Gregory Allison, Tristan de Liège - Samatha (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Gregory Allison, Tristan de Liège
- Title: Samatha
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Holy Volcano
- Genre: Ambient, Meditation, World
- Quality: FLAC 24/48000; 16/44100; MP3 320
- Total Time: 00:41:57
- Total Size: 97; 215; 459 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Samatha is a Pali word meaning calmness of mind. It is a practice in Buddhist Vipassana meditation. We present these viola meditations as an offering of peace and healing through music.
Years of musical and spiritual practice have fused the disciplines into one way of being: the music bridging material and astral planes, and the spiritual offering purpose to the whole experience. In college, I began meditating, discovered Indian Classical Music, and was given the Hazarat Inayat Khan classic The Mysticism of Sound and Music, a book that has been my sonic-spiritual guide ever since. Through Khan’s explanations of how energy is created in this world by the material and ethereal aspects of sound, he gave me words to describe the intuitive experience I felt when I played. His teachings opened my perception to the energetic impression that each sound leaves on a place, and how a place has a memory for all the sounds that has shaped it through its history. This is a powerful mantra for one who sits alone in a room with their instrument and nothing else. Every sound I make here and now will not only stay here forever, but will shape and contribute to the presence of this place, forever.
From the second teaching of the Bhagavad Gita:
No effort in this world
is lost or wasted;
a fragment of sacred duty
saves you from great fear.
Every note that is produced by my instrument has a lasting impression, whether or not it’s “on record.” In some ways, the impression of music not on record is stronger than a recording, possibly because it exists in the living, breathing, moving memory, and the way that sound affects memory in one moment can alter how we hear and remember everything for a lifetime. Memory is a place, and sound very well may be its material foundation.
Samatha was recorded in a place, at a time, and with the intention for the sounds to be shared in new places, at new times. The performances are expressions of a moment, and are presented on this record as both glimpses into that moment of creation, and as an offering for new moments of sonic memory creation.
-Gregory Allison
Tracklist:
1-1 Gregory Allison - Samatha I [2:42]
1-2 Gregory Allison - Samatha II [2:51]
1-3 Gregory Allison - Samatha III [3:05]
1-4 Gregory Allison - Samatha IV [2:36]
1-5 Gregory Allison - Samatha V [2:16]
1-6 Gregory Allison - Samatha VI [3:04]
1-7 Gregory Allison - Samatha VII [3:30]
1-8 Gregory Allison - Samatha I (Extended) [8:42]
1-9 Gregory Allison - Samatha IV (Extended) [5:40]
1-10 Gregory Allison - Samatha VI (Extended) [7:32]
Years of musical and spiritual practice have fused the disciplines into one way of being: the music bridging material and astral planes, and the spiritual offering purpose to the whole experience. In college, I began meditating, discovered Indian Classical Music, and was given the Hazarat Inayat Khan classic The Mysticism of Sound and Music, a book that has been my sonic-spiritual guide ever since. Through Khan’s explanations of how energy is created in this world by the material and ethereal aspects of sound, he gave me words to describe the intuitive experience I felt when I played. His teachings opened my perception to the energetic impression that each sound leaves on a place, and how a place has a memory for all the sounds that has shaped it through its history. This is a powerful mantra for one who sits alone in a room with their instrument and nothing else. Every sound I make here and now will not only stay here forever, but will shape and contribute to the presence of this place, forever.
From the second teaching of the Bhagavad Gita:
No effort in this world
is lost or wasted;
a fragment of sacred duty
saves you from great fear.
Every note that is produced by my instrument has a lasting impression, whether or not it’s “on record.” In some ways, the impression of music not on record is stronger than a recording, possibly because it exists in the living, breathing, moving memory, and the way that sound affects memory in one moment can alter how we hear and remember everything for a lifetime. Memory is a place, and sound very well may be its material foundation.
Samatha was recorded in a place, at a time, and with the intention for the sounds to be shared in new places, at new times. The performances are expressions of a moment, and are presented on this record as both glimpses into that moment of creation, and as an offering for new moments of sonic memory creation.
-Gregory Allison
Tracklist:
1-1 Gregory Allison - Samatha I [2:42]
1-2 Gregory Allison - Samatha II [2:51]
1-3 Gregory Allison - Samatha III [3:05]
1-4 Gregory Allison - Samatha IV [2:36]
1-5 Gregory Allison - Samatha V [2:16]
1-6 Gregory Allison - Samatha VI [3:04]
1-7 Gregory Allison - Samatha VII [3:30]
1-8 Gregory Allison - Samatha I (Extended) [8:42]
1-9 Gregory Allison - Samatha IV (Extended) [5:40]
1-10 Gregory Allison - Samatha VI (Extended) [7:32]
| World | Ambient | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl
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