Pure Moods
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Pure Moods is a series of compilation albums of New Age music
New Age music
New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...

 released by Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

. The series focuses on the genres of New Age
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...

, Ambient, World Music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

, and to a lesser extent, subdued Electropop and Smooth Jazz
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....

. Several artists are featured regularly throughout the series such as Massive Attack
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

, Moby
Moby
Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

, Enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

, Enya
Enya
Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

, Adiemus
Adiemus
-Concept:Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins...

, Sacred Spirit
Sacred Spirit
Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. The music is of electronic, new age, world, ambient, house, jazz and blues genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales estimated to be over 15 million copies...

 and Yanni
Yanni
Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

.

The original volume of the series was initially promoted and sold by direct response television
Direct response television
Direct Response Television, or DRTV for short, includes any television advertising that asks consumers to respond directly to the company --- usually either by calling an 800 number or by visiting a web site. This is a form of direct response marketing....

 commercials. The first volume was initially released in 1994, with a different track listing to the 1997 re-release. There are nine albums released by Virgin Records in the series—five "main entry" albums and four spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 albums (Celtic
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...

, Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, Instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

) and Christmas. "Scottish Moods" stands alone as an album featuring a single performer, David Methen and The Munros, while all the others are albums featuring multiple groups.

Pinnacle Records has released a similarly named series of albums using the "Pure x Moods" naming scheme, such as "Pure Rock Moods", "Pure Tranquil Moods", etc. but these albums are unrelated to the series released by Virgin Records.

Pure Moods (original 1994 release)

  1. "Return to Innocence
    Return to Innocence
    "Return to Innocence" is a 1994 song created by the musical group Enigma. The single was the first from their chart-topping second album, The Cross of Changes....

    " – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:10
  2. "Sweet Lullaby
    Sweet Lullaby
    "Sweet Lullaby" is a world music/ethnic electronica song by Deep Forest which originally appeared on their eponymous album. The song gained popularity in 1992 and 1993 where it was released as a single, becoming a top 30 hit in many European and Oceanian countries...

    " – Deep Forest
    Deep Forest
    Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

     – 3:51
  3. "Crockett's Theme" – Jan Hammer
    Jan Hammer
    Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s...

     – 3:34
  4. "Oxygène
    Oxygene
    Oxygène is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977...

     Part IV" – Jean Michel Jarre
    Jean Michel Jarre
    Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

     – 3:19
  5. "Orinoco Flow
    Orinoco Flow
    "Orinoco Flow " is a 1988 single written and recorded by Enya. It also featured on her second studio album, Watermark.-Background:...

    " – Enya
    Enya
    Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

     – 3:46
  6. "Tubular Bells
    Tubular Bells
    Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success...

     Part 1" (opening excerpt) – Mike Oldfield
    Mike Oldfield
    Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

     – 4:59
  7. "Chariots of Fire" – Vangelis
    Vangelis
    Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...

     – 3:26
  8. "The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise" (theme from The Piano
    The Piano
    The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...

    ) – Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

     – 3:13
  9. "Chi Mai" – Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

     – 5:04
  10. "Inspector Morse
    Inspector Morse (TV series)
    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....

     Theme" – Barrington Pheloung
    Barrington Pheloung
    Barrington Somers Pheloung is an Australian composer, now living in England. He is one of the most prolific television and film composers in the UK, known for his wide range of compositional genres....

     – 2:08
  11. "Sadeness
    Sadeness (Part I)
    "Sadeness " is a 1990 single created by the musical project Enigma. The song was the first of four singles from the project's first album MCMXC a.D. and upon release became an international smash hit, reaching number one in 24 countries and the top ten in four others including the United States...

    " – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:16
  12. "Little Fluffy Clouds
    Little Fluffy Clouds
    "Little Fluffy Clouds" is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld...

    " – The Orb
    The Orb
    Throughout 1989, the Orb, along with Martin Glover, developed the musical genre of ambient house through the use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The culmination of its musical work came toward the end of the year when the group recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1...

     – 4:02
  13. "Only You" – Praise
    Praise (band)
    Praise, formed in 1991 in London, England, were a new-age music group, comprising Geoff MacCormack, Simon Goldenberg and Miriam Stockley. The group was considered to be foundational in the genre of Ethnic Electronica....

     – 3:38
  14. "Aria on Air" – Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

     (as used on a British Airways commercial) – 4:09
  15. "Lily Was Here
    Lily Was Here
    "Lily Was Here" is a single, released in November 1989, from the soundtrack of the Dutch movie De Kassière.The main theme of the film was about Lily, who was the lead character in the movie and played by Marion van Thijn . David A...

