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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This CD if Gabrielle Roth's is a favourite of mine, next to "Ritual". Whereas "Ritual" focusses on the Rhythm of "Flowing" out of her dance/movement practice of the 5 Rhythms, this one embodies all of them, so if you're thinking of taking up this practice, pay attention!!
This CD was designed to fulfil basic 5 Rhythms practice. There are no words or vocals, only music. The first track is a "warm-up" track. The next five tracks follow the Rhythms in order:
"Dolphin" for Flowing, "Raven" for Staccato, "Snake" for Chaos, "Deer" for Lyrical and "Wolf" for Stillness.
However, if you are not interested in the 5 Rhythms, this CD still stands alone as excellent music. It has a strong shamanic feel, the instrumentation is very much reliant on the drum, with other instrumentation proving sparse, but well-placed and effective. The track titles also give away just how much this CD leans towards a more overt shamanism with animal energies being used to provide the inspiration for each track. I feel this is successfully captured in the music.
So, if you like good solid evocative drumming that has a basic sound, then this is the CD for you. It is the reason that I bought it after hearing it years ago and it still gets played five years down the line. Roth does her shamanic training justice within the sounds of this CD. More importantly as a UK based person, the music is not tradition specific. There are no sounds that one could say belongs to a specific culture, which is a refreshing plus-point, with the number of Tibetan chant and Native American CDs currently in existence in the alternative music market. It allows the rhythm of the drum to speak for itself and call further instrumentation as it wishes, which is neither overloaded, dated, or harsh.
This CD was designed to fulfil basic 5 Rhythms practice. There are no words or vocals, only music. The first track is a "warm-up" track. The next five tracks follow the Rhythms in order:
"Dolphin" for Flowing, "Raven" for Staccato, "Snake" for Chaos, "Deer" for Lyrical and "Wolf" for Stillness.
However, if you are not interested in the 5 Rhythms, this CD still stands alone as excellent music. It has a strong shamanic feel, the instrumentation is very much reliant on the drum, with other instrumentation proving sparse, but well-placed and effective. The track titles also give away just how much this CD leans towards a more overt shamanism with animal energies being used to provide the inspiration for each track. I feel this is successfully captured in the music.
So, if you like good solid evocative drumming that has a basic sound, then this is the CD for you. It is the reason that I bought it after hearing it years ago and it still gets played five years down the line. Roth does her shamanic training justice within the sounds of this CD. More importantly as a UK based person, the music is not tradition specific. There are no sounds that one could say belongs to a specific culture, which is a refreshing plus-point, with the number of Tibetan chant and Native American CDs currently in existence in the alternative music market. It allows the rhythm of the drum to speak for itself and call further instrumentation as it wishes, which is neither overloaded, dated, or harsh.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Primitive -- like dancing with the spirits of animals
17 Dec 1998
Format:Audio CD
I use this one a lot for warming up, for trance dancing, and for teaching others to dance expressively. There's a fair amount of variation in style between the different tracks, but they all work together as a single collection. This is an essential part of my dance music collection.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Enchanting drums for trascendental dancing
30 Jun 2000
Format:Audio CD
This record exhales an air of ethnicity, without having any clear ethnical influences, that automatically makes you feel as if you were dancing by a bonfire in mystical night. Each of the track focuses in the energies of one animal, so if you are into shamanic travel, this record makes will help you. But it is also just as good as background music when you need to relax or as a warmup for some other kinds of dancing (like belly dance). The melodies are based on drum rythms, along with some subtle synthethiser that never gives the music that much hated "cheap New Age" feeling. A good buy!
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Earth Comprension
28 Jun 1999
Format:Audio CD
If you are listening this cd you can understand the feelings of our mother earth, when I list this cd i can travel beyond the time, and finnaly to arrive to the borning time of her. Nick Cichella, Caracas Venezuela
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