Long Box included 2 CDs, extensive booklets, picture, and more...Click on cover to see complete box.
Saxophonist of jazz at first and explorer of mixed musics (Slang, Feria Musica) Manuel Hermia left in India repeatedly and fell in love over there….of a flute: the bansuri.
Presented as a double CD accompanied with a book, The Whisper of the Orient immerse us into an inner, deep and quiet universe. A purely meditative music, presenting compos and improvisations solo, and different forms of duets: with Barbara Wiernik (vocals), Dhruba Gosh (sarangi), Fabrice Colet (tablas) or Michel Seba (udu).
Based on Indian ragas, compositions take nevertheless an original direction, that of a personal glance on the Indian music. The flute finds its freedom in little, in the return in the main thing, in the inspiration. Music resumes its time.
"The Whisper of the Orient" is a music creation, but of photos and texts also. So the notebook accompanies here music literally. Photos reveal sights of deep and spiritual India, texts give a philosophic support to the meditative character of the music. After all, the bansuri resounds in us and The Whisper of the Orient returns us to this peace which one forgets sometimes to look there where it is: in itself.
Tracks
CD1
- 19min 12s Châan, La substance de l'amour
- 8min 34s La rencontre des âmes
- 8min 40s On the way to freedom…
- 1min 58s Waking Up in Varanasi
- 19min 1s Tan ♫
CD2
- 11min 31s Life in Varanasi (PartI)
- 13min 55s Love in Varanasi (partII) ♫
- 7min 59s Death in Varanasi
- 12min 59s Walking in Varanasi
- 8min 53s On the way to freedom...Freedom is the way