The compact, razor-sharp McKenna Birmingham performs a frenzied solo that shows Mr. Feld's proclivity for interlocking movement; yet instead of creating a meditative whole, the repetitive phrases become enervating.
Practice meditation, or try rejoicing, meditative prayer.
As her voice and piano engage in a reflective dialogue, the artful hesitations and wide-open spaces between phrases conjure a state of meditative suspension into which feelings spontaneously bubble up and subside.
The ease born of focusing awareness on a single meditative object--perhaps the breath, the phrases of metta, body awareness, consciousness itself--allows a state of relaxed ease to suffuse the body; we're no longer armored, muscles in a habitual state of contraction.
Mantra meditation is another common form of meditation, which involves repeating a mantra (a sound, word or phrase) over and over, until you silence the mind and enter a deep meditative state.
Arooj Aftab, a Pakistani-American singer, reworked the gentle, rippling phrases of the light-classical style called thumri over meditative guitar parts by Bhrigu Sahni that eased toward jazz and rock harmonies.
The juxtaposition of meditative sentences in hesitant syntax with sudden images of urban decay; the unexplained phrase in a foreign language; the linking of Hindu mysticism and Blitz fire-fighting – what could be more Eliotic?
Specifically, he could not take seriously the verbal expressiveness of the meditative passages in the stressed long lines, whose language is devoid of brilliant phrases and steps round and around a shifting point of view.
The crisp and clear images display clearly the musicians's unremitting exertions; Davis solos at great length, allowing improvisations to build from slow and meditative rambles into slashing grooves, and his blasting high notes punctuate and fragment phrases with an audacious spontaneity.
He is not a musician who dawdles over a phrase; there are no intermissions, no time out during a piece for a meditative dissertation on the beauties of a specific passage.