    " – David A. Stewart
    David A. Stewart
    David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...

     featuring Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation...

     – 4:18
  16. "Songbird" – Kenny G
    Kenny G
    Kenneth Bruce Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is an American, adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986...

     – 4:59
  17. "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" – Ryuichi Sakamoto
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
    After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

     – 4:29
  18. "Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" – Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...

     – 5:01
  19. "Theme from The Mission" – Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

     – 2:52
  20. "Another Green World
    Another Green World
    Another Green World is the third studio album by British musician Brian Eno. Produced by Eno and Rhett Davies, it was originally released by Island Records in September 1975. As he had done with previous solo albums, Eno worked with several guest musicians including Phil Collins, John Cale and...

    " – Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

     – 1:31

Pure Moods (1997 re-release)

Release Date: April 1, 1997

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 42186

UPC: 7 24384 21862 1
  1. "Return to Innocence
    Return to Innocence
    "Return to Innocence" is a 1994 song created by the musical group Enigma. The single was the first from their chart-topping second album, The Cross of Changes....

    " – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:10
  2. "Orinoco Flow
    Orinoco Flow
    "Orinoco Flow " is a 1988 single written and recorded by Enya. It also featured on her second studio album, Watermark.-Background:...

    " – Enya
    Enya
    Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

     – 3:46
  3. "Sweet Lullaby
    Sweet Lullaby
    "Sweet Lullaby" is a world music/ethnic electronica song by Deep Forest which originally appeared on their eponymous album. The song gained popularity in 1992 and 1993 where it was released as a single, becoming a top 30 hit in many European and Oceanian countries...

    " – Deep Forest
    Deep Forest
    Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

     – 3:51
  4. "Oxygène
    Oxygene
    Oxygène is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977...

     Part IV" – Jean Michel Jarre
    Jean Michel Jarre
    Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

     – 3:19
  5. "The X-Files Theme (DADO Paranormal Activity Mix)" – DJ Dado
    DJ Dado
    DJ Dado is an Italian disc jockey and record producer with Croatian roots, who is mostly known for his remix of Mark Snow's theme for X-Files, and for covering Giorgio Moroder's "The Legend Of Babel"...

     – 3:30
  6. "Tubular Bells
    Tubular Bells
    Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success...

     Part 1" – Mike Oldfield
    Mike Oldfield
    Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

     – 4:59
  7. "Sadeness, Pt. 1" – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:16
  8. "Adiemus" – Adiemus
    Adiemus
    -Concept:Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins...

     – 3:59
  9. "Crockett's Theme
    Crockett's Theme
    "Crockett's Theme" is an instrumental song written for the hit NBC series Miami Vice. The surname Crockett refers to Don Johnson's character, James "Sonny" Crockett. The initial version of the theme first appeared in the episode Calderone's Return: Part 1 - The Hit List which aired on October 19,...

    " – Jan Hammer
    Jan Hammer
    Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s...

     – 3:34
  10. "Theme from The Mission" – Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

     – 2:52
  11. "Main Title Theme from The Last Emperor" – David Byrne
    David Byrne (musician)
    David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...

     – 4:03
  12. "Yeha-Noha
    Yeha-Noha
    "Yeha-Noha " is a song recorded in 1994 by the German musical project known under the name of Sacred Spirit. It was the first single from the album Chants and Dances of the Native Americans. Released in 1995, it achieved a great success in various countries, including France, where it topped the...

     (Wishes of Happiness & Prosperity)" – Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. The music is of electronic, new age, world, ambient, house, jazz and blues genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales estimated to be over 15 million copies...

     – 4:26
  13. "The Theme from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" – Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...

     – 5:01
  14. "Makambo" – Geoffrey Oryema
    Geoffrey Oryema
    Geoffrey Oryema is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life...

     – 5:01
  15. "My Wife with Champagne Shoulders" – Mark Isham
    Mark Isham
    Mark Isham is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and film composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film.-Life and career:...

     – 5:32
  16. "The Promise" – Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

     – 3:13
  17. "Lily Was Here
    Lily Was Here
    "Lily Was Here" is a single, released in November 1989, from the soundtrack of the Dutch movie De Kassière.The main theme of the film was about Lily, who was the lead character in the movie and played by Marion van Thijn . David A...

    " – David A. Stewart
    David A. Stewart
    David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...

    , Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation...

