Jai Uttal & Ben Leinbach - Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening
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Artist: Jai Uttal & Ben LeinbachEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Music Label: Sounds True
Soundtracks:
- Twameva
- Prayer To The Buddha Maitreya
- Loveland
- Gopala Lullaby
- Bija Mantras-Watering The Seeds
- Radiance-Prayer To The Goddess Sarawait
- Prayer To The Shakyamuni Buddha
Music reviews of Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening
Music Review: Magical
Rating: 4 Stars
This is another stunning work by Ben Leinbach and Jai Uttal. Every track is unique in its own right. It is a wonderful accompanyment to a yoga or meditation practice, or to just listen to for a little contemplative quiet time.
The tract Loveland is just magical - there is no other word I can use to describe it. It sounds as if something exceptional is happening - it almost gives me goose bumps when I listen to it.
The only thing I do not like on the album is the recitation of prayer at the end of Radiance, which is mentioned as a drawback in the audio review of the product as well. While the voice is soft and beautiful, it almost sounds as if she is giving a lecture on the necessity of peace, rather than saying an ancient prayer for peace. The intonation of the words, in my opinion, is just all wrong. I am sure it is due to her lovely Brazilian accent, but, truly, it kind of detracts from the beauty of the song for me. In yoga classes I have taken, I actually had a teacher turn the volume down during that part because I think he thought it might be distracting.
Other than that one negative comment, it is a CD well worth having.
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Description of Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening
Enter Loveland...a place where time dissolves, and the heart within your heart is awakened, where world music visionary Jai Uttal merges the pulsing beat of the universe with the flowing source of energy through sacred melodies to the Divine. Here, the Grammy® Award-nominated multi- instrumentalist and vocalist joins Ben Leinbach to create six extended tracks of evocative compositions that celebrate the breath of life, revel in the power of infinite love, and invite you to deeply experience the numinous.Also available by Jai Uttal: Yoga for Music and Other Joys and Kirtan! The Art and Practice of Ecstatic Chant
Jai Uttal was on the bleeding edge of the chant curve. He started singing kirtan in the 1980s and has been incorporating it into his music to such a degree that it's now his primary musical vehicle. And in a way, that's a shame. Uttal is possessed of a warm, slightly weathered, and impassioned voice that he wraps around serpentine melodies. But because of that, we don't get to hear much of his instrumental side. That's partly remedied on this CD, which is something of a follow-up to Music for Yoga and Other Joys. Taking what was originally a backing track for an instructional meditation CD, Uttal has, with one tragic exception, stripped away the speaking voice, and reconfigured the music into a meditation in sound. There's plenty of Uttal's chanting, but it's all wrapped in the swirling electronic ambiences and slow-trance grooves of Ben Leinbach, the bansuri flute of Manose, and Daniel Paul's tablas. Instead of chanting, Uttal weaves seductive Robert Fripp-like e-bow guitar lines and dotar improvisations. Tracks like "Bija Mantras" and "Radiance" are as epic as a meditative song can get, although the effect is ruined at the end of "Radiance" by a spoken-word segment that's strictly for the converted. Except for that, Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening is a definitive deep-space meditation CD. --John Diliberto
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