The Healing Music of Rana Vol.1

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These two compositions are created to provide a healthful environment for relaxation and quiet contemplation. While settings of treble and bass on your home amplifier determine the music's effect, a low loudness level is most highly recommended.

The name RANA, meaning 'Sunbreath', has it's origin in ancient philosophical concepts that recognized vibration as the fundamental creative force and central principle of the many esoteric mystery schools of the ancient world. It is now evident that the use of music for it's ability to alter mind states and for it's effectiveness as a therapeutic aid was music's original purpose and an important concept of these mystery schools. In the broadest sense, the practice of music for it's healing ability may well stand as our oldest continuous music tradition.

The 'Music of Rana' Environmental Series uses synthesizers, drone box, tamboura, voice and tape delay to create an environment of continuously evolving multi-layered melody. Described as "subtle", "graceful", and "profoundly moving", it is improvisational and based on Hindu forms and ragas.

These lengthy improvisations were created in live performance while I was seated on the floor behind a Moog Prodigy and Micromoog synthesizer - one above the other - to allow for simultaneous playing of the two keyboards. With the synthesizers, I used a microphone, small mixer, a specially designed drone box, and two reel-to-reel tape recorders placed side by side with a single audio tape passing from the first machine to the second . 

In performance, the sound is recorded on the first machine, played back several seconds later on the second machine, mixed then recorded on the first machine to create an environment o