- We Have a New Name! 

Hello to all of you listeners and musicians out there! Welcome to the new year, which is starting 

out with a bang for our record label as we usher in 2017 with a new company name; henceforth,

Relaxing Music World will now be known as Relaxing Music World Artists ( RMW Artists, for  

short). In a very fundamental way, we feel that the transition to our new name better reflects the  

collective nature of our ever growing team of talented artists. We may have changed our name,  

but we remain as committed as ever to helping gifted musicians to bring their music forth into

the world via the online digital medium!

 

– New Artist Spotlight: Jeanette Alexander 

We are very pleased to announce the arrival of Jeanette Alexander as the latest artist to join our 

RMW Artists collective. A genuinely gifted pianist with an innate flair for composing beautiful 

melodies, Jeanette enjoyed a fruitful music career in the Seattle area before moving to San 

Diego several years ago. She has recorded three highly acclaimed album projects to date ( Still Point, 

Open Sky and Walk In the Sun), which have won multiple awards for Best Instrumental Album 

and Best Instrumental Song. As a composer, Jeanette has also scored music for the award winning 

documentary “Honor Denied”, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and 

was subsequently featured at festivals in Hawaii, Palm Springs and Newport Beach. Welcome to 

our collective, Jeanette; we are tremendously excited to collaborate with you and your outstanding 

body of work! 
 

– Latest Release! 

Our most recent compilation album is a beautiful collection of piano pieces combined with 

acoustic guitar compositions which features music from six of our artists. 

This latest release is entitled “ Best of Piano & Acoustic Guitar Spa Music, Vol. II”, and the album 

is noteworthy in that it marks the debut of Jeanette Alexander's piano music on an RMW Artist's 

album. Her performance, studio recording quality and songwriting are all exquisite, and the 

collection will undoubtedly become an RMW classic. Excellent contributions from Robin Miller, 

Phillip Lester, Pablo De Luca, Meadowlark and Relaxation Ukulele Maestro also round out the 

album, and we invite all appreciators of fine instrumental music to experience our latest release! 
 

– Special Thanks 

We wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the unique contributions of one of our artists, 

guitarist Phillip Lester. Over the last several years, Phillip has consistently been one of our top 

selling artists, and for good reason. As a highly trained classical guitarist, Phillip's playing sounds 

so effortlessly precise that most listeners have no idea how technically proficient he truly is. It's his 

interpretation, though,of the classics that really sets him apart. With a combination of arranging 

skills and an intention to create an atmosphere of tranquility, Phillip's renditions of famous 

classical pieces transport the listener to a serene place that offers respite and rejuvenation. We are 

honored to work with his music! 

On a personal note, Phillip was also one of very first artists to join our label. He believed in our 

collective before it even existed; and his vote of confidence, along with his musical contributions, 

helped to breathe RMW Artists into reality. Thank you , Phillip, for all that you have done !

In the early days of our fledgling collective, finding potential recording artists for Relaxing Music World turned out to be a fairly simple task because all of the participating musicians were close friends and associates of RMW founder Patrick Ki. Without a pressing need to expand our artist roster at that point, we decided instead to put our energies into producing compilation albums and generating supplemental income for our family of musicians. With much gratitude, we have begun to see the fruits of our labor, although there is still much more we wish to accomplish! 

However, as Bob Dylan once observed,,, the times they are a changing. After much consideration, we feel the time has come for RMW to diversify our distribution channels. It is also our hope to reach out to other musicians who extend beyond the scope of our current circle of artists. We feel our new website will help us to accomplish these goals ; but we are also clear in our intention to remain a company run by musicians for the benefit of other musicians, no matter what changes may happen with the industry in the future.

Hello musicians and listeners! Welcome to the inaugural blog post for Relaxing Music World! The title for our very first post is 'The State of Our Union", because in a very fundamental and core manner, our company is in essence a union between like minded recording musicians. RMW is comprised of a collective family of artists who have agreed to let their individual creations become part of a larger body of combined works; our intention is to take previously recorded tracks from our participating artists and to include these songs into themed instrumental compilation albums. This is a proven strategy which has been used for decades by many highly successful companies ; so we didn't exactly re-invent the wheel, but we did put some nice new tires on it ! 

So, at this point, what exactly is the "State of Our Union" ? 

Well , to begin with, the very fact that you are reading this post represents a particular milestone for RMW. Even though our company has been active for a couple of years, this marks the first month our website is up and running. What took us so long? Well.... we've been kinda busy. In a very good way. 

With our humble beginnings as a grass roots project, pretty much all of our original group of artists were fellow musicians from the Sedona area. Patrick Ki, the founder of RMW , spent the previous thirty years as a professional musician in this region and considers many of the artist family to be among his closest friends. The main priority in our first years has been to produce compilation albums , and to generate supplemental passive income for the musician collective. With much gratitude, we have begun to see the fruits of our labor, although we still have much more we wish to accomplish! 

In this age of technology, however , it is apparent that we cannot remain an island to ourselves for much longer. After much consideration, we feel it's time to work with a more diversified distribution program ( or company ), and to continue to reach out to like minded artists who may reside outside the sphere of our existing collective. We hope that our new website will help us to achieve these immediate goals, as well as other long range objectives in the future. But we hope to always remain a company run by musicians for the benefit of other musicians, no matter what changes may happen in our industry down the road. 

So, if you are an Relaxing Music World fan or listener, thank you for your interest and support, and please feel free to check out our latest compilations! 

And if you are a musician, we would love to hear from you if you have any interest in joining our collective! 

I wish all of you the very best in your endeavours! 

Sincerely, Patrick Ki