State Of Being

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Fiercely independent, Barton has always expressed himself in a variety of ways, among them musically. With strong roots in disco and pop music, Barton writes, produces and performs his music, creating a sound that is wholly contemporary and timeless.

Born in Atlanta, GA, Barton has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places in the world, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam. The experiences of living in these localities have influenced the way he sees the world, as well as his music.

Album Description
In STATE OF BEING, completed in 2003, Barton offers his lyrical observations of the world around him, people he has met, things he has observed, offering is a snapshot of the world as he sees it. Sonically, Barton crosses boundaries between pop, electronica and dance, creating soundscapes that are edgy, capitvating, and completely immersive.

The Ease of Being: Guided Meditations for Centering and Healing
Average customer rating:

Wonderful!

Works Better the Longer You Use It

Gentle yet remarkably effective

Fall Asleep While Listening

Excellent Guided Meditations

The Ease of Being: Guided Meditations for Centering and Healing
Mary Maddux and Richard Maddux
Manufacturer: Heart of Healing
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009R5VP
Release Date: 2002-04-01

Tracks:

Silence: a Centering Meditation
Allowing: a Healing Meditation
Flowing Freely: an Emotional Healing Meditation

Album Description

May 12, 2005 UPDATE: The Ease of Being CD has now been re-mastered for improved audio quality.

The soothing voice and deeply relaxing music on the Ease of Being restore a centered state of awareness and support healing. The meditations encourage trust in the natural flow of life, leading to greater physical, mental and emotional ease. The instructions suggest that you "…simply allow the words and music to wash over you… It is not necessary to understand, or even hear, all the words". Instead of asking you to focus on specific instructions or images, these meditations gently guide the mind to relax completely. In this relaxed state, healing can happen naturally and effortlessly.

Once referred to as "meditations without borders", the Ease of Being does not represent any particular tradition. It gives you the freedom to relax into your own, unique healing journey. One customer stated, "These meditations are unique - you can just float with them". If you listen with an open mind and heart, The Ease of Being can take you straight to the "heart of healing"!

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful!.......2007-07-24

This CD and others from the same folks have been a great help to me. I work at a high stress job I love, but often at work had trouble keeping myself on an even keel. I would get upset or bent out of shape fairly easily. Meditation was suggested by my doctor, but my mind flies around too much to do it on my own. These guided meditation CDs are wonderful!!! I sit in my car at lunch and listen daily. They are very easy to listen to and use. I find myself so relaxed, I actually doze off! My boss has even complimented me on my sudden ability to remain in control...almost nothing gets under my skin anymore!

Works Better the Longer You Use It.......2007-06-13

When I first listened to this CD I wasn't sure if it was helping me to relax. But as I continued to use it I began to notice a calming and soothing effect that continued afterward. It has now become a favorite of mine for chilling out and also as a prelude to a great night's sleep. Highly recommended.

Gentle yet remarkably effective.......2007-06-05

Mary's meditations have been a great help to me during a time when life has been difficult. She advises to "let the words wash over you" and that works well when I don't try to focus on the specific words but just relax and let whatever happen. The music is also extremely soothing (check out Richard's CD:Pure Light: Music for Meditation & Relaxation). Overall a wonderful way to kick back and distance myself from all the craziness.

Fall Asleep While Listening.......2007-05-22

I got this for stress issues, but every time I listen to it I can't get past the first few minutes without falling asleep. Very relaxing voice and music!

Excellent Guided Meditations.......2007-05-09

There are many guided meditation tapes available out there. For me, this is one of the best, although I imagine different approaches/voices/styles work better for different people. The Ease of Being is unique in that it gently guides you to a place of less effort and a letting go of the need to control. This results in a very deep and relaxing experience. I also feel the music enhances the effect of relaxation, allowing the listener to "float" away to a peaceful place.

Average customer rating:

Amazing for deep hypnosis
An amazing piece of material
No more drugs, after 6 mos of insomnia!!
Soothing and Effective
Best relaxation tape I have ever owned

eHypnotapes: Tension Relief
Dr. James E. Walton
Manufacturer: Dr. James E. Walton
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060NT2
Release Date: 2002-01-02

Tracks:

Easy Steps for Reducing Tension Right Now
A Simple Explanation of Hypnosis
Hypnosis Session to Release Stress & Tension
Meditation to Improve Focus & Concentration
Further Information

Album Description

Quickly release stress and overcome anxiety with this highly praised hypnosis treatment. Dr. James E. Walton has developed an effective hypnosis procedure for helping people transform their feelings of stress and anxiety into feelings of calm empowerment.

This unique hypnosis treatment works together with the unconscious mind to convert stressful, negative, self-defeating thoughts into positive thoughts of focus, empowerment and centeredness.