     – 4:18

Celtic Moods (1997)

Release Date: November 11, 1997

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 44951
  1. "Overture (Rob Roy/The Rieving Party)" – Carter Burwell
    Carter Burwell
    Carter Benedict Burwell is an American composer of film scores.-Life and career:Burwell was born in New York City, the son of Natalie , a math teacher, and Charles Burwell, who founded Thaibok Fabrics, Ltd...

     – 4:43
  2. "Theme From Harry's Game" – Clannad – 2:30
  3. "Samain Night" – Loreena McKennitt
    Loreena McKennitt
    Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...

     – 4:31
  4. "Only A Woman's Heart" – Eleanor McEvoy
    Eleanor McEvoy
    Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song Only A Woman's Heart, title track of A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish history.-Biography:...

     – 3:38
  5. "Strange Boat" – The Waterboys
    The Waterboys
    The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England. Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York, and Findhorn have all served as homes for the group. The band has played in a...

     – 3:03
  6. "Invisible To You" – Mary Coughlan
    Mary Coughlan (singer)
    Mary Coughlan is an Irish jazz and folk singer and actress. She has received great acclamation in her native country, for her emotional and heartfelt jazzy musical renditions.-Background:...

     – 4:30
  7. "The Call To Dance Medley (Westburne Reel, Andy Renwick's Ferret)" – Leahy
    Leahy
    Leahy is the name of a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of eleven siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been actively touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s when they were known as The Leahy Family...

     – 4:07
  8. "The Gaelic Reels" – Capercaillie
    Capercaillie (band)
    Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and fronted by Karen Matheson. They have seen four of their albums placed in the UK Albums Chart, and continue to perform and record to the present day.-History:...

     – 1:08
  9. "Sleepy Maggie" – Ashley MacIsaac
    Ashley MacIsaac
    Ashley Dwayne MacIsaac is a Canadian professional fiddler from Cape Breton Island.His album Hi™ How Are You Today?, featuring the hit single "Sleepy Maggie", with vocals in Scottish Gaelic by Mary Jane Lamond was released in 1995...

     – 5:29
  10. "The Crib Of Perches/Carmel Maloney Mulhaire's" – Matt Malloy
    Matt Malloy
    Matt Malloy is an American character actor. He has had numerous roles in both film and TV often portraying the beleaguered everyman. Malloy's only starring role to date was alongside Aaron Eckhart in the critically acclaimed black comedy, In the Company of Men...

     – 3:30
  11. "Blackbird" – Sharon Shannon
    Sharon Shannon
    Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician. She is best known for her work with the accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 album Sharon Shannon is the best selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there...

     – 3:37
  12. "Heroine" – The Edge
    The Edge
    David Howell Evans , more widely known by his stage name The Edge , is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record...

     & Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

     – 4:26
  13. "No Frontier" – Mary Black
    Mary Black
    Mary Black is an Irish singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both folk and contemporary material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland, and in many other parts of the world....

     – 3:59
  14. "The Island" – Paul Brady
    Paul Brady
    Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...

     – 5:26
  15. "Caide Sin Don Te Sin?" – Altan – 3:14
  16. "Ride On" – Christy Moore
    Christy Moore
    Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts...

     – 4:06
  17. "Woodbrook" – Michael O'Suilleabhain
    Michael O'Suilleabhain
    Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin was an Irish writer.He wrote Where Mountainy Men Have Sown, an account of the Irish War of Independence in County Cork. This appears to be one of the sources for the film The Wind That Shakes the Barley.-External links:*...

     – 3:29

Instrumental Moods (1998)

Release Date: February 24, 1998

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 45397
  1. "In The Full Moon Light" – 3rd Force
    3rd Force
    3rd Force is a New Age/contemporary jazz band on the EMI Higher Octave label, consisting of trio William Aura, Craig Dobbin, and Alain Eskinasi. Founded in 1994 by William Aura after a prolific solo career in New Age music, he, Dobbin, and Eskinasi immediately set out working on their self-titled...

     – 4:40
  2. "Knocking On Forbidden Doors" – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 3:54
  3. "Barcelona Nights" – Ottmar Liebert
    Ottmar Liebert
    Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family...

     – 4:03
  4. "Montezuma" – Cusco
    Cusco
    Cusco , often spelled Cuzco , is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cuzco Province. In 2007, the city had a population of 358,935 which was triple the figure of 20 years ago...

