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Mystic Journey takes you there.  Close your eyes, trust, and you will go somewhere else.  When you return, you'll be different... better.  Your inner windshield wipers will have washed off what you don't need.  What you need... is a Mystic Journey. - John Densmore (The Doors) Mystic Journey has an eagerly anticipated new release, Kingdom of Mountains full of mystical and evocative instrumental world music at its best, with rare and colorful flutes, strings and percussion from around the world that dance together to create an ancient yet modern global groove. Ten gorgeous tracks take the listener on a journey around the world and beyond, with a theme of peace and tranquility uniting the pieces into one mystical, musical journey. Mystic Journey is Suzanne Teng (world flutes), Gilbert Levy (world strings and percussion), Dann Torres (guitar and oud), and Jon Ossman (bass and dilruba). This unique world music ensemble creates a new type of instrumental music that is ethereal and exotic, soulful and healing, and Sensual and Serene as described by Billboard Magazine. Mystic Journey has created music that is not only critically acclaimed, but has won them numerous awards such as the Independent Music Awards (twice), International Acoustic Music Awards, and the Los Angeles Music Awards. Their music has been licensed for hundreds of independent film and video projects and was featured on the show America s Got Talent. Recognized not only for their musicianship and high production quality, their recordings have been described as sacred, relaxing and heart opening and their work has been used in numerous healing recordings, films and videos, including a special CD compilation of their pieces created by the pharmaceutical company Genentech that was distributed to over 50,000 patients to aid in their recovery. Mystic Journey...lifts the listener to a place where beauty, ecstasy and tranquility reside (Whole Life Times) both in recordings and live performances, as demonstrated in venues where they have performed such as the Dalai Lama s International World Festival of Sacred Music, where they were featured artists each year of the festival. Husband and wife team Teng and Levy wrote all of the pieces on this new album Kingdom of Mountains whose 10 tracks feature numerous rare and beautiful instruments from around the world. Their earlier albums were released under Suzanne Teng (Mystic Journey and Enchanted Wind) as well as Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey (Miles Beyond), but over the years, as they performed around the country and internationally, the ensemble developed a magical synergy that is embraced in this exciting new release, and co-bandleaders Teng and Levy decided they wanted to move forward as simply Mystic Journey. Kingdom of Mountain features the deep and soulful alto and bass flutes, Chinese bamboo flute (dizi), the Chinese gourd reed instrument Hulusi, Arabic oud, guitar, Turkish saz, bass dulcimer, Indian Fiddle (dilruba), bass, the wondrous Swiss metal hand drum (hang), didgeridoo, and an assortment of hand drums and percussion from around the world. Suzanne Teng plays music for the soul, says the Los Angeles Times. If you want music that is peaceful, relaxing, exotic and ethereal, uplifting and enchanting...then this album is for you.