Layne Redmond - Invoking the Muse
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Artist: Layne RedmondEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2004-07-20
Music Label: Sounds True
Soundtracks:
- Radiant Pleasure
- Moon's Lament
- Hymn to the Muse
- Sweet Desire
- Whirler
- Uma
- Proclaimer
- Seven Heaven
- Golden Hive
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Music Review: Music for the Soul
Rating: 4 Stars
Layne is one of the top tambourine players in the world. This is not the usual girl in front of the band tamourine, but the frame drum with jingles. She takes it to a whole new level. These pieces are mostly percussion but with wonderful orchestration, all with a MIddle Eastern feel. The pieces are long, but definitely worth the time.
Description of Invoking the Muse
In her most inspired recording to date, Layne Redmond offers listeners Invoking the Muse-a landscape of haunting melodies and mesmerizing layers of rhythm and harmony dedicated to the power of the Muse. While researching the ancient music of Greece, Layne Redmond-Drum! magazine's 2002 Percussionist of the Year-discovered the searingly beautiful "Hymn to the Muse" written in 157 AD, and was inspired to create a musical tribute to each of the Nine Muses. Some of the most renowned names in world music, jazz, and Medieval chant join Layne Redmond on this stunning collection, including Laurel Mass?, co-founder of the Grammy? award-winning Manhattan Transfer; Ruth Cunningham, who performed as a member of Anonymous 4 for ten years; Steve Gorn, whose flute opens Paul Simon's recent album; and master percussionist, arranger, and producer Tommy Brunjes. The Muses taught the use of intuition and prophecy as a way to self-knowledge-a knowledge that is gained through self-induced trance, meditation, singing, and dreaming. Now, on Invoking the Muse, listeners will hear the echoes of the Muses themselves in these powerful sacred hymns that are sure to open the heart and invite transformation.Repetitive trance rhythms generate ecstatic mind-states when experienced in the proper setting, but they can just be monotonous on a CD. Layne Redmond occasionally succumbs to groove tedium, but not often. She was a member of percussionist Glen Velez's ensemble in the 1980s and early '90s. While Velez was a rhythmic theoretician, Redmond has always had a penchant for the mystical and mythological side of drumming, especially as it relates to the feminine, and her music has gravitated towards sound healing, chant, and trance.
On Invoking the Muse, she's set up hymns to the nine muses. The effect can be stunning on tracks like "Moon's Lament" with soprano Ruth Cunningham and bansuri flute player Steve Gorn dipping serpentine melodies out of a bed of womens' choral voices, all propelled by the unerring frame drum rhythms of Redmond and Tommy Brunjes. Besides her original compositions, Redmond reprises Glen Velez's serene, mbira-based "Seven Heaven," which she and Gorn originally recorded with Velez in 1987. When the soprano voices sound like a parody of angelic sighs, Invoking the Muse can get wifty, but Layne Redmond generally locates a serene balance between the ethereal and the groove. --John Diliberto
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