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& REVIEWS AUDIO first few intro tracks. Overall, a good listening album as long as you can handle the empty "Null zone” and huddling "Under the blankets". Recommended if you'd really like to capture the feeling of five days and nights in a photon belt, to prepare, just in case... MEDITATION MOODS you1 HEALING Side A FLOATING SYMPHONY a9 FIVE DAYS IN A PHOTON BELT by Warp Factor Nine Produced by Karmic Hit (1993), Sydney, Australia Price: AUD$24.95 (48mins, CD) Available: Distributed by Id/ Phonogram Promotions, Australia, phone 02) 581 1399, and independent record stores. Back in 1991, NEXUS printed a story entitled "The Photon Belt", which out- lined a scenario involving a huge belt of photons engulfing the solar system some time this decade. The story grew and grew around the world until one day in early 1992 a news sheet titled “You Must Read This!" circu- lated around Australia and overseas claiming the photon belt was about to overtake the Earth, and five days of dark- ness/light would be our fate. All power would go, heat would go, civilisation would grind to a halt. It was to hit by 24th July 1992, or could happen later, even into 1994. Nothing happened!—at least not yet... ...except Warp Factor Nine (Russell, John, Boris and Darren) got together and produced a musical trip where art imitates life, and Five Days in a Photon Belt was born. If you'd like to recapture that amazing feeling when New Agers across the coun- try thought the world was going to end tomorrow, then Five Days... has it. The music is pleasant and atmospheric, although when we get to tracks like "The sky has fallen”, it really sounds as if it has. 1 enjoyed the album, especially the MEDITATION MOODS Volume 1: Healing by Terry Cahill Produced by Terry Cahill Music Services (1993), Sydney, Australia Price: AUD$19.95 (+ $3 p&h) (42mins, cass.), or AUD$55.00 (+A$4.95 p&h) for 3-vol. set, inc. "Vol. 2: Sleeping" and "Vol. 3: Balancing" Available: Quest Books, 1st Floor, 484 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia, phone (02) 264 7152, and alternative book/health food shops. NEXUS had "Volume 1: Healing" to listen to and found the music a relaxing interlude in the day's busy deadline pace. Pleasant vibrational sounds combine in “Floating Symphony", the composition on Side A. It promotes a drifting ambience that lifts the psyche and makes the day lighter. Side B is "Mystic Echo" and is a thoughtful, quiet journey into the mood of the moment, Both sides offer a gentle massage of the mind and senses, and could be recom- mended for home, for meditation or just a quiet evening. They would also be excel- lent in a clinic or practitioners’ rooms, to set a peaceful mood for patients and staff. Terry Cahill has two other cassettes in the Meditation Moods scries—"Sleeping" and "Balancing"—and the three are avail- able as a package. NEXUS¢71 APRIL - MAY 1994 ee eee