ReTurning

Jennifer Berezan - ReTurning

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CD Details

Artist: Jennifer Berezan
Brand: Ma's India
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Published)
Running Time: 52 minutes
CD Release Date: 2001-08-02
Music Label: Edge of Wonder Records
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Music Review: Beautiful, Transformative Chant
Rating: 5 Stars

This beautiful CD was recorded partially in Malta, in a man-made underground chamber designed exclusively for its perfect acoustics. The result is a warm, ethereal drone that reverberates throughout the hour-long chant, perfectly complemented by the goddess chants recorded over it.

Each chant comes from a different religion and culture. There is a song to Yemaya, the Yoruba goddess of the sea and rebirth; a Navajo chant to Mother Earth (my personal favorite); A Buddhist mantra to the Bodhisattva of Compassion; and a beautiful line of Alaap singing, a form of Hindi song-prayer. Each voice in this recording is pure and emotionally on-target, and nothing about any of their roles in this piece seems tacked-on or forced.

The combination of all of these elements is soothing and nurturing, just the way a piece centering on "returning to the mother of us all" should be. I recommend it to anyone with a meditation practice, healers, and even just anyone who needs help relaxing at night.

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Description of ReTurning

Jennifer Berezan's Returning was recorded in one of the world's most ancient temples, the Hypogeum at Hal Saflieni in Malta. The Hypogeum is an underground chamber exquisitely carved from stone before the age of metal over 6000 years ago (more than 1000 years before the great pyramids in Egypt and the stone works of Stonehenge). Special guests include Linda Tillery (Grammy nominee for her Cultural Heritage Recording), and Navajo singer Sharon Burch (NAIRD award winner for best Native American recording). The CD packaging itself is a work of art featuring 12 full color panels including many rare photographs of the Hypogeum and other sacred ancient images. This 1999 CD continues to be a best seller year after year and is used in hundreds of yoga classes, massage studios, hospice centers, birthing rooms, and meditative contexts throughout the world.