Labyrinth, by Arthur Durkee

Labyrinth

by Arthur Durkee

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1.	Bells for Entry 00:53	buy track
2.	Zen Flute & Bells 06:45	buy track
3.	The Widening Gyre 07:07	buy track
4.	Path to the Center 11:58	buy track
5.	Walk Home 06:29	buy track
6.	Bells for Entering the Center 00:53	buy track
7.	Long Walk & Contemplation of the Labyrinth 23:47	buy track
8.	Bells for Leaving the Center 00:53	buy track
9.	The Widening Gyre 07:07	buy track
10.	Zen Flute & Bells 06:45	buy track
11.	Bells for Exit 00:55	buy track

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"Labyrinth" and "Trance" are albums of original music commissioned by a holistic training and health institute as ambient new age music for healing sessions, educational classrooms, massage, Reiki, acupuncture, etc.

I am posting the albums exactly as they were intended to be experienced. Tracks with the same name are in fact the same music. This was done intentionally, as repetition is conducive to meditation, contemplation, and trance work.

If you download the entire album, you will get the music complete, as it was intended. However, feel free to download just the tracks you want, and create your own playlist.

Each album needed to be a particular length, but they needed to stay within the same style and scope. They were intended to serve as background ambience, in addition to being listened as music.

Play at moderate volume.

"Labyrinth" evokes in music the full experience of walking the Labyrinth, a walking-meditation practice dating back many centuries. As an experienced Labyrinth walker myself, I composed music that for me reflects the stages of the journey—which after all are the journey of life.

The Labyrinth may take a short time to walk, or many hours, depending on what pace an individual feels moved to walk. There are places where you will feel stuck; moving forward through blocks can take time. On other walks, you may walk to celebrate and praise, and mov along briskly.

It is a paradox of the Labyrinth that when you first enter, you get a close glimpse of the center, your eventual goal—but then you move past and wander in many directions. You have not lost your way. Then, when you feel like you are farthest away from the center, in fact you are near the end of the journey, and will arrive very soon.

The tracks on "Labyrinth" reflect stages of the journey, marked by bells at places of threshold and turning. The central, longest track is itself an image of the entire journey. Once we get to the center, we stay awhile. Then, we reverse course, and walk out, renewed.

This journey to the center, and the return, is reflected in the album track layout by repeating two tracks heard early on the album, heard again as we retrace our steps back to the entrance.

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released August 1, 2018

Arthur Durkee: Chapman Stick, Loops, Bamboo Flutes (suling, shakuhachi, Zen flute), Bells, Singing Bowls
with Eddie Estrin, Bells, Bowls

Written & Produced by Arthur Durkee

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered 2002 Dragonsweyr Studio
Remastered 2018 by AD at Dragonsweyr

Album Design & Artwork by AD/Arthur Durkee Arts

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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