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Artist:	BATAGOV, ANTON
Title:	The Wheel of the Law
Label:	LONG ARMS RECORDS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	CDLA 2040CD

2002 release in stock for the first time. Massive triple CD that is perhaps the greatest new minimalist work of the past 10 years. Recorded in 1999, this is Batagov's opus, long pieces for organ, glockenspiel, xylophone, etc. Great titles like closing 69-minute work: "Liberation Through Listening in the Between" -- which finalizes this truly extravagant experience. Kyle Gann referred to Batagov as "like Reich on vodka." It also reminds of forgotten classics like Michael Vetter's Zen -- Glocken. Long Arm's description: "New big work of the one of the leading Russian composers Anton Batagov inspired by Buddhist's spiritual practice. Unless one sees the Buddha in one's mind, Nirvana is obscured. Although the Wisdom of Nirvana and the Ignorance of the Samsara illusorily appear to be two things, they cannot truly be differentiated. It is an error to conceive them otherwise than as one. Erring and non-erring are, intrinsically, also a unity. By not taking the mind to be naturally a duality, and allowing it, as the primordial consciousness, to abide in its own place, beings attain deliverance. The error of doing otherwise than this arises not from Ignorance in the mind itself, but from not having sought to know the nature of mind. Seek within thine own self-illuminated, self-originated mind whence, firstly, all such concepts arise, secondly, where they exist, and, lastly, whither they vanish." (Guru Padmasambhava. Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness). Kyle Gann: "The Wheel of the Law luxuriates in relentless rhythmic repetition for meditative purposes, accompanied by texts which speak of Buddha-mind and voidness."

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