Music CD - Jai Uttal, Ben Leinbach: Loveland/Music for Dreaming and Awakening

	Music CD: Loveland/Music for Dreaming and Awakening Artist: Jai Uttal, Ben Leinbach List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $11.45 Your Save: $ 5.53 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Gemini Sun Records
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Tracks: 1. Twameva 2. Prayer To The Buddha Maitreya 3. Loveland 4. Gopala Lullaby 5. Bija Mantras-Watering The Seeds 6. Radiance-Prayer To The Goddess Sarawait 7. Prayer To The Shakyamuni Buddha
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0600835099721 Label: Gemini Sun Records Manufacturer: Gemini Sun Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Gemini Sun Records Release Date: 2006-03-14 Studio: Gemini Sun Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Loveland by Jai Uttal Comment: Loveland, subtitled Music for Dreaming and Awakening, is another fine accomplishment by artist Jai Uttal. My wife and I play this music and other Kirtan music (such as David Newman, and Wah) every evening while we go through our daily household rituals. The music transforms our home, and indeed transforms our lives. It is rich and subtly energizing. I highly recommend this artist, this music genre, and Awakening to all receptive and conscious minds!!! Be the change you wish to see in the world!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Loveland - a beautiful and worthy album Comment: I can not recommend this disc enough , for those looking for truly heartfelt music that can calm and soothe the soul, and yet energize at the same time. The recording quality is excellent and the artmanship is beautiful. Twameva is my favorite, just like the other reviewer. (hi there!) It would be a beautiful non-traditional wedding song in my humble opinion. Imagine walking down the aisle to this one! Also, if you like listening to music while going to sleep, try a few tracks from here. And please post your review so this disc can get more listens! :) Namaste... Customer Rating: Summary: Beyond the Beyond Comment: This CD carries me to another place, a place of beauty and radiance and gratitude and gentle bliss. Meditating to this music is ethereal. I am absorbed into the music and my heart is cracked open and poured out. After that, there is only floating and radiance. My favorite track is Twameva, but all of the tracks are exemplary. I highly recommend this music for awakening and becoming one with loving kindness. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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