Vata

Artist: Janetta Petkus
Label: Ellipsis Arts
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 052296322625
EAN: 0052296322625
ASIN: B00000JZ1V

Release Date: 1999-08-24

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Tracks:

Track One
Track Two
Track Three
Track Four
Track Five
Track Six

Customer Reviews:

Music to carry you away.......2005-07-22

One day I was passing time by sampling CDs in the "new age" music section of a Barnes & Noble. (Ya no, where there are listening stations with headphones at which you scan the bar code of a CD.) When I listened to excerpts of Vata, something snagged me. And the something it snagged was so piqued that I bought it (cheaper at Amazon.com). Now I'm hooked.

It's a genteel, classical-like melody gone awry as pent up energy is released. Plucky strings, synthesizers, and splashes of keyboards carry you along a torrent of notes doing a curiously seductive staccato dance. Any likening to circus music is a perception of it's absolute joy (verging on, dare I say, merry).

The next musical section is an arrival. It starts out with a European flavor, the type that people raise their steins and toast life (sort of, in a mild way). The pace is slower, but the joy is the same. And then it morphs into a more sober, electronic-like piece. The tempo slows. Finally the music becomes an environment, describing a growing serenity as if trees relax and puddles resume being mirrors after an afternoon shower. At the very end is an abbreviated refrain of the beginning, an affirmation of enlivening nature.

According to the back of the jewel case, this music is in keeping with "Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old healing tradition of India" and "is designed to harmonize the Vata energies within you, allowing you to naturally experience states of deep relaxation, rejuvenation, and abundant energy". Do I believe this? Well, it's certainly not why I bought the album, but as I mentioned above, I do find this music to have infectious energy. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and it certainly helps to be in a certain frame of mind (in which I always seem to be for this album). If you are in the mood for a soundtrack to life with a dignified festival feel, check out Vata.

Only lightens your wallet!.......2004-03-19

The last guy was right - it sounds like circus music - or something you'd hear from a video game! Save your money!

Circus Music.......2002-04-03

I feel like I'm listening to music from a circus or a puppet show. Not relaxing or therapeutic at all.

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