As a musician, I tend to find ALL music distracting, so it\'s difficult for me to fall under the spell of a CD like this, and yet I found it really extraordinarily effective at calming and soothing me. I especially liked THE WINTER SKY, CELESTIAL VIEW, BASS SPACE and DOBRANOTZ. There are some very interesting effects going on with the three voices and flute, and yet it\'s mellow enough that my mind eventually just \"let go and let it flow\". It sounds spontaneous in spots and yet everyone is all \"on the same page\" musically. Brava, Sound Garden!

As a massage therapist and terribly picky music lover, I am constantly on the lookout for massage-appropriate music that is not silly or hokey. Sound Garden Celestial Voices is better than simply gorgeous: It is transcendent, calmly joyful, deeply relaxing and intelligent.

Review of “Sound Garden ~ Celestial Voices” CHRONOGRAM, February 2006 By Sharon Nichols Einstein said that the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It’s unfortunate, then, that he wasn’t afforded the opportunity to hear Celestial Voices. This 14-track disc is no plinky-plunky new age barf, unlike many of the “spiritual” discs New Leaf Distribution cranks out these days (though they occasionally pick up a truly glorious disc like this one-- congratulations ladies). This a-capella female chorale-- Kyoko Kitamura, Marlene Primavera, and JSL composer/director/producer Judi Silvano-- intertwine crystalline vocals ranging from soaring soprano to deep, earthy tones in a seamless soundscape that transcends the conventional relaxation recording. The most blindingly beautiful ray of light is the one piercing through the heaviest thunder cloud. And here comes the sun. For local listeners, this disc will inevitably draw comparisons to Prana or any number of groups of chanting yogis, monks, nuns and the like. But this disc moves beyond the ecclesiastical, as its peaceful, placid sea of song has an underlying tone that echoes and haunts, summoning the listener beyond the watchtowers to who knows where. Einstein might have loved it. Celestial Voices is the second in JSL’s meditation series; look for the piano, flute and harp of Vibration Songs in the Spring. Visit www.jslrecords.com/meditation.