RockOm

RockOm Round-up is a quick glance at what's going on around the world in the areas of music and spirituality...

• Multitalented man touts music’s healing power - "If your doctor advises you to sing more next time you visit, you’ll know why. He or she might have attended a lecture this week by Dr. Richard Kogan, a psychiatrist and concert pianist, who led a rapt audience of about 500, many of them doctors, on a diagnostic journey through the life of George Gershwin, arguably America’s foremost musical genius." (mysanantonio.com)

• Alan Tower takes sound and spirit to the edge and back again to the center - "Sometimes, going to the edge of spirituality starts by finding the center. Bay Area musician/teacher/researcher/sound explorer, Alan Tower has been on the cutting edge of music, sound and spirituality for over thirty years..." (examiner.com)

• Soulsavers - Spiritual Enlightenment, Grimly Pursued - "Funerals present more smiles than Soulsavers allowed themselves at the Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night. Complete and absolute solemnity attended their songs — at tempos from dirge to stomp — about death, wandering, fate and prayers." (NYtimes.com)