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"This will make a superb soundtrack for your next road trip or even a staycation. Wherever you are, you'll end up relaxed, renewed and rejuvenated after "Traveling the Blissful Highway."

  – Jeanne Kataoka, Science of Mind Magazine  Sept. Issue  8/13/23

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"Traveling the Blissful Highway" is like a travel audio journal depicting a magical beautiful place of love and joy. Smooth melody lines and graceful progressions enhance the experience."

–Dimitri Kovachev, DimitriK Publishing and Radio Show 9/28/23

"Traveling the Blissful Highway is adventure music at its best, bravely abjuring the monotonous regime of reality to illuminate a magical new realm of possibilities. Darlene Koldenhoven's meticulous attention to aesthetic makes each song a lavishly emotional composition unto itself."

–The Akademia Awards 2/17/23

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"Award-winning music artist Darlene Koldenhoven presents Traveling the Blissful Highway, an original album that showcases her prowess in synthesizer composing, arranging, production, and engineering. Her beautiful vocals enhance the music, although Traveling the Blissful Highway is primarily an instrumental work. Seamlessly combining new age, ambient, and world music elements, Traveling the Blissful Highway is a choice pick for listeners in need of songs to ease stress, and also makes a wonderful gift year-round. Highly recommended! The tracks are Cheerful Mohana, Time Traveler, Jade Dreams, Gentle Soul, Birds in Paradise, Dot Calm, Tropical Chill, Sweet Peace, Osmium Glow, Native Star, Highland Mist, and Blissful Highway.

– James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Wisconsin Bookwatch Magazine - The Music CD Shelf. 11/14/22. Also appearing in Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series "Book Review Index" and archived on Midwest Book Review website

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“A stunning work with a stellar supporting cast. Darlene’s synths and keyboards work the most magic. To me it sounds like an homage of sorts to the golden days of the New Age genre. Wow! In my humble opinion, this may be the best album of her career!”
                                     – Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire 10/19/22

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"Traveling the Blissful Highway by Darlene Koldenhoven is one of those rare albums that you could listen to a multiple of times over and enjoy the 10th as much as the 1st!  Here is an album that emphasizes all the good in our world, the colours, textures and indeed bliss, it is a constant heavenly narrative throughout this amazing new album, one that I personally rate as the best instrumental release ever created by the musician, and as such, you would be crazy not to purchase a copy of Traveling the Blissful Highway by Darlene Koldenhoven, it is a veritable sanctuary of the soul."

   –Steve Sheppard, One World Music Radio, 9/26/22

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"Absolutely uplifting musical magic will provide you with hour upon hour of healing and inspiration."

–Rotcod Zzaj, Contemporary Fusion Reviews 9/1/22

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Darlene Koldenhoven's instrumental new-age world release Traveling the Blissful Highway, will be another significant achievement to add to her impressive catalog of releases. It is some of the most relaxing and dreamy music you will have the pleasure of enjoying – a slice of heaven.

–Keith "Muzik Man" Hannaleck, New Age Music Reviews, Founder 7/18/22

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Leave your cares and worries behind. You’ll barely have time to pack as you begin Traveling the Blissful Highway on the latest album from New Age composer and GRAMMY® Winner and three-time GRAMMY® Nominee Darlene Koldenhoven. This imaginative creator takes you in a dozen delightful directions as the memorable music restores and renews your spirit.  

-R J Lannan, Artisan Music Reviews  7/19/22

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"If ever there was a perfectly-titled album, Traveling the Blissful Highway is it! The music overflows with calming gentleness and warm optimism and is sure to brighten your spirit any time of day or night!"               –Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com REVIEW 7/23/22

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“We are excited to be adding Traveling the Blissful Highway to our music library of Darlene Koldenhoven’s music that we play at Vie Aesthetics to enrich the multi-sensory approach we use at our clinic. Her music has a huge impact on the way people feel when they are met with the therapeutic calming sounds before their treatments with our practitioners and creates a beautiful environment for our staff as well.” Read Blog Post with Pics
                          –Vicky Grammatikopoulou, Owner, Vie Aesthetics,

                                        Harley Street, London, England 7/27/22

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The music of "Traveling the Blissful Highway" is colored with many colors, as if you are enthusiastically leafing through a color album of a wonderful photographer who captured the most beautiful landscapes that he met on his way. And each new page is even more beautiful . . . There is sophistication and a lot of the smallest nuances in its perfect sounding music. A wonderful end to a hard day, bringing peace to the soul and clearing the mind of worries. 

