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"IT IS ALWAYS NOW" RANKS IN NEW AGE TOP 50 FOR 2008 - JANUARY 27, 2009
According to New Age Reporter, "It Is Always Now" ranked number 47 in the Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2008. It's highest position was 11, and was listed for 6 months.
"It Is Always Now" hit #1 at Music Choice', "Soundscapes" cable TV channel in June and August, 2008. It entered in May at #17, and has been listed in its top ten for the past five months.
"..."It Is Always Now" is a phenomenal album from Kathy Raimey - one that is much more introspective and sophisticated than what one might expect from an artist's second album. This should come as no surprise, though. Her new CD has already been chosen as an Editor's Pick in the New Age: Progressive Alternative category at CD Baby and has received great reviews from New Age Reporter's Bill Binkelman and RJ Lannan." - Kevin Wood, Radio Manager, New Vision Promotion.
"Delightfully different...Raimey expertly merges her electronica/ambient side with her softly melancholic New Age side...solidly recommended." - Bill Binkelman, ZoneMusicReporter (formerly New Age Reporter)
"...quietly beautiful, soulful and always emotional." - RJ Lannan, ZoneMusicReporter (formerly New Age Reporter)
For the complete texts, click on the reviewers' links above, or, go to the press section on this website.
"It Is Always Now", an introspectively evocative collection featuring Kathy Raimey's heartfelt piano touch, blends atmospheric ambient soundscapes with works for piano and strings, piano and udu, improvisational solo piano, and, electronica with voice, to create a uniquely mesmerizing and uplifting listening experience. Spanning the gamut from dreamy imaginative electronica, neoclassic cinematic tenderness, and quirky mixes of unlikely elements, Kathy guides the listener through interior landscapes that both soothe and energize.
Used within the healing arts of massage therapy and acupuncture, it has also garnered appreciation as excellent headphone music in corporate cubicles, and for stress reduction while driving (not using headphones!). Others simply like to listen to it!
Airplay News... "It Is Always Now" continues to chart one year since its release in October 2007, with its re-entry into the New Age/Ambient/World Top 100.
"It Is Always Now" hit #11 on the April New Age Reporter Top 100 Chart and has been added to the following radio playlists:
"Soundscapes", Music Choice - Digital Cable TV, New York, NY
"Global Groove", WFIT-AM, New York, NY
"SkyFm", Solo Piano Channel - www.skyfm.com, New York, NY
"A Ultima Fronteira Radio", Pontevedra, SPAIN
"Landscapes", WLOQ, Orlando, Florida
"NightLight", "Spirit Sounds", KUAC, Fairbanks, AK
"La Otra Orilla", Radio Despi, Barcelona, SPAIN
"Shades of Classics", CKUW, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Galaxie CBC, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
"Instrumental / New Age", Galaxie CBC, Ontario, CANADA
"InnerVisions" (Syndicated), KRSC, Tulsa, OK
"Cheezmuzik", WTUL Radio, New Orleans, LA
"Starlit Skies", KSER, Seattle, WA
"Afterglow", WMUH, Nazareth, PA
"Night Sounds", KACU, Abilene, TX
"Music from the Cosmic Wheel", WSCS, New London, NH
"Secret Music", WVKR, Fishkill, NY
"New Frontiers", WXDU, Durham, NC
"Acoustic Resonance/Fantasy Realm", WWSP, Stevens Point, WI
"Playlist International", KIPO, Honolulu, HI
"Audiosyncracy", KTEP, La Porte, TX
"Planetary Prismatic Psonics", WKNH, Gilsum, NH
"Alpha Rhythms", WYSO, Yellow Springs, OH
"InewAge.com", Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
"Cocoland Sunrise Radio Show", KEAO-MANAO RADIO, Wailuku, Maui, HI
"Music of the Spheres",Radio Mir, Minsk, BELARUS
"The Pit", WYBF, Radnor, PA
"Whole Wheat Radio", Talkeetna, AK
"Wings", WFCF, St. Augustine, FL
"The Night Traveller", KRCB, Rohnert Park, CA
"Soon...Comes the Night", Radio SLOR, THE NETHERLANDS
"Celestial Reasonings", Syndicated Show, CA
"Night Tides", KCUR, Kansas City, MO
"Murphy's Magic Mess", KZUM, Lincoln, NE
"Oasis", Montana Public Radio, Missoula, MT
"Journeys to the Infinite", RFI Romania, Bucharest, ROMANIA
"Music from Beyond the Lakes", WDBX, Carbondale, IL
"Stroke the Goddess", WMHB, Solon, ME
"Instrumental Saturdays", WMSE, Milwaukee, WI
"The Morning Fog", WVUD, Newark, DE
"Iridium Radio", KZYX/KZYZ, Mendocino County, CA
Top Twenty News!
April Top Twenty:
KTEP, "Audiosyncracy", #2
Montana Public Radio, "Oasis" #2
WDBX, "Music from Beyond the Lakes", #2
KCUR, "Night Tides", #4
KUAC, "NightLight", #5
WMSE, "Instrumental Saturdays", #5
WXDU, "New Frontiers" , #8
WVUD, "The Morning Fog", #9
SLOR, "Soon...Comes the Night", #10
KZUM, "Murphy's Magic Mess" #11
Radio Mir, "Music of Spheres", #13
WMHB, "Stroke the Goddess", #13
WVKR, "Secret Music", #13
Celestial Reasonings, "Celestial Reasonings" #14
WWSP, "Ambient Aether/Space Continuum", #15
CKUW, "Shades of Classics", #17
RFI Romania, "Journeys to the Infinite", #17
Galaxie CBC, "Instrumental/New Age", #18
WKNH, "Planetary Prismatic Psonics", #18
KRCB, "The Night Traveler", #19 WYBF, "The Pit", #19
March Top Twenty:
WYSO, "Alpha Rhythms", #4
KUAC, "NightLight, #6
KEAO - MANAO RADIO, "Cocoland Sunrise Radio Show", #7
Galaxie CBC, "Instrumental / New Age", #8
Radio Mir, "Music of the Spheres", #10
KIPO, "Playlist International", #15
WSCS, "Music from the Cosmic Wheel", #15
WYBF, "The Pit", #16
Radio Despi, "La Otra Orilla", #18
CKUW, "Shades of Classics", #20
February Top Twenty:
WFIT, "Global Groove", #6
Radio Despi, "La Otra Orilla", #11
Galaxie CBC, #16
Galaxie CBC, "Instrumental / New Age", #17
CKUW, "Shades of Classics", #18
Top Twenty Airplay begins... December '07, January '08
"It Is Always Now" reached the Top 20 chart at WFIT in December 2007, and, in January 2008 ranked in the Top 20 at WFIT, KRSC, Galaxie CBC, and CKUW. Check out the sound clips in the music section on this site, or, at CD Baby.
"Flowers of Fire" continues to receive airplay in 2008! Since 2001, Kathy's EP length CD, "Flowers of Fire", has been embraced by a loyal following of listeners. It continues to receive airplay today, and is utilized for massage therapy sessions, yoga classes, meditation, and just for the sheer relaxation it evokes. We hope you enjoy the site. Thanks for listening and visit again soon!