Buddha music in New Age Music

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"Buddha - Music For Meditation" (n/a) New Age Various Artists, ZYX Records (USA)

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"Bhakti Music: Medicine Buddha" (02/04/2003) New Age Various Artists, Oreade Music

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"Buddha's Dream: Music For Meditation" (02/13/2001) New Age Lee, Riley, NaradaOriginally on cassette entitled "AS THE WATER FLOWS". Solo performer: Riley Lee (shakuhachi). Recorded at Rendezvous Studios, Honolulu, Hawaii. Includes liner notes by Richard Kenyon. Digitally remastered by Trevor Sadler using Apogee's UV22 digital process. On this beautifully contemplative album, Lee allows his unaccompanied bamboo flute to imitate the songs of nature, which make up the "dream" from which Buddha awakened when he meditated under the Bodhi tree. With attention, the unique tenor of each performance emerges. "Melting Snow" takes a rasping, insistent turn that sounds like a human voice. The melody in "Ocean Mist" oscillates and then doubles. "By the River" also makes use of overdubbed unison melodies to mimic a plaintive conversation or lament. The high notes in "Seabreezes" fly dizzyingly skyward. "As the Water Flows" is a full-bodied, extremely slow-moving tune that ends the album on a deeply peaceful note. This track would be ideal for the end of a yoga session as one rests in corpse pose. While some records provide a supportive environment for meditation, paying close attention to Lee's playing is a Zen meditation itself.

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"Buddha Nature" (09/04/2001) New Age Deuter, New Earth RecordsRecorded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001. "The mind cannot become the Buddha. The body cannot become the Buddha. Only what cannot become the Buddha can become the Buddha." Philosophical paradoxes crop up throughout the liner notes for BUDDHA NATURE, an attempt by Deuter to musically examine the elusive notion of stillness. More abstract, but no less soothing than his other albums, BUDDHA NATURE finds Deuter often burying melody in electronic soundscapes, most clearly on the 28-minute "Illumination."

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"Hotel Tara: The Intimate Side of Buddha-Lounge" (02/01/2005) New Age Various Artists, Sequoia Records

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"Buddha-Lounge 2" (08/07/2007) New Age Various Artists, Sequoia Records

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"Buddha-Lounge 3" (06/28/2004) New Age Various Artists, Sequoia Records

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"Medicine Buddha" (n/a) New Age Goldman, Jonathan, Spirit MusicThe Tibetan Buddhist meditative technique called Medicine Buddha practice invokes healing through visualization and mantra. The two long tracks on Jonathan Goldman's MEDICINE BUDDHA serve as powerful aids to this ancient method of physical and spiritual healing. The first selection, "Medicine Buddha Suite," layers chant, deep overtone singing and singing bowls. After about 10 minutes of this very grounding chorale, a danceable middle section emerges, offering a novel melding of Tibetan chant with Native American percussion and flute, before going back to the relatively sedate sound of the beginning. The second selection, "Heart of Wisdom Sutra" pairs a classic Buddhist mantra with celestial vocal harmonies. Throughout the 60-plus minutes of music on this album, Goldman both honors the traditional sounds of Tibetan chant and follows his muse to unexpected places. The result is a deeply felt and embracing soundtrack for meditation, ritual, or movement.

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"Buddha Spirit" (04/11/2006) New Age Anael, Apsis MusicAnael/Bradfield: Anael (vocals); Bradfield (flute).

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"Buddha-Lounge" (08/07/2007) New Age Various Artists, Sequoia Records

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"Tibet Trance" (05/25/1999) New Age Red Buddha, Black FlameRed Buddha includes: Lenny MacDowell (flute).

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"World Music Cafe Vol. 2" (02/04/2003) New Age Red Buddha, Blue Flame

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"Buddha Garden" (03/02/2004) New Age Parijat, New Earth RecordsPersonnel includes: Parijat (guitar, keyboards, percussion). German-born guitarist Parijat creates music that moves the heart and is in itself blissfully, intentionally repetitive, creating a sense of stillness. BUDDHA GARDEN's quiet themes center around a gently finger-picked nylon-string guitar with waves of synthesizer chords creating a mellifluous drone in the background. The canon-like structure of the songs echoes nature's cycles. This is used to great effect in "Returning Home," a sweetly melancholic piece that suggests the repetition of personal history and the eternal return to peace through spiritual redemption. "Subundallah," expresses some melodic, minor-key tension and raga-like intensity, using Indian percussion and a guitar played in a staccato, sitar-like manner. The album is book-ended by two versions of "Transience," a tranquil piece with a memorable repeating melody line. Its first instance is sparse and haunting, while "Transience II" is a lot more lush and insistent, suggesting that while our life stories are indeed both transient and cyclical, they gain in beauty on the retelling.

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"Maitreya: The Future Buddha" (07/26/2005) New Age Parsons, David, Celestial Harmonies

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"Big Buddha" (01/19/2004) New Age Tom Reddock, Tom Reddock

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"Sacred Buddha" (08/20/2002) New Age Vodjani, Sina, Our WorldFull performer name: Sina Vodjani, His Holiness The 17th Karmapa.