Track Listing

1. Nada Himalaya 1
2. Nada Himalaya 2
3. Final

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41673 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Deuter's masterful meditation music echoes the pristine essence of a Himalayan retreat by integrating Tibetan bells and bowls, chimes, and the natural sounds of a mountain stream. Expanding reverberations and overtones meld in perfect harmony.

Reviews "...Deuter has been gifted with an exquisite number of superb percussion pieces from Nepal, Tibet, Japan, and India. Sounding them with both tenderness and feeling, he manifests a timeless space in which endlessly expanding reverberations and overtones meld in perfect harmony." --New Age Retailer Magazine

"The sound of the mild connection with the bowls echoes and drifts to the point of entering the realm of silence. Nada's subtitle, 'Music for Meditation,' reveals ambient music at its very core..." --New Age Voice

About the Artist
For over three decades, New Earth Records recording artist Deuter has been merging influences, blending genres and shifting musical paradigms on a global scale.

Born in 1945 in postwar Germany, Deuter studied the flute, taught himself guitar and just about every instrument he could get his hands on, though it wasn't until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties that he decided to pursue a career in music. His first release in 1970, simply entitled "D," was to become a modernist classic. "D" marked the beginning of Deuter's spiritual and musical journey, ostensibly paving the way for a new genre of music known as "New Age," which combined acoustic and electronic elements with ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds, such as whale and bird song, the open sea, wind in the trees, et cetera.

Over the years, Deuter has continued learn and master a vast array of instruments, including the drums, the shakuhachi flute, the koto, sitar, Tibetan singing bowls, santoor, bhuzuki, piano and keyboard. He's recorded and released over 60 albums and has sold too many records to count. All the while, Deuter has never ceased to explore new frequencies and resonances. "One thing that is important for me is that I love dancing on the edge of the unknown--to play around and open doors I haven't walked through before," says Deuter. It is this very outlook that has kept him at the forefront of musical evolution for over 35 years.

Deuter lives and works in the mountains outside of Santa Fe New Mexico, creating the contemplative, healing music he's become known for today. His most recent albums include "East of the Full Moon," two bestselling recordings of Tibetan singing bowls, called "Nada Himalaya", as well as 2003's "Earth Blue," a collaboration with Volkswagen for their Autostadt exhibition in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Customer Reviews

Tibetan Bells Ring on Forever
I can't give this CD strong enough praise. This is the best music for meditation or creating a peaceful background that I've found in many years. Anyone who has heard a Tibetan Bowl Gong knows the powerful effect of its sustained ringing tones. But this CD takes that effect and magnifies it by continuing the sustain even longer than is natural, and layering many bell tones over each other. Recordings of bowl gongs usually don't come close to the affect of hearing the real thing, but this CD is almost better than the real thing. It actually creates a unique experience all its own. I find myself putting this CD on repeat as I work around the house on a sunny day. I can forget its on and leave it play for hours. This is monumental ambient music. Truly a classic.

Timeless and Entrancing
I have been a fan of Deuter ever since I heard his album Ecstacy in the early 1980's. The seeming simplicity of the sound is deceiving. Being calm and still while listening, one can become transported into other realms. Unlike other recordings featuring Tibetan Singing Bowls, this one creates a field of beautiful sound rather than trying to make compositions. There is really nothing to follow, no place to go, one can simply be and breathe. Hearing this recording is like taking a sonic bath that revitalizes and refreshes one's nervous system.

Electronic Bells
The promotional material for this CD (elsewhere!) described the 'pure' sounds of Himalayan bells. With this promise I was keen to receive the CD. However, I was very disappointed to find a truly excessive use of electronics obscuring the real sound of these wonderful instruments. Anybody who has heard one of these instruments will be unable to reconcile the acoustic experience with this distortion. Whilst each must follow his own muse, yet I found the electronics creating inharmony upon the deeper inner levels and so feel strongly that I should say so. These sounds are highly complex - with between 300-400 overtones and not inclined to too much 'studio' modification - however fashionable that may be. Similar renditions of singing bowl music have been more sensitively handled by KARMA MOFFETT (USA) on his GOLDEN BOWLS CD and also by DANNY BECHER (Holland) on his FLOATING SPIRITS cassette. I am truly sorry that I cannot add this CD to that list. In 1973 I was given a sacred and extremely powerful 12th century Tibetan meditation cymbal by a yogi from Tibet and my collection has grown - so I do have some experience of these magical instruments. Tremendous care is needed in their use.