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This Month's Music Review
by Greg Ozimek

eMotive
Non Profit Music
Making Music, Saving Lives

Listen to samples and buy at Amazon.com, Cdbaby.com/all/nonprofit, etc.

Dear Reader: Can you imagine music written about or reminiscing about tragedies that is interesting, uplifting, inspiring and draws you in so that you want to listen again and again? Fascinating concept, yes? In a sense, that is what Doctors Without Borders does. This is also what Grundman is pulling off with his Non Profit Music.

eMotive stands out from many “sampler albums.” The whole sampler is in the same New Age-type groove, is enjoyable to listen to and truly is “eMotive. When a “sampler” CD has its own kind of sparkle you know something’s up! What’s up here is really nice music presented freely for a heartfelt cause.

This is such a great concept, making music and saving lives, that you just hope it will grow legs and have a productive life of its own.

Non Profit Music is a record company based in Spain that donates all of its profits to humanitarian causes, primarily the international medical emergency relief organization, Doctors Without Borders. Now some of the best new age and world music recordings from this company have been compiled onto a sampler CD, eMotive.

The eMotive CD contains music from four Spanish musicians – Jorge Grundman (known in the music world simply as Grundman), David Caballero (who records under the name Gnomusy), Eduardo Laguillo and Joaquin Taboada. All four are primarily keyboardists, but utilize a wide variety of sounds and instrumentation.

The eMotive sampler contains three Grundman tunes.

Grundman, the founder and driving force behind Non Profit Music, will only sign other artists to be released by his company if the musicians share humanitarian concerns and if their music is “emotive.” Grundman says, “We have two goals – to bring the world audience together as they share an appreciation of the music and to use the profits that are generated to help people in need.

“Our music tries to always recognize that there is sadness and suffering in the world, while never forgetting that we also must have hope. We cannot feel comfortable with all the things that humankind does, but we need to find a way to correct our errors.”

Talking about the Non Profit Music recordings and his creative selection process, Grundman said, “I try not to put restrictions on the music. It can be new or old, acoustic or electro-acoustic orchestral or synthesized, instrumental or vocal, as long as it touches listeners and makes them feel the need to know more about what is behind the music.”

The eMotive CD fits that requirement well!

Doctors Without Borders (DWB) is an independent non-governmental medical aid agency with two stated objectives: “Providing medical aid wherever needed (regardless of the race, religion, politics or sex of the victims) and raising awareness of the plight of the people we help”.

For example, following last year’s tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Doctors Without Borders sent 150 volunteer doctors and more than 300 tons of medical supplies to the India and Indonesia area. DWB also has ongoing efforts in war-torn countries around the world as well as those devastated by AIDS or drought/famine.

Give eMotive a listen.

You may be able to find the tracks of this CD available for free via the Internet. You can also make a donation via the website www.nonprofitmusic.org, “where music is joined to Solidarity.” Click on the Donations tab.