VATA
Bells, High violins, Flutes (wind instruments), Very open keyboards, Large spaces, Movement.
Suspended airy melodies with very wide intervals and space, even between notes and between sounds (very high and very deep)
Vata Yaman – evening/sunset melody; Very beautiful Raga, bansuri flute melody. Piano starts, touching the whole scale of the Raga, and then flutes.
White Flower – inspired by Linda, very meditative, full of space and energy; crystalline, angelic, celestial of the high spheres, clear, transparent. Piano and flutes
Impro Dud Ban – very meditative. 1st and 3rd part: duduk with very soft and open sounds, underlain by a constant carpet of male voices and choirs – OM – throughout the piece; three synthesizer notes and then high female voices, which during the third part begin to open up on frequencies that give a broad sense of air. The bass is also not constant, but rises and falls; it is almost imperceptible, but creates the sensation of being lulled by the sound.
Idea Three Floor
Very ethereal sounds, they come and go, clear; the melodies tend to open up a lot, the relationships between the notes are not predictable, they are distant from each other, but then they come together again, like a wind that carries something around: you don't know where it goes, but you can follow it.
TRACKS ARE MP3 FILES (NO CD WILL COME)
The whole album has round sounds. Music is not just about melodies and chords, it is about sounds. Some sounds are so rich that even with a single note you can listen to the sound for hours and hours.
Shantam has done a thorough sound research, even in the studio, on frequencies. There are some waves that need to be stimulated and not others. A single sound can completely shift a person's energy. In the sound there is the soul of the player. The same instrument played by two people produces completely different sounds, or even by the same person at different times.
The selection among the ragas is made by Paolo Avanzo. He has chosen three Ragas for each Dosha.
Research on Raga is complex because traditionally the musical information was “secret”, only now is there beginning to be openness and dissemination of this precious knowledge
Over time you begin to recognize what leads you towards one Dosha or another.
The same Raga in two different contexts, or due to a different mood of the musician, changes
Shantam has tried to create sounds that will lead people into a state of relaxation:
Round sounds, not scratchy; the sound waves are specially chosen and shaped to give softness, to permeate, to enter people.
Like a very deep massage, albeit slow
Tuning of instruments:
In the 19th century, A was used at 435 Hz in France; in the 19th century, there was a proposal from Rome to raise it to 450 Hz. Verdi proposed 432 Hz as the ideal pitch, because at 432 Hz, pacifying, natural mathematical harmonics develop; but instead, it was established as a general convention to use 440 Hz.
Playing the same piece with the two pitches you can feel that the 432 hertz is warmer, more intimate, more natural, more enveloping.
In previous years Shantam felt in the 440 hertz tuning something out of tune, strident, while with 432 hertz this sensation disappears; therefore the records are recorded at 432 hertz so that the listener will perceive even more balanced music.
Raga timings / Dosha timings
The Raga's intervals: every three hours
Dosha intervals: every four hours
There are overlaps
So it is very complex and not easy to read in this key.
Music V images of space and air
Music P images fire and movement
Music K images earth hills water[:]
PITTA
Violins, violas
Duduk, violin, piano, played in a particular way.
Stimulating and cheerful melodies, fire element brings emotions passion, there is activity, transformation
String instruments are used to create a scratchy sound, which is Pitta; the violin is the Pitta instrument par excellence, it is fire.
Pitta Bhu Ga – very balanced and calm, brings attention to the third chakra. Raga often played around midnight. Strings (cora, oud, harp).
Vasant Mukhari – very charming, intriguing, passionate. It uses one of the scales also used for flamenco. Played with great care so that it does not become too stimulating; there are notes that have a different effect, depending on how you play (rhythm between notes, tension between notes, use of intervals, interval of four creates tension (rock, always suspended), interval of three does not create tension, interval of five (do-re-mi-fa-sol) makes you feel good immediately. Intervals are the distances between notes.
Guys Jog – balancing Pitta par excellence. Sitar played by Paolo. There is the introductory part of the piece (alap), meditative without rhythm.
TRACKS ARE MP3 FILES (NO CD WILL COME)
The whole album has round sounds. Music is not just about melodies and chords, it is about sounds. Some sounds are so rich that even with a single note you can listen to the sound for hours and hours.
Shantam has done a thorough sound research, even in the studio, on frequencies. There are some waves that need to be stimulated and not others. A single sound can completely shift a person's energy. In the sound there is the soul of the player. The same instrument played by two people produces completely different sounds, or even by the same person at different times.
