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18 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Sep 2005
on Bent Reords
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:49 Atha lyrics BUY MP3 01:49 Atha lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:49 Atha
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:14 Beginning Cymbals lyrics BUY MP3 00:14 Beginning Cymbals lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:14 Beginning Cymbals
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:35 1st Chakra: Box of Red Earth (Lahm) lyrics BUY MP3 02:35 1st Chakra: Box of Red Earth (Lahm) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:35 1st Chakra: Box of Red Earth (Lahm)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:57 2nd Chakra: Orange Crescent Moon Over Water (Vahm) lyrics BUY MP3 01:57 2nd Chakra: Orange Crescent Moon Over Water (Vahm) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:57 2nd Chakra: Orange Crescent Moon Over Water (Vahm)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:20 3rd Chakra: Pyramid in Yellow Flames (Rahm) lyrics BUY MP3 02:20 3rd Chakra: Pyramid in Yellow Flames (Rahm) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:20 3rd Chakra: Pyramid in Yellow Flames (Rahm)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:02 4th Chakra: Golden Wind, Emerald Star (Yahm) lyrics BUY MP3 02:02 4th Chakra: Golden Wind, Emerald Star (Yahm) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:02 4th Chakra: Golden Wind, Emerald Star (Yahm)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:32 5th Chakra: Spinning Blue Sphere (Hahm) lyrics BUY MP3 01:32 5th Chakra: Spinning Blue Sphere (Hahm) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:32 5th Chakra: Spinning Blue Sphere (Hahm)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:31 6th Chakra: Through the Violet Eye (Om) lyrics BUY MP3 05:31 6th Chakra: Through the Violet Eye (Om) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:31 6th Chakra: Through the Violet Eye (Om)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:28 7th Chakra: White Light lyrics BUY MP3 04:28 7th Chakra: White Light lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:28 7th Chakra: White Light
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:19 Ending Cymbals lyrics BUY MP3 00:19 Ending Cymbals lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:19 Ending Cymbals
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:31 The Lotus Stem lyrics BUY MP3 01:31 The Lotus Stem lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:31 The Lotus Stem
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:09 The Conch Shell - The Call lyrics BUY MP3 01:09 The Conch Shell - The Call lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:09 The Conch Shell - The Call
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:45 The Conch Shell lyrics BUY MP3 04:45 The Conch Shell lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:45 The Conch Shell
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 The Wheel lyrics BUY MP3 02:44 The Wheel lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:44 The Wheel
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:42 The Sword lyrics BUY MP3 02:42 The Sword lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:42 The Sword
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 The Lotus Blossom lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 The Lotus Blossom lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 The Lotus Blossom
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:42 The Conch Shell - The Call (reprise) lyrics BUY MP3 00:42 The Conch Shell - The Call (reprise) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:42 The Conch Shell - The Call (reprise)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:30 Between Sthira and Sukha lyrics BUY MP3 02:30 Between Sthira and Sukha lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:30 Between Sthira and Sukha
Sacred Chant, Yoga, Meditation, Healing, New Age,
Bio / Background
Waking the Cobra is an overtone singing Chakra meditation CD recorded by Baird Hersey who later went on to form his Overtone Singing Choir PRANA. The only thing other than reverberation on this recording is the sound of Baird's voice.
The CD opens with a piece called "Atha", a Sanskrit word which means, "May the following have an auspicious beginning and successful end". It is the opening word of Patanjali's Yogasutras.
Next, is the title piece, "Waking the Cobra " which is in fact a collection of seven short pieces. They are meditations on the traditional shape, color, element and sound for each of the chakras. Hersey first recorded a multi-layered vocal background drone or moving harmony. Then, singing two pitches at once, he recorded the high melody parts.
This is followed by an extended piece called "The Conch Shell, The Wheel and the Sword". These words are taken from the invocation chanted before beginning the practice of Ashtanga Yoga.
↓ more ↓Call and response, rising harmonies, vocal textures, and overtone melodies, are used in this extended piece to investigate the symbolic meaning of the objects.
The CD concludes with "Between Sthira and Sukha. This is a phrase from Patanjali's Yogasutras which means between alert steadiness and relaxed comfort. This piece searches to balance those qualities by alternating low Multiphonic voice overtone singing and high falsetto harmonies.
Baird Hersey is a National Endowment for the Arts Composition Fellow. His diverse career has encompassed; commissions from the Harvard University, New Mexico Council for the Arts, The Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Sound and Light Spectacular, The HVP Symphony Or chestra, and performances throughout the US and Europe in such different setting as the Berlin Jazz Festival and MTV. He has also composed extensively for television.
He has been a student of yoga and overtone singing for 17 years. In 1997 He began the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. The result was a change in his life, his music and his career. He has studied with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore India and with The Gyuto Monks.
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