SUZANNE TENG & MYSTIC JOURNEY
Miles Beyond
(p) (c) 2003 Autumn Light Productions
9tks/56mins

Compared to a flute
All riches are alike a melted snow
Which is flowing away
Accompanied by tender tinkling
of thaw.

What is special in this music that makes me play this album over and over again? These divine harmonies that are flowing easily without any strain and effort, wakening the mind and filling the heart with an elation. This is the heady music which celebrates the life itself, holding nothing back, keeping nothing in reserve. All of it is here, in this very moment. And you find yourself to be grasped and carried by it to the boundless ocean which name is Life…

You feel as if you are among the old friends of yours. This meeting brings a lot of pleasure and ecstasy over the divinity that is present in everybody. And your friends are eager to share with you the best things they possess. And the best one is Life…

Suzanne Teng plays different flutes (ocarina, bass flute, alto flute, ney, bamboo flutes, Native American Flute and many others) with virtuosity. Friends of hers from the Mystic Journey group back the performer up in different manner and at the same time with solicitude. The musicians create the unique milieu, joining together melodies of different cultural traditions and inventing the unified all-earthly music. The Mystic Journey consists of Gilbert Levy (various percussion, bells, cymbal, gong and many other unique instruments), Barry Newton (string bass) and Fritz Heede (guitar, saz and sitar). Also in recording the «Miles Beyond» album such original musicians as Armen Chakmakian (keyboards), Naser Musa (oud), Andrew Werderitsch (didgeridoo) as well as of many other very interesting performers.

Without any doubt this joy that is brimming over is caused by the birth of Suzanne Teng’s and Gilbert Levy’s desired child – their son Miles. It’s delightful that it helped musicians to create such an album which is an integral one and is like nothing on earth.

Not so many real things remain in people
Who reached the earth to be enjoying life
And do creative work.
And all the rest is lie and falsehood
That was invented by somebody
With secret lust of power.
So many real things that still exist,
And everything around us is Life.

The music from a new album by Suzanne Teng and the friends of hers helps to shake off a grey shroud of commonness and realize that a person comes into being to enjoy life and create. Without such music the life on this planet will mean absolutely nothing.

Let all the world
Which was involved in lie
Die.
We shall be dancing
And enjoying life,
Rejoicing
That we are together.
Because there’s nobody here
But us…

Serge Kozlovsky
email: serge_kozlovsky@tut.by
web site: http://sergekozlovsky.com

P.S. Translated by Tatyana L. Permyakova.