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Rain Dance

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As a massage therapist, this is another one of my "go-to" CD's. The music has been described as neo-classical with new age and world music instrumentation. With a few of the songs I always feel like I am in the renaissance period, although, I am not sure I would know exactly how the renaissance period sounded. Two of the songs are "traditional", so that may be why.

Something that really makes this CD good for massage is that a few of the tracks having a nice relaxing thunderstorm in the background.

This music has real body and depth, unlike the average boring new-age music many massage therapists think about when they hear people talk about "massage music". It's very easy for the therapist to hold onto a rhythm or melody on any of the tracks and follow it through the session. I use this CD for both swedish & deep tissue work, and find I can especially zonk-out the willing deep-swedish client with this CD playing in the background.

The music consists of guitar, indian flute and world drums. Of course, those don't sound so appealing when you read it out loud, but I promise you, it is a wonderful combination. Below is a link to where you can sample the music yourself. I suggest you listen to it with a nice set of speakers in order to hear the nuances of the music.



Because I use actual CD's in my work-space, I re-created the CD with a Roxio program to add a duplicate of one of the songs, in order to extend the run time to about 63 mins.

The Original playlist (Program time ~ 54:18 mins):

1. The Harvest (14:00) Listen
2. Rain Dance (8:29
3. The Grenadier & The Lady I (9:57
4. The Leaf (11:13
5. The Grenadier & The Lady II (10:39)



My extended version playlist (the individual song times are a little longer due to the gaps between songs, which creates a CD with a run time right around 63 mins.):

1.The Harvest 14:00)
2.Rain Dance 8:29)
3.The Grenadier & The Lady I 9:57)
4.The Leaf (11:13)
5.Rain Dance 8:29)
6.The Grenadier & The Lady II 10:39)

Rain Dance
Garden of Serenity
Musical Massage: Inside

Rob Whitesides-Woo's work is a favorite of music therapists, because it brings out the best in the listener. Great stuff!

As a massage therapist of 4 years now, finding good music to play can be a challenge when you are constantly getting bored with CDs you listen to on repeat while you massage several clients. I found this album through a coworker and I absolutely love it! It's not like a lot of new age music that really seems to lack passion or 'oomph' or life or soul or something, but it really glistens with a beautiful sound of depth.

We have been trying to get the CD of Rain Dance and we are having a hard time getting it. It is a relaxing CD and we enjoyed it very much.