Thank you to NASA for the amazing Hubble images used in this video.

Instruments:
Midi Saxophone, Dance Beats, Keyboards.

Recorded by Pix Vane Mason in Crystal Waters.

Listen to the complete album here.

Who better to create music for Yoga than a Yoga teacher?

Three master musicians. One purpose.

To create the ultimate album for the practice and sharing and teaching of the discipline called Yoga.

The Musicians:

• Jai Larkan: Yoga teacher, pianist, programmer and creator of atmosphere in sound.
• Chris Lane: Master flautist and front man for the band OKA.
• Herrin Larkan: Mixing and mastering engineer, guitarist and producer.

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Embrace The Moment

Price: $12.00

Track Listing

1. Preparing The Way – 1:27
2. The Higher Mind – 11:30
3. Fire In The Belly – 20:30
4. Inner Strength – 10:45
5. Reflection of Self  – 24:15
6. The Journey Home – 11:14

Total time: 79:39

A beautifully crafted instrumental world music album that will inspire you. Its subtle journey will transport you deep into your chill-out or yoga space.

Embrace The Moment

80 minutes of lush instrumental world music designed to guide you from gentle building warmups, through the inner fire of sun salutes and spinal twists and ending with peace inducing savasana and meditation.

Any serious Yoga Practitioner or Massage Therapist will find this album an invaluable addition to their music collection.

Atmospheric instrumental world music, designed to enhance your yoga or relaxation practice. Piano and Keyboards, Slide Acoustic Guitar and Wonderful Flutes by Chris from OKA make this album a unique journey.

This album download comes with a license that allows you to use any of the 16 songs on this compilation free of any royalties or payments at all. AND if for some reason you don’t hear a song that is right for you, we can work out a license for another song we have available.

Email us at support@astronomyrecords.com

Royalty Free Soundtracks - Vol 1

This compilation album contains 16 songs with a wide variety of music for your next video production or presentation.

The license in this download package gives you the right to use the music in any production you like as many times as you like as long as you provide a clear credit and a link to our website. Easy!

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Track Listing

The album, Lunar Khandro with its richly layered but spacious production, is guaranteed to assist you or your clients in massage, meditation and sleep.  Sleep music designed to send you into a state of deep relaxation and calm.

The Musicians:

Composed and performed by the great Jai Larkan with wonderful angelic vocals by Simone Townsend.

Useful for:

• Massage
• Sleep Music
• Meditation

Lunar Khandro - Jai Larkan

If ever there was music to have in the background as you picnic at the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, this is it. The three tracks “Dark”, “Still”, and “Adrift” carry your being up and out, somewhere away from the everyday worries, inviting us to slowly dance amongst its infinite beauty even if for a little while.

Simone Townsend’s bewitching vocals ease into you, transporting you to another place, another time, effortlessly weaving within the relaxing, brilliant music of Jai Larkan.

Peaceful Spacious Tasteful Relaxation Music - The 3 tracks on this album (they are very long) are called Dark, Still, and Adrift. Very aptly named because this music will take you into space. A deep calming relaxing space. We dare you not to fall either asleep or into meditation when you hear this album.

Available in both MP3 and iTunes format.

Questions or comments? Email us at support@astronomyrecords.com

Carefully crafted music made with the intention of bringing new life and inspiration to your yoga, relaxation and meditation.

Questions? Want to get in touch with us? Please email us on: support@astronomyrecords.com

Embrace The Moment – Music to enhance your yoga practice.

Three master musicians. One purpose.

To create the ultimate album for the practice and sharing and teaching of the discipline called Yoga.

The Musicians:

• Jai Larkan: Yoga teacher, pianist, programmer and creator of atmosphere in sound.
• Chris Lane: Master flautist and front man for the band OKA.
• Herrin Larkan: Mixing and mastering engineer, guitarist and producer.

Embrace The Moment

80 minutes of lush instrumental world music designed to guide you from gentle building warmups, through the inner fire of sun salutes and spinal twists and ending with peace inducing savasana and meditation.

Any serious Yoga Practitioner or Massage Therapist will find this album an invaluable addition to their music collection.

Atmospheric instrumental world music, designed to enhance your yoga or relaxation practice. Piano and Keyboards, Slide Acoustic Guitar and Wonderful Flutes by Chris from OKA make this album a unique journey.

Lunar Khandro – Relaxation and Meditation

For Savasana and peace inducing atmospheres, this album will serve you well. Listen and discover why people are using this music to help bring serenity to their massage or relaxation practice. Also ideal for meditation whether silent or guided.

Lunar Khandro - Jai Larkan

If ever there was music to have in the background as you picnic at the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, this is it. The three tracks “Dark”, “Still”, and “Adrift” carry your being up and out, somewhere away from the everyday worries, inviting us to slowly dance amongst its infinite beauty even if for a little while.

Simone Townsend’s bewitching vocals ease into you, transporting you to another place, another time, effortlessly weaving within the relaxing, brilliant music of Jai Larkan.

Peaceful Spacious Tasteful Relaxation Music - The 3 tracks on this album (they are very long) are called Dark, Still, and Adrift. Very aptly named because this music will take you into space. A deep calming relaxing space. We dare you not to fall either asleep or into meditation when you hear this album.

