Robin Miller - Magical Spheres (1987)

This is not a VOTS release, but it is an album from Robin Miller, a talented musician who has released tapes on the label. This time, it's Magical Spheres from 1987.

Robin Miller - Magical Spheres (1987)

New Age Compositons From a Few Dick Sutphen Albums (Various Years)

Hello, everyone. Not only did I turn 21 recently, but I have some great recordings to share with you all!

I bought a couple Dick Sutphen albums recently, and a few of them had some great instrumental new age pieces on them that I have never heard before, and I compiled them up for you. It's all great electronic stuff, and very relaxing! Enjoy this, it's a real collection of gems!

Includes Recordings from the following Sutphen albums:

Creative Visualization (Beautiful electric piano suite)

Intensify Creative Ability (Dreamy ambient piece with ocean waves)

Manifest A Miracle In Your Life (Wonderful piece with flutes and synths)

Perfect Weight, Perfect Body (Light-hearted synth piece)

White Light Meditation (Droning minimal piece w/ guided meditation)

Subliminals!

Dick Sutphen - Stress Control (1990)

Another guided meditation and brain programming tape from Dick Sutphen with background music. I have not listened to this in a while, so I do not remember if the background music is something familiar to me or not.

Advertised by Sutphen as "The most powerful brain/mind programming tape in the world."

Stress Control

David Storrs & Tony Selvage - Harmonic Dreamtime (Year Unknown)

This is a straight-up new age album featuring David Storrs and an artist named Tony Selvage. This one is beautiful and it's definitely worth a listen. The two work very well together in these songs.
(Sorry about the brief description, it's late and I have had a couple albums to put up tonight.)

David Storrs & Tony Selvage - Harmonic Dreamtime

Karl Schaffner - Mountains In The Sea (1984)

A mid 1980s Karl Schaffner, yet another classic released on Isis. I may have too look more into this label to see what other artists put out tapes on it!

This album is a great relaxing sound, Lothar Grimm's name is nowhere to be found on the tape art so I assume this is a solo release from Karl.


Enjoy the great "Mountains In The Sea!"

Karl Schaffner - Mountains In The Sea

Karl Schaffner - Flying Carpet (1984)

Happy Cinco De Mayo! Today we have a great spacey electronic album from Karl Schaffner (With a hint of guitar and traditional instruments!) It is entitled "Flying Carpet" and it was released on Isis in '84/ It has some great tracks on it, such as the ethereal "Passage", the jovial "Sailing" and the guitar backed chilled out "Longitude", among many others. I certainly recommend a listen. Lothar Grimm helps out on this album, much like some of Karl's past works I have posted.

Karl Schaffner - Flying Carpet

My computer is going through some problems so there are a couple albums I cannot upload here at the moment- but as soon as I have the ability to do so I will upload them.

Daniel Berthiaume - Arizona (2010)

Another fine album from Daniel Berthiaume, I believe this one is self released. It has some nice, relaxing tracks on it.








Daniel Berthiaume- Arizona

Steve Gruskin - Interludes: Dancing Waters (1991)

Another great release from GAA, an edition of the Interludes: Soothing Sounds of Nature and Music series. Beautiful synth and harp sounds to the sound of waves spraying against the rocks of the ocean. A must hear for new age fans!



Steve Gruskin - Interludes - Dancing Waters

Dick Sutphen - Awakened Dreaming (1986)

Body relaxation tape by Dick Sutphen from 1986, has music in the background but I am not sure who the artist is. The music does not sound like any of the Valley of The Sun artists I know of.  Enjoy.

Dick Sutphen - Awakened Dreaming

Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - Soulmates (1985)

This tape has one of the same instrumentals from the "Finding your soulmate" tape I uploaded a while back, and this tape also has a meditation/soulmate finding program by Dick Sutphen on it- This includes some music by Upper Astral not heard on the other Soulmate tape.


Dick Sutphen and Upper Astral - soulmates

Upper Astral - Higher Self Rendezvous (1983)

It's actually the same as the music played in the Soulmates tape, but in case there are any slight differences  in quality or anything I am uploading it here too.






Upper Astral - Higher Self Rendezvous

Steven Cooper - Key West Afternoon (Digital Remaster from Master Tape)

Donated kindly by Mr. Cooper himself, here is the great Key West Afternoon tape in pristine quality. A great release, and the quality is improved very much from the lo-fi tape rip that was posted up in the past.

Sourced from the Master Tapes, digitally remastered by Steven Cooper.

