The titles of the first seven Liquid Mind albums have honored values important to me on my life’s journey. This eighth album honors the need in all of us for a healthy and regenerating rest each night. Adequate rest is fundamental to my life...things that seem overwhelming when I’m tired are often easily accomplished when I am well rested and relaxed. I hope you’ll enjoy my music, and use it in good health.
Popular with healing professionals for over ten years, the “sedative” music of Liquid Mind has been used in dozens of healing applications: Anxiety & panic management, addiction recovery and rehabilitation, chemotherapy centers, hypnotherapy, chiropractic, anger management, sleep disorders, guided relaxation and meditation, correctional institutions, guided imagery, maternity settings, post-surgical recovery, veterinary post-surgical recovery, yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy, hospice, and pain management.
The excellent production values on the Liquid Mind albums reflect Chuck Wild’s extensive experience working with many world-class artists, as songwriter, synthesist, composer, producer, and arranger. Chuck’s compositional skills continue to infuse these albums with beautifully crafted sonic and melodic soundscapes.
The Liquid Mind albums have become a steady favorite among massage therapists, Yoga teachers, anxiety management clinicians, and all those who use relaxation music as a tool to help manage the stress in their lives.
REVIEW
September 23, 2011: Amazon Customer Review by
Lynda Fitzgerald
Worth the price – and more
My review really covers all the Liquid Mind CDs. And yes, I own them all.
I work in a high stress job — don't most of us? I'm also an author, traveling around the country for conferences and signings. When I was in town, I would listen to Soundscapes in the evening, but it just wasn't providing the relaxation I wanted. Then Liquid Mind played on Soundscapes. I can't remember which one. It doesn't matter. As far as I can tell, they’re equally amazing. As the music began, I felt that same wave of relaxation I get when I slip into a hot bath to soak or when I go for a massage. I immediately (well, when the song finished playing) got on my computer and ordered all Liquid Mind’s CDs from Amazon, and I've played them every night since.
I have to warn you, though, that the music is addictive. I was recently traveling and forgot to take my MP3 player along. For two nights, I tossed and turned, something I never do at home.
Editorial Reviews
Product Description Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep is a collection of specially designed music to help the mind easy into sleep.
Amazon.com
Music in the Liquid Mind series changes little from one recording to the next – good news for contented fans of the long-running bliss-out series created by keyboardist/composer Chuck Wild. The former Missing Persons keyboardist and studio colleague of famed producer Ken Scott (David Bowie, Supertramp) has evolved into a premier space-music specialist whose relaxing, gentle soundscapes artfully evoke the softer side of the cosmos. His eighth Liquid Mind installment, subtitled Sleep, is a lovely, slo-mo spacewalk through serene, gravity-free realms that consistently yields a sustained sense of well-being and calm. Deserving of a spot at the head table with ambient music's most sophisticated sound designers, Wild creates slowly unfolding, universe-at-rest textures using few of the supplemental sonic dimensions (space winds, angelic voices) often employed by fellow stargazers Jonn Serrie and Jon Jenkins. And he sidesteps the small dramas and mysterious fractals that sometimes add a hint of uncertainty to the otherwise like-minded works of Brian Eno or Harold Budd. Happily, you'll hear no new-agey crystal bowls or plucked harps, either; just a warm, resonant, faintly classical glow skillfully designed for relaxation and peace. Pull up a cloud, lie back, and enjoy. –Terry Wood
Reviews
...like falling into a feather bed of clouds surrounded by the violet glow from a setting sun. – Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire
...majestic melodies, sometimes somewhat sentimental in nature, wrapped up in nightly, sensual atmospheres. – Edgar Kogler, Amazing Sounds
Mr. Wild successfully creates a soothing and calming atmosphere which could be an excellent addition to one's nightly sleep regimen. – Dr. William Dement, Director, Stanford Sleep Disorders and Research Center and Professor of Sleep and Dreams at Stanford University
So deep that it should carry a warning against listening alone. It is, truly, the deepest of the deep. – Jim Brenholts, allmusic.com Jim Brenholts, allmusic.com
The relaxation music of Chuck Wild has quickly become art that this music reviewer will never forget. – John W. Patterson, EER-Music.com
This CD works. If it got me to take a daytime nap, it should work for anyone. – Florence Cardinal, Sleep Disorders Guide, About.com. March 2006
Wild's unique minimalistic ambient recordings are the ultimate stress reducer. – R.J Lannan, New Age Reporter.com, February 2006
[Wild] is dedicated to making a significant impact on healing the minds, souls, and bodies of his fellow humans. – Bill Binkelman, NewAgeReporter.com
About the Artist
Liquid Mind is the name used by Los Angeles composer and producer Chuck Wild. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Wild trained for twelve years primarily in classical piano, singing in a cappella groups and choirs starting at the age of six. He studied music history and sang with the university choir while earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Kansas. Four years followed as a Lieutenant in the US Navy, after which Chuck moved to Los Angeles in 1979 and became synthesist for Capitol Records group Missing Persons. For the next four years, he recorded and toured internationally with the band.
In 1985, Chuck began an extended period of songwriting and composition, and has written over 100 songs and compositions, more than 60 of which have now been recorded for albums or for use in television and film. The Pointer Sisters, Tommy Page, Timothy Leary, Wink, Jennifer Rush, Thelma Houston, Glen Medeiros and Philip Bailey are some of the artists who have recorded Wild's songs. While a staff songwriter at Lorimar Telepictures, and then Warner/Chappell Music, Chuck co-composed music with Michael Hoenig for the Emmy-winning ABC series Max Headroom. In 1992, Zita Carno and Gloria Ching premiered his first classical composition for two pianos, Los Angeles Fantasy, at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles. The same year, Wild co-scored the Academy Award winning film "The Panama Deception." Over the last twenty years, Chuck has lent his sonic programming and studio talents on the synthesizer to projects with Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Missing Persons, Philip Bailey, Frank Zappa, and many other artists. Wild co-wrote the song "You're My One and Only," (#1 hit in Europe for Jennifer Rush).
