Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening

Jai Uttal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sounds True
• ASIN: B000E97ZB4
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,454 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > Dance & DJ > Ambient

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Jai Uttal was on the bleeding edge of the chant curve. He started singing kirtan in the 1980s and has been incorporating it into his music to such a degree that it's now his primary musical vehicle. And in a way, that's a shame. Uttal is possessed of a warm, slightly weathered, and impassioned voice that he wraps around serpentine melodies. But because of that, we don't get to hear much of his instrumental side. That's partly remedied on this CD, which is something of a follow-up to Music for Yoga and Other Joys. Taking what was originally a backing track for an instructional meditation CD, Uttal has, with one tragic exception, stripped away the speaking voice, and reconfigured the music into a meditation in sound. There's plenty of Uttal's chanting, but it's all wrapped in the swirling electronic ambiences and slow-trance grooves of Ben Leinbach, the bansuri flute of Manose, and Daniel Paul's tablas. Instead of chanting, Uttal weaves seductive Robert Fripp-like e-bow guitar lines and dotar improvisations. Tracks like "Bija Mantras" and "Radiance" are as epic as a meditative song can get, although the effect is ruined at the end of "Radiance" by a spoken-word segment that's strictly for the converted. Except for that, Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening is a definitive deep-space meditation CD. --John Diliberto

Product Description

Enter Loveland...a place where time dissolves, and the heart within your heart is awakened, where world music visionary Jai Uttal merges the pulsing beat of the universe with the flowing source of energy through sacred melodies to the Divine. Here, the Grammy® Award-nominated multi- instrumentalist and vocalist joins Ben Leinbach to create six extended tracks of evocative compositions that celebrate the breath of life, revel in the power of infinite love, and invite you to deeply experience the numinous.

Also available by Jai Uttal: Yoga for Music and Other Joys and Kirtan! The Art and Practice of Ecstatic Chant

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Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Beyond, December 16, 2006

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Brad VanAuken (Honeoye Falls, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening (Audio CD)

This CD carries me to another place, a place of beauty and radiance and gratitude and gentle bliss. Meditating to this music is ethereal. I am absorbed into the music and my heart is cracked open and poured out. After that, there is only floating and radiance. My favorite track is Twameva, but all of the tracks are exemplary. I highly recommend this music for awakening and becoming one with loving kindness.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loveland by Jai Uttal, March 17, 2008

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Douglas S. Bonar (St. Petersburg, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loveland: Music for Dreaming and Awakening (Audio CD)

Loveland, subtitled Music for Dreaming and Awakening, is another fine accomplishment by artist Jai Uttal. My wife and I play this music and other Kirtan music (such as David Newman, and Wah) every evening while we go through our daily household rituals. The music transforms our home, and indeed transforms our lives. It is rich and subtly energizing. I highly recommend this artist, this music genre, and Awakening to all receptive and conscious minds!!! Be the change you wish to see in the world!!!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loveland - a beautiful and worthy album, December 12, 2007

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Jill M. Goodridge "jtronique" (Salem, Mass) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loveland (MP3 Download)

I can not recommend this disc enough , for those looking for truly heartfelt music that can calm and soothe the soul, and yet energize at the same time. The recording quality is excellent and the artmanship is beautiful. Twameva is my favorite, just like the other reviewer. (hi there!) It would be a beautiful non-traditional wedding song in my humble opinion. Imagine walking down the aisle to this one! Also, if you like listening to music while going to sleep, try a few tracks from here. And please post your review so this disc can get more listens! :) Namaste...