''Inner Journeys: Myth + Legends'' is an album by

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band

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, released in 2003. The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top New Age albums chart. With this album, the band simultaneously explores new territory by covering

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with its musical concepts, and also revisits a more classic

sound by reintroducing the flute sounds of the early years ( Water Stories) and the strings, guitars, and atmospheres of their mid-career commercial high points of

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and

Apurimac II ''Apurímac II: Return to Ancient America'' is an album by German andean new age band Cusco, released in 1994 on the Higher Octave music label. The album peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top New Age albums chart. It is second in the Apurímac seri ...

. Sonically, this album does continue to develop a very natural-sounding instrumentation that began to appear with

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, though it uses them to create a more mysterious vibe than that of the previous album. Also, Inner Journeys utilizes occasional backing vocals in a style previously unexplored by the band, giving this album a unique flavor among

albums.

Track listing

# "Oracle Of Delphi" # "Eros And Psyche" # "Ariadne" # "The Nine Muses" # "Odysseus And The Sirens" # "Aphrodite" # "Janus" # "Orpheus And Eurydice" # "Pan And The Nymph" # "Poseidon"

Album credits

Kristian Schultze Kristian Schultze (21 January 1945 – 22 November 2011) was one-half of the German new-age band Cusco. Schultze partnered with Michael Holm and the two produced numerous new-age albums. The two met in late 1970s, when they discovered th ...

- Arranger,

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, programming *

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– Arranger, keyboard, producer *Johan Daansen –

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*Ernst Stroehr - Percussion *Jane Bogaert - Vocals *Matt Marshall – Executive producer *Dan Selene – Executive producer *Ron McMaster – Digital mastering *William Aura – Mastering *Frank Von Dem Bottlenberg - Mixing *Murry Whiteman – Cover art *Gina Grimes – Director of creative services *Debra Holland – Liner notes *Cusco – Main performer

References

2003 albums Cusco (band) albums {{newage-album-stub