pneuma

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Similarly, Tool’s latest material — “Pneuma,” “Invincible” and the new record’s title track were among the fresh tunes offered up — had the same mix of dense droning notes and constant time changes as the band’s earliest output.

From Washington Post

“She’s dead, yes, but there’s breath, there’s pneuma, there’s birdsong!”

From The New Yorker

Designed and performed by Moving Star, an a cappella vocal ensemble, “Nooma” derives its title from the ancient Greek word “pneuma,” which means both breath and spirit.

From New York Times

A little later, in the West, the Greek term pneuma and the Hebrew term rûah referred both to the breath and to the divine presence.

From Scientific American

The Greek word “pneuma” means both “breath” and “spirit,” and it’s altogether apt that the most sublime religious experience in jazz—and also the art’s great documentary testimony of personal struggle—should be the work of a saxophonist, and one whose solos often ran to a half hour or more, as if the trials of the breath and of the soul were inseparable.

From The New Yorker