The selection among the ragas is made by Paolo Avanzo. He has chosen three Ragas for each Dosha.
Research on Raga is complex because traditionally the musical information was “secret”, only now is there beginning to be openness and dissemination of this precious knowledge
Over time you begin to recognize what leads you towards one Dosha or another.
The same Raga in two different contexts, or due to a different mood of the musician, changes
Shantam has tried to create sounds that will lead people into a state of relaxation:
Round, non-scratching sounds; sound waves are specially chosen and shaped to give softness, to permeate, to enter people.
Like a very deep massage, albeit slow
Tuning of instruments:
In the 19th century, A was used at 435 Hz in France; in the 19th century, there was a proposal from Rome to raise it to 450 Hz. Verdi proposed 432 Hz as the ideal pitch, because at 432 Hz, pacifying, natural mathematical harmonics develop; but instead, it was established as a general convention to use 440 Hz.
Playing the same piece with the two pitches you can feel that the 432 hertz is warmer, more intimate, more natural, more enveloping.
In previous years Shantam felt in the 440 hertz tuning something out of tune, strident, while with 432 hertz this sensation disappears; therefore the records are recorded at 432 hertz so that the listener will perceive even more balanced music.
Raga timings / Dosha timings
The Raga's intervals: every three hours
Dosha intervals: every four hours
There are overlaps
So it is very complex and not easy to read in this key.
Music V images of space and air
Music P images fire and movement
Music K images earth hills water
KAPHA
Double bass, cello
Very low percussions that bring Kapha to activity, stimulate it.
It is the most adaptable with high-low sounds, but the medium-low ones are more in its nature
Very solid rhythmic cadences.
Very solid pentatonic scale, with only five tones; always complete scale: in raga wherever you stop it does not create harmonic or melodic suspension; it is very catchy, it is the oldest scale, widely used in oriental music.
Hansadhwani – very open, spacious scale; round melodies and very soft sounds
Bilaval – after rhythm and melody and drum beats, which stimulate, there is a very meditative part with three very wide notes and an elusive rhythm, in which you can get lost, so much so that you fall asleep
Idea eight – Elephant Walk – bhupali pentatonic scale. Central part played with three notes, only; 1st 2nd 3rd degrees of the scale that recalls the first 3 root chakras, area of the body from which energy starts. For Kapha it goes to move. very warm and deep sounds. Drums. Plucked double bass gives rhythmic cadence.
Sounds like oil, calm water surface, with surface tension, sounds in peaceful and slow movement, with precision, structure, security, but slow movement and full of strength like a river.
TRACKS ARE MP3 FILES (NO CD WILL COME)
[:en]The whole album has round sounds. Music is not just about melodies and chords, it's about sounds. Some sounds are so rich that even with a single note you can listen to the sound for hours and hours.
Shantam has done a thorough sound research, even in the studio, on frequencies. There are some waves that need to be stimulated and not others. A single sound can completely shift a person's energy. In the sound there is the soul of the player. The same instrument played by two people produces completely different sounds, or even by the same person at different times.
The selection among the ragas is made by Paolo Avanzo. He has chosen three Ragas for each Dosha.
Research on Raga is complex because traditionally the musical information was “secret”, only now is there beginning to be openness and dissemination of this precious knowledge
Over time you begin to recognize what leads you towards one Dosha or another.
The same Raga in two different contexts, or due to a different mood of the musician, changes
Shantam has tried to create sounds that will lead people into a state of relaxation:
Round, non-scratching sounds; sound waves are specially chosen and shaped to give softness, to permeate, to enter people.
Like a very deep massage, albeit slow
Tuning of instruments:
In the 19th century, A was used at 435 Hz in France; in the 19th century, there was a proposal from Rome to raise it to 450 Hz. Verdi proposed 432 Hz as the ideal pitch, because at 432 Hz, pacifying, natural mathematical harmonics develop; but instead, it was established as a general convention to use 440 Hz.
Playing the same piece with the two pitches you can feel that the 432 hertz is warmer, more intimate, more natural, more enveloping.
In previous years Shantam felt in the intonation at 440 hertz something out of tune, strident, while with 432 hertz this sensation disappears; therefore the records are recorded at 432 hertz so that the listener will perceive even more balanced music.
Raga timings / Dosha timings
The Raga intervals: every three hours
Dosha intervals: every four hours
There are overlaps
So it is very complex and not easy to read in this key.
Music V images of space and air
Music P images fire and movement
Music K images earth hills water[:]
