Lotus Mind by Sojourn

Finally they improvised together, building up a spacious instrumental music, driven by the mysterious blending of clarinet and sarod.

Under the name Sojourn sarodist Lisa Moskow and clarinetist Hermann Bühler play their original music between Jazz and Indian Music since 1992. Playing and performing with various world music percussionists, including Geoffrey

Gordon, Amit Thakur and Rami Ziadeh, Sojourn has performed several tours in California, Switzerland, Italy and Mexico. Bühler and Moskow released their first album "Sojourn" in 1996, a fusion of Jazz and Indian music.

The music of Sojourn is based on distinctive rhythmic cycles, exotic scales and ostinatos. From the beginning Bühler and Moskow have woven improvisation into the fabric of their music so as to breathe new life into each performance. As a result the musical wizardry of Bühler and Moskow expresses itself with easy elegance. The surprise is that two composers/musicians from different backgrounds (and continents) create such a coherent body of music.

The playing of Hermann Bühler and Lisa Moskow reflects their backgrounds, Bühler as a major player in the European improvisational and new music scene and Moskow as a veteran musician of the North Indian classical tradition. These diverse elements are seamlessly fused together in the music of the two musicians. As such Sojourn has come to be a part of World Beat, Jazz or East-West Fusion Music - an inviation to world consciousness, peace, movement and contemplation.

Recorded at Casting Spells Music Studio, San Rafael, 2000 2003. Mixed and mastered at Gamma Recording, Untersiggenthal, 2004, by Patrik Schwitter and Hermann Bühler.

Thanks to all who helped in this production: Jay for copying tapes - Hans from RASA for saving our tapes, you are an angel Mihai and Pat assisting with studio and other problems - Sara and Michael for the Ganesha mask - Robi for the cover foto - Nicole for the photo of a Tibetan library -Reto and Andreas for their advice. To Simone and Mirja with love.

Also available on DREAMSCAPE: "Sojourn" (DSM/CSM 4755)

Lotus Mind DREAMSCAPE DEA 4761

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H. Bühler SUISA, L. Moskow ASCAP

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