     – 4:07
  5. "Dawa (Cradlesong)" – Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. The music is of electronic, new age, world, ambient, house, jazz and blues genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales estimated to be over 15 million copies...

    s – 4:15
  6. "Heat (From The Fifth Element
    The Fifth Element
    The Fifth Element is a 1997 French science fiction film directed, co-written, and based on a story by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich...

    )" – Eric Serra
    Eric Serra
    Éric Serra is a French composer. He has often worked on the movies of Luc Besson.- Biography :Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just seven years old...

     – 2:54
  7. "Tempest" – Jesse Cook
    Jesse Cook
    Jesse Cook is a Toronto-based guitarist, born in Paris to Canadian parents. Like other guitarists of his style of music, he incorporates funky jazz, latin & world music into his playing. Cook is also well known for the energy of his live shows. He has contributed to the Afro Celt Sound System album...

     – 2:58
  8. "Cliffs Of Dover" – Eric Johnson
    Eric Johnson
    Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...

     – 3:44
  9. "Midnight Express" – Neal Schon
    Neal Schon
    Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...

     – 5:10
  10. "Weather Storm" – Massive Attack
    Massive Attack
    Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

     – 4:59
  11. "Samba Pa Ti" – Santana
    Santana (band)
    Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

     – 3:09
  12. "Sure-As-Not (Full Whack Dub)" – Afro Celt Sound System
    Afro Celt Sound System
    The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

     – 6:51
  13. "Widescreen" – Vanessa-Mae
    Vanessa-Mae
    Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson , known professionally as Vanessa-Mae , is an internationally known British violinist. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style...

     – 3:53
  14. "Gabriel's Oboe
    Gabriel's Oboe
    "Gabriel's Oboe" is the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission directed by Roland Joffé. The theme was written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone, and has since been arranged and performed several times by artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Holly Gornik, and Brynjar Hoff, among others. The theme has been...

     (From The Mission)" – Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

     – 2:13
  15. "Cristofori's Dream" – David Lanz
    David Lanz
    David Lanz is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. His most popular album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was No. 1 on Billboard's first adult alternative/New Age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum. Natural States peaked at No...

     – 6:02
  16. "Gathering Of The Tribes" – Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico is an American guitarist of Portuguese and Native American descent. He has had over thirty years of success in a variety of genres: in the 1970s with the post-Summer of Love Jefferson Starship, in that band's 1980s incarnation, Starship, and in the 1990s and 2000s as a...

     – 4:54

Christmas Moods (1998)

Release Date: October 20, 1998

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 46753
  1. "We Three Kings
    We Three Kings
    "We Three Kings", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas carol written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the lyrics and the music. It is suggested to have been written in 1857 but did not appear in print until his Carols, Hymns...

    " – David Arkenstone
    David Arkenstone
    David Arkenstone is an American New Age musician. His music is primarily instrumental, with occasional vocalizations. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1952. He has three children—Quillon, Dashiell and Valinor—with his first wife, Julie...

     – 5:20
  2. "O Come All Ye Faithful" – Nando Lauria – 3:28
  3. "I Believe in Father Christmas
    I Believe in Father Christmas
    "I Believe In Father Christmas" is a song by Greg Lake , with lyrics by Peter Sinfield.Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song this was not Lake's intention...

    " – State of the Heart – 3:16
  4. "Mistletoe and Wine
    Mistletoe and Wine
    "Mistletoe and Wine" is a popular single by Cliff Richard.Written by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan, it was originally performed as part of the musical Scraps at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London in 1976...

    " – State of the Heart – 2:54
  5. "First Noel" – Spencer Brewer – 4:54
  6. "Christmas Eve" – Ira Stein – 4:34
  7. "Unto Us a Boy Is Born" – Michael Jones – 4:08
  8. "Gloria" – Nando Lauria – 5:58
  9. "Fairytale of New York
    Fairytale of New York
    "Fairytale of New York" is a song by the Irish rock group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring the British singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall from Grace with God...

    " – State of the Heart – 3:02
  10. "Blue Christmas
    Blue Christmas
    "Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson. The heart-broken tale of unrequited love during the holidays had long been considered a Christmas staple of country music, having been recorded first by Doye O'Dell in 1948 and popularised by Ernest Tubb the next year...

    " – State of the Heart – 3:20
  11. "White Christmas
    White Christmas (song)
    "White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.Accounts vary as...

    " – State of the Heart – 4:38
  12. "When a Child Is Born/Stay Another Day Medley" – State of the Heart – 5:55
  13. "Ukrainian Carol
    Carol of the Bells
    "Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...

