Celtic Zen

Levi Chen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 11, 1997
• Label: Yin Yang
• ASIN: B000005IGY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,571 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Beauty: Peace, Pt. 1

2. The Beauty: Peace, Pt. 2

3. Reunity

4. The Wind, the Wolf, and the Wild, Pt. 1

5. The Wind, the Wolf, and the Wild, Pt. 2

6. Eros, A Rose: Venus, Pt. 1

7. Eros, A Rose: Venus, Pt. 2

8. Suite: Birds of Fire, Pt. 1

9. Suite: Birds of Fire, Pt. 2

10. Baskali

11. She Moved Through the Aire

12. Animaginal, Pt. I

13. Animaginal, Pt. II

14. Animaginal, Pt. III

15. Knot Zen

16. Melancholy's Passion

17. Difinity

18. Black Rock Concierto

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tranqulity from a master musician, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Celtic Zen (Audio CD)

I first encountered Levi Chen performing as a street musician in Hollywood...I can see that with this release, the easygoing Chen is still a master at filtering the Zen sounds into a melodic,powerful experience. I highly recommend this CD.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical Synergy At Play, November 25, 2003

By 

Gordon Danis (Eastchester, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celtic Zen (Audio CD)

There is a wonderful musical synergy at play between the nominal leader of the session Levi Chen, who plays guitar and gu zheng, a Chinese harp (often simultaneously,) Michael Masley, who is predominantly a hammer dulcimer player and who has adopted some novel techniques for "bowing" the strings, and Lisa Lynne Franco, a/k/a/ Lisa Lynne, who contributes her masterful Celtic harp along with some percussion.

As you may have discerned, the emphasis is on plucked and bowed instruments, not unlike a Renaissance consort, but the music sprawls over a landscape that is neither predominantly Celtic nor
Eastern. As accomplished as each player is, the finished product
is greater than the sum of the parts.

Don't let the title put you off; this is neither one of those "by the numbers" Hearts O' Space ripoffs, nor is it "easy listening" New Age. It all goes down quite nicely, but check out the instrumental repetory on the back cover, and realize all that you have been digging. The CD is audiophile quality and benefits from the use of headphones. Highly recommended!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect Blend, November 7, 2001

By 

Christian R. Bonawandt (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Celtic Zen (Audio CD)

of Celtic heart and Zen mantra. If you are a fan of Celtic music and want something simple and meditative to listen to while you work, study, sleep or even meditate, this is ideal. It's not a mellow as other meditation music, but I only say that as a Zen philosopher, not a Celtophile.