New Life From Ruins - Robert A. Jonas

Zen Celtic Sacred Songs and Meditations

Author/Artist: Robert Jonas

Format: CD

Price: $12.95

Product ID: 9123

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This CD fuses Celtic Christian songs from Ireland and Scotland with the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. Featured Celtic vocalist Jacynth Hamill and Heather Innes weave their voices with the sound of Robert A. Jonas's Zen flute.

CD	Track	Description	Time
New Life From Ruins	1	Kyo Rei (This is the oldest known and perhaps the most uncomplicated piece of Blowing-Zen repertoire from Buddhist Japan. Passed along in an oral tradition for centuries, the written score in Kinko school notation dates from the 18th century. Kyo Rei invites the listener to breathe each breath - and the space between breaths - as something precious and sacred. Please listen to the silence between the notes.)	06:16
	2	Peace Chant/Shi-O-Chain	2:24
	3	Healing God	3:30
	4	Safekeeping and Blessing	2:44
	5	Rain	02:44
	6	De Profundis	3:00
	7	Eye of God	1:44
	8	New Life From Ruins	4:16
	9	Shirabe	4:14

	10	Shadows	2:12
	11	Psalm 139	5:07
	12	Escomb Prayer	2:35

	13	A Prayer of Protection	2:24
	14	Deep Peace	2:14

Robert A. Jonas has been playing the Japanese bamboo flute, the shakuhachi, since 1991. This meditative shakuhachi music comes from the Buddhist Sui-Zen ("Blowing Zen") tradition. Jonas has studied under shakuhachi masters David Duncavage, Yoshio Kurahashi sensei, Riley Lee, Ronnie Seldin, Marco Lienhard, and most recently, Michael Gould