The Hawaiian duo Hapa teamed singersguitarists Barry Flanagan and Kelii Kanealii who first met in 1983 deriving their name from a pidgin slang expression for ethnically mixed Kanealii a Honolulu native and Flnagan a product of New Jersey who relocat…

By 2002 the Brothers Cazimero a duet comprised of bassist Robert and guitarist Roland Cazimero had played together for more than 25 years with a soothing laid-back style that earned them numerous fans in Hawaii They recorded over 20 albums on the Mou…

The Hawaiian pop vocal trio Na Leo Pilimehana the voices blending together comprised Nalani Choy Angela Morales and Lehua Kalima longtime friends who began singing together while still teenagers In 1984 as high school seniors they entered the annual …

Though he is most widely recognized as the founder of the Windham Hill record label, William Ackerman is a highly accomplished musician in his own right, a steel-string guitar player in what Ackerman prefers to call the "contemporary instrumental" ge…

Shajan specializes in meditative music specifically that which applies to the spiritual enhancement of Reiki a popular holistic form of hands-on healing The London-born son of a Malaysian ambassador fell in love with the sounds of the Far East during…

The most popular Hawaiian artist of the 1990s Kealii Reichel has artfully balanced obligatory concessions to American pop music with the heartfelt qualities of traditional Hawaiian chanting a style that places tremendous importance on conveying inten…

Constance Demby is one of the few representatives of the New Age movement in both her music and her personal philosophies who consistently creates artistic highly expressive compositions Demby was trained in classical music as a child and her artisti…

Dave Stringer got an early start with musical experimentation He was only nine years old when he recorded Within You Without You on a reel-to-reel machine cut the tape into pieces of varying lengths then spliced them together at random Where do you g…

Known to many as a "new age" artist because of his association with the Windham Hill label, Michael Hedges could be more accurately described as a progressive guitarist in the tradition of Leo Kottke or even Jimi Hendrix. Revered for his virtuoso pla…

In the 70s Evenson and his wife Dudley traveled across the country with early portable video equipment to document the awakening consciousness as it was manifesting in peoples lives The couple eventually settled in Tucson AZ and built a small empire …

Norwegian composer Erik Wollo started out as a jazz guitarist and dabbled in jazz-rock fusion on his early recordings In 1984 however he came out with Traces an electronic album of startling originality His subsequent releases are equally impressive …

A new age duo of Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and Norwegian composer/keyboard player Rolf Lovland, Secret Garden shot to fame in 1995 when their song, "Nocturne", won the Eurovision Song Contest. Many cynics, noted, however, that it was not the s…