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Kikuko walked along the dew path towards the tea house. Her mind was fi lled with a feeling of serenity, as every time she paid a visit to this sanctuary of Japanese art.
As if they were symbolic thresholds, the young girl passed under several archways formed by trimmed cherry branches joining together at the tips. She stopped at the bend of each alley to contemplate the disposition of the 15 rocks. They could all be seen at the same time from any spot in the garden. Kikuko thought to herself: “A viewpoint is always incomplete, but each one enhances the other”.

On the banks of a lake with silvery glints, a poor fi sherman discovered a mysterious shimmering light cast up on the shore. The man was immediately fi lled with a burning desire to possess the light. He rushed back to his humble abode to hide his spoils at the bottom of a trunk. Almost feverish with excitement at being the owner of such a wonderful object he did not get a wink of sleep all night. He had to keep getting out of bed. As soon as he lifted the lid of the trunk, the ball radiated an intense glare, fl ooding the room with blue and silver colours to transform his home into a palatial dwelling...

Getting in touch with our aquatic cousins, the dolphins and whales. Next stop
Hawaii, the favourite destination of these charming mammals, which arrive at
Easter time to reproduce, much to the delight of bio acoustic engineers. Groups of whales criss-cross the passages between the islands. There is often no need to go far out to sea to hear their marvellous sounds. Almost human siren songs, surrealist maritime airs, the whales and dolphins can be heard on this recording expressing the entire spectrum of tonal variations contained in their songs.

An ode to napping on the water’s edge...
Nonchalance...Laziness...
Sluggishness...Smoothness...
Heat under the sun’s caress,
Senses on the alert,
I take a taste of the breeze
I laze around, I praise myself
for my laziness...

Spirits of the sea and of the wind,
please accept my offering
protect our clan.
Brandishing his heavy sword
and wielding his iron shield,
my husband has set off to war.

On the volcanic and mysterious isle, in the heart of Indonesia, the nights are hot and humid. Tomorrow, Kumar, the fl ute player will go and play music in the gardens of the Sultan. At the hour when the darkness becomes translucent, as a leopard, Kumar moves around noiselessly, In a light and sure leap, he jumps over the fences of the palace and arrives in the perfumed garden, under the pendopo with carved teck columns...

This recording carries you off on a journey to discover the splendid traditional
music of Africa on a journey through seven regions: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, Rwanda, Gabon, Mali and Guinea. This compilation features marvellous local songs and melodies both different and surprising. Instruments are used in their original state and handled with extreme dexterity. These rare quality recordings transport us, providing us with both a spatial and temporal process for discovering the sources of the music! Rich sound landscapes derived from nature in the regions visited run alongside the carefully chosen tunes.

Amra was always in a rush, always multitasking and everything had to go fast. One morning she spread her veils out on the sand so they could dry. All of a sudden a strong gust of wind blew away the saffron-coloured veil. Amra ran after it, trying to catch it but it fl ew further and further away. And Amra no longer knew how to stop.
The almond trees were bearing fruit, the brooks were discharging their turquoise freshness. The scent of nature fi lled the air and Amra kept on running. One day, she caught her foot in a stone and rolled all the way down to the bottom of the hill. She ended up at the foot of an exquisite magnolia...

The Son of the Sun has just risen. His thoughts reach out to the majestic condor
hovering in the distance, fl ying over the high plateaus, dwelling a while over the forests… crossing his huge empire extending as far as the wild seashores. He is no stranger to this journey. The words of the Callanaya are echoing in his mind: ”Your inner treasures are infi nite and more extensive than any empire. The only limitations are the ones you set yourself. Learn to recognize your desire. When you have gauged the full extent of this desire, project its image onto the people around you, until it becomes glaringly obvious and it becomes a powerful reality”.

Life is beginning to start, at dawn in the original forest.
We are in Brazil, Costa Rica and Venezuela in the world’s fi nest jungles to spend an hour listening to the exotic songs of the birds of paradise amidst the atmosphere of the tropical jungle. Making a disorienting impact on the ears, this recording plunges us deep into the forest, into the mysterious comers of the fi nest jungles our planet has to offer. An outstandingly rich sound landscape, an invitation for dreaming and getting away from it all, we are gradually being led towards the deep south!

Jazzy improvisation to the sound of traditional Indian rhythms.
He hailed from the West, very keen on jazz,
She hailed from the East with a fl ute as the only luggage
At the time when the horizon catches fi re,
When nature retreats into mystery,
When the shadows become compliant
Oriental Jazz They both started to play...