Dr. Walton's powerful hypnosis experience creates a highly receptive alpha state that works with the unconscious mind to help you champion through stressful situations with confidence by assisting your unconscious mind in replacing those disabling feelings of stress, preoccupation, and obsession with feelings of calm empowerment, centeredness, and focus.

When you are calm and centered, you are more effective with other people around you, you gain their respect, you are able to make better decisions, and you are more effective and productive in your daily activities

This CD is excellent for people with job or personal stress who want to improve their performance and personal power. It can also benefit students who want to improve their focus, concentration and retention.

This uniquely soothing CD is not only an effective treatment for releasing stress and anxiety, it also provides you with exceptionally helpful guidance and strategies for getting the most out of your day while reducing stress and tension.

If this CD is for you, then get ready to transform your life with an amazingly effective treatment that has helped thousands of others regain a sense of calm in their daily lives.

You can begin experiencing complete stress relief within minutes of listening to Dr. Walton's "Tension Relief" therapy program.

Additionally, you'll receive a therapeutic meditation for improving your focus and concentration that can actually help improve your productivity while helping you to remain relaxed!

Customer Reviews:

Amazing for deep hypnosis.......2004-12-26

I own several other hypnosis CDs but none of them totally, completely relaxed me to the depth of total hypnosis. I'm so glad I finally found this one. It works! It goes beyond imagery and meditation and will take you into total hyponosis - the kind of therapeutic hypnosis that you get in a therapist's office. The narrator's voice is soothing and there is no corny music or annoying background sounds. I highly recommend this!

An amazing piece of material.......2003-11-14

This cd can help anyone! Everyone can benefit from this cd whether you have severe sleep or relaxation disorders or just want to wind down after a long day of work. Everyone should buy this cd. Dr.Walton has come up with a full proof system to relax you and ultimately make you fall into the deepest and most peaceful sleep you've ever experienced. The first day I tried this CD I was automatically hooked. Within fifteen minutes of listening to it I was relaxed and already half asleep. I would recomend this cd to anyone. It's truly an amazing item.

No more drugs, after 6 mos of insomnia!!.......2003-08-02

After 75 mg of benadryl a night, many cups of relaxing tea, mutiple subliminal and rain forest cds, I decided to try hypnosis. I knew I was a good candidate having been hypnotized before. Once I started listening to the CD I almost never hear the end of the 1st hypnotic session. I loop it on my cd player with the delta sleep system all night. I am sleeping so much better. I was getting scared to go to bed because restful sleep was getting so difficult. Told my Doctor and she was pleased, she also said the subliminal tapes work much better for you if you are hypnotized. Best $$$ I have ever spent!!

Soothing and Effective.......2002-11-27

This CD really suprised me. I find it engaging and effective. It really helps me after a stressful day or to fall asleep on nights I have trouble. The audio quality of this CD is very good. I especially like the tones he uses during the hypnosis.

Best relaxation tape I have ever owned.......2002-03-19

I found Hypnotapes to really reach me in ways others have not. I felt totally immersed in peace and serenity and successfully quieted stomach cramps, tension headaches and the stress associated with a very intense work situation. I have recommended it to friends and have also invited friends to experience the tape with me.

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra (Orchestral Suites)

Average customer rating:

Irresistible
"Some Enchanted Evening" with Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops
Excellent!
Great Arrangments

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra (Orchestral Suites)

Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003CXQ
Release Date: 1992-01-28

Tracks:

Oklahoma!
Carousel
State Fair
South Pacific
The King And I
Cinderella Waltz
Flower Drum Song
The Sound Of Music

Customer Reviews:

Irresistible.......2005-07-29

From beginning to end this CD is pure delight. A great recording has great music, a great performance, and great sound; this one scores on all three counts.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals dominated Broadway in the 1940s and 1950s, and American musical theater has produced no more consistently eloquent and durable voice than Richard Rodgers. From his fertile genius flowed a surprising number of memorable songs, many of which have passed into and become an accepted and beloved part of modern American culture.

This well-filled CD (77:36) features symphonic arrangements (all but two by Robert Russell Bennett) of the music from Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), State Fair (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Flower Drum Song (1958), and The Sound of Music (1959). All the great tunes are here in suites from each musical that average 10-12 minutes in length. The arrangements are expert: rich, varied, and colorful. The performances are polished, idiomatic, and irresistible; Kunzel and this orchestra are thorough masters of this kind of material. And Telarc's sound (recorded 1991) is state-of-the-art (engineer Michael Bishop deserves to take a bow).

In short, there's nothing here to cloud your listening pleasure (the only quibble I can imagine is that some of your favorites may not last long enough), so it's hard for me to envision anyone with ears and a taste for music who wouldn't enjoy this CD. Warmly recommended. Finally, if you like this one as much as I do, you might want to know that the same team has produced a companion volume, the Lerner & Lowe Songbook for Orchestra.