    " – Spencer Brown – 3:38
  14. "Away in a Manger
    Away in a Manger
    "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...

    " – David Darling
    David Darling (musician)
    David Darling is an American cellist and composer. He won the Grammy award for Best New Age Album in 2010. He has performed and recorded with artists such as Bobby McFerrin and Spyro Gyra in addition to putting out several solo and small ensemble albums as well as albums of his...

     – 3:13
  15. "I Saw Three Ships
    I Saw Three Ships
    "I Saw Three Ships " is a traditional and popular Christmas carol from England. A variant of its parent tune "Greensleeves", the earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William B. Sandys in 1833...

    " – David Arkenstone
    David Arkenstone
    David Arkenstone is an American New Age musician. His music is primarily instrumental, with occasional vocalizations. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1952. He has three children—Quillon, Dashiell and Valinor—with his first wife, Julie...

     – 4:33
  16. "Gaudete
    Gaudete
    Gaudete is a sacred Christmas carol, composed sometime in the 16th century. The song was published in Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish sacred songs published in 1582...

    " – Mediæval Bæbes
    Mediæval Bæbes
    The Mediæval Bæbes are a British ensemble of female musicians founded in the 1990s by Katharine Blake and included some of her colleagues from the band Miranda Sex Garden, as well as other friends who share her love of mediaeval music...

     – 2:17

Pure Moods II (1998)

Release Date: November 17, 1998

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 46796
  1. "The Mummers' Dance
    The Mummers' Dance
    "The Mummers' Dance" is a single by Canadian Celtic Singer Loreena McKennitt from the album The Book of Secrets in 1997. The song was a surprise hit in the United States, reaching #3 in Adult Top 40, #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #18 on The Billboard Hot 100.The song is the theme song...

    " – Loreena McKennitt
    Loreena McKennitt
    Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, clear soprano vocals...

     – 6:08
  2. "Montezuma" – Cusco
    Cusco (band)
    The following note applies to many of the individual album pages as well, though they are not individually tagged:Cusco is a German andean new age band named after the Peruvian city of Cusco, which at one time was the capital city of the ancient Incan Empire...

     – 5:18
  3. "The Cradlesong (DaWa)" (remix) – Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. The music is of electronic, new age, world, ambient, house, jazz and blues genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales estimated to be over 15 million copies...

     – 4:00
  4. "Nightingale" – Yanni
    Yanni
    Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

     – 5:44
  5. "Life in a Northern Town
    Life in a Northern Town
    "Life in a Northern Town" is a pop song by The Dream Academy, an English dream pop group. The song is the first single from their 1985 self-titled debut, The Dream Academy. Reaching #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1986, it is also their highest-peaking chart single in the US...

    " – Dream Academy
    The Dream Academy
    The Dream Academy was a folk rock band from England, comprising singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes; multi-instrumentalist Kate St John; plus keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. They are most noted for their hit single, "Life in a Northern Town".-History:Laird-Clowes and Gabriel met each other in the late...

     – 4:18
  6. "Zarabanda (Saraband)
    Adiemus III: Dances of Time
    Released in 1998, Adiemus III: Dances of Time is the third album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins as part of the Adiemus project. This album is a tribute to the interrelationship between music and dance throughout history...

    " – Adiemus
    Adiemus
    -Concept:Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such: instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins...

     – 4:37
  7. "Euphoria (Firefly)" – Delerium
    Delerium
    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

     – 4:36
  8. "Weather Storm" – Craig Armstrong – 6:05
  9. "Teardrop
    Teardrop (song)
    "Teardrop" is a song by Massive Attack, which was first released on their 1998 album Mezzanine. It was released as a single on 27 April 1998. The song became another UK hit for the group, peaking at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart...

    " (edit) – Massive Attack
    Massive Attack
    Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

     – 4:10
  10. "Theme from Harry's Game
    Theme from Harry's Game
    "Theme from Harry's Game" or just "Harry's Game" is a BAFTA-nominated hit song by Irish group Clannad, written by Pól Brennan. It was released in 1982 and served as the main track from their album Magical Ring...

    " – Clannad – 2:27
  11. "Chariots of Fire" – Vangelis
    Vangelis
    Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...

     – 3:31
  12. "Breezin'
    Breezin'
    Breezin' is an album by jazz/soul guitarist George Benson.The album marked the beginning of Benson's most successful period commercially. Breezin topped the Pop, Jazz and R&B album charts in Billboard and spun off two hit singles, the title song and "This Masquerade," which was a top ten pop and...

