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A practitioner of Yoga and Tai Chi for many years, Lou Reed brings his unique sensitivity and knowledge of a broad spectrum of music genres to provide a tranquil bed of soothing harmonics that open the heart and settle the mind. The pieces on this hypnotic album will wash away tension and negative energy with sparse instrumentation and subtle waves of electronic sound.

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  • Audio CD: 1 pages
  • Publisher: Gemini Sun Records
  • ISBN-10: 1591795540
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591795544
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Yet Another Side to Lou Reed., May 14, 2007
By Louie Bourland (Garden Grove CA) - See all my reviews
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Thirty-two years after the release of his notorious electronic instrumental album "Metal Machine Music", Lou Reed has returned to the electronic genre once again with "Hudson River Wind Meditations". Unlike the endless streams of feedback and noise that was "Metal Machine Music", "Hudson River Wind Meditations" is a quiet meditative collection of four ambient pieces and is intended as a serious musical work (as opposed to the former album being an obvious joke on Reed's former record label RCA). The intention of this music is made clear in Reed's brief liner notes to the album. This isn't music designed to make a person scream but rather a collection of music that is tailor-made for relaxation.
"Hudson River Wind Meditations" opens with two extended pieces. The opening piece "Move Your Heart" is a 28-minute minimalist piece consisting of slow pulsating synths. There is very little change throughout this piece and the music almost seems as if it were a long loop set on infinite repeat. There is a striking similarity between this piece and Brian Eno's disc-length piece "Neroli".
The second extended piece "Find Your Note" runs for close to 32-minutes and consists of endless droning sine-wave tones. While the ambient nature of the previous piece is still very much present, the overall style is more similar to the electronic music created in the 1960's (ie: the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen or Lamonte Young).
The disc closes with two shorter pieces. The two-minute "Hudson River Wind" is simply an electronic simulation of ocean waves while the closing "Wind Coda" is basically a five-minute summary of what was heard in the previous three pieces - the pulsating notes of "Move Your Heart" combined with the sine-waves of "Find Your Note" and the white noise of "Hudson River Wind".
This is definitely a different type of album from Lou Reed. This isn't the type of music to sing and dance to. This is a quiet, non-intruding piece of background music that suits its purpose perfectly. While this music may seem boring to some, it is quite beautiful and relaxing.
If "Metal Machine music" turned a lot of people off, "Hudson River Wind Meditations" may be likely to reverse that.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother to listen to it, July 2, 2008
By Robert H. Jones (Randallstown, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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I do a lot of intricate works with databases and fixing corrupt data so a work of art like this makes the day fly by. I put it on, crank up the jobs and get completely relaxed while plowing through a jungle of human errors. As Eno's Ambient albums helped me while getting my B.A., this album helps make what should be stressful flow like a stream. But you don't listen to it, you let it in.
I've been practicing Tai Chi since 1986 as well.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars odd , new ,Lou Reed.c.d., December 12, 2007
This is a wierd c.d. its meditative music and really well done.ITs not a regular Lou Reed c.d.and its not for everyone but its a spacey trip well recorded and so its really good for what it is.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Lou meditates
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2.0 out of 5 stars Private meditation is where this music should have been kept. And never released to the unsuspecting public
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1.0 out of 5 stars More pretentious drivel from an increasingly irrelevant "star",
If you subtract the crucial collaborations of David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Robert Quine and Fred Mahr, Reed's post-Velvets career has been mainly in the realm of soothing himself... Read more
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