So here are 5 things that we feel must be present for music to be effective at both relaxing and guiding us into better states of being.*

1. Story

This is where you want to be..

A sense of journey and melodic theme makes for a sense of discovery and progression. When people listen to this type of music they want a change of state. The music must take the listener into a new world that is both familiar and varied in its texture and arrangement.

2. Space

It is the space between the notes that makes room for imagination, introspection and even sleep. They do however need to be placed with some..

3. Intention

The musician must be aware of and sensitive to the overall context of the piece and how their performance fits with its theme and purpose. All without overly intellectualizing it!

4. Subtlety and Texture

With music that is minimalist in its form it is important not to be either empty melodically, or too repetitive. It must have layers and be mixed in such a way that leaves some things undiscovered within the sound, at least on the first listen anyway! To do this it is helpful…

5.  Being able to play a real instrument (or two if possible).

Having a computer a musician does not make. The digital age has made computer music available to everyone, but nothing can replace a real affinity with rhythm and melody and space and with ones instrument, whether it is guitar, keyboards/piano or anything else really.

Listen to our relaxation music here.

*We would love to hear your own thoughts on what makes great relaxation music. Please let us know in the comments below. ↓

Moon Base depiction from the 50s

It may seem crazy but we (human kind) need to be on the moon.

With the GFC and various wars going on it might seem stark raving mad to suggest we should be spending billions on going to the moon and setting up shop, but stay with me and I think you will see the sense of it.

Before we start I should point out that the main reasons why NASA has not been back to the moon are lack of public interest and funding, not aliens like this silly video suggests.

Why we need a base on the Moon:

1. Survival

If something goes disastrously wrong here on earth (take your pick) there would at least be some humans that would live to multiply and or pick up the pieces of the human race. Having a second place for at least the potential for human colonisation gives us a fall back to allow our genes to live on.

“All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” — Carl Sagan

2. Exploration

The potential for discovery on the moon is by no means exhausted. Having a permanent presence on the surface (and even below) would most certainly expand our understanding of the our planets history as well as the universe.

3. Astronomy

Being on a stable surface with very minimal gravity and virtually no atmosphere would allow us to use different telescopes and radio receivers and get a new picture of our universe that would be to the Hubble Space Telescope. The far side of the moon is shielded from earths static aurora so as to provide a perfect environment for a new era of astronomy.

4. Minerals and Resources

Mining the moon would unlock millions of tonnes of metals and elements, some of which are rare on earth.  Read more about REE or Rare Earth Elements here.

5. Security

If aliens do ever land on earth we would have an early warning system. (That one was for the conspiracy nuts, we care about you too!

6. Mars

Establishing at the very least a base on the moon would be a logical stepping stone for the journey to Mars.

7. Safety

We still don’t know what the long term effects of space are on the human body. The Moon base would be an easy place for the astronauts to recover or repair if there was ever an accident in space. The slight gravity of the Moon makes a lot of things doable that are not so in open space.

8. Money

In the long run the amount of money and resources that we already know are on the Moon would more than offset the cost of the venture.

9. Technology

Those rare earth elements and the minerals can be made into new advanced forms of technology that may help solve some of the problems down here on earth. Or allow us to design and engineer new types of space craft or propulsion.

10.  Security

Space is perhaps a few decades away from being privatised. Once that happens the moon is up for grabs. Whoever lands and sets up camp first and even gets a chance to become well established would win a race every bit as significant as the journey to the Moon!

So why then considering all this and more, are we not already on the Moon?

Just next door

More about:

• Moon Rocks – Wikipedia
• Colonization of the Moon – Wikipedia
• NASA Lunar Orbiter Delivers Treasure Trove of Data – NASA.gov
• When might we go back to the Moon? – NASA HQ Article
• Oxygen-Rich Moon Minerals May Help Astronauts Breathe – National Geographic

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Instruments: Acoustic guitar, keyboards, shakers, bells, zills, drum beats and female vocals.

The Taylor acoustic guitar Murray uses to create this piece is perfectly balanced and rings out clearly to evoke the feeling of the sweeping hills and verdant meadows of the Mary Valley.

To see exactly where this is on Google maps, click here. (new window)

Composed and recorded by the artist, Murray Wall.

Doing this music was difficult in that it took me into the suffering of these poor people still exposed to the radiation from the site.

The important thing to me was to set the mood without making it too dark or depressing. The subtle melody is based on a traditional Ukrainian folk song, except it is the piano that plays the chords here instead of the (weird Ukranian) guitar.

The Nylon acoustic guitar is also supposed to be a traditional instrument in the area whereas the cello that comes in at the end is just for a change in story, musically speaking.

I wanted to pay some respect to the music of the region.

Graffiti of a child - Chernobyl

Greenpeace has taken it upon themselves to remind us that this problem has not gone away and with the recent events in Japan it’s obvious that nuclear power must be phased out as we find alternatives to our energy needs.

A team visited the area in 2011 to carry out their own research as the government had stopped testing for radiation in 2009. They found that in one village the levels of Caesium-137 in milk was 2-16 times the safe level for children.

Greenpeace. Stories that need to be told.

We provided the soundtrack for this video. Thanks go to Elaine Hill from Greenpeace HQ in Amsterdam for asking us to be involved.

Photography by Robert Knoth. You can see more of his photos from the project right here.

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