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Kamasutra Experience

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Everything that Al Gromer Khan does is great, but this CD really stands out and is very hypnotic and trance producing. The CD is great for meditation or being with that special person. It ebbs and flows thoughout the CD. It has very interesing textures and riffs through out. An excellent CD on many levels

I bought this CD because I really liked Al Gromer Khan's Mahogany Nights CD. I was not disappointed. It is excellent. The selections are meditative, allowing the music to almost flow through the body like a massage. Khan's mastery of the sitar and synthesizer, using each to compliment the other, produces the effects of peace and relaxation on the listener. In the way that some of Mozart's music permeates the listen and inspires 'get up and go', the selections here also permeate but inspires the listener to 'sit back and relax'. They are somewhat hypnotic in that they inspire a certain openness to possibility. They could also be called trance inducing, but in the sense that trance is a state in which thoughts become more liguid, flowing like a stream, never stopping or jarring. Music that compliments mental states and cognitions are fascinating, as you will realize as you listen to these selections, for cognition has a tendency to flow in fits and starts depending on the emotional weight given to certain images, ideas, concepts, memories. However trance inducing music is such that the rough edges are removed and thought flows through or around or over the show-stopping images or memories that disturb meditation. This is such a nice feature of this music. The use of hand drums in several selections add a contrast to the sitar and synthesizer that is warm and welcome, gently moving the music outward, as in stately procession.

Kamasutra Experience is one of my favourite Al Gromer's albums. It is a masterpiece, it's meditative tracks are sublime & ethereal.

Sensual and Spiritual, like all that Al Gromer Khan does. I love all his works, some more than others. This is a fine example. He is the only Western performer of the sitar that has any real feel for the instrument well beyond just mastering the mechanics. Regardless of your musical history or taste, You could not lose when purchasing this CD.