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coba & others - heal up! monsoon
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by Andreas Stuhlmann
"Japanese Astor Piazzolla," accordion player Coba has gathered
together a number of Japanese musicians and composers for this
project, and even if the result is a matter of taste and everything
other than hip, it’s a success in terms of its spiritual effect.
The CD is not a collection of new age or "healing" music, and
— apart from the title’s suggestion — doesn’t even claim to have
healing powers. It’s more like a musical herbal potion that sets
the physical and psychological conditions that are necessary for
successful medical treatment. Middle age-style music using lutes
and flutes, Mongolian original chant, acoustic guitar pieces,
and, of course, Coba himself in two tango-flavored tracks, make
up a collection that doesn’t shout "like me!" but carefully says,
"hey, look, there’s such a huge power embodied in music." Organic
groove without the groovy element; music not for dancing, but
for feeling and thinking.
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