Miles Beyond

Track Listings

1. Medicine Wheel

2. Sierra

3. Babylonians

4. Sitara

5. Motherland

6. Suling

7. Chicoy

8. Miles Beyond

9. Tien's Lullaby

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Suzanne Teng, M. Mus., is a flutist, percussionist, dancer, composer, teacher and recording artist from Berkeley, California. She has a master’s degree in music from Boston University’s School for the Arts and has studied with some of the finest flute teachers in the world. She is an award winning classical musician who, after traveling adventures across the globe, furthered her graduate studies at UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology, where she completed the coursework for the Ph.D. focusing on music and healing. She is an active performer and recording artist in Los Angeles and was awarded the Independent Music Awards Best New Age Artist in 2001.

A candidate for a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album of 2000, Mystic Journey received a finalist award as New Age Voice Magazine’s "Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of 1999" and "Best Contemporary World Music Album of 1999." Billboard Magazine wrote "Sensual and Serene…Mystic Journey is an impressive solo debut: and Al Martinez of the Los Angeles Times claims "Suzanne Teng plays music for the soul." The album appears on numerous publication and radio "Top albums of the Year" lists including the Public Radio International nationally syndicated show "Echoes," and is listed by Amazon.com as one of the most requested New Age albums on the radio.

Known for creating soul stirring and healing music, she has been commissioned to compose music for yoga and acupuncture videos. She performs in concerts, festivals, and dance/movement/yoga events internationally as a soloist and with her world music band Mystic Journey. They were featured performers at His Holiness the Dala Lama’s World Festival of Sacred Music and have represented the United States at International festivals in Veracruz, Mexico and Singapore. Suzanne has performed her flute meditations at numerous major events with spiritual leaders and writers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Mathew Whyte, Amachi, as well as for the corporate leaders of Mexico and the US.

She has worked with a wide variety of artists and ensembles including the Boston Philharmnonic, Los Angelels Pops Orchestra, Tito Puente, Kenny Loggins, Babatundi Olatunji, Airto and Flora Purim, and The Dramatics. She has performed for numerous heads of state, including Henry Kissinger, and has appeared on the same venues as Sting, Jackson Browne, Patty Smythe, Colin Hay and Jody Watley.

Suzanne has performed on hundreds of recordings for Polygram, Warner Brothers, Windham Hill, BMG, Shanachi, Scottie Brothers, and numerous independent labels. Film, television and commercial performance credits include "Pepsi," "Johnnie Walker," "California Tan," "Murder She Wrote," "Big Bully (Tom Arnold), "Separate Lives (Jim Belushi, Linda Hamilton), "Baby" (Farrah Fawcett), "Green Dragon" (Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker), The Grey Zone, The Kid Stays in the Picture (Robert Evans), Ice Bound (Susan Sarandon) numerous independent and foreign films, commercials for India, Germany, Korea and Mexico, and an Environmental PSA with music by Hans Zimmer. She has appeared on national television, including a musical performance on the Survivor II final episode which was viewed by over 40 million people. Her music has been heard on countless radio programs worldwide (ranking #3 on the New Age charts) and has been featured on Public Radio International three times.

She is an endorsed artist for Yamaha, AKG and High Spirit Flutes and is a popular teacher, having taught flute, percussion and world music to many hundreds of students at schools, colleges, camps and workshops throughout the country. She co-facilitates retreats, guiding music circles, most recently in Hawaii and Guatemala. She has practiced yoga for over 18 years, loves traveling, gardening, and hiking and has summitted 19,000’ peaks in the Himalayas. She lives in Topanga with her husband and musical partner Gilbert Levy and their son Miles.

Album Description
"Miles Beyond" is the stunning follow up to Suzanne Teng's award winning debut "Mystic Journey." The nine original compositions include a haunting invocation on ocarina, the flashy Spanish flavored "Sierra" featuring alto flute and flamenco guitar, an ecstatic trance dance number with exotic winds and hynotic Middle Eastern percussion played by Gilbert Levy, a rocking sitar dance number, an enchanting African song featuring Levy on Balaphone, a sweet Indonesian song on suling, a mesmerizing Native American flute piece composed in a cave, a breathtaking title track song "Miles Beyond" with sensual flutes and a beautiful steel drum, ending with a sweet Chinese lullaby.

