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Featured
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 Magic
Music - Chants For Meditation
Bozo Adagio
BOZO adagio
combines mixed voices, keyboards, Indian drones, trombone, saxophones,
and "now" boxes to create its relaxation/meditation
music. Titles include: Alleluia, All Shall Be Well, Everything
In Harmony, Dona Nobis Pacem, Amen.
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 Women's
Yoga Chants
Songs of Spirit.
Titles include Govind Gopala - Wahl, Sadashiva Ranjani - Suzin
Green, O Ma Kali Ma - Chaula Hopefisher, Bhava Bhaya Harana -
Sita, Ambe Mata - Wahl, and Sita Ram - Diana Rogers.
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Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
Various Artists - Country - Bluegrass
The bluegrass
bandwagon continues to roll in 2001. This collection attempts
to capitalize on the breakthrough success of the O
Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Drawn from Rounder's
rich catalog, the 19-cut sampler of female singing, fiddling,
and picking extends from an era when women were a novelty in this
male-dominated music category through the popular crossover ascendance
of such contemporary artists (and O Brother favorites) as Alison
Krauss and the Cox
Family. Harmonies from the likes of Rhonda
Vincent and the Stevens
sisters soar toward the heavens, while the earthier strains
of Hazel
Dickens and Ginny
Hawker are more reflective of the music's hardscrabble roots.
Though Wilma Lee Cooper's "You Tried to Ruin My Name"
has all the subtlety of a hog-calling contest, such rawness is
about as real as this music gets. --Don McLeese (Amazon.com)
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 Gifted:
Women of the World
Various Artists
This collection
of 12 songs by nine female singers from around the globe encompasses
musical styles from Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The
emphasis is on soothing organic music, with notable examples including
the dreamy vocals of Anglo-Indian singer Sheila Chandra; the surreal
"Incantation" by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, which
is enhanced by electronic sound sculpting; the sensual Peruvian
jazz of Susana Baca; and the album's liveliest tune, a Greek dance
number by Eleftheria Arvanitaki.
Gifted: Women
of the World is seemingly targeted at listeners unfamiliar with
these artists, and as a teaser for the performers' other work
it offers a good mixture of songs, even if the energy level remains
uniform throughout the compilation. A portion of the proceeds
from album sales go to WITNESS, a group cofounded by Peter Gabriel
that equips human rights advocates with modern technology such
as video cameras to further their causes. --Bryan Reesman (Amazon.com)
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