Hip-Hop Meditations

Artist: Carlos Mena
Label: Bomb Hip Hop
Category: Music

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Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 611933206621
EAN: 0611933206621
ASIN: B00022XE1S

Release Date: 2004-06-01

Hip-Hop Meditations

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Tracks:

Introducing Carlos Mena (Canto pa Eleggua) - Carlos Mena, , Michael Spiro,
Auction Block - Carlos Mena, Noko
Tutu Laroye - Carlos Mena
God Is You - Allseer, Carlos Mena
Yemaya (Meditation No. 1) - Carlos Mena, Michael Spiro
Walking in the Light - Angeleyes, Carlos Mena, , Don Washington
I.T.S.I.N.Y.O.U. - Carlos Mena,
Obatala (Meditation No. 2) - Gabrilla Ballard, Carlos Mena, Michael Spiro
Nine Haikus - Carlos Mena
Orisha Drink (Voices in My Head) - Carlos Mena
Sheets of Sound (For Coltrane) - Carlos Mena
Buscando Luz - Carlos Mena, Noko, Speech
Eggun (Meditation No. 3) - Carlos Mena
Red, White and Blue - Carlos Mena,
Crossroads - Carlos Mena, , Don Washington
Breathe (Meditation No. 4) - Carlos Mena, Carlos Mena, Michael Spiro

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic.......2006-02-26

I just got this cd not knowing what to expect. I am so pleased I followed my spirit and got it. The music is excellent. The lyrics are powerful and full of meaning. It is spoken word hip hop, jazz, orisha chants,and funky beats to bring it together. But more than that, it is Pure Spirit. Only one request for the next one. Can a sistah get some Shango energy up in there. Cabio sele' Sango.
Ashe

Meferefún Pa Los Egún!.......2005-08-24

Mr Mena is a new trendsetter in Orisha and Hip Hop music - now we have modern, all-American urban diasporic Orisha music at last. I got this CD with no idea of what the music sounded like. With Mr Mena, it's best to have no expectations and to open one's heart. It is Hip Hop, with African and Afro-Caribbean chants and beats thrown in there. There is some bata drums, lots of rap and urban religious poetry which honors the Orisha and ancestors, prayers to the Orisha or 'Santos Africanos' in Spanish, traditional Orikis in Yoruba.

The vibe is pure, inspiring, clean and spiritual, this is probably the most positive rap I've ever heard. Stuff children can listen to that we can instill positive, ancestral values on them through the music.

Amazing Nothing Like it. A Pioneer in New Age Hip Hop Music.......2004-12-17

Way back in the day when the Salsa Singer India was actually a Freestyle singer, she came up with a hypnotic Techno trance song to the Orishas, Yemaya and Ochun. The song was Love and Happiness and was recorded under River Ocean. At the time I loved that jam, and being a newly initiate of the Orisha religion, and being a Puerto Rican born in the United States I finally found an anthem that expressed my Beliefs, and Devotion to these Beautiful Orishas in English. Since then I have searched for music for my Spiritual devotion, that was in unison with my true self, and I came across some Sintesis c.d.s which were pretty good, New Age music with a mixture of Lukumi Orisha chants. But since then there has been a void.

And then came Carlos Mena, and I have to say the man is a genius, a music Guru in the making. A mixture of Trance, Hip Hop, and praises to The Beautiful Forces of Nature that are the Orishas.

The most amazing tracks are for Yemaya and for Obatala. You know when music is good, powerful and moving when you get chills go down your spine.

The cd begins with the traditional Canto Pa Eleggua, the great messenger of the Gods, any music, prayer or invocation dedicated to any Orisha, one must first petition Eleggua the Child Trickster Messenger.

This is a Cd for the next generation of "New Age Hip Hop" music, a void that has been empty, and will grow, thanks to artists like Carlos Mena. What are you waiting for, rush and get this cd, meditate, light candles and a Good Cigaro to your Santos, dance, chill, be one with the cosmos, and Feel the Euphoria.

All of the above and then some.......2004-08-01

Having been a NYC hip hop fan for over 20 years, since the Funky Four plus One More, there is nothing more boring than the cash cow formula music on hip hop radio today. It's a scam for surburbia, they don't know any better, so they just keep throwing money at it. There is no message, no meaning and no real hard core beats. It has become a genre where you can maybe get 1 solid hard core CD a year (and we are going back many years now)at this point. Where are the old school, hard core beats, deep meaning to stimulate the music in the message??

Right here on this CD. One of the best of the year.

Not your average hip hop.......2004-06-22

As a long time hip-hop fan, it's hard not to be judgemental about the cookie cutter music being forced upon us. But just when I decide to retreat to my pre-1992 cocoon, I come across a dope artist that reminds me of why I love hip hop. Hip Hop Meditations gets back to hip hop's roots of drawing upon its surroundings and standing up for something beyond mere loot, which gets reflected here. Beyond the boom bap, Carlos draws heavily upon Afro-Cuban traditions, which considering hip hop's roots in the Caribbean, should be done more often. Speech from Arrested Development is a guest here, and I was intrigued enough to look him up and get reintroduced to a guy I thought had essentially retired from the game. (My bad). Carlos has a couple of new releases coming up soon featuring Zion I and Tre Hardson, formerly of the Pharcyde. I can hardly wait...

Music Album:

Music Album

Music CD

Vuelve con Migo ~ Viento en Popa

Live at Don Mupo's Gold Nugget ~ Jack Sheldon

Switched-On Bacharach ~ Christopher Scott

Electric Mud ~ Muddy Waters

Centerpiece ~ Hank Crawford

Gerry Mulligan/Astor Piazzolla (1974) ~ Gerry Mulligan

Frente a Ti ~ Grupo Innovacion

Me Gusta Ponerle Al Polvo ~ Exterminador

In Orbit ~ Ricardo Ray, Bobby Cruz

Anatomia De Una Ola ~ Antonio Vega