Life Force Ensemble
Journeys in the Dreamtime
© 2007 Joan Forest Mage, Barry Bennett, James Cornolo (634479499333) (format: CD-R)
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In between dreams, there lies a sound - this is it. Guterally familiar, shamanically mystical vocals, guitar, percussion, traversing earthly landscapes, cultures and universal energy.
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Trance music extraordinaire! Close your eyes and let it take you deep into meditation. Good for yoga and trance dance, too. Created through improvisation, spirit channels through this music.
"Journeys" is an elemental awakening of fire and water, splitting the surface to magical perceptions, ever present, ever here.
Makes you want to sigh, to float on by in a cloud of sunshine, storm, to be inspired: speak language from the depths of ancestors.
Drifting on a tranquil river, riding on a lightning flash, dancing with the animal guides, traveling into mist…and home.
The members of Life Force Ensemble (Barry Bennett, James Cornolo and Joan Forest Mage) have been creating shamanic healing dance-music ritual since 1995. Joan is the founder-director of Life Force Arts Foundation, a center for shamanic healing and art in Chicago.
Band Members:
Barry Bennett - djembe, dun dun, vocals, balaphone, miscellaneous acoustic and electronic percussion
James Cornolo - guitar, cuatro, recorder, percussion
Joan Forest Mage - vocals
Musical direction - Joan Forest Mage
Produced by Barry Bennett at North Mission Studio www.milkbaby.net
Liner notes - Will Bennett and Joan Forest Mage
Graphic design - Will Bennett
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- author: Kate
This album feels like it was ripped from someone's innards. This is good in the sense that it is authentically human and raw, with sophisticated musicianship. It is only bad if you don't want to face what it is ripped open in yourself.
Journeys in the Dreamtime
author: Linda BelanI literally feel energy move when I listen to this CD. If you're at all sensitive to the energies around you, this CD has the mojo. It is a favorite for meditation. Highly recommend it.
A profound and magickal journey
author: Rick Sanford"Journeys in the Dreamtime" takes you on a profound and magickal journey, if you let it. Being an amateur musician and improviser myself, I was struck by how rich, organic and deep the music-making on this album is. This is clearly not some hastily thrown together recording of several recording sessions, but a finely tuned work of art. One of the first things I noticed is the depth of emotion that the music called forth. Most music nowadays - even a lot of "new age" music - sounds heavily contrived to me - lacking the natural organicism that allows one to connect with the sacred and mysterious within. "Journeys in the Dreamtime" delivers totally this quality. In fact, upon listening to this, I got the impulse to dance interpretively to this music (which is very rarely inspired by ANY music). The profundity of this music simply calls out to channeled and expressed - whether in your landscapes of your imagination, your body, etc. Thank you Life Force Ensemble for sharing this with the world!
I am transformed every time hear this band
author: Renee O'FarrellI have gone to many of their gigs, and I am transformed every time. Thank you all.
- author: Osiris Stargod
Some bands call themselves shamanic, but you guys are the real thing!