Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.” Boban Ristevski and Wilfried Hanrath, however, don't take their cues from Zen, but from Ram Dass, the LSD-pioneering psychologist turned hindu guru after a trip to India, whose book 'Be Here Now' was first published in 1970 and introduced Eastern spirituality into Western countercultures on a large scale.Īs with earlier collaborations of Boban Ristevski with other musicians, the spiritual framework seems to suggest that the immersion in a shared sound-space, always lavishly ambient and droning, prone to invite a journey (or focussing) of the mind, is a kind of core for collective meditation. With the longest of the three pieces on this album clocking in at 35 minutes, one is reminded of the Zen teaching famously quoted by John Cage: “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
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