Sorry for the delay!

03/24/2010 Filler Content
Song:	"Soames Hill"
Mixing Artist:	Jason Ward
Genre:	New Age / Instrumental

Greetings everyone! I apologize for the delay in getting new reviews done and posted! Things have been very hectic for me lately. I have to sit down and spend some time located some more great talent on YouTube. If you know anyone who you feel deserves a review please feel free to send me their YouTube video by using share. My youtube channel page is -=[ Ward-Studios.com YouTube Channel ]=- I will be more than happy to listen to their work and consider them for a future review. I have some potential reviews lined up now, but I can always use more.

"Regneration" by Earthonika

03/14/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Regeneration"
Artist:	Earthonika (CJ Williams)
Genre:	New Age / Electronic / Instrumental

Another beautiful production from CJ Williams. This fantastic and moving instrumental features many unique and interesting musical elements. Sweeping pads and synths move the listener with interesting subtleties combined with nice climaxes. The only thing lacking in this composition may be the length, because when it ends it seems like there should still be more.

The audio production is crisp, clean, and sharp. The video features cut scenes from the movie "The 5th Element" which seems quite fitting for this piece of music. All in all, CJ has brought us another wonderful creation.

"Antarctica" cover by Roman Klunder

03/12/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Antarctica"
Artist:	Roman Klunder
Genre:	New Age / Electronic / Instrumental

Roman has created yet another fantastic cover with his amazingly beautiful version of "Antarctica" originally by the great Vangelis. Roman's version holds true to Vangelis' original masterpiece yet sounds enhanced at the same time. This wonderful electronic instrumental allows the mind to escape everyday worries and dream of fantastic things. The audio is perfect in every way, including that awesome deep bass, and the video featuring various clips of Antarctica is a fantastic accompaniment!

"In Search of Sunrise" by Blue Tente

03/10/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"In Search of Sunrise"
Artist:	Blue Tente
Genre:	Trance / Melodic / Progressive / New Age

Trance is a subjective genre and it is sometimes hard to find the really good trance songs amidst all the terrible mixes out there. "In Search of Sunrise" is a gem, an amazing brilliant gem amongst a sea of mediocre trance to be found floating around. This sweeping mind blowing mix is sure to captivate the imaginations of trance lovers everywhere. Lots of bass, loads of synths, nice sweeping pads, and a mild piano melodic track apply pure pleasure to the ears.

"Magellan Orchestral Arrangement" cover by James Clarke

03/09/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Magellan Orchestral Arrangement"
Band:	James Clarke (PaganJamesMuzik)
Genre:	New Age / Symphony / Cover

Every now and then someone arranges someone Else's work of musical magic into something that can sound even more amazing than the original. It is really pretty damn hard to top Mike Oldfield at his own game, but PaganJamesMuzik's orchestral arrangement of Magellan gives the original a real run for the money. This symphonic orchestra style music is filled with all sorts of wonder and amazement from start to end. This score washes over the listener filling them with vivid memories or dreams.

"Evolving" by Chris Baker

03/04/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Evolving"
Artist:	Chris Baker
Genre:	Progressive Melodic Trance / New Age

Evolving is the perfect name for this wonderful dreamy progressive melodic trance track by Chris Baker. The lead in progression to the middle break is subtle and spot on. Then the enjoyable ethereal instrumental middle without percussion to allow the imagination some transit before diving into the second progression and then fade out in the later part of the mix. A wonderful trance tune sure to please all fans of this fascinating genre of music.

"My Idol" by Atolis

03/03/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"My Idol"
Artist:	Atolis
Genre:	New Age / Easy Listening / Instrumental

Vangelis is a very inspirational composer to many of us. Atolis has created a wonderful new age score inspired by Vangelis much in the same feel as the soundtrack to "1492". Stunning beautiful building score with a lot of character. The production is clean and crisp and is accompanied by various photographs of Vangelis himself. Atolis has dedicated this song to Vangelis.

"IL MIO VIAGGIO NON SI FERMERA" by Martino Vergnaghi

02/27/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"IL MIO VIAGGIO NON SI FERMERA"
Artist:	Martino Vergnaghi
Genre:	New Age / Easy Listening / Instrumental

Martino has only published a few of his compositions so far. This beautiful soulful score is a clear indication he has already hit the ground running and is destined to compose some fantastic music in the future. The gentle fantasia style opening leads into an atmosphere style synth guitar accompaniment, and then that wonderful synth pan pipe kicks in with warm harp arpeggios to back it up. All of this accompanied by wonderful scenic photography makes for a very soothing, relaxing piece of music.

"Digital Revolutions" by Roman Klunder

02/22/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Digital Revolutions"
Artist:	Roman Klunder
Genre:	New Age / Electronic

Roman Klunder brings us "Digital Revolutions", refreshing upbeat electronic new age music. With a light beat, strong bass, and a moving sequence of pads, synths, strings, and choruses, this enlightening music is almost like a fusion of sequence and ambient turned up a notch.

Audio production is perfectly clear and resolute. The video features an awesome array of visualizer images that follow the music.

"Eye to Eye" by Eye Sound Project

02/21/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Eye to Eye"
Artist:	Eye Sound Project
Genre:	Sequence / New Age / Electronic

Good old classic sequence style music track with a steady build in. Very good production all the way through. Eye Sound Project has done a great job with this sequence. The video features beautiful images of various eyes that relate well to the name of the song and the project overall.

"When Love Leaves" by Earthonika

02/18/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"When Love Leaves"
Artist:	Earthonika (CJ Williams)
Genre:	Instrumental New Age / Easy Listening

This very relaxing new age score begins gently with soft string pads and progressively builds throughout the entire song. CJ creates a very warm atmosphere first with an amazing oboe melody and then kicks it up a notch by adding some gentle percussion and fantastic choir backing to accent the overall feel of the score. The score climaxes very close to the end, leaving the listener yearning for more. Replay is a wonderful thing!

