Fool... Bazantar/Sitar

Fool... Bazantar/Sitar Artist: Mark Deutsch
Label: Artist One-Stop
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 689380000123
EAN: 0689380000123
ASIN: B000023MC9


Release Date: 1999-05-10

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Tracks:

  1. Prelude - Iacta Alea Est, Orchid's Womb
  2. First Movement - The Painted Bird
  3. Second Movement - Persival
  4. Third Movement - The Sword of Damocles
  5. Fourth Movement - Kundalini Rising
  6. Fifth Movement - Avodah
  7. Postlude - Chrysanthemums & Orchids
  8. Postlude - Lunatic Fringe

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hybrid Vigor.......2002-03-29

I am fresh from a concert presentation of gryphon-like beast the bazantar. The versatility of this instrument, in Mr. Deutch's most able hands, is quite remarkable. This recording is superb in its ability to place one inside the music. From this recording, from the concert, one gets a sense of vast possibilities and expectations for this instrument.

Fool is a musical exploration of a life as a spiritual path, one version at any rate, a rather saturnine version. I look forward to Mr. Deutsch putting out further recordings so he can expand the mystical vision with some of the irreverence of which he is also capable. Mysticism demands deconstruction to transcend itself. Fool is also a lesson in musicality. Part of the joy of this music is that it feels both unique and connected. We love to place things in categories (we cannot not do this in fact) and while I sit with this I have both the Baudelairean sense of plunging into the abyss of the new yet resonance with and anchoring to many traditions and expressions. As I am writing this I notice the second movement is playing, titled Persival. It includes a golden-ratioed figure-eight-like symbol. Interesting conjunction. Pesrival means "through the middle" or living in the points of conjunction, Whitman's "both in and out of the game. The bazantar is itself a point of intersection.

5 out of 5 stars Transcendant Visionary Music: beyond the beyond.......2000-01-06

This music is unique and certainly difficult to describe with words. But I'll give it a go: With his Bazantar, Mark masterfully creates sound and timbre that entwine the exquisite aural resonance with cryptic mystical conjurings, beckoning the mind to relax and open and explore a transcendant tapestry of emotive texture and visionary trance.

5 out of 5 stars Trance inducing, hallucinogenic!.......1999-10-25

By the 4th movement I found myself far removed from my sense of self in the room. The space around me grew very large and intense. This music is very interesting and penetrating. The fact that this music is of solo performance it astounding to me!

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