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Tibetan Meditation Music | 
| Artist: Nawang Khechog
Label: Gemini Sun Records
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 14408
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1109
UPC: 600835110921
EAN: 0600835110921
ASIN: B000OCY6YU
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Under The Wings Of Blessing | | • | The Great Prince Of Peace And Universal Compassion | | • | Five-Peak Wisdom Mountain | | • | A Daily Prayer And Practice Of The Dalai Lama | | • | Walking Into The Himalaya To Meditate | | • | Infinate Love | | • | The Great Arya Tara | | • | Wisdom And Compassion | | • | The Perfection Of Compassion | | • | Dagkar Taso Mila's cave | | • | For As Long As Space Endures |
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A lot of artists evoke the spirit of Tibet, but Nawang Khechog is actually a former Tibetan monk, who took off the robes and took up the flute to travel the world 20 years ago. His albums are usually slotted in the New Age and meditation genres, and certainly his packaging and imagery inspire that. Unfortunately, it overshadows a music that is perhaps deeper, or at least more artistically profound, than that. Tibetan Meditation Music scans less like a background for contemplation and more like a tone poem to the spirit. The opening track seems like an Asian refraction of "Amazing Grace," with Tsering Khechog singing over Nawang Khechog's flute. Khechog's music draws on folk and spiritual traditions but takes them further afield. Think Arvo Paert on the Tibetan plateau with strings droning a minor-key refrain while Tibetan bells and chimes sound in the background and Khechog chants. I do wish Khechog had brought along just a touch of the drama and shifting moods heard on some of his earlier discs, like the Kitaro-produced Karuna. Tibetan Meditation Music is unvarying in its somber tone. Khechog's chants, which are intimately spoken, whispered more than sung, don't always work on a musical level. But his performances on wood flute are deep explorations into tone and melody. --John Diliberto
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 Solemn music for prayer and chant June 21, 2007
ShriDurga (Japan)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Tibetan flautist Nawang Khechog marks 20 years as a professional musician with his new release, Tibetan Mediation Music, a collection of 11 original compositions based on traditional meditative themes. The title might suggest otherwise, but except for sounds used to mark passages in services - such as gongs, bells, and trumpets - music is not a part of Buddhist mediation. It is employed here as the aural background to some of the more commonly used chants and prayers in the Tibetan tradition.
Nawang Khechog knows a bit about those, having in his youth been an ordained monk for 11 years. Among the pieces for which he has chosen to compose are chants to the Buddha, Manju Shri (the god of wisdom), Avalokiteshrava (the god of compassion), and Tara (a female goddess of compassion). There are also two songs based on classic Tibetan poetry, as well as a piece commissioned for the opening ceremony of a 2006 address from ten Nobel Peace Laureates.
Given its purpose, it's hardly surprising to find the music for this project is solemn and staid, built around Nawang's exceptional flute playing and his subdued, often whispered, chanting of the ancient invocations. Except for the marimba on The Great Prince of Peace, the music is played without rhythmic accompaniment and is adorned with bells, gongs and occasional sound effects, such as rolling thunder in The Perfection of Wisdom, or cowbells in Walking Into the Himalayas. These tonal explorations are enriched by the sound of violin, cello, and oud.
This is a lovely album of quiet music suitable for prayer, relaxation, yoga, or massage. It is can also be used to create a relaxing ambience for your work space.
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Exquisite January 14, 2008
Ron-in-RI (Providence RI USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It would be difficult to exaggerate the beauty and the specialness of this CD. For me, it is truly meditative in that I would find it difficult to carefully listen to this CD simply "as music" all the way through; rather, it takes me to an "inner place" of contemplation and relaxation where I forget I am listening to music. One special quality of this CD is that it is consistently meditative all the way through; there are no surprises; the mood is consistent throughout. I know massage therapists who love this CD for use in their work, and other people who enjoy just having this music playing in the background of their everyday lives. It's very special.
Gentleness for the stressed soul. April 12, 2007
Sylvan Green (Oregon)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nawang Khechog's gentleness comes through his music. Soft prayers, spoken and sung, in Tibetan filter up through lovely flute music along with tibetan gong, bells, and the occasional horn. I don't know what it is exactly about Nawang's music that relaxes me so completely, but it does and I am so greatful that all I have to do to take a "mini-vacation" is put on this music.
 I like the music but the chanting/whispering is annoying... March 12, 2008
KV Trout (Los Angeles, CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wish this was just pure music and didn't have the chanting over it. While I chant these things myself, I do not buy a cd to hear someone chanting, I can do that myself. The music is so beautiful, why ruin it by interrupting it with chanting?
Hopefully one of his other albums does not have this chanting or any other spoken words over it.
 Wonderful! April 12, 2008
Kelly A. Massey
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My own feelings towards this CD is happiness....Its a CD I listen to anywhere. It soothes my mind, body and soul.......just what I need wonderful pieces.
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