The samples used to produce the music are pretty good. The productions quality and audio levels are great throughout. The video starts with a Poem written by CJ followed by nice scenes of water, nature, and some abstract transitions.

"Future Dreams" by Awesome

02/15/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Future Dreams"
Artist:	AWESOME (Victor Vergara)
Genre:	Electronic / New Age / Demo

Through the later part of the 1980's and pretty much all the way through the 1990's artists like Awesome of Wildbits used a music production tool called Screamtracker to create fantastic synthesized music like "Future Dreams". The format originated on the Amiga computer system as a 4 channel audio format called MOD. This unique new format was revolutionary for its time as it contained both the music sequence information, much like a MIDI file, and all of the samples required to play the sequence all within one file. As the format and the Amiga platform became better the complexity of these files grew threw formats such as S3M and finally ended at the grand-daddy of MOD files called XM or XMod files. These files allowed for a CD quality presentation of music in a file size between 1/10th and 1/100th the size of WAV file, which is still the standard format for CDs to this day. XM met a sudden and abrupt decline in popularity with the release of a revolutionary audio compression codec called MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly known today as MP3.

Awesome was among the best and brightest of the Screamtracker composers out there. He created hundreds of scores with Ancient Stories probably being his most popular. Future Dreams is a very intriguing and beautiful sequence in itself and really quite enjoyable to listen to.

"Charlie" by Mark Galloway

02/12/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Charlie"
Artist:	Mark Galloway
Genre:	Instrumental Easy Listening / New Age

This instrumental guitar song is riveting right from the beginning! Mark has multi-tracked himself playing the guitar and layered them all together to create this beautiful and refreshing piece of music. He handles the guitar with precision creating a fantastic memorable sound which is easy to listen to over and over again. His finger movement creates nice twangy chord changes and notes with lots of vibrato and character. With guitar work this incredible no vocals are required to convey the song to the listener. Just hit play, sit back, relax, and let this wonderful song wash over you.

Production is great! Mark recorded and multi-tracked his work on several audio channels and panned them in a way that gives the song a wonderful stereo effect. The recording levels are spot on with crisp clear sound quality. His video production is equally great. He has recorded himself playing the main melody and converted it to black and white to give it a good feel which fits the music nicely.

"Dolmen Ridge" by GNOMUSY

02/11/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Dolmen Ridge"
Artist:	GNOMUSY (David Caballero)
Genre:	World / New Age

David Caballero first released his music to the public in 1999 on the classic MP3c site under the artist name "Gnomusy", meaning the Gnome of Music. His music is bright and full of optimism in so many ways. David has always been influenced by nature and beauty, influences which show up quite readily in very deep detail embedded in his music. It is no wonder that those who have come upon his music fall so madly in love with it and cherish it as a part of their music collections. Dolmen Ridge starts off with an almost ethereal pad and piano introduction soon followed by a hauntingly beautiful reverberated flute which penetrates all the way into the soul. There is absolutely no denying that this is one of the most captivating pieces of music in existence. Listen through as the melody continues to be carried by those fantastic pads and the percussion kicks in.

David is very keen about his production. He always felt very limited by the MP3 file format but still managed to record his work in stunning 24-bit and downsample it to the 16-bit required to create MP3 files without losing very much audio quality. His pride in production shines through his music as the levels are completely flawless in every way and the music is as crystal clear and sharp as is technically possible from an MP3 file.

"Dolomite Alps - South Tyrol" by Frank Zetmen

02/06/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Dolomite Alps - South Tyrol"
Artist:	Frank Zetmen
Genre:	New Age

Frank Zetmen has created a beautiful little new age tune inspired by his trip to and photographs of the Dolomite Alps in South Tyrol. This perky, positive, and upbeat score features synth bells, strings, choirs, and orchestral sounds very reminiscent of some of work of new age great Mike Oldfield. This is a very relaxing piece and a wonderful introduction of Frank's talent to arrange, compose, and produce his own brand of music.

The video features several wonderful photographs taken by frank on his trip to South Tyrol. Wow, what a beautiful area. Listening to the music while viewing all of these spectacular photographs really allows the audience to let it all go and travel to another place if not just for a few moments. Absolutely stunning in every way.

The audio production is crisp and crystal clear. Definitely a pleasure to listen to on any audio system at any volume level.

"Into The Sky" by Earthonika

02/02/2010 Random Music Review
Song:	"Into The Sky"
Artist:	Earthonika (CJ Williams)
Genre:	New Age

What a refreshing young artist! Earthonika combines layers of his own vocals with instrumental arrangements to create a fun and refreshing new sound. His newest creation, "Into The Sky" demonstrates this perfectly. This relaxing new age production features smooth acoustic instrumentals samples while showcasing his exemplary ability to record multiple instances of his own vocals and then layer them together many times to create a harmonizing style of music reminiscent of Enya.

The lyrics leave the listening audience with the feeling the story is about a broken love, a love the story teller refuses to let go of in his own heart. Was it a breakup? Maybe he is just dreaming of a love he's never had. Is he pining? Is he dreaming? Has he passed on into another existence leaving her behind? The story leaves a lot to the imagination.

The video visuals are borrowed from someone else. Even though they are not his own, the imagery is very fitting for the song and is a perfect match.

The composition and arrangement of the music is great with lots of variety, yet it is always gentle and relaxed throughout the entire work. The production is superb with sharp crystal clear sound and absolutely no distortion or clipping.