Om Shanti Om (album)

Om Shanti Om is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry. It was recorded in 1976 at RAI Studios in Rome, Italy, for television broadcast, and was released in 2020 by Black Sweat Records. On the album, Cherry is heard on pocket trumpet, ngoni, kora, and flute, and is joined by Naná Vasconcelos on berimbau, Gian Piero Pramaggiore on guitar, and his wife Moki Cherry on tambura.[1][2][3]

Om Shanti Om
Live album by
Don Cherry
Released2020
Recorded1976
VenueRAI Studios, Rome, Italy
GenreFree jazz
Length47:23
LabelBlack Sweat Records
BS058

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Jazzwise[4]
The Free Jazz Collective[5]
Tom Hull – on the WebB+[6]

In a review for Jazzwise, Edwin Pouncey wrote that, on the album, "the hard-edged urban blast of 1960s modern jazz is replaced with a more meditational organic music groove where the assembled players become sonically entwined. Here vocal chant and percussion are utilised to form densely patterned layers of undulating rhythm."[4]

Stef Gijssels of The Free Jazz Collective stated: "It is all very friendly and sweet, with no real moments of surprise and no sense of artistic commitment, and as such it's more like listening to a group of friends having fun."[5]

A writer for Komakino described the album as "a blissful compendium of mesmeric vibes, spiritually retuning your innermost self," and commented: "I reached the needed inner consciousness."[7]

Author Daniel B. Sharp remarked: "Although this music has moved away from jazz to the point that it is largely no longer recognizable as such, Don asserts... that 'jazz is the glue' that holds together the... musical elements." He noted that Cherry and his group were "breaking down boundaries between their art and their lives."[8]

Track listing
  1. "Luna Turca" (Gian Piero Pramaggiore) – 1:44
  2. "Om Shanti Om" (Don Cherry) – 6:55
  3. "Chenrezig" (Don Cherry) – 11:49
  4. "Nana's Solo" (Naná Vasconcelos) – 3:56
  5. "A Chi Chi Ou" (Don Cherry) – 1:39
  6. "Koye" (Don Cherry) – 6:32
  7. "Flute Song" (Don Cherry) – 5:16
  8. "Dissolution" (Don Cherry) – 9:29

Personnel

References
  1. "Don Cherry: Om Shanti Om". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  2. "Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  3. "Don Cherry: Om Shanti Om". Bandcamp. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  4. Pouncey, Edwin. "Two bites of the Cherry: Don Cherry: Cherry Jam". Jazzwise. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  5. Gijssels, Stef (October 3, 2020). "Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  6. Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Don Cherry". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  7. "Don Cherry - Om Shanti Om". Komakino. September 23, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  8. Sharp, Daniel B. (2021). Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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