I Ching

arrived promptly and was as advertised

i bought i ching back in the 90s on a cassette tape. i listened to it so much, the tape wore out. i'm glad i could still buy it. now i have the cd.

This is the second Uakti album I've ever heard, Aguas da Amazonia being the first. Their use of the I-Ching patterns provides for a frenzy of 3/4 music in "The Hexagrams" All the songs (except possibly the last two) are in 3/4 time, with an ostinato taken from one of 8 i-ching trigrams. It's a wonderful cd that should appeal to true lovers of music.

Uakti is a band of Brazilian musicians who have produced a series of very good cds combining a certain ambience (especially, the atmospheres of Amazonia) with New Age instrumental sensibilities to create a very light, and often sweet and warm, result. The arrangements employ any number of specially constructed flutes and percussion instruments. The nearest act I can compare them with is the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, minus the latter's quirkiness. All of their albums are about equally good and in general sound pretty much alike, yet each contains notable melodic hooks that will draw you in even after one hearing.

if you think you're gonna like it, you are.