Music For Spas & Media Productions
Michelle Qureshi: Relaxation & Meditation Music Michelle provides Ambient Music Garden with a few pieces of music perfect for meditation and wellbeing productions.
 Compilation Mix Of Michelle’s work :
More about Michelle’s Music : What are your inspirations and what started you out creating and producing your own music? I am inspired by elements of sound-rhythms and melodies in everyday life. I also am inspired while playing my instruments, by the vibrating strings and soundboards. Of course I am also inspired by thoughts, feelings, and things that are visually astonishing. What other musicians and bands have influenced you in the past? I think we are influenced, consciously and unconsciously, by everything we hear. That being said, I grew up on pop and rock music, with a mom who loved the music of Ray Charles and a dad who liked the music of Lenny Dee It wasnt until my late teens that I heard classical music, was totally moved by it, and began my course of study at a music conservatory where I immersed myself in it. I loved playing Bach lute suites on the guitar, and playing in ensembles, and of course hearing a lot of great music. Im also drawn to a lot of world music, and I love to bring home any instruments I can when I have the opportunity to travel. These days I have a daughter who keeps me exposed to pop music today, and I try to keep a variety of music around her as she grows up. What current projects are you involved in for making music for the business market? Ive composed some music that aligns perfectly with the yoga studio/healing and meditation market with 3 Cds of New Age music. The first, Of Light, is beautiful, open, and inspiring music for relaxation and meditation. This music combines enchanting melodies with deep, soulful harmonies to create a series of wonderful, peaceful sonic journeys for the heart and mind. New Beginnings is an album that explores complex ambient sounds layered with acoustic instruments. The third in this series is Meditations, a collection of peaceful, contemplative pieces that combine lush musical soundscapes with classical guitar. What instruments do you end to lead with when composing? Well, when I say guitar, keep in mind that theres variety in that answer If I pick up my nylon string classical guitar, a piece will emerge quite differently than when I start a piece on my steel string acoustic guitar. And likewise for the electric guitar, the dobro, a 12-string (which I havent acquired yet), and hopefully someday for the Moog modeling guitar I would love to own 6. What are your favourite production tools you could not do without? After working with several different recording tools I have narrowed my preferences to just a few solid and satisfying products: Apples Logic Studio, Izotopes Ozone & Iris, a few Waves plugins, a Rodes mic and an audio interface by Apogee. I enjoy a few Apps on the iPad, like Animoog and Soundprism, but I find it frustrating that the iPad continues to be promoted as a tool for professional music-making when it is not. What demographics and consumer groups have businesses or what would you expect would find your music works well with your music styles? Well, people of all ages need music to offset everyday stresses and the mental fatigue experienced in many societies. The ability to tune in to beautiful music and tune out the noise is beneficial to all. What future plans do you have within the music for business market? In particular, music for retail, restaurants, spas, gyms and hotels? I find my best work is about creating music first and then trying to see how it can best serve others. When I put a particular market as my goal, it just doesnt feel as authentic as when I just sit down with quiet around me and see what transpires. Do you have any future plans to produce music for meditation and relaxation and for spas? Well, I will simply be composing and performing my music for as long as I am able, so the future hopefully holds a lot of promise.
Listen to more of Michelle’s work here. Plus: Music For Spas Music For Meditation Retreats (promotions) and for Meditation Productions

Alex Jenkins: Decades Of Electronic Dance Styles Of Music For Sale
Alex Jenkins has put all his music up for sale. Around 600 tracks in total available in range of formats from highly compressed to WAV formats (click here to see & browse Alex’s track playlist.)
Alex Jenkins’ music is now available for purchase outright. Thats right, the copyright for each of his songs here at Ambient Music Garden. In the mean time his tracks are still available for licensing for other uses so dont worry, but if you fancy owning a piece of music that you can use however you like, when and for what ever you like, for ever, this is now your chance. Alex’s tracks range from chilled styles through acid jazz to heavy dance beats, all with a dark flavour. Take a browse of Alex’s tracks now and give us a shout if you want to learn more.
Listen to more of Alex’s work here. Plus: Gym & Fitness Music Options, Restaurant & cafe music & Gym music radio for business coming soon here

Its still September! For years I have created ambient relaxation music at this time of the year influences by the gentle changes in nature I see around me. This year the change here in western England has been later than normal it feels.

