Very Special Recording
How much can be written about a 62 minute CD in which a single note is played on one instrument? Plenty. The ancient, sacred simplicity of the Tibetan Singing Bowl is the strenght of this edition of the Music for Deep Meditation Series. Used for centuries and handmade from 5 different metals, singing bowls seem to resonate forever with hypnotic tones from a single gong strike creating the perfect centering, calming call to meditation.
Track one, "Gong Meditation," features a single antique singing bowl struck with the soft mallet at regular intervals for just over 30 minutes. Even an inexperienced meditator will feel instantly calm and introspective. The second track, "Singing Bowl Meditation," mixes the same gong intervals with the one of a kind "singing" sound of the bowl droning throughout the track. These warm multiple harmonic overtones are created by the friction of a wood or leather wrapped mallet smoothly rubbed around the lip of the bowl.
The sounds recorded in Tibetan Singing Bowl are as perfect in modern meditation, yoga, music therapy, sound healing, and ceremonial purposes as they were in ancient times.
Just make sure your store has some comfy places for your customers to sit and meditate when you play it.
Randy Roberts
New Age Retailer Magazine
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Relaxing, But...
After listening to the CD during a meditation session, it definitely helps to slow things down. The music is soothing, but I found myself getting a little annoyed from the repetition. Same sound over and over and over and over... get the picture.
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