Nagoya holds Global Drum Circle on Hiroshima AnniversaryAt the recent Japanese Peace Drum Circle held in Nagoya, over one hundred Japanese, American, and invited guests from India and Nepal took the sadness and shock of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 which killed 140,000 Japanese and transformed it into a celebration of Peace through drumming on the anniversary day! (MORE...)
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Global Resonance
In honor of Les Paul
Today's quote meditation comes from legendary guitar man Les Paul, who passed yesterday at age 94: "I set my sights high and with determination. If you believe in yourself you need to only reinforce all your dreams. People need to raise their sights. I was able to get everything I set out to do. [...]
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Channeling toward one focus
Inspirational speaker and Unity minister Justin Epstein shares with RockOm how "music helps to get your feelings and thoughts all channeled towards one focus, to have all your energy moving in the direction of super-consciousness or God." Click below for a very "uplifting" interview.
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Use your talents
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Artist:Henry Van Dyke
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." [Henry Van Dyke]Reflection: Everyone's gifted at something. Even if you're not the best with that particular skill, your simple offering contributes to the "beautiful sounds of the woods." What will you share today?
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Bhakti Fest 2009
On 450 acres of inspiring desert land, embracing the powerful forces of yoga and kirtan [devotional music] together, a transformational community will converge for BHAKTI FEST on September 11-13th, 2009 in Joshua Tree, California. Bhakti Fest is a three day music and yoga festival of devotional celebration through chanting, yoga, meditation, workshops and community. More details after the jump.
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What’s Rockin @ RockOm
This week RockOm brings to you new Featured Tracks by L.A.'s The Morning Birds. The trio - made up of Jennifer Thorington, Samuel Markus and Eric Wilkins - have a new album out entitled Inspiration Point. See the right column of the home page to listen to the band's songs "Bag Full of Sunshine" and "One Door Land" or click Read More below for more information about the band.
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Order out of chaos
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."[Yehudi Menuhin]
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Anahata Nada
Vibrations, sounds and overtones exist that we can both hear and that are beyond our range. Although we can't hear the highest and lowest frequency waves, that doesn't make them any less real. How does this relate to concepts of sound from the East, such as Om from Hinduism/Buddhism and The Word of Christianity? Are we essentially extensions of the Om and The Word? Can we go even further to des...
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Startle Our Wonder
"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. " [Emerson]Reflection: Have you ever had a song or album that spoke profoundly to you about who you are, why you're here and where you're going?
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The Concert
In this RockOm Flashback post (originally posted July 2008), we find a great story about a young boy who attends a Paderewski concert with his mother. What results is a wonderful allegory about being guided by a Higher Power.
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Lose Your Troubles
"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it."[James Brown]
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The Greatest Message of Hope
This week we continue with songwriter Scott Valentine's weekly blog post in his journey to give away a free song each week over the course of a year (from his five-disc compilation entitled Seasons). This week's offering is entitled "The Greatest Message of Hope" and was deeply inspired by the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Click through to download the track for free and check out Scott's refle...
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Music: Essential for Life
Recently the following excerpt from a 2004 welcome address given to parents of incoming students at The Boston Conservatory by Dr. Karl Paulnack, Director of the Music Division, has been making its way around the internet. We're quite confident that what you're about to read will move you on many levels.
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Bypassing reason
"Truly fertile music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate reason." [Albert Camus, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature (1957)]
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The journey itself is the point
Alan Watts says, "We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition..."(con't after the jump)
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Music Theater
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Joy in the Moment
Yesterday we interviewed the legendary percussionist Airto Moreira for an upcoming feature planned at RockOm. In this discussion, he shares how he is a channel whereby Spirit radiates joy. Here are a few ways you too can become a channel or a vessel for Spirit to express joy in the carrying out of your obligations.
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“Like when you’re first in love…”
"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills." [Janis Joplin]
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“Head” Welch: Back on the Road
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RockOm alum and ex-Korn guitarist turned solo artist, Brian "Head" Welch" (who shocked the world in 2005 by announcing his resignation from the Grammy Award-winning band, due in large part to his newfound faith in Jesus Christ) heads back out on the road with a new band. More details after the jump...
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