“Caress The Dawn” was my first published experiment, and foray into the New Age/Ambient Music scene, originally intended for the ‘High Woo-Woo’ crowd.  Designed for Meditation, Massage, Stress Reduction, and Relaxation, the original compilation of 4 parts was exactly 60 minutes in length, total.

Though it was entirely composed, arranged, and mixed on a Korg o1/w Keyboard, and was digitally mastered to DAT, the 1st release was still an analog recording, pressed to cassette, because digital music reproduction was still prohibitively expensive, at the time.  I was never happy with the final mix, the tonality, the tape noise, and even the speed of the cassette production.  Each cassette also had randomly different time intervals in the spaces of tape leader, before and after the program – on both sides – so, it wasn’t quite as conducive to continuous play, as I had hoped – although the random silences between the ends and the beginnings, lent a unique meditative aspect to it all.

Long since that time, I have had digital technology available to me, and I’ve had fantasies of releasing a Box-Set of the various incarnations, outtakes, as well as producing 2 more versions: one with an ocean/wave crashing soundtrack, and one with an acoustic guitar accompaniment.

For the time being, here is the quality original program, in all of its digital glory, as a full .wav file download, suitable to burn as a high quality CD.