Angelic Ambient Arrangements
These beautifully melodic ambient offerings by Alio Die are a divine mixture of choral spaciousness that blend chamber-style instrumentals with soft yet soaring angelic vocal arrangements.
Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in his home town of Milan, Italy, and began performing ambient, electro-acoustic music under the name Alio Die in 1989. Characterized by evocative acoustic sounds manipulated and tendered electronically, Alio Die's work builds intimate soundscapes tied to the mystery and majesty of life and nature. His first CD Under an Holy Ritual, released on his label Hic Sunt Leones in 1992 and re-released on Projekt in 1993, was received with international acclaim. He subsequently released more than 25 CDs, and collaborated with many well-known artists such as Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Nick Parkin, Yannick Dauby, Amelia Cuni, Raffaele Serra, Ora, Antonio Testa.
NuTone is a Record Label that specializes in Bhakti. They have releases from an amazing array of Kirtan artists including Kirshna Das, Jai Uttal, Donna DeLory, Sean Johnson, Wah! and more. Check out some of their featured releases by Jai Uttal, Donna De Lory, and Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band.
Created for the yoga journey, Blue Fire Soul explores the universe of the body. Urban priestess Suzanne Sterling’s ecstatic chants conjure a soundscape of guitars, tablas, loops and beats stretching from intimate to epic, inviting us to open the doors of perception and step into our true nature: fully alive, totally awake.
Suzanne Sterling is an ecstatic vocalist, innovative teacher and invoker of the sacred. Both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a facilitator of transformational workshops and intensives for many years, Suzanne has received critical acclaim. Her devotional music has been commissioned for film, theatre and DVD.
Samantha was born and raised in London. As a third generation yogi she is honored to have traveled and studied extensively, with some of the finest teachers worldwide. Expressing the teachings for almost two decades. She continues her studies with Sri Shankarcharaya, which has deep roots in Hindu Tantrism. As a well-known and respected teacher in her community, she has been a luminescent guide for her students, many of whom have gone on to become teachers themselves.
She is currently preparing a Teacher Training course to be offered in 2012, is busy recording a follow-up to her restorative yoga program and recording Shankarcharaya’s teachings on the “Precepts to Conscious Living” to be released later this year. Samantha lives in Venice, California where she predominately teaches privately, and offers regular group classes at Exhale Center for Sacred Movement and The Ashram in Calabasas.
This playlist is full of euphoria inducing passion. The peaceful meditative beginnings elegantly build into a powerful celebration of life, gently mellowing out into some ambient grooves, then eases into a blissful moment of complete surrender.
Stuart is a yoga teacher and holistic life coach based in Perth, Western Australia. He is known for his unique, heart-felt self expression and inspirational style of teaching. Stuart's classes incorporate Vinyasa Flow Asana and Akhanda Yoga with most of the emphasis being on transformation and healing. Stuart teaches with raw yet compassionate honesty which helps his students and clients bring the qualities practiced on the mat into daily life.
Derek Beres is the creator of EarthRise Yoga, a rigorous Vinyasa-based practice pulling from his decade of study in various yogic practices, as well as studies in various martial arts and dance disciplines, including certifications in Budokon and Thai Yoga Massage. He currently teaches fourteen weekly classes at Equinox Fitness and Pure Yoga in New York City, and travels internationally as an instructor and lecturer on yoga, as well as his work in international music as a journalist, DJ, and music producer. Derek currently writes for Yoga Journal, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Huffington Post and others. His column, Beyond Postures: The Art of Yoga, was featured on various Gaiam websites. Derek served as a Lululemon ambassador for their store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
He co-founded the Sacred Strength EarthRise Yoga teacher training program at Equinox in 2008. He is one half of EarthRise SoundSystem, which released its debut, The Yoga Sessions, in January 2010 on White Swan/Yoga Organix, which reached #5 on the iTunes World Music Charts and was featured in every major yoga publicaiton. More recently, he produced the album InnerVersions: A Six Degrees Yoga Compilation on Six Degrees Records. Derek has been featured by NBC Weekend Today, ABC Eyewitness News, Fox Business, BBC, and NY1, as well as in Fitness, Yoga Journal, Boston Globe, AOL’s Spinner, Newsday, MTV, NPR, and PRI.
Kalya's music is quite unique in style and is definitely an interesting cross over between the seductive sound of the Middle East, traditional Gypsy, Dubstep and Glitch Hop. Broadening the horizon of what yoga music is, YogiTunes strives to bring you devotional vibes from every corner of the musical multiverse!
Kalya Scintilla is a benevolent being incarnate from the star system womp. Drawing inspiration from Nature, Love, tribal energy, healing, sacred geometry, and many other of life's wonders, Kalya's music is quite unique in style and is definitely an interesting cross over between Dubstep/ Glitch Hop, the seductive sound of the Middle East and traditional Gypsy. Dripping molasses over a fractal tabla, a journey through an enchanted forest, the soundtrack to an epic dream scape. A successful attempt to resonate the heavens and earth channeled through sound waves.
