PREM JOSHUA
Secret Of The Wind
(c) 1997 Soundless Sound Music Publishing
(p) 1997 New Earth Records
11tks/57mins
Of what kind is this music? Is it a jazz? Yes, of course. It is spontaneous,
there is live improvization. Maybe it's a world music? Sure! When recording
this album a great number of live, folk instruments was used. Among them
there are very rare, exotic ones. Have you ever heard, for example, how sounds
dilruba - an ancient Indian string instrument, or santoor - a Persian string
instrument, similar to European Hammer-Dulcimer? All those (and many other!)
instruments sound in this album. The music of Secret Of The Wind has
a unique ethnic colour. It is originated from the very roots, from the Mother
Earth itself. Maybe then music of Prem Joshua is a new age. And that's also
true! There is a breathing of new world in it, it is like a carpet, embroided
with unusial patterns, weaved by many loving, careful hands. In Secret
Of The Wind East and West are meeting. They are already together. It
is not a Western or Eastern music any more - it is a new, common, all-human
music.
That's why it cannot be classifized. It has no sense, when you listen
Secret Of The Wind. This album carries you like a slow river, and
you glide along its waves, being drived by free wind. And the river becomes
faster, becoming a quick steram of purest water, which carries you there...
to the unknown. And that anticipating of the unknown fills your heart with
pleasant emotion and joy.
22 (!) musicians from all over the world have taken part in the recording
of Secret Of The Wind. Their brilliant play and enthusiasm make this
album bright and energetic. There's a lot of liveness in it. Secret Of
The Wind streams by the fontans of light, rising-spirit energy.
That's such a music, listening to which one wants to sing. This music
has a rare quality, because «Secret Of The Wind» is a music of
freedom!
Serge Kozlovsky |