Diane Arkenstone, a multi-faceted artist and a pioneer in the New Age music genre, has garnered worldwide acclaim with her extensive repertoire of recordings within the world, meditative, ambient, Celtic, Native American traditions and Americana.
Her healing music is largely inspired by her experiences overcoming heart health complications, including over 30 major surgeries since childhood.
Diane plays multiple instruments including guitar, keyboard, wood flutes, dulcimer, synthesizers, percussion, metal drum, and kalimbas.
[1] Throughout her career, she has also collaborated creatively as part of the duo, Enaid & Einalem, and with like-minded musician, and ex-husband, David Arkenstone,[2] as well as producer Derek Nakamoto, and GRAMMY nominated Trumpet and Flugelhorn player, Jeff Oster.
Diane strongly believes in the power of the voice as an instrument for wellbeing, including chanting, humming, and other vocal tones.
[2] She plays multiple instruments including guitar, keyboard,[6] wood flutes,[7] dulcimer, synthesizers, percussion, metal drum, and kalimbas.
She has sold over two million units worldwide via Neo Pacifica Recordings, the independent label she launched in the late 1990s.
[2] Her albums have been sold in the majority of National Parks under her Native American band name, Ah Nee Mah.
Her music has been featured during the Sydney Olympics, and on networks including Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Hallmark, NBC, CBS, and Indie and PBS films, My Child, Mother’s of War, Joan of Arc, and Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon.
[14] Jukebox Time affirmed Diane's "authentic artistic caliber," and her "enigmatic yet scintillating contemporary vibe" on the album, Light Of Varying Energies.
[15] American Songwriter notes on her 2020 vocal track "Ions": "A sultry and slinky come hither, Arkenstone purrs and sighs to a slow, jazzy rhythm, writhing in coquettish charm.