New Directions In Meditation Tonalities<\/i> is a collaboration between Jogen Salzberg, a Buddhist teacher, a counselor, a soundscape deejay, a drummer and also formerly lived as a monk for 15 years, and the ambient New Age artist, designer and record label head honcho Steve Rosborough. As Zen Monk Jogen and Omni Gardens they offer us a pair of lengthy tracks in the area of meditative, experimental and spoken word ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cOcean Resonance\u201d occupies the first half of the listen, and it won\u2019t take long for Zen Monk Jogen\u2019s mesmerizing voice to cultivate plenty of inner peace. The music is dreamy, repetitive and flows with plenty of New Age sensibilities that suit the subject matter about gravity, breathing, vibration and release.<\/p>\n
The second half belongs to \u201cLifestyle Slow Motion,\u201d which welcomes a cleansing, absorbing delivery that\u2019s full of eloquent spoken word that might have you listening for your own heartbeat, imagining the expansive beauty of the ocean and in general allowing yourself to be entranced by the hazy, soft waves of electronic radiance. <\/p>\n
This is an extremely enlightening listen that pairs Rosborough\u2019s music and field recordings with Salzberg\u2019s very deliberate enunciation and elicits the most amount of serenity out of each second. Even if you spend most of your time listening to Napalm Death or Minor Threat, you\u2019re still likely to become fully invested in these two 20-plus-minute compositions. <\/p>\n
Available on cassette or Bandcamp and limited to just 300 copies, the album\u2019s packaging comes with detailed liner notes to accompany the experience that\u2019s built on a love for retro New Age, avant-garde jazz and ambient sounds. This album could soundtrack a focused yoga session, perhaps some do-it-yourself therapy, or just when you want to really, truly relax and connect with your entire soul and being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10861],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46671","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-omni-gardens-zen-monk-jogen","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46671"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}