    " – George Benson
    George Benson
    George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....

     – 5:39
  13. "Emily" – Dave Koz
    Dave Koz
    Dave Koz is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.- Life and career :Dave Koz was born on March 27, 1963 in Encino, California....

     – 5:30
  14. "2 the Night" – Ottmar Liebert
    Ottmar Liebert
    Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family...

     – 4:19
  15. "Beyond the Invisible
    Beyond the Invisible
    "Beyond the Invisible" is a 1996 song created by the musical project Enigma. This is the first of only two singles taken from the album Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!.- Production :...

    " (short radio edit) – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 3:43
  16. "The Mystic's Dream" – Loreena McKennitt – 7:43

Scottish Moods (1999)

Release Date: February 23, 1999

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 46986
  1. "Dark Island" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:48
  2. "Amazing Grace" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:03
  3. "My Home" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:37
  4. "Skye Boat Song" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:32
  5. "Highland Cathedral" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:51
  6. "Hasten And Come With Me" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:47
  7. "Scots Wha Hae" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:44
  8. "Flower Of Scotland" – David Methven and the Munros – 3:20
  9. "Scottish Soldier" (Green Hills Of Tyrone) – David Methven and the Munros – 4:26
  10. "El Alamein" – David Methven and the Munros – 3:07
  11. "Lord Lovat's Lament" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:42
  12. "Ye Banks And Braes" – David Methven and the Munros – 3:27
  13. "Abide With Me" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:30
  14. "Ae Fond Kiss" – David Methven and the Munros – 3:51
  15. "Morag Of Dunvegan" – David Methven and the Munros – 1:56
  16. "Auld Lang Syne" – David Methven and the Munros – 1:58
  17. "Glengarry's Lament" – David Methven and the Munros – 2:00

Pure Moods III (2001)

Release Date: February 6, 2001

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 50935
  1. "Only If..." – Enya
    Enya
    Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...

     – 3:18
  2. "Porcelain
    Porcelain (song)
    "Porcelain" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, featured as the third track and released as the sixth single from his album Play. It was released on June 12, 2000 in the UK, and reached number 5 in the UK charts, Moby's highest chart position there to date. The U.S...

    " – Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

     – 3:31
  3. "Life in Mono
    Life in Mono (song)
    "Life in Mono" is a song by UK band Mono, which consisted of singer Siobhan de Maré and musician Martin Virgo. It was released on the band's first EP in 1996 which contained various remixes, most notably two by the Propellerheads...

    " – Mono
    Mono (UK band)
    Mono was a British electronic music duo which had a hit in the late 1990s with their song "Life in Mono". The group's music is often described as trip hop, based on its similarities to contemporary electronic music acts including Sneaker Pimps and Portishead...

     – 4:27
  4. "Games Without Frontiers" (Massive Attack
    Massive Attack
    Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

     / David Bottrill
    David Bottrill
    David Bottrill is a Canadian record producer. He has won three Grammys. Currently, he owns Rattlebox Studios in Toronto, Ontario with producer Brian Moncarz...

     remix) – Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel
    Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

     – 5:18
  5. "Cristofori's Dream" – David Lanz
    David Lanz
    David Lanz is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. His most popular album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was No. 1 on Billboard's first adult alternative/New Age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum. Natural States peaked at No...

     – 6:03
  6. "Land of Anaka" – Geoffrey Oryema
    Geoffrey Oryema
    Geoffrey Oryema is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life...

     and Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

     – 5:19
  7. "Dela Dela" – Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit
    Sacred Spirit is a musical project by Claus Zundel, Ralf Hamm and Markus Staab. The music is of electronic, new age, world, ambient, house, jazz and blues genres. Sacred Spirit's total worldwide album sales estimated to be over 15 million copies...

     – 4:42
  8. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" – Ryuichi Sakamoto
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
    After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

     – 4:36
  9. "The Velocity of Love" – Suzanne Ciani
    Suzanne Ciani
    Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...

     – 4:27
  10. "Ever So Lonely / Eyes / Ocean" – Sheila Chandra
    Sheila Chandra
    Sheila Chandra is an English pop singer of Indian descent.-Indian-Western pop fusion period:Sheila Chandra first came to public attention as an actress, playing Sudhamani Patel in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 1979 to 1981.As a teenager she formed the band Monsoon with Steve Coe , and...