I have only just begun to find trees who’s leaves are changing. The September themed pieces are located under the Kesseny artist page here.

Here is a short taster of one track in particular, September Journey.

http://www.f4b.org/audio/7325/7325.mp3

September Journey’s licensing options are linked here.

A lovely warm early autumn day here. Just taking a break and enjoying some relaxation music from Ambient Music Garden. Here’s a mix of some of the best relaxing music from some past collections at AmbientMusicGarden.com

 

 

 

 

Alex Jenkins is one of our most prolific artists. He has his music presented here for licensing and also, quite uniquely to us, for outright sale.

Alex’s music ranges across many electronic based styles with an underlying darkness in their feel.

I caught up with Alex recently to ask him a few questions about his music.

Guy: Alex, you have a range of instruments you play to compose and produce your music. What instrument did you start with and how did you evolve?

Alex: I started in a private Catholic school where studying classical music was part of our schooling, and music theory. I used to also study piano with my dad at home, where he taught me some of the most gloomy depressing piano, as he suffered depression, and he used the piano to express his inner self. I learned from my Dad, I guess. And it was beautiful.
Then I took up percussion and drums in my junior high school years playing in our school band, and at home I practiced the electric bass and guitar, and maintaining further studies on the piano at the same time. I continued this throughout until I left my senior years at school. After I left high school, I started exploring synthesizer keyboards, and that is where I really found my self creating music on the dark side.

Guy: How do you begin composing a song, do you have a tried and tested methodology you use every time?

Alex: There is no real way of me starting to compose a song. I suffer much depressing, and personal losses that I start drifting into a void on the keyboard synthesizers. Sometimes all it takes is a couple of notes to get me going, and things of the past with my my late Ma and Dad…. sometimes the music I create is better than any medication. I am not evil like some people may think by hearing my music, because the music is me, and what I feel. I am a Christian.

Guy: What sort of uses would you expect media professionals and business people to use your music for in the future?

Alex: Perhaps in horror films, and what ever seams to be the need, but no happy type of films. I am not a happy type of person, my music is not happy, so I do not want to see it in happy settings, if I can help it.

Guy: What is your view on making music from now on and into the future, do you have any plans ?

Alex: Really who knows. I do want to create, and am working on darker material, and much further exploration in the psybient music world.
I have done some studio material with jazz improvisations in Fort Myers, Florida called the Omega Jam Sessions, and this is the only music I have done that is a little more on the up side. It kind of felt good, but in some way it is not really me.
In my eyes the real musicians are Black Sabbath, which I listen to their early material much, and Shulman, and some doom metal, and psybient music.

Guy: Thank you Alex

 

Alexander Jenkin’s music is presented here at:

Alex Jenkins At AmbientMusicGarden.com

 

I have just produced a four hour collection of ambient meditation pieces and whilst reflecting on them I noted how much of the composition and production was done in a dream state, a mixture of late nights, not enough sleep and thoughts on relationships, floating around in my mind at the time.
I am particularly proud of these tracks and also amazed at how well they came out under the circumstances. Richard James, aka Aphex Twin has mentioned how he found creating music in a half dream state caused by excessive lack of sleep was a very creative process for him. I am not so sure I like that idea too much as I do like my sleep! However the feeling of listening to tracks I’ve made not remembering how I got to the point of creating the interweaving melodies feels like listening to something that had its own life and did much to create itself.
This is a good process for creating music, I like it and will do more :-)

Clear Message is one of twelve new tracks available for spa businesses licensed as background music this month. Here a demo sample at SoundCloud here:

Here’s a short video of Node Beat which is a new iPad music application for creating music. On it’s own it provides the ability to create arpeggiated compositions. Adding this into some layered pads via Logic or another DaW you can create something really quite relaxing and useful.

The video is linked here:

Apparently Neil Young’s record company is filing a patent application for a new audio format. Whether this will compete with mp3 is more likely to be journalist hype than real in my opinion, surely the file sizes of the average track and LP are now asily downloadable via today’s broadband speeds, the only reason we would need more compression is to gain a better quality audio. I’m not sure the average consumer needs that so mp3 will continue. Perhaps it is a format for high quality hi fi or cinema use.

Also worth considering is the availability of a new format, its adoption by audio software manufacturers and the barriers to that such as the cost of licensing the technology. Well, In around a month’s time the details of the technology will become available from the patent office, when the commercial offerings happen is another matter.

Full artical here