Track Listing

1. Chakra Suite: 1st Chakra: Keynote C
2. Chakra Suite: 2nd Chakra: Keynote D
3. Chakra Suite: 3rd Chakra: Keynote E
4. Chakra Suite: 4th Chakra: Keynote F
5. Chakra Suite: 5th Chakra: Keynote G
6. Chakra Suite: 6th Chakra: Keynote A
7. Chakra Suite: 7th Chakra: Keynote B
8. Chakra Suite: Sonic Satori
9. Chakra Suite: Ascension
10. Chakra Suite: Shambhala
11. Spectrum Suite: 1st Chakra: Keynote C
12. Spectrum Suite: 2nd Chakra: Keynote D
13. Spectrum Suite: 3rd Chakra: Keynote E
14. Spectrum Suite: 4th Chakra: Keynote F
15. Spectrum Suite: 5th Chakra: Keynote G
16. Spectrum Suite: 6th Chakra: Keynote A
17. Spectrum Suite: 7th Chakra: Keynote B
18. Chakra Chimes

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3565 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-16
• Number of discs: 1

From the Artist
My debut album, Spectrum Suite, was the music I first heard in my dreams and meditations in 1969. When I shared these soundscapes with others, their response was so enthusiastic, that my life changed virtually overnight. Since then, this music has traveled around the world. It's been said that at any given moment, Spectrum Suite is playing somewhere in the world.

Chakra Suite is the new incarnation of this landmark album, and contains as bonus tracks, the entire album that was the original Spectrum Suite.

In fact, the original title for my debut album was going to be Chakra Suite--however, there was not much awareness of charkas in 1975, let alone the importance of composing music to balance them. Today, millions of people understand their importance and stores have entire sections devoted to them.

Each keynote of Chakra Suite adds swirling harmonics and overtones that I believe deliver an extraordinary psycho-acoustic effect. Listen with headphones and you will notice that the intricate interweavings of atmospheric essences take on a 3-dimensional presence. They seem to tickle and energize the "inner ear" as well as the outer ones.

The track "Sonic Satori" highlights the power of sonic entrainment. First popularized by Robert Monroe, this psycho-acoustic technology engages a remarkable effect on brainwaves. I composed "Sonic Satori" in the frequency of the earth itself (about 8 cycles per second).

Here's a simple way to use Chakra Suite to measure your own stress level, based on how stress alters the perception of time: As you listen, if the time between songs seems too long...you are stressed. If you don't notice any space between songs…you are stressed.

When you are relaxed you will find that the time between songs is perfectly attuned to the rhythm of a deep relaxing breath.

Enjoy!

Yours for Sound Health,

Steven Halpern

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Customer Reviews

One Key At A Time...
This CD for me didn't quite make the cut for chakra healing in comparison to other sound therapy and chakra balancing CDs that I own.

Halpern is a well-respected artist in the field with many years of experience and I don't discredit that he has a feel for what he is doing, however, I am disappointed with the musical composition of Chakra Suite.

The music on this CD is similar to beginner and intermediate finger warm-up exercises for keyboarding, basically consisting of climbing up the musical scale and back down again.

The music is relaxing to a degree for me, but also becomes annoying with the climbing up and down on the keyboard. As many times as I have tried to get through a meditation with this CD, I have always ended up shutting it off and switching to something else because of this.

Alternatively, as use for ambient music running in the background, the climbing up and down is still a distraction to me. The music is simple with single keystrokes moving at a slow rate. Add some more chords maybe?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for something complicated. It is, after all a sound therapy and healing CD, so simple works, but in this case for me, less is not more. One key at a time up and down the keyboard repeatedly is just really too minimalist for me.

I will be sticking with my other chakra balancing CDs and continue looking for others to add to my collection.

The "Tantra of Sound Harmonizer" by Jonathan Goldman is one of a few of my all-time favorites.

Chakra Balancing
The product and Steve Halpern are phenomenal. The actual CD that I received was "new" yet it skips and the last part of the soundtrack does not play because of the skipping.

great for relaxation
I use this CD while I am giving massages- I really love it. It has a great tempo, not too loud, and have had several clients comment on liking it as well.