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Glen Velez is one of the few percussionists who could play a symphony on a frame drum. A virtuoso who has performed with everyone from Steve Reich to Paul Winter, there isn't a rhythm he can't negotiate nor a sound he can't coax out of his thin round drums. Years ago, Velez got sidetracked from world music and the avant-garde into the healing-music movement, yet he manages to craft some actual compositions out of music whose purported purpose is to "stimulate the first and second chakras." With percussion from across the world, Indian vocalese, South American ocarina, and good old North American harmonica played by Ho
Glen Velez is one of the few percussionists who could play a symphony on a frame drum. A virtuoso who has performed with everyone from Steve Reich to Paul Winter, there isn't a rhythm he can't negotiate nor a sound he can't coax out of his thin round drums. Years ago, Velez got sidetracked from world music and the avant-garde into the healing-music movement, yet he manages to craft some actual compositions out of music whose purported purpose is to "stimulate the first and second chakras." With percussion from across the world, Indian vocalese, South American ocarina, and good old North American harmonica played by Howard Levy, Velez throws in the ethno-kitchen sink. Bansuri flute player Steve Gorn guests on some of the best tracks, including "Ostia," on which Velez playing a nordic harp, and the sprightly "Citric Motion," in which Sufi-esque chant meets Indian bansuri over dizzying layers of cross-rhythms. Rhythms of Awakening can be exhilarating in its percussive interplay, but can also can sound like rhythm demonstrations. --John Diliberto
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Manufacturer: Gemini Sun Records
Release date: 3 November 2007
EAN: 0600835092326 UPC: 600835092326
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