Steven Cooper - Key West Afternoon Remaster from Master Tape

Robert Slap - Search For Utopia (1988)

Hey everyone, here it is. For a long time now, ever since I saw the cover art of this tape, I knew it was going to be amazing. And I guess I was right, because I'm really enjoying this release. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. My cat, Ricky, loves it as well, it calmed him down and he's sitting on me as I type, something he rarely ever does (He's a crazy cat type thing.) Anyway, here you go.

Enjoy the new age epic, Search for Utopia.
Search for Utopia - 1988

Steven Cooper - Angels Of The Sun (1988, Digital remaster from the Master Tapes)

Generously donated by Steven Cooper himself, here is a pristine copy of Angels Of The Sun, the only Steven Cooper album I did not yet have. It's another gem, too. Absolutely wonderful to listen to and it puts you into a serene trance.





Steven Cooper- Angels Of The Sun (Master Tape, Digitally Remastered)

A Few Words from STEVEN COOPER!

Hey. I have some cool stuff to share today. Steven Cooper had came across this blog and had shared some interesting things with me, so I figured I'd share it here with everyone else to hear what one of the great New Age artists has to say about their music. Steven has also donated 2 digital remasters from the original master tapes of Key West Afternoon and the only Cooper album from Valley Of The Sun we don't have yet: Angels Of The Sun!


"Hello,
I accidently came across your site on the internet.
Thanks for all of the nice comments.
I have several of the releases you do not have...including some of the other artists.
All of my music is on CD - but has not been re-released.
I did most of the music for the "hypnosis tapes" released in 1985-1987.
I also did music for another company - Jonathan Parker's Gateways institute. 
These were all "self-help" releases - on cassette - in 1988-89. There were many.
I also have an unreleased project that was going to come out on the Synergy Label, Audion in 1990.
They went belly up - and so did it.......I re-mastered all of these releases several years ago - and the CD's sound great. I also have a release from "Valley of the Sun" so that I can release the music on my own.
I haven't had the time to do so, so they have languished in the vault so to speak.
The label was the brainchild of Richard and Scott Sutphen. Scott recruited me, and TRANSCENDENCE was the result. That was almost thirty years ago - hard to believe. I was one of their first artists - and remained with them until the label closed. 
I may have copies of some of the other releases you don't have - I worked with Robert Slapp some, and he sent me label releases in advance. 
At the time, I really wanted all of my releases out on CD. They were all originally mastered to SONY PCM - the original DAT. The quality has always been great, and they sound much better 
in digital. I had a high quality studio for the time, and made efforts to make the recordings as good as anything out there. BUT at the time, CD releases required "big" budgets - $15k per/release - and were beyond what the label wanted to spend.
The unreleased project was titled "Planet Earth" - and was a sonic history of the earth. It was pretty cool - and I developed all sorts of sounds for it - from atoms to volcanos to earthquakes to
insects and dinosaurs. It was the project Audion was interested in - and I never offered it to Vallery of the Sun. The friends I have shared it with always liked it - and it was perhaps the best thing I did.....I guess that is the story of life - the best efforts end up unheard."

Robert Slap - Atlantis: Healing Temple (1990)

I finally got my hands on an unfortunately 192kbps copy of Robert Slap's "Atlantis Healing Temple" from 1990, re-released on CD in 1991. The quality is listenable but if anyone has a 320 rip, that would be much preferred.  This album is great, though I think I like Atlantis Crystal Chamber a little more.

Robert Slap - Atlantis Healing Temple

David Naegele - Dawning Of The New Age (1983)

Another great album by David Naegele.  Note that this one sounds VERY similar to Side B of the "Aquamarine" Tape. This means that it was not Robert Slap who did that album, but it was David Naegele instead.
Dawning Of The New Age
Special Thanks to Tim from Adelaide for being so generous to send me the MP3s to this great album!

Celestial Odysseys- Galactic Odyssey (1981))

Celestial Odysseys is essentially Upper Astral (David Storrs and David Naegele) under another name. This was released in 1981, A really nice release if I do say so myself. A little more progressive than the other works, but this release is relaxing nonetheless. Enjoy!


Galactic Odyssey

Michael Fraioli/Steve Gruskin- Interludes: Thunder & Rain (1991)

Another great edition in the "Interludes" series released by the Great American Audio Corp, Cello and synths played, accompanied by rain and thunder, I  enjoy this one a lot since I love the sound of rain.

Interludes: Thunder & Rain

Michael Fraioli/Steve Gruskin- Interludes: Timeless Sea (1991, GAAC)

This is (as far as I know) a release only done by Great American Audio Corp, includes Synthesizers, Cello and Flute accompanied with sounds of the ocean. Released on CD in 1991 by Great American Audio, Produced and Composed by Steven Gruskin, Cello performance by Michael Fraioli. More from the "Interludes" series to come, I bought a few more a few days ago.
Interludes: Timeless Sea