Track Listing

1. Healing Ocean
2. Flow of Harmony
3. Awakening Peace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76385 in Music
• Released on: 2003-06-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
From Sequoia Records New Art of Healing Series.... Experience inner peace with this new music for Yoga, Spa Treatments and the Healing Arts from award-winning masters of healing music, David & Steve Gordon. Soothing moods of abundant peace, piano and ambient guitar artfully blend with ocean waves, birdsong and streams creating a comforting and healing environment.

Mara Applebaum - New Age Retailer
Heart of Peace provides an ideal backdrop for massage therapy, acupuncture, or even a pampered day at the spa.

About the Artist
David and Steve Gordon have pioneered New Age/World music with their award-winning top charting albums for over twenty years. Their influential trademark sound, combining world instruments and sounds of nature has sold over one million units worldwide and has appeared on network TV and major motion picture scores such as the recent Fox Searchlight release, "Kissing Jessica Stein."

Since founding Sequoia Records in 1982, the Gordon brothers have been breaking musical ground, consistently creating albums that top the charts, garner awards, and expand the boundaries of New Age and World music. "We like to think of our music as the music of Earth and Spirit, because we believe that one of the goals of being alive is to unite the two into one," explains Steve Gordon.

Natives of Southern California, David and Steve Gordon both took an early interest in music. After studying classical music at Los Angeles Valley College and UCLA, the brothers both attended the Grove Music Academy where they studied modern harmony and jazz.

They formed Sequoia Records in 1982 to release their first two albums Misty Forest Morning and Peaceful Evening. These albums combined music and nature so beautifully that they became known as definitive recordings of the newly emerging New Age music genre... Since these releases met with critical acclaim and healthy sales, over the next couple of years they recorded their next two music and nature titles, Radiant Sea and Still Waters. They next began experimenting with their music, developing a new style they called "Inner Environments", which they featured on two albums, Astral Journey and Celestial Suite. These recordings were some of the earliest examples of what is known today as Ambient/Space Music.

In the early '90's the brothers began to collect Tribal drums and studied the Native American flute. They envisioned a contemporary world music, combining traditional Native instruments, with guitar, keyboards, and sounds of nature into a new universal world groove. Their 1994 release Sacred Earth Drums successfully blended all of these elements, topping the New Age charts. This influential crossover recording reached #1 at all the New Age distributors immediately upon release, stayed there for over 3 years and even now remains high on distributors sales charts.

In 1996, David and Steve went back into the studio and created the follow-up to Sacred Earth Drums, which they titled Sacred Spirit Drums. Immediately it began to receive enthusiastic reviews. Steve Ryals of New Age Retailer's Fresh Tracks said, "Each superb track flows into the next. Evocative, mysterious, sensual, and profoundly healing."

In 1999 David and Steve inaugurated their new studio by creating Drum Medicine, which again became an immediate top seller on new age alternative distributors best selling lists and stayed in the top 5 for over 2 years. "With this new recording, we really wanted to explore the idea of the drum as a force for healing," said Steve. David adds, "There's a more diverse palette of sounds that draw from other cultures. We looked for musical themes in other cultures that resonated with the spiritual basics of the Native American culture." Carl McColman wrote in a feature interview for NAV Magazine, "The Gordon's may have launched out of a Native American sensibility, but as their music has flowered, it has become truly a universal indigenous sound - for all people of the earth, from all cultures." This is precisely what they will continue to do.

To celebrate their 20th Anniversary in March 2002, they released Sacred Drum Visions, a collection of favorite tracks from their best-selling world drumming titles, which also included 3 brand new songs which continue to expand upon their signature contemporary world music sound. Heart of Peace is their most current release.

Customer Reviews

Heart of Peace delivers real stress-relief
This is one of those CDs that just don't come out of the CD player for a long time once you put it in. There is something so soothing and beautifully ambient about this music that I have yet to tire of it at all. Once it is playing, it's warmth and spirit fill my home in the most pleasing way. It is rare that I find music which so effects me. No matter how stressed out I am, once I hear this, my thoughts begin quiet and my body relaxes. I find myself listening while doing things around the house, reading, talking on the phone, and doing yoga, but my favorite is to listen at bedtime. This is the perfect music for relaxing before bed or even to go to sleep to, which is what I do often. I have also enjoyed other healing music CDs from the Gordons such as Garden of Serenity, or Sanctuary, so I knew I would probably like this one too. That not only turned out to be true, but they seem to just keep getting better and better. Highest Recommendation.

Good working CD for practitioners
A super meditative or "working" background CD from the Art of Healing Series from Sequoia Records. The Gordons are known for their wonderful collection of Sacred Drum CDs - Sacred Earth Drums, Sacred Drum Visions, Drum Prayer. This work is in a very different vein. It blends nature sounds with ambient music to create a soothing flow. Strong on the synths and keyboards here. There are only three tracks on the disc with a total time of 61:09, just the right length for a yoga or meditation session, spa treatments, a Tarot reading or a body work session. It is peaceful, yet evocative and joyful to listen to. It is a CD that I can drop in the player and hit the repeat button to take me through a series of clients without feeling that I NEED to change the music. I have a wide collection of New Age music and yet am happy to add this one to my library.

Here is the perfect album to relax with!
Here is the perfect album to relax with! The opening track, Healing Ocean, begins and continues with the recurrent and soothing sound of ocean waves upon a beach, the sound of seagulls and a gently orchestrated symphonic synthesizer, allowing me to go wherever I want and feel the healing sounds of nature upon my being. On Flow of Harmony, abundant wild birds chirp and sing, a soothing stream flows and tumbles and ambient musical textures lend abundant peace and relaxation, taking me to a harmonious and blissful, magical and paradisiacal place. On Awakening Peace, lakeside water rhythmically laps against the shoreline with delightful and diverse birdsong, and ambient piano and keyboards lull me into a perfectly peaceful environment. I highly recommend this album for relaxing or for any healing, yoga or spa experience!