Editorial Reviews "This group of compositions is the product of countless musical influences, a deep love for the guitar in all its forms, and a passionate and prolonged relationship with yoga as both teacher and student." --- Michael Hewett
Being In Dreaming
Music Review:
Music Review
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Michael Hewett is a yoga instructor, but his music draws more on the sound of the American West than on that of the mystical East. Combining electric and acoustic guitars, he creates that wide-open plains feeling you get from Pat Metheny's music; he's joined on several tracks by former Metheny Group bassist Mark Egan. Compositions like "Capricorn" are nicely detailed, electric chamber jazz, while "The Ever Widening Circle" accelerates from plaintive acoustic guitar to a delirious free-fall. But Hewett really sets himself apart on more intimate compositions, such as "Nagual," a haunting adagio on which he plays an acoustic guitar with an e-bow, stringing together a long, mellifluous melody. "Sedona" mixes deft finger-style guitar against a deep mix of cello and electric bass. Hewett loves mixing multiple guitars. On "I Cover the Abyss with a Trance," dual finger-plucked acoustics create a stereo filigree, while e-bowed acoustics snake through the violin and cello refrains. Being in Dreaming signals the appearance of not only a guitar master, but a composer of quietly epic dimensions. --John Diliberto
--- Cyndi Lee / Director OM yoga center NYC
"Lyrical, soothing, provocative, mysterious / Sets the stage for a transporting yoga class!"
Album Description
Unique instrumental stylings of Michael Hewett / Guitarist extraordinaire & yoga teacher. Imagine a blending of "Dark Side of the Moon", Radiohead, Aaron Copeland and Michael Hedges!