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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.
Despite many of his songs having spiritual allusions, Stevens does not identify as a contemporary Christian music artist or frequently discuss religion with the press. He told The Village Voice: "I don't think music media is the real forum for theological discussions. I think I've said things and sung about things that probably weren't ...
The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...
"Meditation" ("Meditação" in Portuguese) is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The English version has lyrics by Norman Gimbel. [1] In Finland, the song was recorded in 1963 by Olavi Virta with lyrics by Saukki under the title "Hymy, kukka ja rakkaus". [2]
Jahnavi Harrison, also known by her spiritual name, Jahnavi Jivana dasi, [1] is a British musician known for her Hindu mantra meditation music . She regularly appears as a presenter on BBC Radio 4 's Something Understood programme and BBC Radio 2 's Pause for Thought.
"Ungodly Hour" is a song by American R&B duo Chloe x Halle for their second studio album of the same name. The song's music video was released on February 25, 2021 after its premiere on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. [1] The song was written by the duo alongside English band Disclosure, who also handled production. [2]
The Indian Buddhist tantric literature includes music, song and dance as common ritual offerings to tantric deities. [37] [38] The use of singing and dancing as a spiritual practice is promoted in various Buddhist tantras, for example, singing and dancing is an important practice in the Hevajra Tantra, which states:
Most of his music is the product of several hours' work, rather than that of a few days. [2] To Pitchfork Media Cox said that, with each song, "The genesis is usually a beat." [1] Cox considers the music of Let the Blind Lead to have a "dynamic arc": the first half of the record contains "more accessible songs. I was very depressed in the ...