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01. Don Cherry - Luna Turca
02. Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om
03. Don Cherry - Chenrezig
04. Don Cherry - Nana's Solo
05. Don Cherry - A Chi Chi Ou
06. Don Cherry - Koye
07. Don Cherry - Flute Song
08. Don Cherry - Dissolution
ARTIST
TITLE
Om Shanti Om
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BS 058CD BS 058CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/16/2020

2021 repress. An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in its simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civilizations, offering different suggestions of sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal consciousness. A desert Western landscape marries Asian and Latin atmospheres. Indigenous contributions with berimbau explorations find fossil sounds of rattles and clap-hands invocations. Influences of Indian mantra singing are combined with eternal African voices or with folkish-Latin guitar rhythms, while flute and drums evoke distant dances. In the Organic Music everything becomes an act of devotion and love, an ecstatic dwell in the dimension of a sacred free-rejoice.