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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
LP

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

2023 limited restock; LP version. 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.