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Product Description Welcome to Le Spa Sonique where you can treat yourself to luxurious relaxation anytime. Indulge your senses in these blissfully smooth grooves that are both relaxing and hip. Master of mood, renowned composer Jens Gad, who has worked for more than 10 years with multi-platinum group ENIGMA and visionary of ACHILLEA brings you this sublimely soothing set of sophisticated lounge music with a distinctly sensuous European flare. From his state-of-the-art studio in Ibiza Spain, Jens Gad has created an entrancing new sound where healing ambient textures combine with hypnotic modern rhythms. Let yourself escape fully into this magically serene music where you will experience your very own personal spa retreat. Here, in this exclusive spot, far from the demands of day-to-day life, you can ease your mind and let your spirit fly. Le Spa Sonique is chill-out music for the soul...music to live by - it's the ideal soundtrack for dining, yoga, intimate nights or just relaxing at home. Review "Flowing with seriously chilled grooves... ENGIMA, fans will be right at home with the album's similar mood and melodic style.' -- Music Design In Review ...Le Spa Sonique is a musical overindulgence of the relaxation senses. A sublime set of lounge pieces with a Euro-cool feel, Le Spa Sonique propels itself with percussive rhythms, synths, electric guitar, and the cooler elements in electronica. The album transports a closed-eye listener to a warm summer evening at sunset in a mystical paradise. Gems are aplenty on Le Spa Sonique, including the percussive yet celestial and reverberating "The Orbiting Suns," the sexily spoken "El Momento," and the guitar work and ominous string bass in "Cape Blanc." Treat your customers and their senses to a state of relaxed bliss and dreamy relaxation with Le Spa Sonique. The CD is an intense digital experience and a headphone treat, and is a must-have for fans of Enigma and Achillea. -- Peter Manzi, Sounds From the Ground Up, Resource Guide 2006 Best known for his work as guitarist and co-producer for Enigma, Jens Gad goes solo for his 2006 Le Spa Sonique, taking Enigma's atmospheric dance-floor grooves one step further into the realm of soothing New Age. Recorded and produced at Gad's studio on the Spanish island of Ibiza, Le Spa Sonique is rich with acoustic and electronic instrumentation, as well as the hypnotic accompaniment of ephemeral female vocals. Preserving a natural flow, ocean waves connect the tracks and sometimes influence them, as in "The Orbiting Suns," where Gad beckons his listeners on a calming walk down the Ibiza coast to watch the wet sand glisten and the seagull's song softly transform into a synthesized melody. Gad explores an impressive array of emotions with a heavy emphasis on beats and bass levels. Piano, synth textures, and Gad's soulful riffing on electric guitar all gradually fade in and out and back in again, forming a foundation over which they all take turns with equal importance. Le Spa Sonique straddles the line between meditative journey music and chill-out party music. These songs are as perfect for falling asleep as they are for getting your groove on, but that's what Gad does best, creates the atmosphere in which to do both. The use of voice effectively enhances the experience throughout Le Spa Sonique, adding a sense of temporal location, guidance, and deepening mystery, as in the case of "Navajo," where an old man talks of the blues, while in "El Momento" a woman speaks soothing Spanish. Voices flow above and beneath Gad's steady current of alternating synth tones, piano, and guitar, all set to slow and steady rainy-day beats that freshen the spirit and body like a spa massage where the masseuse is saying something to you, but you're so relaxed they sound very far away. Le Spa Sonique works precisely the way it's named and makes a great background to yoga or meditation under a sunny window, or sun lamp, with a little coconut oil in your hair to crea