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Cherry, Don
Om Shanti Om
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI
(the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals
compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in its simplicity,
with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound
experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the
Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate
ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civiliziations, offering different suggestions of
sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal
consciousness. A desert Western landscape marries Asian and Latin atmospheres. Indigenous contributions with berimbau
explorations find fossil sounds of rattles and clap-hands invocations. Influences of Indian mantra singing are combined
with eternal African voices or with folkish-Latin guitar rhythms , while flute and drums evoke distant dances. In the
Organic Music everything becomes an act of devotion and love, an ecstatic dwell in the dimension of a sacred
free-rejoice.
Price
€ 17.95
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
15-07-2020
Label
Item-nr
495896
EAN
2090504958967
Availability
Not in stock