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This Month's Music Review
by Greg Ozimek
music@wwnet.net

Music of Joy
Songs to Enrich the Soul
Jim Jenkins
The Lotus Company
www.jimjenkinsmusic.com

It is totally surprising how effective slow, simple rhythms and melodies can be.

Jim Jenkins brings us an instrumental masterpiece of expansive and earthly proportions which speak volumes of the experience of life.

The experience is of “new life,” the life of a soul which has just entered a human form – certainly the first few months and in some cases, the first few years of life. The experience is of marvel and wonder and mastery, ease and a settling comfort that is tenderly alive, but most importantly, all from a stance or point of view, of “fresh” regal and royal and ordained ownership of every detail of life living life.

In this, Music of Joy, is itself a marvel.

Jenkins’ Music of Joy creates an awesomely unique set of feelings that makes it an amazing album of tunes – cutting edge, but not in a comparison to any other music compositions or genres, cutting edge in that it is like a blueprint that a soul would bring in, bring with, to guide it’s early human growth and evolution.

I’m totally impressed with Music of Joy. This is one of those rare CDs I’d like everyone to buy and enjoy, to experience on one’s most inner personal levels, again and again.

So, who is this Jim Jenkins?

Born in Idaho Falls, ID, Jim first learned harmony from his mother, a piano teacher, in the most unique way, by harmonizing with his siblings. What an amazing precursor experience in life to lead to creating this album of music which, as Jim says, is “The audio equivalent of a hug from a beloved friend.”

Jim is being modest. He is also a master of understating the greatness of his abilities and of his heart’s depth of perception.

For more than three decades Jim has been well known in both Los Angeles and the Seattle area as a vocalist and choral conductor, having spent his college years in Salt Lake City where he realized one of his childhood dreams – singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

As a composer, Jenkins’ world opened up with the wonders of electronic piano, keyboards and midi-synthesizers. In sampling and then recording new sounds, his yardstick was always those sounds which moved his heart to tears of joy.

According to Jim, “Beautiful music is a way for all mankind to physically hear and experience the essence of the Divine, transcending both time and space. Though the energy, vibration and harmony of sound, we can connect to our higher self and to one another. With music in our lives, we gain an even deeper knowing of the joy of our own existence.”

Will we ever know if Jim Jenkins is a mere mortal or descended from the pure musicians of Vedic lineage known as the Ghandarvas? Maybe not.

If our sleep-time is indeed the workshop of the soul, I for one am looking forward to listening to Music of Joy before my bedtime and as I drift off to worlds, as of yet, still unknown, where I would hope to merge with and rekindle the essence of life and the blueprint details important to me before my earliest memories began.

Bravo! Jim Jenkins. More! More!
The Next BIG THING
www.hayhouseradio.com

Most readers will enjoy The Next Big Thing available on the Internet and from Hay House.

The internet has had streaming audio for a few years. About a year ago (August, 2004) the first PodCasts hit the Net. PodCasts are simply audio programs available in MP3 audio format which can be downloaded directly to your iPod (or, of course, downloaded and played on any MP3 player or computer).

Louise Hay is promoting her Hay House authors by streaming one hour talk programs each week, new, five days a week and repeated 24/7. Each author picks their own weekly topics and also allow call-ins. Past programs are archived in MP3 format for later listening.

HayHouse Radio authors/hosts include: Sylvia Browne, Wayne Dyer, Cheryl Richardson, Dharma Singh Khalsa, Wyatt Webb, Sonia Choquette, Dawn Breslin, Doreen Virtue, producer/host Summer McStravick and about a dozen others.