Rhythms of the Chakras

1. Orgins [The First Chakra]

2. Fruits of Labor (The Second Chakra)

3. Mirrors [The Third Chakra]

4. Webs

5. Voices [The Fifth Chakra]

6. Third Eye [The Sixth Chakra]

7. Unity (The Seventh Chakra)

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Tracks:

Origins
Fruits Of Labor
Mirrors
Webs
Voices
Third Eye
Unity

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Velez has created dozens of recordings featuring his percussion, working in a variety of styles and ensembles. On this album, listeners have the rare chance to hear a meditative, simple solo effort. He plays bendir (a frame drum from North Africa) or bodhran, adding caxixi (a Brazilian rattle) or maracas. He overlays this with wispy voices that come and go. Touted as "healing" musical work that stimulates the energy centers of the body and mind it is also excellent listening music, played with subtle passion or firebrand virtuosity, building layer upon layer of complex rhythm using the most basic of tools. Velez makes a frame drum sing melodies like few percussionists can, and here you can have it without the usual extras --Louis Gibson

Customer Reviews:

love the CD.......2006-11-05

I bought this for my Tai Chi instructor. I had a copy that I had taken to one of the classes, and the class enjoyed it. I especially like the drumming as it sets a cadence for the movements.

Even My 8-Year-Old Loves This One.......2005-05-05

The rhythms in this CD are quite compelling. They drove my (admittedly musically aware) 8-year-old to exclaim, "Mom! That's really neat!" I don't know a better way to describe it.

Oh, I suppose that I could say that as a flamenco dancer who uses castanets and palmas (handclapping) as percussion, I can appreciate how Velez uses simple instruments to build complex and interesting structures.

Or I could say that this CD provides catchy rhythms without annoying melodies.

But I'll just say, "It's really neat!" and leave it at that.

Dancing is Irresistable!.......2003-08-04

Since having been mesmerized by an intoxicating "world rhythm" drum concert at Exploris museum last month, I've been feverishly searching for a CD with great, exotic drum music. I bought a few, but this is the one I now find I listen to all the time -- it makes my feet tap and body move while doing my work at the computer, it's perfect for deep meditation, it enhances driving, and is ideal for dancing with the kids in the living room (my teenaged daughter, her girl-friends, and her guy-friends who say they hate to dance all were gyrating around the room last weekend) -- it seems to fit everywhere and somehow "clarify" whatever else is happening while it's playing. Although curious about chakras, I don't know much about them; what I do know is that this music reaches in and moves me (and makes me move!) in unexpected ways. Each track increases in complexity of the rhythms, and some include breathy chants. At first I didn't much care for the 4th track, "Webs," because it seemed repetitive and had unfamiliar wind instruments, but like the rest of this CD I now appreciate its layers and place in the structure of the entire CD. (Anybody want to buy some barely-used but not-nearly-as-good other percussion CDs?) This is one of those rare CDs you're really glad to own.

A great CD!.......2003-02-26

This is ussually not my type of music but I was looking for a way to get in touch with my chakras and so I picked it up. Wow! This is great music. The pounding beat seems to wake up every cell in my body and I feel more alive and more energized. This music seems to tap into something primal, it seems to get into my blood and I just want to dance and feel my connection to my body and the earth. I have never heard a CD like this, it is unique and one of first the CD's I pop in my CD system when I'm feeling down or scared.

Rhythms of the Chakras.......2001-10-25

I bought this CD without knowing anything about the music of Glen Velez. The CD goes far beyond my expectations. It is visceral, really getting inside the body, not simply because of the drumming but also because of it's musical and rhythmic specificity. I particularly like listening to it while working in the studio.

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Dance of the Seven Chakras

Manufacturer: Dreamtime Studio
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAFJ90
Release Date: 2003-06-17

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