Customer Reviews

Northern Lights-Music Of Contemplation For A New Age

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Better than most "New Age" offerings, thanks to the overall choices and imagery the music conjures up. Northbound is first cut and gives actual feel of travelling very fast over snow and ice. Sounds like a well-crafted soundtrack. Well worth buying when you need a beautiful, lilting symphonic head-journey-or when you just need/want to hear musicians other than U.S./British-born artists.

Some of the cuts are quite moving, some sturm und drang, and others reminiscent of the best of classical artists. One friend told me he could almost hear the ice crackling underfoot in one track, and another said he thought of the time he saw flights of geese southbound for the winter.

The music on this CD is hauntingly beautiful and much of it fills me with strange and wistful longings--a sort of "happy sadness," perhaps correspondent to the German concept of Sehnsucht.

I heard Dominus Vobiscum on XM radio this morning and found myself just sitting down and meditating on the spot. Meditation is something I've started reading about but could not see myself doing though I knew I'd try somehow. Music like this makes meditation possible for anyone even those with totally undisciplined minds like mine. I've listened to the samples, and I'll buy this album but only for the 3 pieces by Urmus Sisak. He'll never know what this experience meant to me. One note: I only remembered the name "Sisak" and the word "Contemplation" and began my determined search for this music. Given that he is a composer and part of a compilation from various artists, what do you think the chances should have been that I would find his Dominus Vobiscum with that little information? His name never came up in a search. It must be true that if you are sincere, doors or paths do open. Just listen...

again, I like to relax and take my mind off today's events and just let my mind wonder, while listening to new age soft, playing music....and this CD is one of the ones I listen to. I think everyone who truly enjoys listening to new age type music will like it also.....and on the other hand, I like Merle Haggard, Wayland Jennings and classic country......so I'm not just one sided....

This musical CD is absolutely the best for unwinding and quiet time. Each selection is unique and the composers and artists are obviously very talented. I am very, very happy with it.

This is by far one of my favorite albums to meditate, read or simply enjoy time and space. This album has a soft introduction which settles a mood for whats to come. By the middle of the album you get so relaxed that I read without thinking on anything else. Two thumbs Up!!

I found this album quite pleasant. As a collection it succeeds in bringing together many different artists, yet selecting specific pieces that all blend together into a very smooth and impressively melodic compilation. The name says it all.

"Music composed by Sisask is classical but added with a touch of symphonical rock. It was the feast of recognising when I listend to compositions like the forest. I only hope that Sisask does not go to far into the forest of early rock and roll"

There was only one song on this CD that I did not enjoy. All the rest were great.