Colors of Trance

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Produced by James Asher, Colors of Trance features an acoustic concert harp played with the lilt and poetry of Ireland's Madeleine Doherty. Asher's masterful keyboards team with a dynamic mix of percussion including Japanese taiko drum, Indian tablas, congas, and didgeridoo. This album expands the boundaries of trance with styles ranging from foot-stomping dance to lyrical and haunting tone poems.

Colors of Trance,James Asher & Madeleine Doherty,New Earth Records,Britain,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop


Colors of Trance

Colors of Trance
Trance of Seven Colors
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Journey for Your Soul
  • More Than Music
Trance of Seven Colors
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania
Manufacturer: Axiom
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

MoroccoMorocco | Africa | International | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
Avant Garde & Free JazzAvant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
Jazz FusionJazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music
Fusion & World FusionFusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music
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  1. Gift of the Gnawa
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ASIN: B000000GB2
Release Date: 1994-09-27

Tracks:

  1. La Allah Dayim Moulenah
  2. Bala Moussaka
  3. Hamdouchi
  4. Peace In Essaouria
  5. Boulandi Samawi
  6. Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh
  7. Salat Anbi
  8. Casa Casa Atougra
  9. Mahraba

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Journey for Your Soul.......2006-03-03

Truely a transcendental, wonderful, real emoting soundscape. I agree with all that was said by Chris, this is a great recording, a must have. Very spiritual with calming, even healing qualities. I have yet to find another recording that compares, the closest thing I uncovered was a Sub Rosa release Moroccan Trance Music SUFI (recommended!)

5 out of 5 stars More Than Music.......2002-08-31

This is more than music...it's a ritual, a healing event. And this is some of the fiercest and most inspired blowing that Pharoah has done in a long time...reminicent of the old days actually.

This disc reproduces a meeting between Sanders and the master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania. Gnawa people are Morrocan descendents of black African slaves, who have maintained a spiritual and musical tradition that is an amalgam of Sufi mysticism and elements of West African spirit religion. The music is haunting. It is a vocal music, driven by an instrument called the guimbri...a bass lute with gut stings and a head made out of camel hide. The musician plucks the strings and slaps the head to create a sound somewhere between a bass guitar and a drum. The rest of the ensemble consists of a responding chorus who accompany the music with hand claps and Krkaba, loudly resounding hand cymbals. The music is equal parts Sufi ceremonial music and West African drum ritual. On it's own the music is compelling.

But over top of this on many of the tracks on the album, Pharoah Sanders let's loose on some of the most firey, spirit filled improvisation that he's done since the late 60s. Not all of this is out...some is quite beautiful and very melodic. His ballad Peace in Essaouira is deeply moving. But even when he maintains tonal structures and specific pitches in his improvising, there is a spirit here which is bracing. And when he goes out....watch out! It's a true meeting of the two groups, not a gimmick.

This is an album that will give you energy and literally raise the spirits. I find that I can't keep still while listening to it. It is true trance music.
Colors of Trance
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Emotionaly addictive to the senses.
Colors of Trance
James Asher & Madeleine Doherty
Manufacturer: New Earth Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

BritainBritain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | New Age | Styles | Music
MeditationMeditation | New Age | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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  1. Worlds Within the Wheel
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  4. Globalarium
  5. Shaman Drums

ASIN: B00004VTA3
Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

  1. Olive
  2. Yellow
  3. Gold
  4. Emerald
  5. Coral
  6. Magenta
  7. Red
  8. Pink
  9. Orange
  10. Green
  11. Violet
  12. Turquoise
  13. Peace Song

Album Description

Produced by James Asher, Colors of Trance features an acoustic concert harp played with the lilt and poetry of Ireland's Madeleine Doherty. Asher's masterful keyboards team with a dynamic mix of percussion including Japanese taiko drum, Indian tablas, congas, and didgeridoo. This album expands the boundaries of trance with styles ranging from foot-stomping dance to lyrical and haunting tone poems.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Emotionaly addictive to the senses........2001-02-28

I really appreciate a person who knows how to make profound and astonishing music! James Asher definately deserves a compliment in my opinion for these very majestic and well engineered works of art. Some songs are slower than others, see thats his imagination trying to interpret the colors of tance, even the slower songs have their own dynamics. A very nice flowing and crisp sound that puts it in a class of its own. Some of the songs I dance to and tear the house apart while getting ready to party. A must for any serious person with any taste at all for trance/hip-hop/meditative music with its unique twist of soulfulness and spiritfulness.
Colors of Trance
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Colors of Trance
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Blue Flame
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
    Dance & DJDance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B00013NDJ6
    Release Date: 2004-01-06

    Tracks:

    1. Nexxus - Klangstrahler Project
    2. Madagasgar - Art Of Trance
    3. Hovek Olam - Star Sounds Orchestra
    4. Fountain - Ouni
    5. Desert Wak - Gary Thomas
    6. Chamunda - D Pirates OD
    7. Ufd (D-Edit) - Morsha
    8. Shiva Devotional - Shiva Space Technology
    9. Kayazulu - Xerox & Freeman
    Trance of Seven Colors
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Trance of Seven Colors

      Manufacturer: Axiom
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B00000BWV7

      Tracks:

      1. La Allah Dayim Moulenah
      2. Bala Moussaka
      3. Hamdouchi
      4. Peace In Essaouria
      5. Boulandi Samawi
      6. Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh
      7. Salat Anbi
      8. Casa Casa Atougra
      9. Mahraba
      Forbidden Paradise: Changing Colours
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Forbidden Paradise: Changing Colours

        Manufacturer: Guardian Angel
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B0007YSUAQ
        (Cd) Hands in the Air: 14 Euphoric Trance Anthems: Secrets Broke My Heart Airbase Remix, Libertine, the Sun Is Out Original Club Mix, Gamemaster Michael Woods Mix, Say That Youre Here Riva Remix, Homage, Awaken Original Mix, Follow You Kyau Vs Albert Remix, the World Around Me Instrumental Mix, in & Out Dance Nation Club Extended, Forbidden Colors, Cruise Control, the Festival, Clear Blue Airwave Remix
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          (Cd) Hands in the Air: 14 Euphoric Trance Anthems: Secrets Broke My Heart Airbase Remix, Libertine, the Sun Is Out Original Club Mix, Gamemaster Michael Woods Mix, Say That Youre Here Riva Remix, Homage, Awaken Original Mix, Follow You Kyau Vs Albert Remix, the World Around Me Instrumental Mix, in & Out Dance Nation Club Extended, Forbidden Colors, Cruise Control, the Festival, Clear Blue Airwave Remix

          Manufacturer: Water music Dance
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD
          ASIN: B000HDLUEK

          Product Description

          (CD) hands in the air: 14 euphoric trance anthems: secrets broke my heart / airbase remix by Michael spirit feat. Sasja, libertine by kate rajan, the sun is out / original club mix by oscar de la fuente, gamemaster / Michael woods mix by matt darey, say that youre here / riva remix by fragma, homage by paul van dyk, awaken / original mix by mindwalker & lightstorm, follow you / kyau vs albert remix by sun decade, the world around me / instrumental mix by DJ micro, in & out / dance nation club extended by blush, forbidden colors by true form, cruise control by Christopher Lawrence, the festival by scintilator, clear blue / airwave remix by markus schulz pres. Elevation

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          Pop Music

          pop music

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