Music Reviews
The following are excerpts taken from our Music Reviews.
Spiritual Healing – Deuter
Spiritual Healing – Deuter www.newearthrecords.com . A few issues back I gave a mention to a recent release by New Age stalwart Kitaro, whose music I gather has been much favoured over the years by the many friends of the late Indian guru, Osho (Rajneesh). Seemingly hot on its heels I now have on the CD player the latest release from Deuter, another highly respected new age artist who I encountered at a similar time in my life – ah, those halcyon ‘Orange‘ days (which had nothing to do with too much beta-carotene!). I just…
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Harmony – Sayama and Zen World – Thierry David (both Real Music)
Harmony – Sayama www.sayama.de and Zen World – Thierry David www.thierrydavid.com (both Real Music) It is often a bit of a mixed blessing when the New Age adopts a new sound (thank god that over-obsession with making farty noises down hollow antipodean tree-trunks has abated somewhat), and sadly here Sayama resorts to a sprinkling of oriental ‘pastichés’ (my made-up word for…
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Zarathustra – Sina Vodjani (Membran Music)
Zarathustra – Sina Vodjani (Membran Music) www.membran.net When I suggested to Christiane at Membran.net that I would be more than happy to receive new offerings from Germany to review, I wasn’t expecting what was soon to arrive on my doorstep. Zarathustra is an extraordinary package whichever way you look at it. Is it a book? Is it a CD? Is it a DVD? No, it’s an extraordinary multimedia experience! With the book’s text in both German and English, Sina Vodjani leads us on…
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Contemporary and Traditional Chinese Music – The Silk String Quartet (ARC Music)
Contemporary and Traditional Chinese Music – The Silk String Quartet (ARC Music) www.ukchinesemusic.com Members of this quartet are regular tutors at the Asian Music Circuit Summer School I attended last year, and having heard them play I just had to buy this marvellous CD! Here is traditional Chinese music played with a contemporary twist and stunning virtuosity. The pipa (4-stringed lute), guzheng (21-stringed zither), erhu (2-stringed fi ddle) and yang-qin (hammered dulcimer)…
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Early Morning Meditation
Having just returned to Findhorn after a six-week concert tour with his band The Waterboys, Mike Scott shares with us an amusing tale of mental relaxation...The Waterboys tour took me to Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Spain and the US. I’ve sung my songs to city slickers and rustic drunkards, whooping Americans, screaming Canucks and mad Mediterranean wildmen in the crazy hot night of Valencia. Along the way I pored over Woody Guthrie’s hand-written songbooks in New York with his daughter Nora, hung out in Seattle with my friend the spiritual…
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The Alchemist
An icon of popular culture and still working at the musical frontiers, Peter Gabriel continues to have the Midas touch wherever he lays his hands. Founder of the WOMAD music festivals,enthusiastic supporter of humanitarian projects and with a growing family to bring up, he is the most earthly of men. Kate Osborne uncovers a vibrant, creative and compassionate soul. Why is Kindred Spirit devoting a feature to a hugely…
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