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The Ambient Experience
Listening deeply to ambient music can feel like drifting through space, or perhaps disappearing alongside a vanishing water droplet, or even expanding outward like an infinite ripple. These wondrous experiences serve to alleviate tension and heal the inner self.

The music often incorporates natural sounds—such as the whisper of wind or the rush of waves—to express a specific atmosphere or 'ambience.' Rather than drawing attention to itself, ambient music relies solely on atmosphere to provide a sense of unobtrusive tranquility, as if it is 'present but not present.'

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Liquid Mind V: Serenity

Serenity

Liquid Mind XI: Deep Sleep

Night Whispers

Liquid Mind VI: Spirit

Teach Me to Whisper

Renewal

Dreamland

Armchair Theatre

Every Little Thing

The Dubstep Opera

The awakening

Life is Good on the Open Road

I'm Not There Anymore

Under the name Liquid Mind, Los Angeles-based musician and composer Chuck Wild creates ambient instrumental music with a therapeutic focus on relaxation, meditation, sleep aid, and other aspects of wellness. Since debuting in the early-'90s, Wild's ongoing Liquid Mind series has remained a consistently popular staple of the new age charts and an award-winning tool within the field of music therapy.

Prior to launching the project, Wild had already enjoyed a varied and colorful music career first as a member of new wave band Missing Persons, then as an industry songwriter and session keyboardist for high-profile artists ranging from Frank Zappa to Michael Jackson. He has composed music for television and film including the Academy Award-winning documentary The Panama Deception. During a stressful period in the late-'80s while he and German composer Michael Hoenig were co-scoring the Emmy-winning television series Max Headroom, Wild suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks. In addition to the stress from long hours of work, he also lost a large number of friends, family members, and acquaintances to AIDS and cancer in a short span of time. As a form of personal therapy, he began composing slow, tranquil new age and ambient pieces, which later became the first Liquid Mind album. Inspired by his own emotions as well as classical music and ambient composers like Brian Eno, he was encouraged to share his new music with others and released the series' debut, Ambience Minimus, in 1994.

Over the coming decades, Liquid Mind became Wild's most successful and visible endeavor with a prolific array of albums like Liquid Mind V: Serenity (2001), Liquid Mind IX: Lullaby (2009), and Liquid Mind XI: Deep Sleep (2016). Along the way, he worked directly with music therapists, making his catalog directly available to them and designing pieces for specific treatments, tempos, and experiences. At a 2009 conference for the American Music Therapy Association, he was honored with the President's Award for his efforts in the field. A perennial new age chart staple, Liquid Mind albums have also topped iTunes/Apple Music's new age chart. Still going strong into its fourth decade, Wild released his 13th Liquid Mind album, Mindfulness, in 2020. ~ Timothy Monger, Amazon Music

Serenity

Liquid Mind

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