Rasa Dance - The Music Of Connection

by Steve Roach

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Nicola Alexandra Hajdu I love the collection of this album. My favorite tracks are "In the Eye Of Noche & Where Rasa Lives Favorite track: In the Eye Of Noche.

Glyn Morton Just love the whole idea of this album, plus of course Steve's outstanding music. Favorite track: Gone West.

Robin Lamperti Ambient, ethereal, trippy (in a really cool way). Great to unplug and transport your mind to another place.

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	1.	Gone West 07:27
	2.	Truth And Beauty 08:29
	3.	Nightshade 09:04
	4.	Flatlands 04:55
	5.	Merge 06:21
	6.	Heart's Core 08:49
	7.	In the Eye Of Noche 13:19
	8.	Where Rasa Lives 15:01

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This collection of pieces was refined over several years of movement magic between horses and humans. Created for the Eponaquest horse-faciliated workshop Rasa Dance by equine innovator and best-selling author Linda Kohanov, the music sets the tone for interactive sessions where horses and humans literally move and dance together, thus providing a supportive atmosphere for the experience of connection. This dynamic music set covers a powerful range of emotions and inspiration which perfectly mirrors the Rasa Dance workshop theme.
The collection brings together an inspired set of thematic, rhythmic, and melodic pieces from Steve Roach's vast body of work.

From the Liner Notes by Linda Kohanov
The Evolution of Rasa Dance

In 1993, at the height of my career as a music critic, I sold my CD
collection to buy Tabula Rasa, a beautiful black Arabian mare. Six months later, I was riding her in the desert when a huge Rottweiler chased us through a deep sandy wash, injuring Rasa¹s right back leg, ending our promising riding career, yet ironically leading us on a much more fruitful path.

The Chinese sage Lao-tzu observed that ³it is upon disaster that good
fortune rests a lesson that Rasa and her other herd members challenged me to embrace over and over again. While the sheer joy of working with horses always outweighed the hardships, the most profound transformations happened when things didn¹t go my way---when my most reliable tools, ideas, and coping strategies failed, and I had to respond to the world rather than try to control it. Through Rasa, I learned to dance with the unexpected while
literally learning how to dance with her on the ground. This consolation for my inability to ride her turned into a relationship-enhancing practice that I used with other horses, and eventually taught to people through our Rasa Dance workshops.

For these clinics, my husband Steve and I perused his extensive list of
original compositions, selecting various moods and tempos. This CD
collection was refined through years of movement magic between horses and humans. ³Eye of Noche² and ³Where Rasa Lives² were later created in memory of two horses who became great dancers, then great dance teachers of people, including those who had never worked with horses before.

I was subsequently surprised to find the phrase ³Rasa Dance² associated with the ancient god Krishna, who danced with his followers by moonlight. In India, a sacred performance is still called a Rasa Dance, signifying a state of grace in which Spirit engages with its many manifestations, expressing different aspects of infinity through the music of connection.

But it was a living, breathing horse named Rasa who taught me that when two beings move in synchrony, a greater consciousness arises. Most importantly, I learned that if we can dance with joy, ecstasy, power, frustration, miscommunication, tragedy and anything else that comes our way, an underlying sense of deep peace emerges, allowing us to fully engage with life.

Linda Kohanov

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released March 1, 2013

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As a pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music, internationally-renowned artist Steve Roach has dedicated four decades to exploring myriad soundworlds that connect with a timeless source of inspiration.

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Circadian Rhythms - Immersion Five

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