Chinmaya Dunster - Ragas Relax
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Artist: Chinmaya DunsterEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording
Published: 2010-03-16
CD Release Date: 2010-03-16
Music Label: Malimba Records
Soundtracks:
- Goddess Evocation - 6:40
- Relaxing on the Mountain - 7:24
- The Union of Sun and Moon - 7:00
- Listening to the River - 7:07
- Krisna's Peacocks - 7:08
- Tranquil Sunset - 6:38
- Sunrise in Deerpark - 5:51
- Shiva's Meditation - 5:09
- Meeting of Two Oceans - 6:14
Music reviews of Ragas Relax
Music Review: Quiet beauty
Rating: 5 Stars
The typical Indian raga starts off with a quiet, meditative, pulseless recitative caled alaap. Then the tablas set in and everything can go to an ecstatic peek of rhythm and improvised frenzy.
Here the renowned Chinmaya Dunster - certainly one of the very few Western musicians who really masters an Indian instrument - has collected a series of alaaps. Which makes for some profound meditation music pointing directly to states of silence and beauty.
Dunster's delicately sounding sarod takes centerstage, aptly helped by Bikkram Singh on flute and Joseph Satralkar on piano. The westly tuned piano is often difficult to integrate in Eastern music but here it works splendidly.
Reminiscent in many ways of some the recordings by the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in the company of Wetsern musicians, though this offering from Chinmaya is more decisively introverted and aimed at meditation, healing, relaxation.
Description of Ragas Relax
Ragas Relax CD by Chinmaya Dunster offers Indian Classical ragas on the sarod as 'alaap' instrumental melodies for yoga,meditation,spa and healing arts.In his latest musical offering,Ragas Relax,Chinmaya Dunster explores five traditional Ragas in an 'alaap' form â?" pure,directionless wanderings within the ragas structure but without the distractions of rhythm or fixed melody. With the simplicity of the compositions he has successfully created an intimate,open and fluid soundscape for the listener to relax into. Specifically suited for restorative yoga,relaxation,meditation,wellness practices and the healing arts.
'When I pick up my sarod and prepare to play an Indian Classical raga,I feel as if I am about to enter on a pilgrimage,a sacred journey of discovery. It is a great mysteryâ?¦ these ancient ragas are not just rules of how to play the twelve musical notes; they are spiritual places to be visited.'-Chinmaya Dunster
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