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are live concert recordings from 1997, ‘98, and ‘99 from concerts in Sebastopol,
Santa Rosa, Grass Valley and Nevada City in California and from Eugene,
Oregon. Live recordings are subject to the vagaries of different venues,
different recording conditions, and different methods of recording, the
odd cough and scraping chair, and the inherent musical danger of recording
a live performance.
That said, we have tried to capture here the feeling that we seek
whenever we sing or perform together. We have come to understand that singing
this music is spiritual practice, and that the feeling we get singing together,
and in particular in that ineffable moment in the silence which follows
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which we have been perfectly attuned to each
other (whether or not perfectly in tune), is as deep a connection with
the divine as can be reached in this life. It should, perhaps, be
obvious: what we do involves the body, the breath, concentration, attunement,
intense listening, and an open heart. This is spiritual practice. So these
are the best recorded versions of our live performances, presented in the
hope that in some way that sense of shared musical devotion survives the
electronic journey from concert to tape to CD to your ear and heart.
Aamil Rick Targow, March, 2000
©2000 The New Sufi Choir
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