Dance To The Rhythm Of Life / World Beat

"Summit Meeting " (Track 1) is sparse and spacious, beginning on a primitive note with an Otsuzumi drum and a traditional Japanese chant. An American Indian chant later hovers over the percussion and drum textures--like a memory of a former lifestyle, a people in a different place in the history of time. It is now, in the midst of DNA-cloning, SST travel, in the uncovering of multiples of new galaxies and changes in our understanding of our universe, that a global musical project so deeply united is so reassuring.

"Anima Mundi" (Track 5) recalls the 60's in its free-form experimental guitar work. Rock and Roll-like with an infusion of chants. It displays a haunting use of gongs -- reminiscent of Japanese temples -- and the use of Koto and Timpani punctuate the song like the falling of massive steel drums on a waterfront dock. The music doesn't start or end conventionally, it evolves like a novel.

"Beyond Borders" (Track 3) begins like a Santana/Led Zeppelin jam and evolves into something entirely different. The risk factor has not been bleached out in an attempt to create an easily hummed song. Formula song writing has inundated our ears and shortened our musical attention span. One of the most engaging elements of the invigorating music of the 60's was precisely this. The listener was picked up, rearranged, and deposited in a different place than where they began. All great music and art does this. It is participatory.