After stumbling upon a cassette tape in a junk shop, Important Records did much sleuthing and was able to track Young-Sowers down. Originally released on cassette in the mid-80s, Agartha: Personal Meditation Music is now reissued as a mammoth 7-CD box-set. This is some prime new age music designed for meditation and chakra alignment, though one doesn’t need to understand chakra to enjoy the music, and the liner notes give good background on the artist while also explaining the healing nature of the music. Most of the pieces are around thirty minutes of blissful, mellow, and mysterious electronic drones ripe for zoning out. New age music has certainly gotten a bad rap over the past few decades, and often times it was well-deserved due to the hucksters and snake oil salesmen involved, but Agartha: Personal Meditation Music transcends the stereotypes of and carries a similar feel to some of Brian Eno’s music. It’s very relaxed without any of the genre’s cheesiness, and will most likely make you feel better after a full immersion into the music.

Important Records