“Lovesong From the Mountain” embodies this metaphor perfectly, with erhu and flute hovering in a state of timeless grace above flowing synth washes. Lulling and pulling as they flow, this music seems to exert a gravitational pull on centers in the body of the listener. The album is subtitled Reiki Sound Healing and even if you don’t know reiki or are listening to the album alone in your room and not at a healing center, there is undeniably some force at work in the tones and pulses of Deuter’s work. When a single piano note dissolves the trance, as in “Sound of Invisible Waters,” the effect is startling. Gradually piano notes multiply and create a quilt of healing energy that spreads out to envelop the listener with all the gentle warmth of Grandma’s favorite blanket.

Nowhere is this feeling more profound than on the closing track, the aptly named “Escape From Gravity.” This elegiac piece encompasses all that’s come before and ends the album with the same wistful joy of saying good-bye to a house that’s full of old friends. All the phrases of the previous tracks return—blissfully cycling piano arpeggios, mournful ehru and stoic flute—flowing together to touch every facet of the soul and emotion. We may feel at times that we will escape gravity and scale the highest peaks of experience, but ultimately we have to descend. Deuter makes the sadness and beauty this implies marvelously tangible.

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The opening track, “Whale Dreaming” starts out at the surface, with the warm salty rush of waves, foam breaking on the ocean surface, and the distant roar of the mammoth sea creatures. Kamal’s lighter synthesizer pads and Kalma’s flute providing poetic counterpoint to the deeper bass moans of the whales. These whalesongs are among the best, from deep sea recording genius Frank Watlington; they fill the space around you as you listen, until you can almost see the whales right there in your living room, or the ocean of space between your headphones.

“Song of the Deep” blends chimes and throat singing with the bubbly echoes of whale song, creating the pleasant sensation of being suspended in a warm ocean hug, floating beyond space and time both alone and surrounded by guiding voices. The long tones of the throat singing and chanting (here Kamal is joined by throat singing master Darpan) blend imperceptibly with the whales here, making one notice how the sounds the whales make so often echo our own “Om” sound, here coming slowly out from the depths, expanding and then gradually receding in volume. Elsewhere in the album orchestral synths and flute take total control, as on “Out of the Blue,” making it clear that this is a Kamal album through and through, with his own intrinsically unique stamp on the material. He deftly keeps you relaxed in a sense of timeless immersion with or without his cetacean accompanists. With proceeds from sales going to whale-friendly organizations, this album’s good karma is assured.

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“GRACE/various: A classically styled meditation album collected from the catalogs of several of the label reliable, stalwarts, this collection is one of those well woven, well chosen sets that invites you to dig deeper. Far from being the kind of new age that’s the punch line of jokes, this is a solid collection aimed primarily at the devotee while being accessible enough to bring a new host of curious into the tent. Check it out. ”

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Opening track “Awakening the Serpent” starts out slow and mellow with tribal drums and growling didgeridoo-level monk chanting. It’s a divine call to the kundalini energy slumbering at the base of the spine, bidding the force to rise once again. Rise it does, with every new beat an increased feeling of joy buzzes along the spine. “Everything Is Energy” takes it to the next level, providing a stimulating workout. Things get spaceward and rocking in “Alchemy of Breath,” with some of Kavi’s Pink Floyd roots coming through in the otherworldly yowling of his electric guitar solo.

Thank goodness Kavi found that London yoga studio and his true calling: to “spread love and reconnect ourselves with our divine nature.” His music is a boon to slumbering energy serpents everywhere. Don’t be afraid to bring Breath of Fire to your yoga teacher, or play it at home and breathe the fire while doing the dishes or straightening the living room. And when things have calmed down into that final breathtaking track of drones and synthesizer voices, “Moving Beyond,” don’t be afraid to let your whole body shudder with relief. As the simple glacial drones overlap, let the last of the pent-up toxins drain in a torrent of grateful tears. Kavi and his serpentine guitar licks and infectious beats will always be there when you’re ready to stir the embers and start the dance all over again.

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Opener “Gatekeeping” shows off Asher’s sumptuous mastery of the “circular breathing” process of true didgeridoo masters, as he seems to speak out in percussive waves through the instrument, under squelches and space-age sounds from a 303 synthesizer. The buzzing frenzy is enough to have you in an ecstatic trance running around your apartment, feeling the worries and woes of your daily life melt away to be replaced by something feral, immediate, and intimate. “Bells of Freedom” has a gentle, fun melody coming through on the bells over a percolating bed of synth, percussion, and didgeridoo. It’s only as the melody takes you over that you realize just how involved and fractal-elaborate it really is. Murky tracks like “Kundu Tribal” use the didge in conjunction with a funky, slippery electric bass and an industrial percussion grid to create the vibe of slithering and slinking into the center of the earth as a big cinnamon-butter wave moves to the edge of a cut piece of toast.

Like the blazing, saturated tiger from the flames on the cover, Asher’s Return of the Tiger has a phoenix-like power. Even if you haven’t meditated in ages or felt that divine, deep anima mundi connection, Asher can lead you right to the heart of it as if you never left. There’s a calm, urgent stride to this album, a sense of constant forward momentum while its stillness makes it ideal for, say, running or the gym, driving, or strutting through the park in your best plumage on a burnished autumnal day. With the deep roots of Asher’s music to hold you, there are no limits.”

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Capturing the surf in different environments and times of day, the album roars with the rushing tides of Nice, calms with the tranquil splashes against the pier and water rushing over sand at Lanzarote, ascends in the misty spraying tide of Bali˜where you can practically hear each grain of crystalline sand sing in delight as warm water rushes over it˜and the splashy crashes and slouchy retreats of the surf in Cannes recall nothing so much as a big, sloppy loving dog rushing up to lick your toes. While some may be expectinga gentle three-note flute or synthesizer melody to slowly materialize in the spray of these oceanic sounds, it never does. Musicians are welcome to add their own, of course, and play along over the waves for a restful counterpoint, but for the rest of us perhaps that expectation can work to form a nice gateway into deeper states of relaxed meditation and awareness of the moment, facilitating the ultimate surrender into the loving arms of spiritual bliss. The deeper and closer we listen we hear the subtleties and energy flows of these sounds, which are brilliantly and patiently recorded to allow every last spritz of salty spray and gush of inward tide, and every deep drag back out to sea, its personal voice.

Everything merges into an unceasing flow in Deuter’s microphone and spacious recording panorama. We can listen deeply enough to hear our own primordial birth out of the chaotic soup of the sea, our early days as a microbe swimming so small and helpless in the vast universal tide, the long process of becoming our present complicated selves seeming to have taken really no time at all. Time ceases to exist in the flow of the sea. There is only one wave, it comes it goes, but in its constant change is never changing. In knowing this, as the Upanishads say, the rest is known. Deuter knows.

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