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Montino Bourbon is a brilliant musician- being that he's a disciple of the renowned Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, with whom he studied for twelve years. Maestro Bourbon has directed the Academy of Universal Music in Montecito for many years, and teaches the music of India as well as African and World music. He has performed concerts in Europe, India, and the United States and has been the featured musician in the World Music Festival at California Institute of the Arts, the Estate Musicale Festival in Rome, and the Gandharva festival in Bombay, all to outsdanding accolades. The Rome Messaggero called his performance at the Teatro Stella Complex "superb." The Santa Barbara News-Press hailed him as a ‘Brilliant Virtuoso’
"Healing Music"
An Article by Montino Bourbon, Master of Sound
“Music is the best method for realization; there is none better.”
These words were spoken by Vilayat Inayat Khan, the founder of the Sufi order in the West. He was a great spiritual teacher and musician.
Music is all-pervasive; every religion has music, every country has a national anthem, and even individual groups have music that typifies their individual essence, their message. Music exists in all societies, even non-human societies such as birds, whales, and others.
This all-pervasive presence of vibration, what we call ‘music’, has a reason for being, one that is becoming more apparent every day.
The Universal Law of Vibration, which states that not only is everything in existence vibrating but also connected by these vibrations and their harmonics, rules music and its effects. And by understanding this basic principle and its corollaries we can begin to understand the way to wholeness, to the basic core of healing through vibration.
ALL music is healing; even music that we normally think of as ‘sickening’, or music that is dissonant, irritating, or not pleasing fulfills a role that is necessary in the needs of humanity. We may not personally like some forms of music, but they have a role in somebody’s healing process, and in this case we define ‘healing’ as returning us to the state of wholeness, whether it is our concept of well-being or someone else’s, which may be different from ours.
There are common threads that run through what we call ‘healing’ music. As we listen to the great songs of the Native Americans, the African healing songs, the Chinese and Indian music for balancing the organism, and the European traditions of healing put forth by Steiner and others, we see a commonality in the sound. First of all, the simplest healing sounds are closest to the natural harmonics. The Raga Bhupali, one of the simplest ragas in the North Indian repertory, which can be played on the black keys of the piano starting from F#, is the basis for many healing songs the world over, and with good reason; its intervals are the closest to the first series of harmonics. And these harmonics are the same in any tube, such as a flute, in any string, and in the voice. In fact they are the same in any atmosphere, as my own research has shown, and therefore we can deduce that these harmonics, and the notes that they generate, are the same everywhere in the cosmos.
Music that is by definition ‘healing’ must work with an understanding of these laws, and as we learn more about vibration and begin to see the unifying wholeness behind the practice of the Real Sound we can truly say that we understand, and indeed express, the wholeness that is the music of the spheres, the Cosmic song in all its splendor.
Maestro Montino Bourbon will be performing at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, September 9-11
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