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Below is our admittedly “subjective” ranking of the Top 25 Contemporary Instrumental Music albums released during 2017. If you enjoy the music we play on GAIA Prime Radio, you should especially enjoy each of these albums.

Rank	Artist	Album Title
1	Jennifer DeFrayne	Sisu
2	Kerani	Stardust
3	Max Highstein	Flying, Not Falling
4	Flow	Flow
5	Jim Gabriel	Into Eternity
6	Tony Lauria	Whispers of Spring
7	Timothy Wenzel	What We Hold Dear
8	Nancy Shoop-Wu	Rainbow Road
9	Shambhu	Soothe
10	Michele McLaughlin	Life
11	Jim Stubblefield	Guitar Mystique
12	Gina Lenee	Red Diamonds
13	Joseph Akins	Into The Flow
14	Kathryn Kaye	Reflected In A Flowing Stream
15	Nick Farr	Between Then And Now
16	Gerhard Daum	Rural Renewal
17	John Adorney	Toward A Gentle Place
18	Terra Guitarra	Of Sea And Stars
19	Fiona Joy	Into The Mist
20	Almartino	Tra Cielo e Mare
21	Tim Crane	The Fall Of A Sparrow
22	Rachel LaFond	Wandering Soul
23	Bernward Koch	Filled With Light
24	Nigel Cameron & Julie Cameron-Hall	Celtish
25	Claudia Mackula	Solitude

There were many other great albums in 2017. Here are nine more albums (not in any particular order) that in any other year might have easily made the top 25 list, and so deserve mention: Medicine Wheel: Prayers of The Four Directions, by Painted Raven; The Road Home, by Peter Calandra; Blessings, by Parijat; Medicine Woman 6, by Medwyn Goodall; Lead Me Home, by Camille Nelson; Songs Of Joy, by David Wells; Sipping Beauty, by Tom Grant; Deep, by Adam Werner; and Moorland Winds, by Sarah Copus. We also highly recommend each of these albums.