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This music is also good if one is depressed, is feeling bad, had a bad day, or just want to relax. It's truly music that revives a person. I love all of the Pure Moods volumns. Somehow, when I listen to this music, I get a new direction in life. It helps a person think and meditate. When I wants to sit and think, I turn off the lights and listening to this music. So, I highly recommend this CD for just anything. For listening to in the car, at night, or what have you.
Many artists who unfortunately weren't in Pure Moods II are back, as well as some they just noticed. Lawrence", which makes a joyous sound, during holidays or not. Geoffrey Oryema returns with acclaimed producer/musician Brian Eno to play and sing "Land of Anaka". Jesse Cook's guitar-based "Virtue" and Kitaro's "Silk Road" don't thrill me much as the other tunes here, but are satisfactory. Already the listener feels delighted then saddened, in that order, from listening to these - but will surely feel dismayed at the following "Life in Mono" (by Mono), which sounds more like an annoyance of a pop-rock song than anything else. Fortunately, Peter Gabriel offers a piano version of "Games without Frontiers", and powerful pianist David Lanz's lovely "Cristofori's Dream" touches the soul. This album is excellent - it's the best of all the Pure Moods discs, with the obvious exception of the original. I don't care for Sheila Chandra's "Ever so Lonely/Eyes/Ocean" but I'll admit that it is a new age song.
Yanni actually doesn't play his piano in "On Sacred Ground", but I find the chimes, flutes, and choir more breathtaking than any of his other songs. Suzanne Ciani's "Velocity of Love" is as beautiful as the name suggests, as well. Enigma, now on their 4th appearance with Pure Moods, does an excellent job with "Gravity of Love", and Sarah Brightman's "Deliver Me" is a wonderful finale. Sacred Spirits, which seems to be the 2nd-favorite of the collections after Enigma, uses a new singer to provide the vocals for "Dela Dela" - though the one heard in Pure Moods and (slightly) Pure Moods II is heard for a moment, after wildlife and flutes fade into the other voice. Enya starts us off with the upbeat, "Only If", and an excellent contrast is provided with Moby's "Porcelain" following, though it isn't one of his new age songs (like the later albums offer). "Synaesthetic" is not new age, but I don't care since both the song and its creators, the Blue Man Group, are enjoyable on any album.
There are only about 20 English words in it; the rest is a foreign language that I don't understand but still find pleasant. Ryuichi Sakamato uses chimes and synthesizers in "Merry Christmas, Mr. Things only go uphill from there. The music here is almost equal to that of its predecessor.
I did not find that I enjoyed it as much as Pure Moods, Vol. IPure Moods Vol I, I think is still the best
Anyone who's actually reading an online review of a Pure Moods album has to be, in my most humble of opinions, an established fan of the franchise, and I'm no exception: I LOVE Pure Moods. I only listen to that track about 33% of the time. I have all 5 installments and Christmas Moods.But on Pure Moods III, there is one song that simply does not belong: "Silk Road" by Kitaro. That has to be the most annoying, shrill, plodding sequence of sounds I've ever come across. (I sporadically listen to it, just to see if I can hear it differently that time). I would like to make a burn of this CD that does not contain that song.Everything else rocks my socks.Buy Pure Moods.
If you are looking for meditation or tranquility from daily stress I recommend not only this CD, but the entire collection. I listen to pretty much anything from soft music, Rock, Salsa, Calypso to Dance-Techno music, but when I don't feel like listening to loud music, I listen to these CD collection, specially on a Sunday to reconnect with relaxation to start another heavy woking week. I have all the Pure Moods collection and keep buying more New Age music. I feel I've invested my money in good music. Also, if you like gospel, I'm sure you'll love these even though is not quite gospel music. You just reconnect yourself spiritually in this material world.
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