The album features Teng on over 11 ethnic flutes, Levy on drums from India, Africa, Egypt and Iran, Fritz Heede on sitar, guitar and Turkish saz, Barry Newton on string bass with special guest Naser Musa, master oud player, and perfomers on didgeridoo, cello, electric bass and keyboards. This original instrumental music is exotic, dreamy, grooving and soothing to the soul.

Named one of Southern California's Hot 100 Unsigned bands of 2003, Suzanne Teng and Mystic Journey is a contemporary world music band to look out for. Their new album is a journey of the soul with

Tracks:

Medicine Wheel
Sierra
Babylonians
Sitara
Motherland
Suling
Chicoy
Miles Beyond
Tien's Lullaby

Album Description

"Miles Beyond" is the stunning follow up to Suzanne Teng's award winning debut "Mystic Journey." The nine original compositions include a haunting invocation on ocarina, the flashy Spanish flavored "Sierra" featuring alto flute and flamenco guitar, an ecstatic trance dance number with exotic winds and hynotic Middle Eastern percussion played by Gilbert Levy, a rocking sitar dance number, an enchanting African song featuring Levy on Balaphone, a sweet Indonesian song on suling, a mesmerizing Native American flute piece composed in a cave, a breathtaking title track song "Miles Beyond" with sensual flutes and a beautiful steel drum, ending with a sweet Chinese lullaby.

Named one of Southern California's Hot 100 Unsigned bands of 2003, Suzanne Teng and Mystic Journey is a contemporary world music band to look out for. Their new album is a journey of the soul with

Customer Reviews:

No lover of flute music shoud be without this CD!.......2007-02-09

If we take variety and skill into account Suzanne Teng may be the world's premiere flutist. She plays just about every flute known to mankind and plays them with a mastery that every master would envy. While Suzanne Teng's first album, Mystic Journey, was excellent, this CD, Miles Beyond, is a true masterpiece of World Music. Suzanne Teng's third release, Enchanted Wind, is more geared to meditation music.
There are elements of diverse musical traditions woven into a rich tapestry of sound on this CD. These include: folk, classical and (middle) eastern music. Also, a wide variety of instruments are used: besides many different types of flutes, we hear a sitar on one track and a didgeridoo (instrument of Australian Aborigines) on another.
This is a CD that you will want to listen to again and again. It's soothing, inspiring and fascinating. Highly recommended!

The kind of music you want to keep listening to............2006-03-23

"Miles Beyond" by Suzanne Teng and Mystic Journey has become one of my favorite CDs--it's the kind of music that you can never tire of....authentic, soulful, a great mix of textural sounds and innovative rhythms. Everytime I listen to it I hear something new. My two favorite tracks are Medicine Wheel and Chicoy...all of the tracks, each recorded with a different flute and percussion mix, take you on a unique journey...uplifting, meditative, heartfelt. I have given this CD as a gift to many family and friends--everyone loves it. Suzanne's flute playing is stellar...no wonder she has won so many awards and praise....she and her band get my 5 stars!

A journey by flute.......2004-05-28

Suzanne Teng plays nine different kinds of flutes on this album, so if you like flutes, this album is perfect. By playing different kinds of flutes and changing musical styles throughout the album, it's kind of like a journey around the world by flute. "Babylonians" has a strong Middle Eastern flavor, "Sitara" follows with the sounds of India, then "Motherland" begins with a Chinese sound, but as African-sounding drums become more prominent later in the song, it becomes a fusion of world sounds.

These three tracks are my favorite ones on the album. The rest of the album is good too, with a slow tempo and sounds that produce a peaceful and relaxing mood.

