From the artist
Since releasing the first Liquid Mind® album in 1994, I've received thousands of emails, messages, and letters from listeners using my sedative music therapeutically in healing settings, at home, and in the workplace. Many comments were from healthcare practitioners, some were from persons like myself who had faced health challenges and wanted to include deeply calming music in their daily routine. Others related they were using Liquid Mind as part of a pre-sleep routine, to help them slow down after a busy day and prepare for a good night's sleep.
Not surprisingly, of the thirteen previous Liquid Mind albums, the most popular release is the eighth album, Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep. While I make no scientific claims for the Liquid Mind music, William Dement, M.D., founder of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, wrote of the Sleep album back in 2006 that "Mr. Wild successfully creates a soothing and calming atmosphere which could be an excellent addition to one’s nightly sleep regimen.”
With that in mind, on the tenth anniversary of Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep, I thought it fitting to release a followup album designed to enhance pre-sleep: Liquid Mind XI: Deep Sleep. Like the previous albums, Deep Sleep has certain characteristics that make it deeply calming: A continuous blanket of sound, restriction of upper (treble) frequencies, absence of dominant rhythms, subtle melodic elements, absence of jarring elements to minimize arousal response, and inclusion of quiet vocal sounds. In short, every note blends and melts softly into the next. Like the Tao, I envision that nothing in Liquid Mind attracts unnecessary attention to itself, and that the music's strength emanates from its softness.
- Chuck Wild, Los Angeles, February 2016