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"YOGA" - VARIOUS ARTISTS (PUTUMAYO) |
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You know, I really have to confess that I was a bit apprehensive approaching a CD whose avowed focus, whose creative inspiration was yoga. Not because I have anything against yoga - I don't; I respect yoga. But I also know the kind of cardboard cutout "new age" music (the kind of bargain bin crap that has soiled the term) that is drawn to yoga like flies to ... anyhoo. Such is not the case here. "Yoga" is actually one of the finer discs to leave the Putumayo HQ in quite a bit. We're still in the world music motif (and why not?) but there is less focus on cultural exotica and more focus on exotica of another variety - psychonautical fringe mind exploration. Yoga, after all, fuses mind and body, and the aural emanations of this musical selection will use your physical senses - in this case, your hearing - to heighten your awareness. What I'm saying is that this is some sublime, mystical stuff. Big words, lofty and such, but some music is driven by transcendence and the low key but profound tunes tapped for inclusion on this Putumayo comp are illuminated peaces of keen serenity. You don't have to be into yoga to be into this CD. Hell, I listened to it in my car. But it's great! Trust me.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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