Out of Stillness

Gopal Shankar Misra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Real World
• ASIN: B00004UFTW
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 star plus, March 12, 2001

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David R. Nelson (Buffalo, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Out of Stillness (Audio CD)

Lock the door, unplug the phone, and put this cd on. In this recording, the low growly tones and the high singing ones make for beautifully transcendental music. This particular version of the veena uses a glass slide instead of the familiar steel bar to produce sliding fluid melody line. However, this is unmistakably Indian classical. The supporting tambura drone and tabla are there without intruding on the veena itself which almost talks to the listener. Sound quality is excellent. Put a plus after the fifth star!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning and beautiful., April 23, 2005

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dougc777 "dougc777" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Out of Stillness (Audio CD)

From the opening note this music connected to a sweet, deep place within and kept me focused, centered, and still. There is a timeless quality to this music and the performance. I listen to this recording frequently, and each time the experience is fresh and sublime. Quite extraordinary.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous!, September 20, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Out of Stillness (Audio CD)

Stately, hypnotic Hindustani classical music, played on the sitar-like vichitra veena, a stringed instruments which is relatively new to Western ears. The vichitra veena actually predates the sitar (it has no frets) but shares much of the same languid, droning resonance. Dr. Misra is one of its greatest proponents, performing his own arrangements of traditional themes from his native Benares, in Northern India. It's lovely stuff -- simultaneously static and captivating in that unfrenetic manner that can only be achieved by music that isn't obsessed with getting somewhere else, but is content to set a mood and explore it in its own good time.