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| Lotus Land | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gandalf
Label: Real Music
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 14039
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 3169
UPC: 046286316923
EAN: 0046286316923
ASIN: B000P46QCC
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | A Seed Dreaming Inside | | • | Life is Love | | • | Where the Heart Finds a Home | | • | Love Opens the Gates | | • | Just a glimpse of Paradise | | • | Mystic Voyage | | • | A Heavenly Gift | | • | The Lotus Unfolds | | • | Waves of Delight |
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Album Description
Music being played from the very depth of the heart sometimes reflects a glimpse of the secret paradise within all of us, the boundless and eternal Lotus Land.
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| Customer Reviews:
Love this music CD! August 3, 2008
I bought this CD for my parents and they listen to it while going to sleep every night. They tell me all the time how much they love it!
Lotus Land June 11, 2008
Excellent relaxing music. A good mix of acoustical guitar and piano. Good inspirational melodies which make me feel as if I'm on top of a mountain totally at peace.
Beautiful music for the practice of yoga April 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a Yoga instructor and I'm using this music for my classes. People are enjoying it very much. Beautiful music for the practice of Yoga or just for the pleasure of listening to something very relaxing. I love it!!!!!!
Relaxing July 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great for massage and energy work... Clients love it. They are zzzzzzzzz in moments.
In a state of languid contentment July 7, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you know the name Gandalf, you've probably seen the Lord of the Rings films. Or perhaps you're a longtime fan of Tolkien's tales of Middle Earth. Chances are, though, that unless you've been following the New Age music scene, you've never heard of Heinz Strobl.
He's one of several musicians from the 70's and 80's that grew up with Tolkien and took his musical persona from what until Star Wars came along was the most popular fantasy "franchise" in the English language. And so we have David Arkenstone, still active today and named after a mystical gem; Shadowfax, one of the first groups to record for Windham Hill and named after a sorcerer's horse; and Gandalf, the sorcerer himself.
Like the wizard for whom he is named, Austrian Heinz Strobl has a masterful command of the elements, which he employs to great effect on his latest recording, Lotus Land. Featuring nine original compositions, the album is a literal one-man show, with Strobl playing acoustic nylon and steel string guitars, electric pedal-guitar, bouzuki, saz (a kind of lute), electric sitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, and programming.
Conjuring blissful images of tranquil gardens, or perhaps a heavenly realm of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Lotus Land is a collection of serene, languid melodies suitable for either. Half the compositions are performed without rhythmic accompaniment, and of those with percussion two are so understated as to be missed. Even so, the melodies themselves have enough rhythm and movement to accompany a yoga workout.
Six of the album's eight tracks clock in at over 6 minutes, giving the artist plenty of space to develop his themes. Most of the songs begin with light synth effects, creating the aural canvas on which the lead instruments paint their pictures. Among the highlights are the piano climax of Love Opens the Gates, the synthetic choral effects on Mystic Voyage (that might remind some of Randy and Pamela Copus' 2002), and the charming interplay of sitar and oboe on Life is Love.
Lotus Land is Gandalf's 19th release in a professional career that began 26 years ago as a prog-rock hippie. While time may have softened his approach, his sorcerer-like instrumental and production skills are still as sharp as ever, if not better and more refined. I look forward to a monumental 30th anniversary release in 2011.
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