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= REVIEWS "A Mermaid I Should Turn To Be" and sev- M U Ss | C eral collaborations with ambience master q Fs 4 Terry Riley. A must-have, unique, original Reviewed by Richard Giles album, worth it for the Harrison track alone. CELESTIAL MOZART: For Relaxation CHO KU REI by Gerald Jay Markoe by Weave Producer: Gerald Jay Markoe for Astro- Producer: Weave for Etherean Music. music, Boqueron, PR, USA, 1999 (63mins) USA, 1999 (59mins) , Distributor: USA—Astromusic, PO Box Distributor: USA—Etherean Music, tel 1258, Boqueron, PR 00622, 1888.384 3732, fax (303) 985 0292 www.astromusic.com . . f you've been looking for an album to aid Gas Jay Markoe has been involved in your healing sessions or increase relax- inspirational music since the 1980s and ation time at home, or if you just want to has produced several relaxation music clas- enjoy the sacred sounds of the Reiki healing sics, two being Music from the Pleiades and process, then Cho Ku Reiis it. The album is Music of the Angels. Both of these topped from Reiki master Weave, using the first of the ambient charts when released, and today the five Reiki symbols, the Cho Ku Rei. are considered new-age classics. Here he This symbol increases healing energy performs a number of Mozart's well-known (counter-clockwise) and can be used either concertos, including No. 21 (used as the to give energy to a specific area or to release theme music for Elvira Madigan). All are blocked energy. Cho Ku Rei is the goddess slow and gorgeously orchestrated, and work energy within all. A sublime album. on the cellular level by operating in the 28 to 60 beats-per-minute cycle. Brilliantly thera- ROUTES: 20 YEARS OF ESSENTIAL peutic for reprogramming the body. FOLK ROOTS & WORLD MUSIC Producer: lan Anderson for Nascente on inetd k Tekbilek Music, UK, 1999 (2CDs, 153mins) y Omar raruk Texbile Distributors: Aust—Festival Records, tel Producer: Yuval Ron for Hearts of Space, UK i San Francisco, USA, 1999 (65mins) eee oe at aacente Music, Distributors: Australia—MRA Ent'ment, f : > lhe magazine Folk Roots has been lov- tel (07) 3849 6020; USA—Hearts of Space, ingly edited by Ian Anderson in the UK tel (415) 331 3200, www.hos.com for the last two decades, and it's he who is mar Faruk Tekbilek is a musician of behind this Routes compilation and compan- genius who has a string of albums that ion volume Roots, which covers the music ote ered music of the wide East to of Britain, Ireland and North America. This world audiences. In One Truth, he success- album embraces samples from the entire fully brings the passion and poetry of Sufi world music genre, bringing them together mysticism to the studio, melding dev otional in one place. It has all your favourites lyrics and traditional instruments with mod- including Maryam Mursal, Youssou N'Dour ern technologies. Following his Crescent ‘Ali Farka Toure, Baaba Maal, Buena Vista Moon album (NEXUS 6/03), this is a move Social Club, Tarika, and many more, With ae the sounds “ the burning hythms and two-and-a-half hours of some of the best th “ tk oO 1 uu ‘ilo Super isk Ow Into world music of the last two decades, this is € cevotional’ and’ love songs of istam. an exciting addition to your collection. TRIP TO THE SUN by Tracy Scott Silverman Producer: Tracy Scott Silverman for Windham Hill, USA, 1999 (42mins) Distributor: Aust—BMG Distribution, tel (02) 9900 7888; USA—BMG Distribution, tel (212) 930 4942, www.windham.com Te Silverman is a classically trained violinist who has moved in rock, big band, jazz and world music fields, making his reputation with the Turtle Island String Quartet in the 1990s. The opening track on Trip to the Sun is a most moving, mesmeris- ing version of George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun". It's followed by several of his own works, a version of Jimi Hendrix's MUSIC Reviewed by Richard Giles CELESTIAL MOZART: For Relaxation by Gerald Jay Markoe Producer: Gerald Jay Markoe for Astro- music, Boqueron, PR, USA, 1999 (63mins) Distributor: USA—Astromusic, PO Box 1258, Boqueron, PR 00622, www.astromusic.com Gus Jay Markoe has been involved in inspirational music since the 1980s and has produced several relaxation music clas- sics, two being Music from the Pleiades and Music of the Angels. Both of these topped the ambient charts when released, and today are considered new-age classics. Here he performs a number of Mozart's well-known concertos, including No. 21 (used as the theme music for Elvira Madigan). All are slow and gorgeously orchestrated, and work on the cellular level by operating in the 28 to 60 beats-per-minute cycle. Brilliantly thera- peutic for reprogramming the body. ONE TRUTH by Omar Faruk Tekbilek Producer: Yuval Ron for Hearts of Space, San Francisco, USA, 1999 (65mins) Distributors: Australia—MRA Ent'ment, tel (07) 3849 6020; USA—Hearts of Space, tel (415) 331 3200, www.hos.com mar Faruk Tekbilek is a musician of genius who has a string of albums that offer sacred music of the Middle East to world audiences. In One Truth, he success- fully brings the passion and poetry of Sufi mysticism to the studio, melding devotional lyrics and traditional instruments with mod- ern technologies. Following his Crescent Moon album (NEXUS 6/03), this is a move into the sounds of the burning rhythms and intensities of Sufism. A superb window into the devotional and love songs of Islam. TRIP TO THE SUN by Tracy Scott Silverman Producer: Tracy Scott Silverman for Windham Hill, USA, 1999 (42mins) Distributor: Aust—BMG Distribution, tel (02) 9900 7888; USA—BMG Distribution, tel (212) 930 4942, www.windham.com Te Silverman is a classically trained violinist who has moved in rock, big band, jazz and world music fields, making his reputation with the Turtle Island String Quartet in the 1990s. The opening track on Trip to the Sun is a most moving, mesmeris- ing version of George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun". It's followed by several of his own works, a version of Jimi Hendrix's NEXUS -79 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000