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CD Review: "Galunlati"
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You are travelling through space, falling feet first, at
the speed of light. Because you are not accelerating there
is no physical sensation of motion. You are travelling
within an infinitely long cylindrical solid made of a
transluscent blue-green gel.

Effervescent bubbles in the gel come up at you and ripple
around your body in shimmering eddies. The gel luminesces
and you feel its wetness. Its temperature matches
your body. Falling falling, down you go across the
universe, past clouds of interstellar matter, past stars,
through perfect blackness. The bubbles in the gel somehow
enable you to breath deeply and slowly, rhythmically.

Your body has been impaled on a shaft of light that is
being transmitted through the center of the gelataneous
conduit. Grounding Energy enters your feet and comes up
through your body, activating each of your chakras. You
feel each of them in turn as they resonate and align with
each crest of the wave of energy that continually flows
through you. As a burst breaks through your third eye and
then triggers the crown chakra, you have the sensation of
the white globe above your head bursting open like a white
peony in spring. The energy wave, the impaling shaft of
light, travels on up past infinity and into the eye of
God.

An intoxicating aroma swirls within your nasal cavity,
shimmering and resonating within your senses. You become
aware that your vocal chords are vibrating -- you are
groaning in unison with the voices you hear. They chant a
prayer of unity with the cosmos. All is one, we are all
interconnected. You have become attuned and in resonance
with that truth.

Welcome to "Ten Thousand Things".

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Now it is night time but it is bright because a full moon
has appeared on the horizon, slowly ascending. You are
on top of a clearing on a hill in the mountains. The
clearing is surrounded by woods. You are lying down,
facing up at the sky. There is bright light flickering
nearby but you feel no warmth, but no cold either. There
is no discomfort, no fear, all concerns are gone. You are
in a deep state of peace and awareness. Without turning
your head, you know that a wolf to the east observes you
silently from just within the woods.

Now you remember why you are here. Your body is burning
away on top of a funeral pyre. Flesh is being reduced
to ashes. You observe the process intimately. It feels
right.

Slowly, the moon traverses the sky as the fire burns on
throughout the night. It is silent except for the
crackling and occasional boom coming from the incinerating
wood.

Morning comes and then a brief afternoon squall finishes
off the embers. A few skull fragments are left but not
much else. Ashes wash away into the ground from the rain.

As the seasons pass, you feel each atom of your body
as it is redistributed througout the earth. Parts of
your minerals feed grass and wildflowers and you feel in
resonance with each blade. Deer eat the grass and you move
on and travel with each of them, seeing and experiencing
what each of them sees and experiences. Slugs and
grasshoppers each your blades of grass. Other men eat the
deer and tnhen one day, they burn too. Some particles of
you soak into the water table and move hundreds of miles
underground then up through a spring into a creek then
down the creek into a river then out the river into the
ocean. Your body in now thousands of miles across and you
are completely aware of each molecule and of each atom
within each molecule. Some molecules chemically react
with others in their new environment and became new
substances. You are aware of each one. A thousand years
pass. Then two thousand. During this time, you see and
are part of all and are completely aware.

One day each molecule will be reassembled from diverse
places into a resurrected body and you will move again.

You will then be told of Galunlati -- the Celestial Upper
Realm. The Land of the Great Elders, where the animals and
plants lived before the Creation of Man.

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"Galunlati: Ancient Sounds in A Modern World"
by Jacky Ligon released 2001

1. Transmigrations of Inner Light
2. Galunlati
3. Quest for Pure Metals
4. Clouds of Remembrance
5. Ten Thousand Things

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Technical Details:

Mixing:

Extremely well done: Transparence, No harmonic distortion,
will make you think someone has replaced your stereo with
a $100,000 model with a name you can't pronounce. Uses
spatializer type 3D enhancement throughout, but also some
use of a 3D positional audio algorithm which includes some
azimuthal positioning ability.

Orchestration: Superb choices of timbres.

Performance:

Flawless. Top performers. Percussionist Bill Smith is
remarkable and vocalists Richard Hunt and Ghighua are
extremely professional.

Misc.: Liner notes include details on tunings used.

Overall: Astonishing. Among the best works I have heard.

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Summary:

Who can deny that music hit a brick wall and died two
hundred years ago? It has lain dead in a ditch on the side
of the cow path since that time, though some have confused
the occasional twitching of that corpse with symptoms of
new life.

The 21st century is finally showing promise though with
the appearance of tribal artists ressurecting the ancient
traditions and creating new paradigms of metaphysical
unity through multidimensional soundscapes. Jacky Ligon, a
Native American from North Carolina, is one such artist
who has tapped into the wavefront of the energy of his
ancestral spirits, riding that crest as it builds up
approaching the shore of the 21st century, ready to become
a tsunami or wildfire that levels the old cities, erasing
their constrictions and gifting us with an opportunity to
rebuild.

