Name: Michael Harrison: Seven Sacred Names
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This single, hourlong work by Michael Harrison is ethereal, embedded in a knotty, Indian soundworld. Designed as a companion to Nature’s Hidden Dimension, a book by astrophysicist WHSGebel,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Oct 2021
Catalogue No: CA21157
Label: Cantaloupe
Length: 65 minutes

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Harrison, M: Seven Sacred Names

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Michael Harrison, Payton MacDonald, Ina Filip and Caleb Burhans, Michael Harrison, Ritvik Yaparpalvi, Ashley Bathgate, Tim Fain, Payton MacDonald, Caleb Burhans
Roomful of Teeth

Kalim (Prologue)

Track length5:36

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Hayy (Revealing the Tones)

Track length4:34

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Alim (Polyphonic Raga Malkauns)

Track length12:30

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Qadr (Etude in Raga Bhimpalasi)

Track length13:14

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Mureed

Track length6:29

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Sami (The Acoustic Constellation)

Track length2:32

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Basir

Track length15:15

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Kalim (Epilogue)

Track length5:31

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$1.30

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"Created by pianist and composer Michael Harrison, Seven Sacred Names is meant as a companion album to the book Nature’s Hidden Dimension by author, astrophysicist and modern Sufi mystic W.H.S. Gebel. The Seven Sacred Names, according to the mystical cosmology of Sufism, tell the story of '...an awakening primal Self,' as Gebel writes in the album’s liner notes. Taken together, Harrison’s seven pieces (with the prologue and epilogue of 'Kalim' comprising two distinct movements) foster a listening environment that is ethereal, meditative and at times almost tentative, but also rife with the anticipation and promise of glimpsing hidden truths about ourselves. Featuring a diverse range of artists that includes the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, vocalist Ina Filip, cellist Ashley Bathgate, violinists Tim Fain and Caleb Burhans, tabla percussionist Ritvik Yaparpalvi and Harrison himself on piano, the recording moves hypnotically through a subtle but ever-changing suite of tranquil moods and colors — with each stage defining a sacred or exalted state meant to inspire awareness, self-knowledge and self-expression. 'I wanted to show how beautiful simple harmonies can be, especially in just intonation,' Harrison says. 'I also wanted to invite listeners and musicians to start perceiving just intonation as an infinite harmonic system encompassing limitless possibilities.'"

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January 2022

This single, hourlong work by Michael Harrison is ethereal, embedded in a knotty, Indian soundworld. Designed as a companion to Nature’s Hidden Dimension, a book by astrophysicist WHSGebel, the work is made up of complex rhythmic patterns.

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