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Number of CDs: 2
Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 14007-2
Barcode: 13711400724
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep Peace of the Flowing Air to You [20:03] | 2 | Deep Peace of the Son of Peace to You [19:43] |
| Disc 2 | |||
| 1 | Temple of Sound [22:30] | 2 | Rays of Sunlight Touch the Healing Waters [20:10] |
Description:
For the first time, Deep Peace and New Atlantis, two classics from Celestial Harmonies, are available on CD. Originally recorded in 1980 and 1983, these meditative masterpieces have long been recognized as remarkable and meaningful works. Frank Perry employs a fascinating array of acoustic instruments, including 400 year old Zen Buddhist Densho bells and a Ming Dynasty Chinese temple bell. He adds various kyeezees (Burmese meditation gongs), Burmese chime bowls, other glass bowls, Tibetan invocation cymbals and meditation cymbals, plus a variety of bells from Tibet, India, Japan and China. He uses no electronics whatsoever in his recordings; the long reverberations are the natural effect of the percussion instruments he uses. Bells and gongs are representative of some of the most spiritual music,' says Perry. He is a master of his art form, understanding how each gong produces its fundamental tone, harmonics and sub–tones. He carefully blends to create the specific meditative mood he desires. 'Admittedly, percussion is not a field of instrumentation or sound–source most usually associated with meditational music, but I have spent half of my life refining the potential usages and overcoming the initial restrictions imposed by this musical medium of percussion.''
Biography:
British composer and percussionist, Frank Perry, is a meditator, astrologer, numerologist, psychic medium, symbolist and mystic. He once played dissonant, nearly chaotic free jazz with pianist Keith Tippett; however, as he became more involved with meditation and Eastern philosophy, he began acquiring his present collection of nearly four hundred bells and gongs. The changes in his music reflect the changes in his evolving inner life. Responding to the psychic environment within us all, Perry purposely selects instruments which are rich in harmonic resonation qualities and capable of sonic durations that sustain sometimes for minutes on end. Perry's music emerges from the universal silence which underlies all of creation, exteriorizes profound states of higher consciousness and recedes back into silence. His sonic textures are exquisitely subtle, psychically potent, deeply contemplative and extraordinarily beautiful.
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