is "Rhythm in the Pews", with "Celestial Soda Pop" and "Falling in the Garden" being AWFULLY CLOSE SECONDS. After buying my own copy, I have purchased two other copies for friends and kin that thought it was as good as I do. Get one of your own and ENJOY!

This album was introduced to me almost 4 years ago. I bought it right after I heard it. It takes you out of the world into your mind. Ray Lynch's album is great to meditate or study to. Happy Listening!

We first heard The Oh of Pleasure at the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores and now call it our "aquarium music". Listen to this in the dark and imagine whales diving into the depths of the ocean with joy and freedom. If this music doesn't bring tears to your eyes, nothing will. This album will always be fresh in your memory and will make you smile.

Of all of Ray Lynch's CD's (and I have most of them) this oldie is ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST! If it were possible to wear out particular tracks, numbers 1, 3, 5 & 7 would be ravished! The bass in Celestial Soda Pop raises the hair on my arms and then the others just get better and better. WOW!

My brother, Tim, had this tape 10 years ago. We used it in an outside setting at a marketplace to sell our leather goods. Many people stopped by simply to ask about the music! We played it non-stop each of our selling days and never tired of it. Many years later, using the same tape as my companion, I drove to Las Vegas and back to San Diego listening to Deep Breakfast. Ray Lynch's music never became monotonous or tiring. The tape has been played so many times it finally got tired and broke. I now want a new CD to be played at my wedding for the guests between the end of the ceremony and our entry into the reception area. Thank you, Ray Lynch!