Check this out! Amazing what you can create from a single voice.
https://www.oberton.org/one-mouth-orchestra-michal-esz/
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Magic Sounds is an ambient organic album - a calming and predominantly vocal CD featuring the mesmerizing harmonic tones of Dean Frenkel and the hauntingly ethereal voice of Linda Laasi. It is an album of minimalist music which emphasizes the tonal qualities of the human voice.
Magic Sounds is about ancient therapeutic sounds of vocal harmonics; sounds of the environment which are in effect mesmerizing, soothing and can assist the letting go of tension. It has been used for millennia to calm herding animals in Mongolia, Tuva and Sardinia Musically it traverses across many music genres - meditation, ambient, chill-out, fine world, soundtrack, spiritual (non-religious) and contemporary choral music. It is a music journey of sacred sounds, uplifting soundscapes and original composition. It features vocal instrumentation, an approach to singing which far pre-dates songs. The concept for this unique album began ten years ago when Dean and Linda found ways of using voice to calm their young baby.
Though initially intended as a baby-calming album, it evolved into a people-calming album which also calms babies. Aware that music for babies can be be unsettling for everyone else, Magic Sounds is both gentle and powerful, and musically interesting. In Mongolia, Tuva and other traditional herding cultures harmonic throat singing has been used for thousands of years to settle animals after being disturbed by predators - much like modern day horse whisperers. Given that many animals have short term memories, much like babies, harmonics can help them forget about what disturbed them in the first place.
This surprising album addresses the following questions: Can sound actually be therapeutic? Can a therapeutic cd contain enough musical edge to be musically interesting? Can it feel spiritual without being religious? Can an ambient cd also be organic and based around voice without the singing of one word?
Dean Frenkel broke the Guinness world record for the longest continuous vocal note (57secs) on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. Linda Laasi won an ARIA award for her vocal contribution to Paul Kelly's soundtrack to feature film 'Jindabyne'. Together they have created music for many spheres, inner and outer. They have also created a mini children's meditation storybook called 'The Magic Sounds of KahMing' which is an added extra with Magic Sounds.
Dean Frenkel and Linda Laasi
Magic Sounds
© 2008 Dean Frenkel and Linda Laasi (9314574037326) (format: CD-R)
CD price: $20.00
1 Northern Dreams
2 Magic Sounds
3 Moon Bear Mantra
4 Australian Soundscapes
5 Crystal Temple
6 Short Song
7 Night Lights and Whale Callers
8 Space in Timelessness
9 Rain Chant
10 Watery World
11 Sleeping Caves
12 Southern Dreams
Dean Frenkel - Harmonic vocalist, recording artist, performer, improviser, composer, instructer, clinical hypnotherapist, author, Guinness World Record Holder for the longest continuous vocal note.
Linda Laasi - Adelaide born vocalist trained in classical, jazz, Asian and Eastern European ethnic music. Improviser of soundscapes, composer and visual artist. ARIA Award Winner for her contribution to the soundtrack of Australian feature film ‘Jindabyne’.
Release of the record An Anthology of Mongolian Khöömii
A Buda Musique Label Double CD, 47 p. booklet (in French/English/Mongol)
Through 43 tracks, including 28 previously unreleased, this double disc gathers the essentials of Mongolian khöömii, from early sound archives to the present day, to show the history and evolution of the art over sixty years (1954- 2016) and three generations.
The Anthology continues by the end of January with many textual and audiovisual supplements (12 videos), commentaries on the tracks, musicians’ biographies, and the “Making Of” the record. See the PDF or online at www.routesnomades.fr/en/anthology.
Artistic direction and executive production: Johanni Curtet & Nomindari Shagdarsuren
contact@routesnomades.fr / www.routesnomades.fr
With the support of the French Society for Ethnomusicology and the Unit of History and Arts Criticism (EA 1279), University of Rennes 2.
Order the CD online: www.budamusique.com
Please go to my website to listen to the CD SHAMAN VOICE
If you like to order it, please do so. I will send it to you!
www.kailani.ch
All but toothless
A virtual jaw harp orchestra challenges the dominance of guitars. Here's to musical diversity!
Starting from the city jungle of Vienna, the LOOPING jaw harp orchestra has set out to discover unexplored musical regions. Elephant Road, off the beaten track, directly leads to the habitats of rare musical instruments. Three dozen of jaw harps and percussion are a good substrate on which steel pans, saxophones, marimba, trumpets and many other instruments may flourish. Powerful and vigorous, the LOOPING jaw harp orchestra still does not neglect the tender young leaves and bizarre creatures in the jungle of music.
Release date: Oct. 2009.
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Maultrommeln mit Biss!
Ein virtuelles Maultrommel-Orchester zeigt dem Gitarren-Monopol die Zähne. Es lebe die musikalische Abwechslung!
Mitten aus dem Großstadtdschungel ist das LOOPING jaw harp orchestra aufgebrochen, um unerforschte musikalische Biotope zu entdecken. Die Elephant Road führt fernab der ausgetretenen Trampelpfade geradewegs in die Lebensräume seltener Musikinstrumente. Drei Dutzend Maultrommeln (jaw harps) und Percussion bilden den Untergrund. Darauf gedeihen Steeldrums, Saxophone, Marimba, Trompete und zahlreiche andere Instrumente ganz prächtig. Das LOOPING jaw harp orchestra gibt kräftig Stoff, erforscht aber auch die zarten und die skurrilen Pflänzlein des Musikdschungels.
Ab 2.10.2009 im Handel
