Showing posts with label Peeter Vähi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peeter Vähi. Show all posts

Monday, 28 October 2019

Peeter Vähi - The Path To The Heart Of Asia (1992)

Superior New Age/world music/electronics suite from Estonian composer & musician Peeter Vähi, born 1955 in Tartu.  These ten 'Legends', plus a finale called Legend Zero, do pretty much what the album title suggests, in a continental tour taking in Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Turkey.

Vähi performs with several of the participants from the Orient 92 music festival that took place in Tallinn: a Cambodian flautist playing in circular breathing on the opener and vocalist on the Khmer folk tune of Legend Three, a Taiwanese group on Four, Tuvinian overtone singers on Five and Eight, and so on until the appearance of a South-Siberian shaman on Ten.  This might not have worked in lesser hands, and could've been a bit of a pretentious gloop, but it's all extremely well produced, in a spare, austere sound with additional keyboards and percussion from Vähi only when necessary.  Highly listenable and recommended.

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