     – 3:24
  11. "Virtue" – Jesse Cook
    Jesse Cook
    Jesse Cook is a Toronto-based guitarist, born in Paris to Canadian parents. Like other guitarists of his style of music, he incorporates funky jazz, latin & world music into his playing. Cook is also well known for the energy of his live shows. He has contributed to the Afro Celt Sound System album...

     – 4:08
  12. "Theme from Silk Road" – Kitaro
    Kitaro
    , better known as , is an award winning Japanese musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist who is regarded as one of the pioneers of new age music.-Early life:...

     – 4:30
  13. "Synaesthetic" – Blue Man Group
    Blue Man Group
    Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring popular music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as The Tonight...

     – 5:32
  14. "On Sacred Ground" – Yanni
    Yanni
    Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

     – 7:07
  15. "Gravity of Love
    Gravity of Love
    "Gravity of Love" is a 1999 song created by the musical group Enigma. The single was the first of two released from the album The Screen Behind the Mirror....

    " – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 3:57
  16. "Deliver Me" – Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...

     – 4:00

Pure Moods IV (2002)

Release Date: October 1, 2002

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 12082
  1. "November" – Mythos
    Mythos (band)
    Mythos was a German band formed in Berlin by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Stephan Kaske, bassist Harold Weiße and drummer Thomas Hildebrand in 1969. All high school dropouts, the self-taught musicians released their eponymous debut in 1971...

     – 4:58
  2. "Purify" – Balligomingo
    Balligomingo
    Balligomingo is an electronic music project by Garrett Schwarz and Vic Levak. Their music has been compared to that of Delerium, Massive Attack, Mythos, Nitin Sawhney and Enigma. The current Album Under an Endless Sky has been released via the group's website in early August 2009...

     – 4:14
  3. "Shadows in Silence" – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:19
  4. "Silence
    Silence (song)
    "Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, who is featured as the vocalist on the track....

    " – Delerium
    Delerium
    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

     featuring Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

     – 6:34
  5. "Songs from a Secret Garden" – Secret Garden
    Secret Garden (duo)
    Secret Garden is an award-winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also sometimes erroneously known as Neo-classical music.Secret Garden features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland...

     – 3:31
  6. "One Man's Dream" – Yanni
    Yanni
    Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

     – 2:45
  7. "Devotion" – Jim Brickman
    Jim Brickman
    Jim Brickman is an American songwriter and pianist. He has been named the most charted male Adult Contemporary artist to date, with six of his albums receiving Gold and Platinum status. He is known for his solo piano compositions, pop-style instrumentals, and vocal collaborations with artists...

     – 3:36
  8. "Fields of Gold
    Fields of Gold
    "Fields of Gold" is a 1993 song by Sting from his album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Fields of Gold" and all the other album tracks were recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London, England and mastered at Masterdisk, New York. The harmonica solo is played by Brendan Power...

    " – Eva Cassidy
    Eva Cassidy
    Eva Marie Cassidy was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996...

     – 4:42
  9. "Garden of Eden" – Govi
    Govi
    Govi is a new age/ambient musician. One of the most acclaimed and best-selling contemporary instrumental and ethnic fusion musicians, each of Govi’s previous albums have all reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s New Age chart.- Biography :...

     – 2:54
  10. "La Valse d'Amélie (Theme from Amélie
    Amélie
    Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...

    )" – Yann Tiersen
    Yann Tiersen
    Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...

     – 2:00
  11. "Sea" – George Winston
    George Winston
    George Winston is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Miles City, Montana as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Cruz, California.-Background:...

     – 2:42
  12. "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" – Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

     – 5:45
  13. "Main Titles (From Chocolat)" – Rachel Portman
    Rachel Portman
    Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score...

     – 3:09
  14. "Angel
    Angel (Sarah McLachlan song)
    "Angel" is a song by Sarah McLachlan that originally appeared on her 1997 album Surfacing. As McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers, the song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996."Angel" was McLachlan's second top 5 hits...

    " – Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

     – 4:28
  15. "She Moves Through the Fair
    She Moved Through the Fair
    "She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, existing in a number of versions and which has been recorded many times.-Origins:...

    " – B-Tribe
    B-Tribe
    B-Tribe, or The Barcelona Tribe of Soulsters, is a musical project of the German-born musicians and producers Claus Zundel, Markus Staab and Ralf Hamm , who are also known for their Sacred Spirit project. Driven by the use of classical Spanish guitar and other elements of flamenco music mixed with...

     – 5:00
  16. "This Love" – Craig Armstrong featuring Elizabeth Fraser
    Elizabeth Fraser
    Elizabeth Davidson Fraser is a Scottish singer best known as the vocalist for the pioneer alternative rock group Cocteau Twins...