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Review by X. J. Scott, (c) 3/10/2001
Permission to reprint in entirety or in part granted,
provided acknowledgment is given to author and copy of
publication in which reprint occurs is sent to author.
(contact xjscott@earthlink.net for address)

--- In tuning@y..., "J Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> CD Review: "Galunlati"
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Your body has been impaled on a shaft of light that is
> being transmitted through the center of the gelataneous
> conduit. Grounding Energy enters your feet and comes up
> through your body, activating each of your chakras. You
> feel each of them in turn as they resonate and align with
> each crest of the wave of energy that continually flows
> through you. As a burst breaks through your third eye and
> then triggers the crown chakra, you have the sensation of
> the white globe above your head bursting open like a white
> peony in spring. The energy wave, the impaling shaft of
> light, travels on up past infinity and into the eye of
> God.

Jeff,

I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful
review!

I would also like to privately tell you about a recent dream about
the crown chakra.

>
> An intoxicating aroma swirls within your nasal cavity,
> shimmering and resonating within your senses. You become
> aware that your vocal chords are vibrating -- you are
> groaning in unison with the voices you hear. They chant a
> prayer of unity with the cosmos. All is one, we are all
> interconnected. You have become attuned and in resonance
> with that truth.

I glad this comes across, because it is how I feel.

>
> Welcome to "Ten Thousand Things".
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> As the seasons pass, you feel each atom of your body
> as it is redistributed througout the earth. Parts of
> your minerals feed grass and wildflowers and you feel in
> resonance with each blade. Deer eat the grass and you move
> on and travel with each of them, seeing and experiencing
> what each of them sees and experiences. Slugs and
> grasshoppers each your blades of grass. Other men eat the
> deer and tnhen one day, they burn too. Some particles of
> you soak into the water table and move hundreds of miles
> underground then up through a spring into a creek then
> down the creek into a river then out the river into the
> ocean. Your body in now thousands of miles across and you
> are completely aware of each molecule and of each atom
> within each molecule. Some molecules chemically react
> with others in their new environment and became new
> substances. You are aware of each one. A thousand years
> pass. Then two thousand. During this time, you see and
> are part of all and are completely aware.

Sounds like we walk in similar "wooded trails". Last year I had an
incredible experience where during a walk I came upon a 7 point buck,
and he didn't see me because I stood perfectly still. It was like
coming face to face with the ground of one's being to be within about
15 feet of this unchained spirit. So bold - and proud.

> Technical Details:
>
> Mixing:
>
> Extremely well done: Transparence, No harmonic distortion,
> will make you think someone has replaced your stereo with
> a $100,000 model with a name you can't pronounce. Uses
> spatializer type 3D enhancement throughout, but also some
> use of a 3D positional audio algorithm which includes some
> azimuthal positioning ability.

Very perceptive, and all of the parts were individually recorded and
processed. Some having well over 100 tracks. I like to think of it
as a virtual sound stage, where some timbres are allowed to "dance"
across.

>
> Orchestration: Superb choices of timbres.
>
> Performance:
>
> Flawless. Top performers. Percussionist Bill Smith is
> remarkable and vocalists Richard Hunt and Ghighua are
> extremely professional.

Thanks, and good gentlefolk too, I might add. They'll be elated to
hear of your review!

>
> Misc.: Liner notes include details on tunings used.
>
> Overall: Astonishing. Among the best works I have heard.

I'm honored beyond words that you have enjoyed it Jeff.

>
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> Summary:
>
> Who can deny that music hit a brick wall and died two
> hundred years ago? It has lain dead in a ditch on the side
> of the cow path since that time, though some have confused
> the occasional twitching of that corpse with symptoms of
> new life.
>
> The 21st century is finally showing promise though with
> the appearance of tribal artists resurrecting the ancient
> traditions and creating new paradigms of metaphysical
> unity through multidimensional soundscapes. Jacky Ligon, a
> Native American from North Carolina, is one such artist
> who has tapped into the wavefront of the energy of his
> ancestral spirits, riding that crest as it builds up
> approaching the shore of the 21st century, ready to become
> a tsunami or wildfire that levels the old cities, erasing
> their constrictions and gifting us with an opportunity to
> rebuild.

Well, I love this music and all the folks involved in the microtonal
cause. We've certainly got a mission on our hands, and perhaps union
in the tribal spirit is a good place to start for making things
happen.

Blessings to you, and thanks for making my day glow with happiness!

Jacky Ligon

CD Review: Galunlati

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