Omni Gardens & Zen Monk Jogen - New Directions in Meditation Tonalities (Cassette)
Jogen Salzberg is a Buddhist teacher, counselor, soundscape deejay, drummer and previously lived as a monk for 15 years.
Omni Gardens is the ambient/new age project of Steve Rosborough, designer and owner of Moon Glyph records.
"New Directions in Meditation Tonalities" is our collaboration after meeting in Portland through our mutual love for old new age tapes, experimental jazz and ambient music.
"There are hidden everyday mystics, always, somewhere, some now, merged intimately with the aural field, feeling/knowing themselves as the sourceless-source of sound, being sourced forth by speaker’s speech, cat’s meows, traffics howl, the wind’s whisper through the shrubs and trees, cascading footsteps falling amidst the symphony of the city…
You can join them. Listen carefully at the horizon of being, this intimate instant - Does the sound come to the ear or the ear to the sound? Neither.
Close your eyes and let these tones enter, permeate and express WITHIN and AS your body. That body is a body of bright emptiness.
These sounds stream forth as the shimmer of your vibrance.
Activate the wave-blessing through sky-like, vivid...  more
Omni Gardens is the ambient/new age project of Steve Rosborough, designer and owner of Moon Glyph records.
"New Directions in Meditation Tonalities" is our collaboration after meeting in Portland through our mutual love for old new age tapes, experimental jazz and ambient music.
"There are hidden everyday mystics, always, somewhere, some now, merged intimately with the aural field, feeling/knowing themselves as the sourceless-source of sound, being sourced forth by speaker’s speech, cat’s meows, traffics howl, the wind’s whisper through the shrubs and trees, cascading footsteps falling amidst the symphony of the city…
You can join them. Listen carefully at the horizon of being, this intimate instant - Does the sound come to the ear or the ear to the sound? Neither.
Close your eyes and let these tones enter, permeate and express WITHIN and AS your body. That body is a body of bright emptiness.
These sounds stream forth as the shimmer of your vibrance.
Activate the wave-blessing through sky-like, vivid...  more
credits
released August 5, 2022
Music and field recordings by Steve Rosborough
Spoken word and liners by Jogen Salzberg • solisluna.org
Photography by the Environmental Protection Agency, 1973
Mastered at The Gentle Ways by Sean Conrad
Design by Liz Pavlovic
Released on the label Crash Symbols
Music and field recordings by Steve Rosborough
Spoken word and liners by Jogen Salzberg • solisluna.org
Photography by the Environmental Protection Agency, 1973
Mastered at The Gentle Ways by Sean Conrad
Design by Liz Pavlovic
Released on the label Crash Symbols