"Some Enchanted Evening" with Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.......2003-12-26

Erich Kunzel's Rodgers and Hammerstein anthology with the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra is one of the best and most ravishing instrumental Rodgers and Hammerstein albums of all time. With sumptuous arrangements and warm, natural Telarc recording, this glorious 77-minute CD presents sweeping, melodic arrangements of over 60 Rodgers and Hammerstein selections, spanning eight scores, and Kunzel allows the Pops to play with a characterful and polished understanding of the Rodgers and Hammerstein idiom. The disc is enough to cheer you up on a dull day and make you smile, and it might even want to make you feel like a convert to Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.

This CD has all the scores arranged chronologically. The OKLAHOMA! suite that opens this disc promises a feast for the senses, Kunzel ably evokes the territory's "bright, golden haze" in the way he conducts the various excerpts, until you feel the atmosphere of the country charm of the show, and the love-affair between Curly and Laurey. Then, in CAROUSEL, he ably evokes the pathos of this tragic R&H masterwork, especially in the truncated Waltz, but he leads a wonderfully melodic "June is Bustin' Out All Over" and a devotional "You'll Never Walk Alone." Although this suite does not include Billy's pivotal Soliloquy, it includes "If I Loved You" as an expression of his love for Julie, and within minutes you could be soaked in the ups and downs of the show's mood.

After a brief STATE FAIR suite, with sweeping renditions of "It Might As Well Be Spring" and "It's a Grand Night for Singing", we are brought into the disc's showstopping highlights. These highlights are the excerpts from SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. But yet Kunzel conducts the rest of the disc until the various suites amount to a series of showstoppers. These three suites present wonderfully-arranged versions of their many familiar classic songs, with well-played solos. The SOUTH PACIFIC suite presents the songs in chronological order, yet preserves the atmosphere of the show at the same time. Kunzel ably brings out the romance in "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Younger than Springtime," and contrasts it with the exotic and dreamlike "Bali Hai'i" and the comic "There is Nothing like a Dame" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair". Although the suite ends quietly with a reprise of "Dites-Moi" rather than the reprise of "Some Enchanted Evening," within minutes we are swept into the KING AND I suite. Kunzel ably brings out the Oriental pathos in this score, and he captures the warmth of Anna's rapport with the King's Siamese children in "Getting to Know You", and with the King himself in "Shall We Dance." There is also romance in the love ballads "I Have Dreamed" and "We Kiss in a Shadow." Similarly, in the selection from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Kunzel conducts this until the orchestra soaks itself in the atmosphere of this Austrian R&H score. This SOUND OF MUSIC suite has more of a feel of the score compared to the bonus track on Sony's reissued version of the Broadway recording. You can almost feel as if you are following the progress of the Trapp family and how it lifts its spirits with the joy of music. Kunzel gives us a soaring version of the title song, and spirited versions of "Do-Re-Mi" and "My Favourite Things." He balances it with the open-air quality of "Edelweiss" and "The Lonely Goatherd." Although this suite could have included "Something Good," the love ballad written for the film, the three recollections of the songs that were cut from the movie only last for a while. And, the towering version of "Climb Every Mountain" crowns this portion of the disc, and this sumptuously-produced recording. But, I should also mention the infectuous FLOWER DRUM SONG medley, where Kunzel turns this underrated score into a work of art, until it convinces you to buy the cast recording. And, don't forget about the brief CINDERELLA WALTZ, too, when Kunzel conducts it magically, until you feel like you are in the company of Cinderella and the Prince. He is able to show how this R&H score marked a comeback for R&H after the failiures of Me and Juliet, and Pipe Dream.

Overall, this glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein recording is guarunteed to make you want to pucker your lips out for a whistle or sing along (to paraphrase another revew for Kunzel's Disney Spectacular disc) - even if this recording is music only, and as long as you know the words to the songs (and you might know a large handful of them already.) There is always a certain magic in this fine CD that makes you feel like you're sitting in the theatre watching these musicals, until it makes you feel like it is truly, to borrow two R&H song titles, "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Something Wonderful" to be in Kunzel's company for this R&H offering. It would certainly be one recording that could make you feel willing to buy the complete cast recordings of the shows. And I guaruntee that it will make you feel willing to pull out your existing copies of the cast recordings to listen to them again. I also guaruntee that it will be a cornerstone in any Rodgers and Hammerstein collection, just as it is in mine. Recommended heartily to any Rodgers and Hammerstein enthusiast and to fans of Erich Kunzel's work. And, you can play it while reading the Richard Rodgers biography, Musical Stages, until Rodgers himself would count this as his favourite disc in the afterlife.

