Zitat des Tages von Paul Horn:
The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.
Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.
