Calm Collective - Mindful Calm (2019)

This collection of specially created mindfulness albums has something for everyone. Whether dealing with the pressures of everyday life and anxiety, battling sleepless nights and tearful babies, or even improving the intimacy of a sexual relationship, the Calm Collective is designed to bring help to all. Each of the albums feature newly composed music by Lotte Mullan who carefully designed the compositions to lower the heart rate and calm the mind. Mullan wore a Fitbit throughout the making of the records to monitor the effect different sounds and rhythms had on her heart rate. With six albums already available to stream, including Relaxing Piano, Baby Sleep, Inner Calm, Sounds of Nature, Deep Sleep and Calming Noise, the first albums to feature new music along with mindfulness meditations will be released this June.

On 21 June 2019 two albums by Mindfulness Practitioner and actress Victoria Grove, who starred in the BBC’s massively successful Bodyguard thriller, will be released. Mindful Calm deals with the pressures of daily life and was originally designed to battle her pre-show nerves and create a more centred approach to living. Mindful Love provides listeners a state of mind to connect to themselves on a deeper level as well as their romantic partner. Additionally, Mindful Happiness by Neurolinguistic Psychotherapist Martin Weaver will also be released. The album was created to help listeners take responsibility for their own happiness and state of mind.

Martin Weaver who specialized in post-traumatic stress disorder and helped victims from the 7 July 2005 London bombings explained the origins of Mindful Happiness: “When the 7 July bombings assistance centre came to end, I created a 20 minute audio track to help people prepare for events in the future and build their own resilience. From that track, this album was born. Given that happiness is a subjective experience for everyone, what I’ve tried to do is go back to the basics of my training and take out some simple different ways of thinking to help people add into their own sense of happiness.”

Musician and performer Lotte Mullan, who has composed and performed all of the music for the Calm Collective, said: “I had some therapy sessions with Martin Weaver who would bring me to a relaxed tranced state to let go of my anxiety and I thought it would be amazing if that could be broken down into smaller chunks for an album available to everyone, even those that perhaps can’t afford therapy.” Explaining about working with Martin on ‘Mindful Happiness’ she continued: “I have collaborated with a lot of other writers but never a psychotherapist. It was an interesting experience and I could see if each track would work on me and then decide what music would accompany this man’s 30 years psychotherapy training condensed into an album.”

Victoria Grove was first introduced to mindfulness at drama school to help quell the nerves and anxiety around auditions and going onstage. Talking about Mindful Calm Victoria commented: “We felt there were so many mindful apps out there that you can spend an awful lot of money on simply learning how to focus on your breathing. We wanted to make this more available to the masses, something you can sample and listen to for free. Mindfulness should no longer be a luxury item. It has become vital for living a manageable life. If you have 3 minutes in your day to listen to one of our tracks on ‘Mindful Calm’ it refreshes the mind. It’s like pressing a reset button.

Managing Director of the Decca Classical Label Group, Dr. Alexander Buhr said “The pursuit of mindfulness and inner calm in response to the challenges of daily life have become a major theme in many peoples’ lives. Calm Collective wants to offer practical support for this. By combining musical experience with coaching and therapeutic expertise and making the results available as widely as possible through streaming services, Calm Collective aims to provide mindfulness support for everyone.”

Mindful Calm and Mindful Love, an album that focuses on the ability to love yourself first before sharing yourself with your partner, exploring the issue around intimacy to handling row recovery, both featuring Victoria Grove, and ‘Mindful Happiness’ featuring Martin Weaver are all released on 21 June 2019.