By the way, most of the arrangements for the suites on this CD were done by the veteran R&H orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett, and it surely adds to the appeal of this recording. This itself is enough to amount to the icing on the cake, since Kunzel conducts them well on here, and since this recording still allows the suites to have the original theatrical atmosphere. And, although this recording is like the Mauceri collection of the Rodgers & Hammerstein overtures in compiling orchestral suites of Rodgers & Hammerstein, I think that I like the Kunzel recording even more because Kunzel has more magic in his conducting of these suites.

Excellent!.......2003-04-08

This is one of the best Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops collections we own! A must for Rodgers and Hammerstein fans, too.

Great Arrangments.......2001-09-02

This is a first rate album with great arrangments and orchestrations. If you're a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, you can't afford to miss this specatacular album

Average customer rating:

Haywire

Manufacturer: Reverse Image
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAKBZM
Release Date: 2004-07-20

The Love Goddesses/Hollywood's Greatest Themes

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One More Great Percy Faith Twofer by Collectables
"Miklos Rozsa epic film scores ~ Percy Faith"
Uneven outing for Faith
Love Goddesses/Hollywoods Great Themes

The Love Goddesses/Hollywood's Greatest Themes

Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000636A6
Release Date: 2002-03-19

Tracks:

Love Goddess [Theme from The Love Goddesses]
Cheesecake
Marilyn
Surrender
Vamp
Keystone Kapers
Virginian [From "The Virginian"]
Our Love
Monaco Theme [From "A Look at Monaco"]
Chico Bolero
Celia's Waltz
Oba! (Bossa Nova)
Cid (Love Theme) [From "El Cid"]
Moon River [From Breakfast at Tiffany's]
Theme From King of Kings
Splendor in the Grass (Love Theme) [From "Splendor in the Grass"]
Maria [From West Side Story]
It Might As Well Be Spring [From State Fair][#]
Over and Over Again [From Jumbo]
Ben Hur (Love Theme) [From Ben Hur]
Too Late Blues [From "Too Late Blues"]
I Enjoy Being a Girl [From "Flower Drum Song"]
Theme From the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse " [From "The Four ...]
Theme from Light in the Piazza

Customer Reviews:

One More Great Percy Faith Twofer by Collectables.......2006-02-12

Two big qualities distinguish the late Percy Faith.

First of all he was an original arranger with all those strings combined as if in a brass section in a unique sound. Second of all, he was a staff arranger for Columbia Records what gave him the opportunity to work on memorable albums by Johnny Mathis and other singers.

This twofer shows two different approaches: the first 12 takes came from his splendid album 'The Love Godessess' full of Mr. Faith's own compositions for films and TV series like 'The Virginian'. They're such inspired songs like the title song and 'Celia's Waltz'.

The second 12 takes came from another album with a miscellaneous movie soundtrack repertoire. They're such great songs by great composers but Mr. Faith's arrangements do not add any special flavor to the originals.

A special note on Collectables Records regarding its extraordinary series of twofers which have finally issued virtually all Percy Faith material.

"Miklos Rozsa epic film scores ~ Percy Faith".......2003-07-04

Every week I would go to the downtown library and check out the latest albums (LP's) ~ my eyes would always look for the Percy Faith releases. One of my favorites was "The Love Goddesses", featuring compositions by Maestro Faith, something about his string arrangements drew me to this album. At that time I had a reel-to-reel recorder/player and cassette recorder, would tape every album by Mr. Faith I could get my hands on. Later I would go to Webster Records the local record store in Old Webster, Mo. and purchase his latest releases.

Entire album is a stand out, but here are some of the highlights ~ "MARILYN", beautiful haunting melody as strings and counter strings open, blending a harp that keeps reoccurring in your head ~ "THE VAMP", solo clarinet with plunking violins, enters the solo violin and full strings answer, simply beautiful ~ "OUR LOVE", is typical Percy Faith with an arrangement to die for ~ "CELIA'S WALTZ", a solo saxophone comes forward with counterpoints from Faith's famous string section, the melody gets under your skin and becomes intoxicating ~ "OBA! (BOSSA NOVA)", what is a Percy Faith album without Latin flavor, and this is what he does best.

Second half of the album is "Hollywood's Great Themes", opening with "EL CID(LOVE THEME), "THEME FROM KING OF KINGS" and "BEN HUR(LOVE THEME)" the legendary Miklos Rozsa could do no wrong when it came to epic films, Faith's brilliant arrangement puts the listener right up there on the big screen ~ "MARIA", the wonderful song from "West Side Story" that will go one forever ~ "THEME FROM LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA", a heart-wrenching film with a light floating melody that lingers on, just take a listen to Faith's strings in top form ~ what a classic arrangement from the git-go!

Total Time: 72:52 on 24 Tracks ~ Collectables 7478 ~ (3/19/2002)

Uneven outing for Faith.......2002-05-20