Om Shanti Om

Credits:
Guitar, Flute – Gian Piero Pramaggiore
Mastered By – Arne Ziemann
Percussion, Berimbau – Nana Vasconcelos
Photography By – Peder Björkegren
Tambura [Tanpura] – Moki Cherry
Trumpet [Pocket Trumpet], Flute, Kora – Don Cherry
Label - Black Sweat Records
Notes:
Recorded at RAI studios [Rome, Italy] in 1976 for the television broadcast “Incontro con Don Cherry” presented by Franco Fayenz.
Licensed From – MOKI / The Estate Of Moki Cherry
Licensed From – RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Recorded At – RAI Studios, Rome
Mastered At – Oakfield Mastering
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in it's simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civiliziatioart">ns, offering different suggestions of sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal consciousness. A desert Western landscape marries Asian and Latin atmospheres. Indigenous contributions with berimbau explorations find fossil sounds of rattles and clap-hands invocations. Influences of Indian mantra singing are combined with eternal African voices or with folkish-Latin guitar rhythms, while flute and drums evoke distant dances. In the Organic Music everything becomes an act of devotion and love, an ecstatic dwell in the dimension of a sacred free-rejoice