Pete Jacobson & Paul Livingstone: Taos Mountain Meditations for Sitar & Cello

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Label
Yarlung Records
Release Date
June 16, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Peter Jacobson, Paul Livingstone
    • PERFORMER
      Peter Jacobson, Paul Livingstone
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 16, 2023
    • UPC
      198004544658
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      YAR54465
    • LABEL
      Yarlung Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      New Age
    Works ⌄

    1. Dance of the Triangle

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    2. The Shape of Imagination

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    3. Sweater Patterns

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    4. Boxes of Crayons

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    5. Snow Flurries in June

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    6. Ripples on a Pond

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    7. Why Trees Make Music

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    8. Pot Creek

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    9. Sunrise

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    10. Nacimiento

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    11. Ascent

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    12. Astral Projection

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    13. Sunhawk

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    14. The Smell of Rocky Mountain Rain

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    15. Cottonwood Seeds Blowing in the Wind

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    16. Blue Lake

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    17. Evening Light Dancing

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    18. Corn Pollen

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    19. Mantra

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    20. Rio Pueblo

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    21. Rio Lucero

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

    22. Red Willow

      Composer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson

      Performer: Paul Livingstone, Peter Jacobson


Paul Livingstone and Peter Jacobson offer soulful musical meditations on beauty and tranquility; helping the listener or yoga practitioner balance his or her inner world. Pete and Paul take inspiration from the Hindustani musical tradition and from Paul’s teacher and mentor Ravi Shankar who collaborated so eloquently with Yehudi Menuhin on violin and helped to popularize Hindustani music in the West. Pete and Paul also draw inspiration from American jazz improvisation. You may have heard Paul before on his several classical Hindustani or “ragajazz” crossover recordings, and Yarlung’s Sangam release in 2022.

Pete is a cello rock star, whom you may know from his tours and recordings with Rhye, Dr. Dre, Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down, The Talking Strings, Quartetto Fantastico and Aux Cerna. You may also know him from film and television, including in The Walking Dead, Motherland and The Twighlight Zone. Paul and Pete have performed on GRAMMY-winning records by Ricky Kej, Ozomatli and Quetzal. Taos evokes magic, mystery, art, multiculturalism and majesty.

Home to the Tiwa-speaking Red Willow people of Taos Pueblo for more than a thousand years, Taos is also home to Spanish settlers from 1600, who founded the Spanish village of Taos in 1795. Taos offers breathtaking scenery, refreshing air and light and the magnificent smells of adobe earth, pinion and sagebrush. The area inspired some of the 20th Century’s most creative artists, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams and D.H. Lawrence. The native Red Willow people, the Tiwa Indians in Taos, practice a hybrid religion today, incorporating the conflicting tenants of their native religion with Roman Catholicism superimposed by the Spanish padres over hundreds of years. If one asks a devout Tiwa friend about the conflicts, he or she may shrug and may comment that one can follow both truths.

This ability for people in Taos to incorporate disparate theologies and world views will help us understand the multiple spiritual inspirations for the music on this recording. –Bob Attiyeh, producer