Tracks:

Siboney
Danza Lucumi
Jungle Drums (Canto Karabali)
Gitanarias
Maria My Own
Malague
Always in My Heart
Andalucia
Comparsa
High in Sierra
Domino
Why Do You Pass Me By
At Last! At Last!
Autumn Leaves
C'est Si Bon
Sea (La Mer)
Waltz of Paree
Chez-Moi
Boom!
Mademoiselle de Paris
When the World Was Young
J'Attendrai (Au Revoir)

Barraque: Complete Works (Oeuvres complètes) - Concerto for Six Instrumental Formations and Two Instruments; "Le temps restitué" for soprano, chorus and orchestra; ". . . au dela du hasard" for Four Instrumental Formations and One Vocal Formation; Etude pour bande; Piano Sonata; Sequence, etc.

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great music from a neglected modern master
Would be 5 stars with a better Piano Sonata
One of the best 3 disc sets possible.
Important survey of a neglected modern master

Barraque: Complete Works (Oeuvres complètes) - Concerto for Six Instrumental Formations and Two Instruments; "Le temps restitué" for soprano, chorus and orchestra; ". . . au dela du hasard" for Four Instrumental Formations and One Vocal Formation; Etude pour bande; Piano Sonata; Sequence, etc.

Manufacturer: Cpo Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

great music from a neglected modern master.......2001-07-20

Jean Barraque, a pupil of Messiaen, was overshadowed by his famous contemporary Pierre Boulez during his brief life ( 1928-1973 ) and has remained an "underground" figure in the years since his death. The reasons for his obscurity in the musical world have been attributed by some writers to his reclusive nature, battles with alcoholism and a disastrous, short-lived relationship with a famous philosopher. Of course, those not kindly disposed to "dissonant" modern music ( whether "serial" or not ) will most likely point out his music is not well known because it is just plain bad ( I obviously beg to differ ).

I would urge those listeners who have a love ( or respect ) for music composed by earlier 20th century musicians like Bartok & Berg to listen to a few samples of this 3 CD set ( performed by the Klangforum Wien ) of Jean Barraque's complete works. There is a density and compellingly dramatic propulsion to his works ( composed from 1952-1968 ), all ( but one ) large pieces which display a grandeur foreign to most of his contemporaries in the European avant-garde. For all of the unquestionably modern "devices" Barraque employs in his works, one feels a sense of continuity with the "classical" tradition ( IE, if one includes, as I do, Schoenberg and Bartok in that line ); a continuity not present ( for better or worse ) to the same degree in works of the same era by Stockhausen and others.

Barraque's music has often been compared to early Boulez ( timbres, explosiveness, and form ). His teacher Messiaen perhaps had an influence on the vast scale of his compositions. I for one, hear many similarities between Barraque and Elliott Carter in their use of intervals. But stylistically, music critic Paul Griffiths has hit the nail on the head regarding the close aesthetic correlation between Barraque and Luigi Nono. Both composers unite a love for tradition with an urge for innovation. Both display to the highest degree the ability to make abstract music cohere in a gripping and dramatic way ( however, nothing suggests that Barraque was particularly allied with revolutionary political movements ). Barraque and Nono ( particularly in his last works ) searched with the utmost artistic "seriousness" for meaning in what was, for them, "the void". And, whether it's relevant or not, I'm fairly sure Nono himself thought highly of his French contemporary and wrote some laudatory comments about him.

Barraque's two large scale instrumental works "bookend" his short oeuvre. The "Piano Sonata" of 1952 is often compared to Pierre Boulez' 2nd Sonata but is really a unique creation and for me a far more dramatically effective piece. His valedictory "Concerto" from 1968 is one of the great works from the second half of the 20th century, on the level of Carter's "Double Concerto", Ligeti's "Lontano" and Lutoslawski's "Symphony #3". Barraque's "Concerto", a piece vibrantly alive in an almost organic way, builds through steady contrasts ( masterful orchestration and deployment of tension and release ) on a journey alternately despairing and joyful, toward a conclusion which I can only term a "mystery".

