----------------------------Original message---------------------------- It's not a ballad and while it's not quite like most of the things mentioned, I was really impressed last year to come across a CD called In the Wake of the Wind by David Arkenstone. What was most interesting about the CD was that the box and the jewel case have a made up set of continents and islands which are related to the music. The music seems to have a fractal quality so I've been trying to find out whether the music (which is electronically created rather than acoustically created) is actually fractal. If you like New Age music and/or electronic music, you might want to take a look at this one. virginia