Sounds of Peace

Nawang Khechog

CD - 49 minutes

$16.98

The album insert tells us that Nawang's music is created spontaneously while he is playing, as an expression of feeling. The theme of Sounds of Peace is to invoke and inspire peace within the hearts of humanity. I had never heard his music before reviewing this album - for me it has been an introduction to a true heart as well as a masterful musician. In my estimation, Nawang is indeed a genius at coaxing feeling from any number of flutes he plays and at uniting his feeling-tones with the listeners heart, so that we can join him in pouring out compassion to a restless world. Here is a beauty of sound that opens the heart.

Those of you who, like me, may not have known of Nawang's work before, may enjoy learning a bit about him: Nawang Khechog was born in Tibet and spent his earliest days as a child of nomads. In his boyhood he first learned to play the bamboo flute, an ancient instrument popular in rural villages throughout Tibet. After the brutal subjugation of Tibet by chinese Communists in 1949, Nawang and his family escaped to India. There he studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy, a path he followed as a monk for eleven years - four of them as a hermit. In 1986, he emigrated to Australia where he first perfomed, and his recordings achieved bestseller status. Nawang is best known for his cllaborations with Kitaro, and acclaimed performances with Baba Olatunji, Paul Simon, Philip Glass, Paul Winter and others.

Rhythms of Peace

Nawang Khechog

CD - 58 minutes

$16.98

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

- H.H. the Dalai Lama

On Rhythms of Peace, Nawang uses the Tibetan bamboo flute, didgeridoo, gongs, bells and drums to create a mystical sense of rhythm and evocative, textured meditations that suggest vast spaces. It is the vastness, the breathing room of this music that speaks most strongly to me - I found myself not just soothed by this intense, profound music, but awakened to the realization that just as a vast, spreading landscape always evokes a sigh and sense of peace in the viewer, so does inner peace depend on finding the vast spaces within our own soul. Whether or not we can find inner peace, I learned from this music, depends on whether or not we feel we have room to roam and discover, to build and explore within our souls, within our being's own light. This is not a small discovery and my telling you is not the same as your finding it for yourself. The discovery you make when listening to this album may be far different from the one I made - but my sense is that your discovery will also not be small.

Newang's Rhythms of Peace is dedicated to the success of the profound wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for his profound wisdom, infinite compassion and tireless efforts to bring peace to the world and to Tibet.

Quiet Mind
The Musical Journey of a Tibetan Nomad

Nawang Khechog

CD - 55 minutes

$16.98

This release is dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture and civilization.

- Nawang Khechog

Where Rhythms of Peace took us to the experiential foundations of peace, and Sounds of Peace offered an invocation for the ears and spirit, Quiet Mind creates for us the life of peace. Reaching back to his childhood days as a nomad's child, Nawang uses Tibetan flute, didgeridoo, Incan pan pipes, ocarina and more to paint a slowly changing, always beautiful landscape for our hearts.

At some point in the album I became aware, at first dimly, then keenly, that while he had begun with his experience, now he was moving beyond the past and into the realm of the future. In this future quiet, I heard a strength that I don't usually associate with quietude. And yet, I learned from his music, the type of quiet that Nawang brings us as the album progresses does not and cannot depend on the world around us. For the future, the possibility of quietude, of peace and delight, depends upon what we carry within ourselves. When we carry a quiet caring within ourselves, we can breathe it out into the world and create for all the peaceful, celebrative life. Only in quiet can we honor differences of people and culture as jewels on the string of life. That essential, living quiet depends for its existence upon our ability to make a place for it in our hearts.

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