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Ragas Relax
Chinmaya Dunster
Ragas Relax
Genres: Dance & Electronic, New Age, Pop
 
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In his latest musical offering, Chinmaya Dunster - with the use of sarod, flute, piano and ambient sounds - explores five traditional Indian Ragas. With the simplicity of the compositions he has successfully created an int...  more »

     
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All Artists: Chinmaya Dunster
Title: Ragas Relax
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Malimba Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 3/16/2010
Genres: Dance & Electronic, New Age, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Meditation, Relaxation
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 661230351227

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In his latest musical offering, Chinmaya Dunster - with the use of sarod, flute, piano and ambient sounds - explores five traditional Indian Ragas. With the simplicity of the compositions he has successfully created an intimate, open and fluid sound-scape for the listener to relax, making this CD particularly suited for restorative yoga, relaxation, meditation, wellness practices and the healing arts.

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Quiet beauty
Bodhi Heeren | Copenhagen | 05/25/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The typical Indian raga starts off with a quiet, meditative, pulseless recitative caled alaap. Then the tablas set in and everything can go to an ecstatic peek of rhythm and improvised frenzy.



Here the renowned Chinmaya Dunster - certainly one of the very few Western musicians who really masters an Indian instrument - has collected a series of alaaps. Which makes for some profound meditation music pointing directly to states of silence and beauty.



Dunster's delicately sounding sarod takes centerstage, aptly helped by Bikkram Singh on flute and Joseph Satralkar on piano. The westly tuned piano is often difficult to integrate in Eastern music but here it works splendidly.



Reminiscent in many ways of some the recordings by the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in the company of Wetsern musicians, though this offering from Chinmaya is more decisively introverted and aimed at meditation, healing, relaxation."