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Jack DeJohnette, Music in Key Of Om

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Qui Jack Dejohnette è al servizio di una musica per meditazione.

Si tratta di una pittura musicale che dura un’ora.

C’è un tappeto armonico ottenuto con una tastiera elettronica su cui una specie di flauto dal tono grave e delle campane (cimbali e resonating bells) intarsiano la scena sonora.

E’ sublime.

E’ calmante e introspettivo oltre ogni dire.

Gli intarsi cercano una medesima struttura sonora. Con minimi cambiamenti. Eppure jack non rinuncia allo schema variativo ed improvvisativo del jazz. È impercettibile.  E’ minimle Eppure c’è

Per tutta la durata e fino alla fine questo tappeto sonoro va a creare un frattale.

Io le vedo le singole strutture sonore ricorrenti, apparentemente uguali che si distendono nel disegno. Fino ad assomigliare ad un mandala

Solo che i mandala dejohnette lo scrive direttamente sul cervello. Nella parte musicale del cervello

In generale la musica per la meditazione oscilla fra la  new age o gli strumenti tradizionali delle culture oriental-asiatiche.

Qui siamo oltre. In un altro spazio interno/esterno

Qui dejohnette va oltre la meditativa ed oltre al mantra

Bisogna lasciarlo agire.

Lo consiglio anche di notte

In ogni caso è musica che vuole tempo.

Tempo per sé.

Hanno scritto di questo straordinario (in senso letyerale: fuori dell’ordine consueto):

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A sublime recording for relaxation and meditation entitled Music in the Key of Om where Jack uses his customed design Resonating Bells.
"The synthesized drone is as deep and warm as a featherbed, and the deep-pitched melody curls around itself in sinuous microtones but with unexpected syncopations... Throughout it there are beautiful, pure [resonating]bells ringing quietly at reassuring intervals." -Body & Soul Magazine 

Jack DeJohnette - Music in the Key of Om - Golden Beams Productions GBP1111 ***:

DeJohnette created this one-hour piece for his wife to use in her work as a healer. It involves synthesizer and resonating bells and is intended for people doing yoga, meditation or massage. It would fall into the New Age Music category, which I used to review years ago but haven’t for decades now. However, I found it very well done for its purpose - not a great deal going on but that’s the idea - you don’t want to be distracted by music that’s too active or complex. If you have subwoofers the low resonances of the bells will really move around the room.
- John Sunier

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The underlying OM sound soothes and awakes all of us to our true potential. Jack's music draws us deeper into a powerful meditative state, bell tone by bell tone. It begins its magic as soon as you hit play. I use this CD during energy healing sessions with my clients. They rest more deply and are nourished by the gentle themes that complement the sounds of the resonating bells, with consistently powerful results. I highly recommend this music to all, especially healers and massage therapists looking for a special kind of music that transports the client and healer to a place of deep contact and renewal.

DEAN RAMSDEN
Relational Energy healer, former class Dean at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing
Deanramsden.com

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The simultaneous release on Golden Beams is a different example, though it shares the quality of hypnotic focus. Music in the Key of Om is literally meant to induce snoozing. But I don't mean that as criticism. It is music specifically designed for meditation, massage, relaxation and mental refreshment. It is both less and more than that New Age hoo-hah. It is dead-to-rights healing music. Breathe in. Breathe out. There you go.

That this music was made by one of the most dynamic and exciting jazz drummers of the last 40 years is perhaps merely a curiosity. DeJohnette played with Miles Davis, creating the hypnotic but dirty thump that powered Bitches Brew. He powered bands of ash-can funk and Cadillac swing, not to mention wired up fusion power. Never once did he go soft or play the easy way. So it's somewhat hard to imagine him playing mind-mush stuff.

But maybe, just maybe, after forty years of playing the most powerfully polyrhythmic jazz there is, after cracking stick against skin and metal for all that time, meditation is just what DeJohnette needs. His wife does massage and healing (sounds good, eh?), and she asked him to compose and perform music to put her clients into the mindset for relaxed acceptance. And he did it.

On this disc, DeJohnette plays the Korg Triton keyboard and a series of resonating bells, exclusively. The album is a single, slow-moving track that cruises along on an extended, slow-pulsing pedal-point tone. His synth delivers the "ohhhmmmm" of the title like a meditative mantra; a soothing bagpipe drone that is like a body of salt water holding you buoyant and easy. Over this drone, he plays very simple, open melodic lines with very-to-no supporting harmony. Then, with a pleasing regularity, the resonating bells are struck.

DeJohnette allows the bells to do their work. They sonically pulse in time. He lets their waved ringing float over the drone and into your spine. You let your muscles unflex. You let your mind take a massage on the waves of the bells themselves.

 Jack DeJohnette
Music in the Key of Om
Kindred Rhythm
2005

Throughout his career Jack DeJohnette has persistently marched to the beat of his own proverbial different drummer, so it’s no surprise to find the remarkable multidirectional musician initiating his own imprint to document aspects of his art that do not fit neatly into the purview of the jazz record labels for which he regularly records. His first Golden Beams release, Music In The Key of Om is “music for meditating, relaxation and healing,” featuring DeJohnette on the Korg Triton keyboard and his own creation, Sabian Jack DeJohnette Resonating Bells. The hour of music is one extended Indian influenced piece with DeJohnette intoning a perpetual synthesized bass drone over which he explores a simple pleasing melody in repetitive cycles demarcated by the vibrations of the resonating bells. As a keyboardist he manages to coax a marvelously fluid human sound with an almost vocal quality from the electronic instrument, one that is integral to a dream-like state of peacefulness the music succeeds in achieving.

Russ Musto

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ACK DeJOHNETTE - Music In The Key Of OM (Golden Beams/Kindred 1111) "Music for meditating, relaxation and healing" or so it says underneath the title. I was sure I wasn't going to dig this solo synth (Korg Triton) and bells effort from one of the greatest jazz drummers alive, but I was wrong. Those bells do resonate for a long time and I do find these sounds most soothing. I rarely if ever listen to recorded music for relaxation, but I do find the drones and synth sound most appealing. Peaceful waves slowly wash over me as Jack slowly solos, telling a touching story in slow motion on the synth. The vibe is much like an Indian raga that takes its time to build in a trance-like state throughout. A completely transforming ordeal for those who need some relaxing sounds for our overly neurotic world.

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