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Nada Himalaya

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I can't give this CD strong enough praise. This is the best music for meditation or creating a peaceful background that I've found in many years. Anyone who has heard a Tibetan Bowl Gong knows the powerful effect of its sustained ringing tones. But this CD takes that effect and magnifies it by continuing the sustain even longer than is natural, and layering many bell tones over each other. Recordings of bowl gongs usually don't come close to the affect of hearing the real thing, but this CD is almost better than the real thing. It actually creates a unique experience all its own. I find myself putting this CD on repeat as I work around the house on a sunny day. I can forget its on and leave it play for hours. This is monumental ambient music. Truly a classic.

I have been a fan of Deuter ever since I heard his album Ecstacy in the early 1980's. The seeming simplicity of the sound is deceiving. Being calm and still while listening, one can become transported into other realms. Unlike other recordings featuring Tibetan Singing Bowls, this one creates a field of beautiful sound rather than trying to make compositions. There is really nothing to follow, no place to go, one can simply be and breathe. Hearing this recording is like taking a sonic bath that revitalizes and refreshes one's nervous system.

I have listened to many so called "relaxation" CDs, but this one is far superior to any I have heard, including other Deuter recordings. This one feels spiritually inspired. There is something about the ancient instruments used which have an effect on the very core of one's being. As far as I'm concerned this is his most successful recording yet.

If you want to take a journey to the very depth of your inner being.....not merely to relax to pretty music, then this is the recording you need. It goes beyond relaxing from the stresses of life, it goes to the very foundation of one's being. As a professional musician, myself, I find it difficult to find music which I can listen to and not analyze in some way...listening to rhythm, melody, texture, harmony, and such.

I was amazed at the level of spirituality I was able to feel with this CD....there is something about the harmonic vibrations and colors (timbres) of this music which resonates in an overall fundamental truth of life. I can't recommend this CD more highly. I wish Deuter would do more like this. The fact that he uses REAL instruments and sounds, as opposed to synthesized ones, make this music feel honest and true and alive, where many relaxation CD's sound contrived, to me. Definitely one you'll want to keep!

I have searched for so long for a cd that would be pure tibetian bells - this is it! The moment it starts it creates a type of serenity that is just impossible to describe. The cd is ALL bells - and Deuter has masterfully recorded, with great sensitivity, these gifts of Spirit. After a long, stressful day - nothing is more relaxing than to sit down and become lost in the sounds of Nada Himalaya. My cat loves it - it doesn't matter where she is in the house, she comes to share the magic of the bells.

The promotional material for this CD (elsewhere!) described the 'pure' sounds of Himalayan bells. With this promise I was keen to receive the CD. However, I was very disappointed to find a truly excessive use of electronics obscuring the real sound of these wonderful instruments. Anybody who has heard one of these instruments will be unable to reconcile the acoustic experience with this distortion. Whilst each must follow his own muse, yet I found the electronics creating inharmony upon the deeper inner levels and so feel strongly that I should say so. These sounds are highly complex - with between 300-400 overtones and not inclined to too much 'studio' modification - however fashionable that may be. Similar renditions of singing bowl music have been more sensitively handled by KARMA MOFFETT (USA) on his GOLDEN BOWLS CD and also by DANNY BECHER (Holland) on his FLOATING SPIRITS cassette. I am truly sorry that I cannot add this CD to that list. In 1973 I was given a sacred and extremely powerful 12th century Tibetan meditation cymbal by a yogi from Tibet and my collection has grown - so I do have some experience of these magical instruments. Tremendous care is needed in their use.

This artist is among the best of this century, I have been following his music when he was a diciple of the Bagwan Shree Rajneesh. This is a man that "walks his talk" so to say in the living his life and music. This current CD is great for going into meditation. Among the best of this type of music...The tibetian bells are great

This was my first experience with the music of Tibetan singing bowls, so I had little idea of what to expect. But the music clips were ethereal, so I bought it. I am so glad I did! It is sublime beyond description, and resonates deep within the heart, mind and body to produce an incredible peacefulness. Even now that I've listened to some other recordings of singing bowls, my first reaction still holds. Far from detecting too much "electronics" in it, if they are there they are so subtle as tobe virtually indetectable. I wouldn't change a thing, and am in awe of Deuter's elegant mastery of the medium.

This is my all time favorite CD to use in meditation. The sounds are soothing and ideal for calming the mind. At the end there is rushing water with tibetan bowls/bells and chimes---It's totally refreshing.

The effect of sound on the mind and body has been confirmed not only by human experience across the centuries, but in modern times has also been scientifically documented as well.

"Nada Himalaya" contains the AMAZINGLY CALMING sounds of beautifully harmonized, genuine (not electronically-generated) Tibetan bells and chimes on track 1 (30 minutes) and track 2 (15 minutes) - with the tranquil background of a mountain stream added on the third and final track (3 minutes).

After listening to the sound samples below, I decided to give it a try - and must say it's the most relaxing CD conducive to deep meditation I've ever heard, so much so that I've ordered Deuter's sequel CD called "Tibet: Nada Himalaya Vol. 2" hoping it'll be as good as this one is!

I have listened to many so called "relaxation" CDs, but this one is far superior to any I have heard, including other Deuter recordings. This one feels spiritually inspired. There is something about the ancient instruments used which have an effect on the very core of one's being. As far as I'm concerned this is his most successful recording yet.

If you want to take a journey to the very depth of your inner being.....not merely to relax to pretty music, then this is the recording you need. It goes beyond relaxing from the stresses of life, it goes to the very foundation of one's being. As a professional musician, myself, I find it difficult to find music which I can listen to and not analyze in some way...listening to rhythm, melody, texture, harmony, and such.

I was amazed at the level of spirituality I was able to feel with this CD....there is something about the harmonic vibrations and colors (timbres) of this music which resonates in an overall fundamental truth of life. I can't recommend this CD more highly. I wish Deuter would do more like this. The fact that he uses REAL instruments and sounds, as opposed to synthesized ones, make this music feel honest and true and alive, where many relaxation CD's sound contrived, to me. Definitely one you'll want to keep!