Meditative Yoga

Artist: New Earth Artists
Label: New Earth Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 714266250221
EAN: 0714266250221
ASIN: B0009WPLWQ

Release Date: 2005-07-12

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General

| New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation

| New Age | Styles | Music

Relaxation

| New Age | Styles | Music

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| Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Prem Joshua-Friends
Prem Joshua-That Silent Place
Chinmaya Dunster-Jinjhoti
Rasa-Srita Kamala
Chinmaya Dunster-Ha-Tha
Ustad Usman Khan- Raga Kaushik Ranjani
Hans Christian- Astral
Al Gromer Khan-Raga
Chinmaya Dunster-Mount Kailash
Chinmaya Dunster-Konark

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Customer Reviews:

Indian Music with Yoga in Mind.......2005-10-26

This is a collection, Eastern Indian in flavor, intended for use as background music while you are practicing yoga. It features some of the better know New Earth label artists.

As yoga is an Eastern Indian practice, the feeling to the music overall is very appropriate. The feel of the CD is slow and deliberate, allowing the mind to become free from distraction and concentrate on the yoga positions. It succeeds in achieving this feeling.

The artists presented are Prem Joshua, Al Gromer Khan, Chinmaya Dunster, Hans Christian, Rasa, and Ustad Usman Kahn. Listeners to New Earth Recordings will be familiar with these artists.

The track Jinjhoti by Chinmaya Dunster with Niladri Kumar is a winner. This is almost a jazzy piece, but with very definite Indian flavor. It is highlighted by expert sitar work with the beat of what sounds like a snare drum and cymbal. An enjoyable piece, very light and airy.

Rasa is included in this collection as well. Their track Srita Kamala returns to the slow, deliberate pace set in the earlier tracks, with expert sitar playing. A beautiful, gentle piece and another lovely addition to this collection.

Ustad Usman Khan is a classical sitar player, with raga being his specialty. The piece presented here, Raga Kanshik Ranjana is a traditional raga, interpreted by Mr. Khan in the independent style he is well known for. The piece offers a change of pace, but never gets beyond a level appropriate for yoga practice.

Sitarist Al Gromer Khan offers us something different in the way of Blue Raga. More blues than raga, it has a very Western blues feeling but there are hints of an Eastern influence with the sitar and some of the rifts. Again, the feeling is slow, purposeful and conducive to the yoga practice, but definitely has more of a Western feel than any of the previous tracks.

The last track is by Chinmaya Dunster. Konark is airy and melodic, much more the Celtic Raga Band feel to it, and a nice piece to end this disk with.

This is a good overview of modern Indian music, with a good mix of traditional and progressive material with some Western influences. It is a nice blend of styles and if you are not familiar with modern Indian music, this is a good place to start. Also, it achieves its purpose as being a nice background accompaniment to your yoga practice. This is a very nice compilation of modern sitar masters and styles that will appeal to the world music listener as well as the yoga practitioner. mafoster

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