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Artist : Girish
Electric! This beautiful offering pulses with global rhythms, sweet melodies and heartfelt devotion. A musical tapestry that invokes the heart and lifts the spirit. Great music for yoga, inspiration, meditation, and more. A favorite at some of the biggest yoga centers in the country!
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Artist : Michael Perricone
This CD is a musical odyssey to accompany a yoga practice, meditation, or just an escape from a hectic day. Tibetan bowls are the center around which the rest of the instruments have been woven. Incredible relaxing music for yoga, relaxation, meditation, and healing.
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Artist : Dave Stringer
Sanskrit mantra chanting and kirtan that marries the mysticism and improvisatory freedom of traditional Indian music with the devotional intensity and live energy of American gospel. Recorded in a series of live-in-the-studio sessions, 'Japa' (a Sanskrit word meaning repetition of a mantra) offers delicious mantras, barefoot grooves, swirling incense and improvisational epiphanies.
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Ajna Music Metrospiritual Vol. 1
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Artist : Ajna Music Sampler
Ajna Music MetroSpiritual Vol. 1 is a collection of music for the new world that you're creating. Relax into the India meets americana meditations of Sada Sat Kaur. Energize yourself with the electro-pop stylings of Donna De Lory. Empower yourself with the rock gospel chant celebrations of Dave Stringer. Envision a better world with the wordless world orchestral hymns of Tom Rossi. Live with the ambient beauty of Laurel.
Ajna Music MetroSpiritual Vol. 1: Relax. Energize. Empower. Envision. Live
All songs on this Album except for 14 & 16 are dits, Full length versions can be found on the original Ajna Music releases
Mastered by Thomas Barquee
Copyright 2004 Ajna Music LLC.
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Train To Amristar - A Musical Tribute To Guru Ram Das
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Artist : Gurudass with GuruGanesha Singh
Amritsar, India is the home of the Golden Temple and a place of pilgrimage for spiritual seekers from all over the world. Built by the Sikh Guru Ram Das, this holy city and temple have uplifted peoples of all faiths for centuries. Taking the train to Amritsar is the beginning of a journey that takes you to the source of eternal inspiration and to experiences of life-affirming faith. Listening to the spiritual songs and music of Train to Amritsar transports you to a space where you can share in the experience of making this spiritual journey.
Gurudass Singh Khalsa, Gurudass Kaur Khalsa and Guru Ganesha Singh Khalsa have been writing and singing the praises of Guru Ram Das for over 25 years. In this album they share their joy in travelling to Amritsar and bathing in the healing waters and light of the Golden Temple. You will be moved by the sweet ballads of love and energized by the rock songs expressing the excitement of being in the land of spiritual awakening. The songs of faith and devotion are uplifting beyond words.
Arrangements by Mauricio Villavecchia and Gurudass Singh Khalsa
Associate Producer: Guru Ganesha Singh Khalsa
Recorded at Villavecchia Music Studios
Featuring:
Gurudass Singh on vocals and acoustic guitars
Gurudass Kaur on vocals
Guru Ganesga Singh on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Matamandir Kaur on background vocals
Simran Simrat Kaur on vocals
Julia Claire on background vocals
Mauricio Villaveccia on piano, keyboards, and accordion
Javier Villavecchia on soprano saxophone
Caspar Hodgkinson St. Charles on drums and percussion
Santi Ursul on electric bass
Matamandir Singh on mandolin
And Bernat Romani as sound engineer
Spirit Voyage Music
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Artist : Thomas Barquee
Missa : Thomas Barquee
From its opening church bell evoking dawn and stirrings of the rising sun, to its final Amen, Missa is a deeply satisfying musical and spiritual event. The blending of exotic rhythms and melodies with sacred Sanskrit mantras and Latin liturgy produce a heavenly transcendence. It is truly "world church." A welcome addition to the increasingly popular cross-genre library.
Written, arranged and produced by Thomas Barquee
Recorded at Zen Den
Mixed at Dangerous Waters Music
Mastered by Kirsten Baumgarten
Design and Image by John and Ondine Holland
Published by Spirit Voyage Music
Featuring:
Thomas Barquee on vocals, piano, bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar, harmonium, and percussion
Zoran Todorovic on acoustic and electric guitars, sarod, mandolin, laxmitone, and percussion
And Domonic Breaux on flutes, woodwinds, saxophone, duduk, and harmonica
Copyright 2002 Sprint Voyager Music
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Artist : Sada Sat Kaur
A transcendent collection of chants, performed in the ancient language of Gurmukhi, you will hear the influences of Brian Eno, Emmylou Harris and traditional Indian sacred music. Perfect for meditation, asana practice, relaxation, or traffic jam tonic.
