What people are saying about Shaman's
Vision Journey:
"Primal rhythms and Native Flutes once again intertwine in the percussive panoramas of David and Steve Gordon. Past releases from the Gordons, like SACRED EARTH DRUMS and DRUM
MEDICINE, have proven their mastery of shamanic sounds in a
healing setting and became top sellers in the genre. SHAMAN'S
VISION JOURNEY takes things one step further with the introduction
of some fascinating instrumentation choices. Crystal bowls,
uncommon for a World percussive album, are used with great
effect in the music, adding a mystical glow to it. Subtle ancient
chants (Tibetan, Sanskrit, Aboriginal, Mayan & Lakota)
and Indian drone instruments provide additional Eastern influence
in the music, and make an intuitive counterpoint to the haunting
Native American flute. The most striking thing about the album
is the rhythms, which are rich, earthy and invigorating."
- Music Design In Review
“Brothers David and Steve Gordon express their
mystic emotions in this album, whose title refers to the
themes they have drawn their inspiration from. The result
is a meditative album, wrapped in the sounds of nature,
ideal to let imagination soar through the beauty of the
Earth. The sweet, slow rhythms of the exotic percussive
instruments are combined with soft melodies that evoke
the peace of green grasslands."
- Hector Jordan, Amazing.com
"New from the popular brothers David Gordon and Steve Gordon, the godfathers of tribal drumming, is Shaman's Vision Journey - a soothing trance-based musical journey that invites you to discover your own inner peace through a shamanic journey. The duo has exerted considerable energy into finding authentic shamanic material to work with and has incorporated chants from several mystical traditions, including Lakota, Sanskrit, Aboriginal, and Mayan. The four instrumental tracks are laden with soft melodies underlined with layers of gentle drumming and relaxing atmospheres. Shaman's Vision Journey is a great extended soundscape to enhance your massage or spa session and is a clean and wonderfully engineered recording to get lost in your headphones with."
- Peter Manzi, Sounds From the Ground Up, 2006
"Dave and Steve Gordon got started with Shamanic music via their love for the Sequoia Forests, which they visited as youths. They recorded the sounds of those woods and incorporated them into their music. It's been documented as medical science that certain drum timbres and rhythms can lull a listener into a trance and a whole rediscovery of the art of shamanism has merged around this. Shaman's Vision Journey is another chapter in the Gordons' amazing contribution to this field. It's a trek homeward, a galvanizing and evocative progression of incessant, hypnotic shaman drum and shaker beats, accented by voice, synthesizers, guitars, and flutes and of course, the mysterious and soothing sounds of the great forests they love."
- DailyOM.com
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