Music as Medicine
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Performer: Nawang KhechogEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Sounds True
Soundtracks:
- Healing Through Kindness
- Harmony in Balance
- Bodhisattva's Magnificent Heart
- Meditation
- Music as Medicine
- Call of Compassion to Humanity
- Zen Blues
- Turqouise Lamp
- Dream
- Universal Compassion
- Freedom
Music reviews of Music as Medicine
Music Review: Nice Numbers With Some Vocals
Rating: 3 Stars
This is a generally a mixed bag. The first 2 numbers are characteristically Tibetan flute music - one almost indistinguishable from the other. However, they are probably my favourite numbers in the whole album. So peaceful and soothing.
I didn't expect to find any vocals in this album, but there are some in "Bodhisattva's Magnificent Heart". A male and female voice singing. I find the vocals a little too "loud" at times.
"Meditation" is again a very characteristically Tibetan number. "Music as Medicine" is another number with some chanting and singing in the background.
"A Call of Compassion to Human" is a unique and easily identifiable piece. No vocals and very soothing. Zen Blues is nice and soothing, Turqouise Lamp has some vocals, albeit in the background. "Universal Compassion" also has vocals. Quite disruptive to the meditative mood.
The 2 artists work well together, but in numbers like "Freedom", their notes resonate so well that they sound shrill and a little disturbing to the ears if you have earphones on.
Personally, the vocals don't quite work for me, but generally, it's still a pretty good collection.
Description of Music as Medicine
Like a master calligrapher, Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog deploys his flute with an economy of line and texture. Music as Medicine is the latest offering from Khechog, who has recorded with synthesist Kitaro and Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai and last year cocomposed the score to the acclaimed documentary Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion. On this album, he sets his flute up in gentle duets with Nakai and violinist Sandra Wong. Nawang and Nakai have been working together for years and their rapport is a study in nuance as they intertwine lines and play with space on "Harmony in Balance" and "Zen Blues." Music as Medicine is destined for your neighborhood yoga and massage studios, but listen a little deeper. Even though Khechog succumbs to pedestrian synthesizer pads on a few tracks like "Meditation," there's more here than soothing sounds and gentle ministrations. In a more innocent manner, Khechog is sculpting a profound psychological landscape similar to those of Stephan Micus and Meredith Monk. Like those artists, he has a sound that cuts directly to the source. --John DilibertoGeneral CDs
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