Lifescapes

Lifescapes Music was started by Compass Productions in 1996. Their slogan is "Relax, Renew, Escape" and for many years they sold new age, Celtic, light classical and smooth jazz releases and other things considered relaxing online and through store kiosks across the United States and Canada, first at Best Buy stores and more recently exclusively at Target stores. The label was purchased as part of Mood Entertainment by Allegro Corporation in 2013. The kiosks at Target disappeared and the website was shutdown. Some Lifescapes releases were reissued on the Reflections label while others were available under the Lifescapes imprint at the Reflections kiosk in Wal Mart stores as of spring 2016. In October, 2016 Allegro Media Group shut it's doors and went into liquidation and Lifescapes was one of several labels that ended as a result. Many of the early Lifescapes releases were all but anonymous, with the artists either profiled inside the booklet or barely mentioned at all. Their website generally credited the producers of the albums as the main artist. In later years their reissues credited their artists more normally. In addition, they signed very well known artists, including Grammy Award winners and nominees, and releasing their albums as part of the Lifescapes Artists Of Note series.