| Harmonic Meditations: Music from the Heart of the Cosmos | 
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Sales Rank: 909759
Category: Book
Author: David Hykes
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Studio: Sounds True, Incorporated
Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
Label: Sounds True, Incorporated
Format: Audiobook
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1591792533
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781591792536
ASIN: 1591792533
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
A quarter-million listeners made Hearing Solar Winds a classic; now comes David Hykes' Harmonic Meditations, his first 21st century release. Hykes is the legendary composer and musician who, besides introducing Western audiences to the "throat singing" of Tuva, Tibet, and Mongolia, has created a world of universal sacred music, the Harmonic Chant. Here are eight profound compositions that open the listener to incredible states of expanded consciousness aligned with the vibrational frequencies of the cosmos itself. Includes "The Silent Ground," which the Harmonic Choir premiered in New York for NPR's WNYC-FM re-inauguration of the Winter Garden opposite Ground Zero.
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 Featured in "Jacob's Ladder" September 9, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Interesting music and sounds....portions are featured in the excellent movie "Jacob's Ladder" soundtrack.
Unique Overtone Chanting April 3, 2006
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have a number of CDs from David Hykes. He has evolved his own overtone chanting. Unlike Tibetan overtoning, he uses pure vowel sound and pure toning of primordial sounds, rather than specific mantras and seed syllables. He chooses, if possible, like this CD, a resonant natural environment that deepens the overtone harmonics. This latest creation shows a maturing and deepening of his work, though it is very similar to all his other creations. They are more of a sonic meditation than "music". It is less structured and free form. It is meant to be chanted with, especially with overtoning. I give this CD, and all his CDs four stars rather than five because the recording quality and presenting quality could use some engineering and refining. The tones push many speakers over their capacity. The sounds will often vibrate things in the room and more than one speaker grille. I do not know if this can be avoided, but I have had some trouble finding a speaker system that ideally supports the kind of tones he creates. Lowering the volume always helps and sometimes putting some foam under the speakers. I have had similar challenges with Tibetan chanting, but even more so with his. All in all, I have used his CDs often for meditation and chant along with them. It invokes a potent silence and a natural release from "thinking".
 beautiful and profoundly rich January 16, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The recordings on David Hykes's CD Harmonic Meditations capture some incredible performances of improvised vocal music in acoustically rich spaces including a cistern in Seattle and the atrium of the World Financial Center in New York. The vocal trio pieces are stunningly beautiful and harmonically rich, and the larger group ensemble pieces incorporating sparse middle-eastern instrumentation express a searching, yearning or longing that characterises the very best in art.
Great stuff.
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