Released
1999

Label
Materali Sonori Italy

Reviewed by
Kim Ann Alexander

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Materiali Sonori
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Last Edit/Update
06 July, 1999

Masala

Drop 7. Music For Meditation

Track Listing

1. Jait Jungle (Urban Meditation)
2. Notturno (Night Meditation)
3. Just A Love (Jazz Meditation)
4. Mumbay Blues (Mumble Meditation)
5. My Favourite Prayer (Thin Meditation)
6. In Motion (Trip Meditation)
7. Finale (End Meditation)

Performers:
Boliwar Miranda (bamboo flutes)
Maurizio Dami (keyboards)
Ettore Bonafè (percussions)
and Stefano Bollani (piano)

Total time: 51:32
Recording: digital
Master: digital
Series: Indian Modern Music. Raga 'n' bass. Drop Collection.
Recording and digital filter by Maurizio Dami
Photos by Lucia Baldini
Art direction by Ernest Torhnton
Digital image by Ivan Iusco
Produced by Maurizio Dami and Giampiero Bigazzi

     Professionally created sound, production, art and mastering, "Masala" is a rich blend of meditative ambient contemporary and jazz music that creates a warm and inviting atmosphere. The tempting beats (sounds like water bowls...), and bamboo flutes entice me to dance into a blissful meditative mood. Mellow and very smooth, this entire release drifts along within a dreamy realm of calm and sensuous timbres, percussion and flute with a flavour of Eastern culture. It is an easy release to become wrapped up with like a cosy blanket near a quiet fire in winter and a cup of tea by which to relax.
    "Materiali Sonori" releases quite a bit of excellent music (you can locate works by John Zorn and Arlo Bigazzi there), "Masala" is no exception with this # 7. in a series of releases of this nature, "Music For Meditation." As the inside cover suggests: "It's different to all that you have ever heard. Best Use: Body cheer up and Mind clean up. And rightfully so as I have found # 7. Drop is indeed a step towards cleansing of the mind and a beautifully harmonic set of aural instruction to facilitate inner peace.