I've been listening to Zazen for about an hour now. It's not my usual sort of thing but it must be rather pleasant as I have no urge to switch it off. It could have veered into shallow, anodyne new age territory but the peaks and troughs seem to keep it lively.
The musicianship is better than your average new age band too. I could probably listen to it all day. In some ways it sounds like a band I used to go and see called Ozric Tentacles, they were (indeed still are) a bunch of drug influenced psycho rockers. But they did an album of magic mushroom inspired music and that might make you enlightened also, but might give you flashbacks.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek Ah, that really takes me back.... ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote: Shamelessly hijacking Richard's thread and Subject line, I post a link for those few here who might have been intrigued by recent discussions of Rama - Fred Lenz. In his study, we meditated to music. Go figure. Some would consider that heresy; I considered it fun, and often revelatory. In the early days, we meditated mainly to other people's electronica -- Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, and that lot. When he'd gathered enough bucks and talent (the three members of Zazen, professional musicians all), he started making his own music. Some of it was experimental, to say the least, but other albums were designed *to* be meditated to. I pass it along without much comment, for those with open minds or for the ankle-biters. I still think that Samurai was pretty smokin', and that Mystery School contains some of the most conscious-bending music I've ever experienced. But that may just been because I was there, in the audiences, listening to this stuff played and recorded live, all amped up with Rama's shakti or charisma or whatever the fuck it was. I'll actually be listening to a few of these myself today, for the first time in years, just as a kind of Castanedan recollection. I wonder what they'll sound like to me, all these years on? Will they still have the phwam! they once had for me, able to shift my state of attention radically within the space of a few bars? I honestly don't know, and am looking forward to finding out... http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music http://www.ramameditationsociety.org/resources/type/music
