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- Date Released: May 11, 2004
- Genre: New Age
- Style: Healing, New Age Sacred
- Label: Real Music
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They Say...
While other genre labels like Narada and Windham Hill diversified from their new age roots, Real Music has been consistent over the years in providing nothing but the best music for relaxation, meditation, and spiritual enhancement. Their most notable recordings come from an Eastern Buddhist mindset, with multi-instrumentalist Karunesh leading the pack on the strength of previous discs Zen Breakfast and Nirvana Café. His basic approach to contemplative music involves a blend of exotic textures (bells, chimes, Tibetan bowls, sitar, and Chinese instruments) with easy grooves and rich walls of ambience. The new collection's trance-inducing instrumentation and sensuous rhythms begins with a few minutes of pure ambience and sitar before slowly introducing a gentle percussive line ("For the Joy of It All"); Avinash's graceful Indian violin carries a mournful beauty that is also part of the similarly hypnotic, easy-grooving "Monsoon's Dance." Bikram's Basuri flute floats through beautifully in key locations, such as the introduction of "Mount Kailash." While the uninitiated might feel that there's a certain repetitive nature to the tracks (which usually begin with sparse instrumentation before the electricity is turned on), the intention is more to invoke a sense of inner peace than to be truly innovative. The title of the richly textured "Zensual" sums up the mystical intent of the thought-provoking exercise.
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For the Joy of It All |
6:29 |
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| 02. | |
Hearing You Now |
6:51 |
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| 03. | |
Monsoon's Dance |
6:57 |
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| 04. | |
Mount Kailash |
5:58 |
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| 05. | |
Sunrise at the Ganges |
5:58 |
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| 06. | |
Zensual |
7:24 |
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| 07. | |
And the Grass Grows by Itself |
5:43 |
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| 08. | |
Ancient Voices |
5:20 |
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08 Total Tracks, 50:40 Total Length
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Credits
- Karunesh - Arranger // Karunesh - Producer // Chinmaya Dunster - Sarod // Govi - Guitar // Govi - Sitar // Bikram Ghosh - Bansuri // Bikram Ghosh - Bansuri // Robin Algaze - Art Direction // Robin Algaze - Design // Avinash - Melody Arrangement // Avinash - Indian Violin
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