One dreams away on a good rhythm, another on a beautiful melody. Ranga offers both on a very nice meditative CD. Full of Indian tabla rhythms and violin play, together with soundscapes and other electronic work with many of those hallucinating rhymical repetitions. Call it a sort of minimal mantra music. The result is very acoustic & authentic, so one would expect Indians behind this album. Nothing of it, just Dutchman, who also happen to sing mantras very beautifully. This is a cd to have in your collection.
Wim van der Zwan
Magazine Onkruid.
East Indian instrumentation blending together with keyboards, violin and vocal chant is offered in this blissful new release from Ranga.Ted de Jong’s masterful use of the sitar, tablas, large-frame drum, kanjira and other traditional Indian instruments creates marvelous musical soundscapes that are distinctly Eastern in their approach, but fully expand to embrace Western Native cultures as well. New age, World, ambient and trance-dance elements are interwoven into deeply moving, sonic expressions of spiritual joy and oneness that lift the spirit to its own Radiant Awakening. Here, the listener can meditate on the deeper meaning of the (title-producing) Zen poem: INTO THE RADIANT AWAKENING YOU ARE BORN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Perfect for yoga, visualization and trance-dance and also recommended to all lovers of Indian / Ambient / New Age music.
Musical Soundscapes
Rev Robert Walmsley
