Devakant's "Narrow Road" CD is a journey for the mind and a Journey through time. I will let Devakant explain how his CD Narrow Road is a musical and mystical journey.
"In the spring of 689 Matsuo Basho, the greatest poet of Japanese Haiku, set out on a journey to the far reaches of Japan. His 5 - month odyssey was immortalised in his much loved classic of prose and poetry "Okumo-Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Far North).
300 years later I travelled this same road and explored the mystical roots of his journey by foot, by horseback, rowboat and bus, along with a television crew NHK TV, Japan. Much, so much had changed during the 3 century interval, cities had flourished and disappeared, earthquakes had changed seas into rice fields, footpaths had changed into superhighways. But much had also remained the same as in Basho's time. In many of the places where Basho wrote his famous Haiku, I played a "musical Haiku", an expression in sound rather than words. it was a musical response to that situation sometimes inspired by the words of Basho, sometimes by the legend or myth which drew him to that place, and sometimes by the sheer beauty and majesty of the nature that I encountered there. these recordings are selections from the "Musical Diary" of my journey."
Devakant.
Bamboo flutes, sarangi, harp, veena and orchestra. A cascading waterfall of sound, or a starlite mountain stillness...Many textures and moods. I don't know how Devakant keeps doing it. Devakant's "Narrow Road" CD is another of his powerful and majestic manifestations of life in sound. His music is forever.
