http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/ Only the music you must hear Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/#comment-1611 Kai Weatherman Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:54:49 +0000 http://musthear.com/music/?p=631#comment-1611 Re: Track 3: Chenrezig. The reviewer noted that Cherry's "chant-like singing sounds like a spiritual or a call to prayer, giving the song a powerful message that transcends its unintelligible lyrics." The lyrics are unintelligible only if the listener is not familar with the Tibetan language. Cherry is, in fact, chanting a traditional Buddhist vow in Tibetan, along with associated mantras. So, not only does his vocal sound like a prayer, it IS in essence a prayer. Chenrezig is the Tibetan name of a prominent Buddhist mythic deity, of which the Dalai Lama is considered a manifestation. Chenrezig is also known as Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, Kuan Yin in Chinese, and Kannon in Japanese. Don Cherry was a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Re: Track 3: Chenrezig. The reviewer noted that Cherry’s “chant-like singing sounds like a spiritual or a call to prayer, giving the song a powerful message that transcends its unintelligible lyrics.” The lyrics are unintelligible only if the listener is not familar with the Tibetan language. Cherry is, in fact, chanting a traditional Buddhist vow in Tibetan, along with associated mantras. So, not only does his vocal sound like a prayer, it IS in essence a prayer. Chenrezig is the Tibetan name of a prominent Buddhist mythic deity, of which the Dalai Lama is considered a manifestation. Chenrezig is also known as Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, Kuan Yin in Chinese, and Kannon in Japanese. Don Cherry was a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.

]]> http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/#comment-733 Künstlerhaus Stuttgart » Selten gehörte Musik|Musikprogramm von Thomas Andre Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:00:11 +0000 http://musthear.com/music/?p=631#comment-733 [...] Don Cherry: Brown Rice (1974) “There is joy laced with confidence in this music, and sadness, or pathos, that is as much connected to the Blues as it is to the huge yearning of that sound in Eastern music… Throughout the record, one can hear the melding of Third World music and mysticism with Western instruments.” (From Stanley Crouch’s original liner notes to Brown Rice) http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/ [...] [...] Don Cherry: Brown Rice (1974) “There is joy laced with confidence in this music, and sadness, or pathos, that is as much connected to the Blues as it is to the huge yearning of that sound in Eastern music… Throughout the record, one can hear the melding of Third World music and mysticism with Western instruments.” (From Stanley Crouch’s original liner notes to Brown Rice) http://www.musthear.com/music/reviews/don-cherry/brown-rice/ [...]

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