Escape the Stress: Forestdale Music Album Takes You on a Musical Vacation Anywhere, Anytime

ClydeSight Productions' "Forestdale - Tone Poems Inspired by Nature" neoclassical music album rescues listeners from the stress and chaos caused by the pressure of their hectic schedules and lifestyles. It contains specially composed lush instrumental arrangements to soothe and comfort, giving the listener an instant vacation from stress and tension through environment changing musical ambience. The album's specially designed musical timbre and neoclassical structure inspire the imagination and spark the intuition to find solutions to the causes of stress, while relieving feelings of pressure.

(PRWEB) August 2, 2005 -- People experience stress -- in their jobs, their personal lives and relationships. The hectic pace of modern life with its heavy demands causes health and psychological problems and makes people unhappy and irritable. Many have a feeling "I need to get away!" Often, they feel helpless, a sense of chaos. But where can you go when you have to be where you are? How can you stop what you're doing and take a "time out" when the unreasonable demands of your daily schedule make this impossible?

ClydeSight Productions has come to the rescue with the neoclassical music album "Forestdale-Tone Poems Inspired by Nature". Its 12 tracks -- performed by neoclassical composer Tim Thompson and the XV Orchestra -- solve the problems of hectic modern life by creating a stress reducing environment through specially designed rich musical ambience. The music is carefully arranged with soothing flutes, lush string ensembles, sympathetic oboes, noble, soaring horns and multiple keyboards to lift and inspire the nobility inherent in the human spirit.

Scientific studies have shown that music affects our mood, our thoughts and even our mental abilities. Children who listen to classically styled music tend to be better problem solvers and more mathematically adept. Music has been used for years as therapy to help people manage depression and anxiety. Composer and musicologist Thompson has discovered that the key to the effective use of music for stress relief lies in both the tone of the music -- its Timbre and its design -- its structure. He composed the Forestdale album along these lines, using the psycho acoustical power of his music to help people reduce their stress.

He proved it at a local restaurant. "I met with some colleagues to discuss the Forestdale album. After the meeting we went out to dinner. The background music at the restaurant made us feel irritated and rushed, so we asked the waitress if she would like to try our choice of music, the Forestdale album, as an alternative. She agreed. We felt much better when our album was playing, and wondered if others would feel the same. Several times during dinner, the waitress came to tell us that customers and co-workers complimented the music because it improved the ambience of the restaurant. As we left, the waitress bought the album!"

Many times, stress comes from a sense of helplessness in a world of chaos. You feel out of control and unable to manage or cope. Listening to specially composed neoclassical music can solve this because it has a solid foundation of musical structure based on the classical tradition. And music that is absolute, that does not recall a specific story or idea (i.e. a movie soundtrack) but that exists with its own unique story stimulates the imagination and unconscious to develop solutions to problems. Thompson composed The Forestdale album using these techniques. Each selection has a beginning, a development, a dramatic evolution and a resolution. It is music tonally and structurally designed to soothe and comfort like a gentle aural massage, relaxing tension through the healing power of musical touch.

As a musicologist, Thompson also knows music is a subtle language that everyone appreciates and understands because it speaks directly to the unconscious mind. He uses this knowledge in the Forestdale album, taking inspiration from his experience of a wildlife sanctuary called Forestdale. (Yes, such a place does exist!) This inspiration flows through each selection on the album and comes across through the psycho acoustic power of Thompson's musical style -- the Symphonic Tone Poem -- first championed by Romantic composer, Franz Liszt. Thompson uses the evocative power of romanticism in all the selections, from the comforting and sympathetic "Forestdale Contemplation" to the playful and stimulating "The Running Brook". There is even a selection, "Sanctuary," which infuses a feeling of deep spirituality and connectedness with a higher power and the grand scheme of things in the Universe. The effect of the musical selections is a feeling of change, of order out of chaos and a sense that yes; problems can be managed and resolved.

The Forestdale music album comes in CD format and is not sold in stores. It is available on-line from ClydeSight Productions at the Forestdale Music Album Web site where visitors can sample the music and learn more about it. http://www.clydesight.com/forestdale/

ClydeSight Productions are creators of inspiring and entertaining music, multimedia and Web sites.

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