The Healing Touch

25 years after producing the original Ascension, composer Clifford White returns and rises to new heights with Ascension II. Using gossamer, grace and passion, White’s new music is weightless and incredibly soothing. I have to admit that I wondered if Clifford could top his tremendous effort from his previous album Gods of Olympus and not surprisingly, he has. Ascension II is more celestial and thought provoking. The music is scintillating with ethereal passages that invite one to drift along with the melodies. It also provides an atmosphere that promotes meditation and perhaps even stimulates healing. A Blessing starts the album…

Not long after CD Services first opened for business in the mid-late 80’s we produced our first Synth / New Age Catalogue, and this brought many new names to our world-wide Synth / Instrumental Music customer / fan-base. One of these new musicians was Clifford White, a UK based keyboardist with a strong fair for melody. His crystalline and celestial tuneful synth themes set the world alight with: ‘Ascension’ his debut album of Vangelis styled dream-like tracks of uplifting beauty, first on Cassette and then on CD, selling regularly over the years that followed and going on to become one…

Clifford White is a new age musician based in the UK who has been creating great music for quite a number of years now and like a fine wine continues to improve with age. Clifford’s latest release is called Ascension II: The Healing Touch and is actually a sequel of sorts to an album he released years ago called, not surprisingly, Ascension back in 1985. Unfortunately I have never heard Clifford’s earlier album so my review will be strictly based on Clifford’s current release without any comparrisons to what has come before. Besides I like to listen to music not…

I’m always amazed when an artist totally changes style from one album to the next. Only a talented and versatile artist is able to express something entirely different from one release to the next. Clifford White two most recent albums are The Gods of Olympus (2009) which tells the story of the principal gods of the Greek pantheon. The 71 minute long album is simply a new age music Tour de Force, an album worthy of gods. The next year, in 2010, Clifford White released something totally different; The Healing Touch – Ascension II (2010). It is just as laid…

Some New Age music has the power to inspire us right from the moment it was first created, capturing your attention right from the beginning while also standing the test of time. Inspiring music reaching this level is powerful, imaginative, and well defined. Something I find just as inspiring are the true life biographies of the artists themselvesand their individual success stories that sets them apart from all others, and what may be revealed in their futures. I find their innermost passions and true life stories of their careers incredibly powerful and real. Clifford White is a musician living in…

Please note that the track order for The Healing Touch was later reverted to that which the composer originally intended, so the order of tracks below has changed. When I first heard that Clifford White was going to follow up his critically acclaimed 2009 album The Gods of Olympus with a sequel to his very first record Ascension (released by New World Music is 1985), I was both surprised and excited. Twenty-five years since the release of that classic work, the news that there would be another album in the style of Ascension certainly had me counting the days until its…