             –Serge Kozlovsky, Minsk, Belarus SKozlovsky.com 7/30/22                                                      

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From Norway, BT Fasmer's New Age Music Guide 7/19/22

           Read Cheerful Mohana Description on Site

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"Traveling the Blissful Highway is an album you will want as your musical companion, to help make your life journey a more enjoyable and beautiful discovery. Darlene's experience and exposure to varied cultures, countries and traditions have contributed positively to her broad and diverse vision of humanity and our world which comes through in her musical compositions and especially shines on this album."

                                         –Lizzette Cascante, Aurelscapes 8/3/22

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"Traveling the Blissful Highway" is a sensational album by Darlene Koldenhoven. Lay back, un-wind and dream-way as you listen to all 12 recommended tracks. Lady Hawke and I enjoyed the album immensely." Hawke Rating: 10/10!!!

                     –Terry Hawke, Hawke CD Reviews, England 8/8/2022

Cheerful Mohana Video • Darlene - music • Andreea Petcu - visuals

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Scenstr Magazine, Australia

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Whats My Scene Magazine, Australia

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INTERVIEWS

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Aparna Vats Point of View Show on Alive 90.5 FM Sydney, Australia

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New Thought Radio, USA

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Voyage Magazine, Los Angeles  

The Life & Work of Darlene Koldenhoven

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Alive 90.5-FM Point of View with Arparna, Australia               NSW - with Interview

KTEP, Audiosyncracy, El Paso, TX. spins

     Jade Dreams, Tropical Chill, Osmium Glow,

     Sweet Peace
Max FM, Australia spins Blissful Highway, Highland Mist,               Jade Dreams, Tropical Chill, Gentle Soul

WDIY 88.1 The Blend. Allentown, PA. spins Osmium Glow

WESS A Fist Full of Dust spins Blissful Highway, Dot Calm
WFIT, Florida, Future Echoes spins Highland Mist, Sweet        Peace, Osmium Glow, Native Star, Birds in Paradise

WHYR-FM 96.9, Baton Rouge, LA spins Native Star,                Highland Mist, Time Traveler, Jade Dreams,                        Tropical Chill, Blissful Highway, Osmium Glow
WMSE -FM, Milwaukee, WI spins Birds in Paradise

WMNR-FM, Monroe, CT & WGRS, WGSK, WRXC 

      covering CT & NY New Music Gallery spins Cheerful 

      Mohana, Gentle Soul, Dot Calm, Native Star,

      Highland Mist, Blissful Highway

WMUH-FM 91.7 Though Radio, Allentown/Bethlehem,     

      PA spins Blissful Highway

WPKN-FM 89.5 Bridgeport, CT Del in Transition spins     

     Highland Mist

WUWF-FM, FL spins Birds in Paradise, Native Star,

     Highland Mist

WVUD-FM 91.3, The Morning Fog, DE spins Blissful               Highway, Jade Dreams, Tropical Chill, Native Star,             Gentle Soul

WWSP, Stevens Point, WI, spins Time Traveler, Dot Calm,

     Native Star, Birds in Paradise, Highland Mist

WYSO-FM 91.3 Yellow Springs, OH. spins Dot Calm, 

     Osmium Glow, Jade Dreams

Accuradio, Chicago, IL
Auralscapes, FL Episode 5 spins Jade Dreams
Cultuurmania, The Netherlands
Got Radio - New Age Nuance

Guido's Lounge Cafe, In the Zone, Netherlands spins

     Jade Dreams

New Age CD, Belarus spins Osmium Glow & Tropical

     Chill

New Age Music, Netherlands
New Age Notes, Phoenix, AZ:

     #3 on October Radio Chart spins Osmium Glow.

     #3 on November Chart spins Tropical Chill

Northern Lights, Canada. Music Lake spins Time Traveler
One World Music Radio Playlist #458, Playlist #478, The

     Album Show, New Age Music Show #11, Piano Garden     #1, Show #462 spins Blissful Highway, Tropical Chill,        Highland Mist and more. Debuts #7 on October Chart

  WINS 2nd Place Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Peaceful Currents, USA

Peaceful Radio, The Netherlands, Show ft. album on             #1512, #1513 - spins Time Traveler, #1514 - spins Jade     Dreams, #1515 spins GentleSoul

    #1529 spins Birds in Paradise

Radio Nature, France
Sequences Magazine - Sequences Podcast No 222 spins        Sweet Peace & Time Traveller

SoundsLikeCafe, Australia. #1 on Instrumental Album Chart & Jade Dreams #2 on Singles Chart for November, 2022 • #2 on Instrumental Album Chart April, 2023 !!!