     – 6:19
  17. "River of Stars" – Paul Schwartz
    Paul Schwartz
    Paul Schwartz is a music producer, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. His music can be classified as a mixture of chill-out and neo-classical. Basic elements are vocals, piano, violins, and electronic samples...

     – 4:04
  18. "When You're Falling" – Afro Celt Sound System
    Afro Celt Sound System
    The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

     featuring Peter Gabriel
    Peter Gabriel
    Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

     – 5:17

Pure Moods: Celestial Celebration (2004)

Release Date: February 24, 2004

Label / Catalog #: Virgin Records US: 96797
  1. "Here with Me
    Here with Me
    "Here with Me" is a song written by singer Dido, and is first single released from her debut studio album, No Angel. The song was written about her now ex-boyfriend Bob Page...

    " – Dido
    Dido (singer)
    Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...

     – 4:16
  2. "Building a Mystery
    Building a Mystery
    "Building a Mystery" is a song by Sarah McLachlan, from her multi-platinum album Surfacing, first released in 1997. At a live performance, Sarah explains the song as being "basically about the fact that we all.....

    " (live) – Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

     – 4:08
  3. "Love of Strings" – Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

     – 6:12
  4. "More Than This" – Charlie Hunter
    Charlie Hunter
    for the New Zealand racehorse trainer and driver see: Charlie HunterCharlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer and bandleader....

     featuring Norah Jones
    Norah Jones
    Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...

     – 4:11
  5. "Wake Up in New York" – Craig Armstrong featuring Evan Dando
    Evan Dando
    Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986...

     – 3:32
  6. "Have a Day / Celebratory" – The Polyphonic Spree
    The Polyphonic Spree
    The Polyphonic Spree is a choral symphonic pop rock band from Dallas, Texas that was formed in 2000 by Tim DeLaughter. The band's sound relies on a variety of vocal and instrumental color by featuring a choir, flute, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano, guitars, bass, drums,...

     – 4:39
  7. "Amado Mio" – Pink Martini
    Pink Martini
    Pink Martini is a 13-member "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. They draw inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop.-History:...

     – 4:48
  8. "San Antonio" – Kinky
    Kinky (band)
    Kinky is a five-member band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, formed in 1998 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and consisting of Gilberto Cerezo, Ulises Lozano, Carlos Chairez, Omar Góngora, and Cesar Pliego. The band's music is heavily influenced by Latin music, rock, dance, and...

     – 3:33
  9. "Euphoria" (edit) – Delerium
    Delerium
    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

     – 4:35
  10. "Voyageur
    Voyageur (song)
    "Voyageur" is a 2003 song created by the musical project, Enigma. The single was the first released from their fifth album, Voyageur.The video for the song was filmed on location in Prague, the Czech Republic.-Single track listing:...

    " (Chillout Mix) – Enigma
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

     – 4:54
  11. "Crescent Silver Scythe" – Sheila Chandra
    Sheila Chandra
    Sheila Chandra is an English pop singer of Indian descent.-Indian-Western pop fusion period:Sheila Chandra first came to public attention as an actress, playing Sudhamani Patel in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 1979 to 1981.As a teenager she formed the band Monsoon with Steve Coe , and...

     – 3:48
  12. "I Don't Know What I Can Save You From" (Röyksopp
    Röyksopp
    Röyksopp is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland....

     Remix) – Kings of Convenience
    Kings of Convenience
    Kings of Convenience are an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway. Consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, the musical group is known for their delicate tunes, calming voices, and intricate and subtle guitar melodies...

     – 4:16
  13. "Weather Storm" – Massive Attack
    Massive Attack
    Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...

     – 5:01
  14. "Harvest Moon" – Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...

     – 5:03
  15. "The Chokin' Kind" – Joss Stone
    Joss Stone
    Jocelyn Eve Stoker , better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist...

     – 3:38
  16. "Days Go By" (Acoustic Version) – Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas
    Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals...

     – 2:46
  17. "Ain't No Sunshine
    Ain't No Sunshine
    "Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just as I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, as well as Withers on lead vocals and guitar. The song was released as a single in September...

    " – Eva Cassidy
    Eva Cassidy
    Eva Marie Cassidy was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996...

     – 3:25
  18. "What a Wonderful World
    What a Wonderful World
    "What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968. Thiele and Weiss were both prominent in the music world . Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999...

    " – Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...

    – 3:41
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