Customer Reviews

Out of Stillness

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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!

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.

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.

Holy (Cow) this is crazy, the moment you listen to the sound of this thing, OMG the sitar is a little whimpering whimp compared to the passion of this thing. When this guy touches some notes om this thing it feels like... something you must feel. However I think to get the full out of this you've gotta be a ICM aficionado, and if you're an aficionado you're probably familiar with many other masterpeices and compared to those this isn't superspecial. (or else you'll think there's only a few "good" parts, unfortunately this think can't compete on the level of britney spears 500 subliminal sexual messages/second)

Out of Stillness
was given to me by
my beloved brother, a man born in Illinois, rural Illinois,
there's
something strange about this CD, it's that it
takes someone familiar with the pouring of concrete to
understand
why this CD, this glorious CD, has touched the hearts and
spleens of so many
working in the suburbs of Durham, North Carolina,
feeling proud with a fat paycheck god god god
how it -- by "it" I mean this CD -- there's gotta be a
reason for living and Out of Stillness supplies it.
gives it to ya.
HERE, it says, HERE IS MEANING IN YOUR DULL WORKADAY LIFE
there's the change of the leaves every autumn, that's nice.
there's this CD, good god what a great sound it gives out.
there's the overweight unshaven manager at the local grocer.
get the darn
OOMF into your life. get the stupid CD.
movies are empty, parents are moronic, what else
is there to do but listen to the VEENA sing sing sing???

This recording is a wonderful hypnotizing voyage! Enjoy