Yamantaka

1. Revolving Mask of Yamataka - Jody Diamond, Mickey Hart, Nancy Hennings, Sandy Sawyer, Henry Wolff

2. Yamantaka: Parts 1-7 - Jody Diamond, Mickey Hart, Nancy Hennings, Sandy Sawyer, Henry Wolff

3. Towards the Bending of the Light - Mickey Hart, Nancy Hennings, Henry Wolff

4. Solar Winds - Mickey Hart, Nancy Hennings, Henry Wolff

5. Field of Souls - Mickey Hart, Nancy Hennings, Henry Wolff

Yamantaka,Mickey Hart,Henry Wolff,Nancy Hennings,Celestial Harmonies,Ethnic Fusion,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Tibet,United States of America,Worldbeat

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The Revolving Mask of Yamantaka
a.k.a. Tibetan Bells IV

Yamantaka
Mickey Hart , Henry Wolff , and Nancy Hennings
Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000007VN
Release Date: 1992-01-23

Tracks:

The Revolving Mask Of Yamantaka
Yamantaka: Part 1/Part 2/Part 3/Part 4/Part 5/Part 6/Part 7
Towards The Bending Of The Light (Bonus Track)
Solar Winds (Bonus Track)
Field Of Souls (Bonus Track)

Album Description

In 1982, The Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart, teamed up with Tibetan bell virtuosos, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, to create a uniquely expressive journey to the mystical roots of percussion. It has been critically acclaimed for its subtle, yet masterful percussion soundscapes. Yamantaka is the Tibetan god of the dead and lord of the underworld. Hart, Wolff, and Hennings have succeeded in portraying these Tibetan legends of afterlife through a quietly evolving collage of sound. The six-part suite Yamantaka is at once somber, mysterious and meditative. 'The Revolving Mask of Yamantaka' raises the level of intensity through whirling rhythmic gyrations, spectral harmonics and the cyclical resonations of the Tibetan bells. Celestial Harmonies' remastered version of Yamantaka also features three bonus tracks composed especially for this CD reissue. Recorded digitally in July of 1991, 'Towards the Bending of the Light', 'Solar Winds', and 'Field of Souls' were performed by Wolff and Hennings with special guest Brian Keane. The resulting collection of sounds offers a stirring portrait of death and judgment.

Customer Reviews:

The Revolving Mask of Yamantaka.......2007-03-04

This is a very good album featuring Mickey Hart, Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings. Mickey said after the album's original release that it was basically a Henry and Nancy album that he helped out on. It's good if your into meditation and you like new age music but once again, it's not the kind of thing that you'll play alot.

a.k.a. Tibetan Bells IV.......1999-04-06

Fourth in the series of great TB albums

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Outside of expectations.
Not Really Worth Your Time
1/2 good
Dekoboko means bumpy
Zorn & eYe

Nani Nani
John Zorn With Dekoboko Hajime &Yamantaka Eye
Manufacturer: Tzadik
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003YU2
Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

Eep Man
Test Tube
Thank You For Not Thinking
Pulp Wars
Sticky Beethoven's Pipeline
Laughing Eskimo
Damascus
Yoga Dollar
Propolution
My Rainbow Life
Bad Hawkwind
We Live

Customer Reviews:

Outside of expectations........2005-05-10

This album is a bit of an enigma-- John ZOrn and Yamantaka Eye in duet typically perform with a fire and energy quite uncommonly found-- this record instead is largely an ambient album, with atmosphere and noise synthesis far outweighing energy.

This isn't to say there's not quite a bit of interesting music on here, opener "Eep Man", featuring lounge sax and Eye's punctuated screams is certainly catching, and "Propoltion" is fantastic, but mostly its Eye chanting ("Test Tube"), moaning ("Thank You For Not Thinking", "Pulp Wars"), babbling ("Damascus") or whimpering ("Yoga Dollar") over samples and ambient sounds. And then there's the infamous "Bad Hawkwind"-- 18 minutes of sampled and looped Eye screaming that seems kind of amusing at first but starts grating.

Its not a bad album, but its not particularly good either-- if you're interested in exploring the partnership of these two, check out the live set thats part of the Zorn 50th birthday concert series.

Not Really Worth Your Time.......2004-11-01

I hate having to write a review like this,especially when I'm a fan of Zorn's other work and groups like Boredoms/Ruins/Melt Banana.Inevitably you will find useless reviews here where close minded people go on and on about how THIS IS THE WORST ALBUM EVER!!THIS IS NOT MUSIC!IT"S JUST NOISE!!!

Funny how these people can tolerate actual"noise"artists like Merzbow,Masonna,etc.and think Melt Banana is"NOT MUSIC!!!!"

Anyway,the point is,this album should have been much better than what these guys gave us.Zorn is a legendary avant sax player/composer and Eye Yamataka cut one hell of a path through the world of audio art with Boredoms.

This is nothing but two guys,probably on limited time schedules,messing around with instruments and toys and recording EVERYTHING without a second thought.There are some interesting ideas on here,but they are rushed.The whole thing sounds like a big joke.Bad Hawkwind,as other reviews have noted,is garbage.18 minutes of virtually unchanging looped screams by Eye.Letting Eye scream in different ways and THEN splicing the results together with some dynamic shifts would have been a better idea.

Initially I thought this album would be just Zorn on sax and Eye on vocals,the two improvising as they did on a few tracks from Zorn's legendary Naked City album Heretic.

A whole album of Zorn and Eye improvising,screeching sax and screeching vocals would have been much better and a more acceptable artistic product than this wast of tape.

Preview the tracks yourself and decide,otherwise,I say,don't waste your money.Buy any of the early Naked City albums instead.

1/2 good.......2002-06-06

25 minutes of really good Eye and Zorn. The 18 minute Bad Hawkwind however is just plain bad. 18 minutes of hardly changing white noise. I like stuff like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and the first two Earth CDs, that noise is interesting, the song Bad Hawkwind is just plain boring. The rest of the CD is great, if you don't mind buying the CD for about 25 minutes of music.

Dekoboko means bumpy.......2002-05-03

Well, I learned a new Japanese word today. Went fishing with a student and, as we bounced along in his uncle's van over a gravel track, they talked about the road being "dekoboko." Dekoboko Hajime, Zorn's alias here, thus translates into something like BUMPY START. Cute. Anyhow, yeah, er, I don't actually dig this disc so much. "Bad Hawkwind," Eye's screams looped over and over, lasts for something like 18 minutes, and just really isn't at all interesting -- it sounds sort of like wind whistling through a hole in your inner ear. The other cuts on the disc are okay, and some, like "Yoga Dollar," are pretty unique -- much more textural than I'd've expected from these two, and if I recall they actually have a sitar on it... But I NEVER play this disc all the way through. Buy it used, maybe, or after you have all that OTHER essential Zorn stuff already in your collection, y'know?

Zorn & eYe.......2001-05-03

A collaboration between Zorn and eYe from Boredoms fame. This album is more focused on eYe's noodlings rather than Zorn's crafty sax work. Masada this is not as anyone familar with the Boredoms can imagine. Lots of screaming and mumbling from eYe with one of my personal highlights being the 18 min. scream on Bad Hawkwind. This track will soon become a favorite of any neighbor within range.

A must have for any Boredoms fan.

Leng Tch'e
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Leng Tch'e
Naked City
Manufacturer: Toys Factory
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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