Meditation in motion, groove with inner calm.
Life Cycles creates a relaxing yet stimulating listening experience. Musical instruments, styles and cultures from around the world are smoothly blended into a rich but lighthearted panorama of contemporary rhythms and ancient tonalities.
An extended intro of a form I call "American Alap" is followed by a dream of soaring over a steam-powered carousel
A native bansuri melody introduces the story of a young boy's quest for spiritual awakening
Navaho word for harmonizing with one's surroundings, "going with the flow."
A youth choir introduces the evolving, multifacted theme.
The Tibetan Rag Dun horn and Chinese Zheng open this tribal celibration welcoming the young women of the village into adulthood.
The Wisdom of generations forms the essence of a two-headed old man,
who shuffles along while one head smiles and laughs and the other warns and scowls.
Wind Dancer, driving but ethereal, this is movement with purpose, process with rhythm.
A Chinese Temple Flute and Angklung duet precedes a dynamic, percussive rendering of the main themes.
Sucessfully finding the knowledge hidden in his dreams, the young boy, now a man, returns home.
From the Tlingit. A group of Eastern instruments leads to a rhythmic contrapuntal dance of joy and love.
"Everything is one," a phrase from the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
Hulusi and Angklung play off each other to open heaven's gate. Guzhen and piano expand on the theme of redemption.
Based on Raga Todi, this is a triumphant tabla and djembe jugalbandi, or duet, giving closure to the cycles.
One of our customers had this to say:
For (my wife's) birthday I gave her your new CD. When we started down the coast, we put your CD in. I had not listened to it yet. As it started off, we both said it was very nice...as the first song progressed, i thought to myself, it would be nice if he would have added percussion...then WOW. beautifull percussion, beautifull song. By the second song,one of my favorites untill i hear the 3rd song and 4th song and so on, the coast was special with patches of fog then sun, and your beautiful songs playing in our car. All i could think was too bad for anyone traveling this coast road today not listening to this CD. My wife is the sign of the Dragon so it was really nice to Hang with the Dragons!
We listened to the CD the whole trip down to San Diego ... Now we are at home, Her (your) CD is set to start at the beginning when she turns on her car. However, now i need one for my car and one for some friends we visited in Carlsbad
Alain C.
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