Though he composed brilliantly in purely instrumental works, most of Barraque's effort went into a project ( unfinished ) setting music to Hermann Broch's novel "The Death of Virgil". Some of these works are easier to "crack" than others. "Le Temps Restitue" for instance, seems to me to have some connection to Webern's cantatas. Perhaps others hearing this ( tenuous? ) link would find "Le Temps Restitue" easier to manage than other vocal works by Barraque.

As far as the performances ( recorded c. 1996 ), the Klangforum Wien are superior to my ears to the older recording of the "Concerto" and "Le Temps Restitue" by the Ensemble 2e2m (conducted by Paul Mefano ). However, the latter recording, being a single CD, does have the virtue of being less costly for those who are cautious about plunking down a larger amount for the complete set (the 2e2m performances are by no means poor, just less refined than the Klangforum Wien ). I would provide a note of caution regarding the CPO recording of the Piano Sonata, played by Stefan Litwin. Poor Mr. Litwin has received a lot of flack for his extraordinarily extended ( 55 minute ) performance, the sluggishness of which was not helped by his lack of color and drama. I would recommend either Herbert Henck or Pi-Hsien Chen on their vastly superior recordings ( trimmed down to some 45 minutes and played with passion and flair ).

Would be 5 stars with a better Piano Sonata.......1999-10-12

I strongly recommend this set, and agree with the previous two posters. But the performance of the "Piano Sonata" is curiously slow and lifeless. I had to supplement this box with another recording of the Sonata (P-h Chen, the only other performer I've heard, is much better).

One of the best 3 disc sets possible........1999-01-01

Marin CA is dead-on about Barraque. For various reasons he's not as well known as other contemporary composers, but he's certainly one of the top five or so of the second half-century. His music is superior to Boulez's, as the instinctual artist is always superior to the theorist (think of Berg and Schoenberg). Marin CA is again right about the company Barraque keeps: Carter and Lutoslawski are the only contemporary composers whose ouvre compare (surely Messiaen, unlike these others, becomes tiresome after a while). To have Barraque's complete works on one 3 disc set is a godsend. It's all good, but especially the great cantata, Le Mort de Virgile. Well worth the price.

Important survey of a neglected modern master.......1998-12-10

Jean Barraque (1928-1973 ) completed only seven works in a relatively brief period spanning 1950-1968. This excellent recording contains all seven pieces. A student of Messiaen, he embarked on his career as part of the post-war avant garde ( Boulez,Stockhausen,Berio, et al ). While following some of the dictates of "serial" composition, Barraque seems to me to have possessed a unique gift for creating a sustained drama ( 4 of his pieces are over 35 minutes long ) out of complex materials. I recommend this recording to anyone who enjoys Carter, Lutoslawski, or Messiaen. In fact, you might find it interesting to compare some of the following Barraque pieces with those of his contemporary, Pierre Boulez. Barraque's PIANO SONATA with Boulez' 2ND PIANO SONATA / Barraque's SEQUENCE with Boulez' LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE / Barraque's AU DELA DU HASARD with Boulez' PLI SELON PLI / Barraque's CONCERTO with Boulez' DOMAINES. While there are similarities, especially in terms of their refined use of timbre in orchestration (developing the innovations Debussy and Webern made), I would say that Barraque presents a more forceful sense of drama than the more (purposefully) elusive Boulez. The CONCERTO ( the first piece on the recording ) is the perfect place to start if you've never heard Barraque. I've listened to this piece (on a different recording) for a number of years and I'm still enchanted; it holds its own against the best works of Carter, Lutoslawski, Messiaen and Boulez.

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Customer Reviews:

Awesome up and comers.......2006-01-05

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Miles Beyond
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

Medicine Wheel
Sierra
BabyLonians
Sitara
Motherland
Suling
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Miles Beyond
Tien''s Lullaby

Album Description

Featuring Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy on flutes and drums from around the world with nine musicians coloring their mystical music on sitar,guitar,didgeridi,cello and more...