Craig Kupka - Crystals: New Music For Relaxation 2The sonorous drift of four trombones, like gentle waves lapping at the edge of a celestial shoreline, opens Craig Kupka's second album for Folkways, Crystals: New Music for Relaxation 2. Featuring two side long compositions for trombone and synthesizer, the album is intended as an aid for meditation, a guided journey inward towards self discovery. Before it's original release in 1982, Kupka and his wife Nancy took these recordings to relaxation

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