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This double Gravity & Grace music CD contains over two-and-a-half hours of gorgeous music written especially for the Gravity & Grace DVD featuring yoga Master Peter Sterios, exquisitely filmed by Mikki Willis and scored by Stuart Balcomb.
“From the beginning of this project,
it was clear to me that those involved in putting together my first
yoga DVD all shared one vision: to create from a space of inspiration.
From the outset, the cinematography, the choreography, the editing, the
authoring, and finally with the composing of original music which you
will find on this CD, every aspect reflected that commitment made by
all the artists, Stuart’s music was the icing on an already amazing
cake that brought all the pieces together seamlessly. This music is
perfect for creating the “acoustic space” for yoga, for massage, for
meditation, and for any activity where music and sound can invoke the
power to transform.” –Peter Sterios, Yoga Instructor
DOUBLE CD WITH OVER 2.5 HOURS OF MUSIC!
Click here to listen to MP3 excerpts!
Review from DailyOm.com
July 24th, 2008
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A fixture in the Los Angeles soundtrack scene, Stuart Balcomb composed the soundtrack music for Peter Sterios's yoga DVD Gravity and Grace
using a variety of mind-entraining tones and instruments, perfectly
accompanying the poses and unusual imagery of Sterious's style. It made
such an impression that this music was also used in the film The Moses
Code and released via this beautiful two-CD booklet. A work of art in
its own right, the CD set works on a primitive futurism theme; it’s as
if Balcomb's music is coming to us from a timeless, ancient alternate
history, an uncovered artifact in an ancient desert of the spirit.
The album opens with a brush of chimes, a slowly repeating fretless
bass note, Arabian flutes, and deep rolling tablas. The tablas and
flutes create a sense of ethereal winds and the bass keeps one in
deep-rooted lower-chakra consciousness. From here, Balcomb expands his
palette to include didgeridoo, ambient water droplets, bell-tower
chimes, throat singing, synths, and guitars, all conjuring waves of
antithetical emotion: fear and acceptance, repentance and
transfiguration, recognition of mortality and eternal bliss.
"Wanderers" develops from a popular kirtan melody, which will be
immediately familiar to yoga music lovers, but this is not simple
relaxation music. There's too much of the cinematic scribe in Balcomb's
blood. In the playful music box melody and fretless bass undercurrent
and flute lead, there's a real sense of time and drama flowing through
here. Its urgency makes one think of movie scenes: an anxious walk
through the park to meet a clandestine lover, or hiking through a
mysterious glass mall in search of the unnamable. "Lake Memories" joins
long, heavy synth pads, drones, and a lapping-lake ambient sound with
offhand finger cymbals. The "memory" that Balcomb conjures is one that
is prenatal; this lake is fathomless and our memory is the fully
recorded story of time itself.
Approaching the limitless divide between classical, world, and movie
soundtrack music, the 30-minute "Anahata" earns extra points by being
completely enrapturing, exciting, and tranquilizing at the same time,
effortlessly moving from jazzy fretless bass-led percussion grooves to
droning cinematic sweep. With one ear tuned to the music of emotional
manipulation in the service of suspense and emotion, the other tuned to
the limitless and spiritual, Balcomb is keyed in to a sound that exists
beyond duality and emotion. Gravity and Grace
invites listeners to move freely from one to the other, to recognize
that pain and pleasure, fear and desire, are merely different ends on
the same twisty cinematic serpent. Follow the beat, and you can find
your way past all pairs of opposites."
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