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muSic Light BOdY Peter Kater Peter Kater, a multiplatinum-selling keyboard maestro who has been nominated for seven Grammy awards, has a track record of heartfelt and dynamic recordings, including Native American-inspired World Music collaborations, jazzy/contemporary styles, and deep healing and relaxing music. With the release of Light Body Kater reaches a new pinnacle of excellence, inding a whole new space with nary a note out of place. Written as an uplifting and supportive audio companion to life's challenges, transitions and metamorphoses, Kater uses the seven chakras as a map on a musical journey toward love, peace and acceptance. Accompanied by the superb Paul McCandless (oboe, penny whistle, English horn, saxophones) and Trisha Bowden on wordless vocals, the music goes above and beyond ideas, themes and singular vision, landing softly and perfectly in the heart space. Listening to Light Body is like awakening from slumber into the brilliance of the sunrise emanating in all directions—building, falling, inding stillness, and closing into a new peace that is nourishing for the soul while opening doorways into the heart. (Mym) —Lloyd Barde guzO Samuel Yirga At 10 years old, Ethiopia's Samuel Yirga devoured local jazz and American R&B, dreaming of touring the planet even though he didn't play an instrument. Still musically unschooled at 16, he tried out for Addis Ababa's Yared School of Music, somehow placing third out of 2,500 hopefuls. The young musician cut his teeth as a pianist with the Ethio-based Dub Colossus before releasing Guzo, his thoughtful low of Ethio-jazz renditions and gorgeous solo works. The quiet "Ye Bati Koyita" and "Drop Me There," eight-and-a-half-minute piano gems, provide profound and inquiring ivory work. His cover of Rotary Connection's psychedelic groove track, "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun," is brilliant, featuring Massive Attack vocalist Nicolette surrounded by the Creole Choir of Cuba. His homegrown music is splendid: the mournful, minor key "The Blues of Wollo," which features some of the best Ethiopian vocals I've ever heard, and Nicolette returning for the loungey, Caribbean-lavored "African Diaspora," prove to be a perfect conclusion on an album of global renown. (Real World) —Derek Beres A&S_01.indd 33 art & soul December2012/January201333 11/27/12 4:09 PM

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