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Artist : Michael Perricone
The sound of Tibetan singing bowls vibrates through your whole body. You don’t just hear it, you feel it. This music is an experience that resonates deeply. Incredible relaxing music for yoga, relaxtion meditation, and healing.
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Artist : Snatam Kaur
Grace, the newest album from Snatam Kaur, is a joyful expression of the inner peace and grace that wells within her. The music is soothing, delicate, light and uplifting....a deeply personal meditative expression and experience of joy and love of life. Great yoga music, this album also reaches well beyond a yoga practice into deep healing and meditation with Mantras and songs that emanate Grace.
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Artist : Mirabai
Featuring stirring songs on love and life from the Mexican Hispanic and Native Indian cultures, Flores is both spiritual and sensual. This album is a welcome addition to any collection of world music. Artists Angelika Baumbach and Markus Sieber perform together as Mirabai. This stunning debut album is a reflection of their diverse heritage with a mix of Spanish songs, songs from the Native Indian cultures and Gurmukhi mantra.
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Tibetan Bells With Environmental Sounds
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Artist : One Hand Clapping
This all-digital recording of a rare set of Tibetan singing bowls is blended with environmental sounds to create the ultimate audio aid for deep relaxation and meditation.
For thousands of years, the clear, vibratory, harmonic tones of Tibetan singing bells have been used to induce meditation and altered states of consciousness. Born of a Vedic system from ancient India circa 560 BC, the bells permeate the body on a cellular level, balancing the brain’s alpha-theta waves and opening the chakras, inducing calm, centeredness and even a trance-like suspension of external distractions.
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Artist : Ali Jihad Racy
The now world-famous musical tribute inspired by (and commissioned for the exhibition of) Tutankhamun's tomb. Composed and performed by Ali Jihad Racy, Lebanese-born ethnomusicologist and master musician, featuring nay and salamiyah (flutes) buzuq, ud, tar, sajat, mijwiz, and mizmar.
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Artist : Gurudass
A collection of potent and powerful chants with Santana-like guitar in this Latin mix of mantras interlaced with flute, acoustic and flamenco guitar, tabla, doumbek, cajón, clay pot, and harmonium.
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Artist : Snatam Kaur Khalsa And The Peace Family
Transcendental Chants from the traditions of Buddhism, Navajo, Sikhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, beautifully performed by the Peace Family, featuring Snatam Kaur Khalsa.
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Artist : Harijiwan
The relaxing effects of the gong are unquestioned. The ancient civilizations of the world understood the rhythmic principles designed to relax the mind and the body. The gong creates these meditation enhancing rhythms. Harijiwan is one of the few talented masters of the gong who allows the voice of this spiritual instrument to be released. Resound features a digitally mastered series of meditation sessions the student and teacher can utilize to take their experience to the next level.
Produced by Grady Johnson and Rainer G. Wickel
Sound Recorded by Walt Thompson
Brought to you by Karma Train Productions
2004 Karma Train Productions
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Artist : The TishTones
Original melodies from composers in the band blended with unique interpretations of traditional and contemporary Jewish music creating a lively, uplifting and spiritual musical setting.
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Artist : Sada Sat Kaur
Sada Sat Kaur has followed up her Ajna Music debut chant sensation, Angels' Waltz, with another sublime collection of Gurmukhi mantra, Shashara. This time she's ventured even deeper into the cross pollination of western rock ambience and kundalini shakti energy.
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In The Shallows - Soundscore for the Getty Courtyard
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Artist : Yuval Ron
Artistic and reserved, In The Shallows is Yuval Ron's 52-minute score for an interpretive dance performance. A most contemplative place awaits In The Shallows… Yuval Ron and cohorts present a sparse-yet-evocative production as exotic and contemporary instrumentation is applied to serious, introspective pieces. Meditative Mount mantra is enshrouded in austere droning layers from which electrical entities seems to emerge; feminine wails soar to higher registers, wavering in the windswept heights. Swishy fluids pour forth as Water music spreads in an expansive pool of assorted soundforms, including spaciously occurring metallic bowl emanations. Even-quieter tinklings happen as Glass falls over a sedate bed of low reeds and faint streams of keyboarding/processing. Minimal rhythmic pattering begins a Stone dance; the light, clattery percussion picks up in tempo, though maintains a low profile throughout. Brooding depths extend far beneath Rêve d'Éternité in an inexorable current; Tsvetanka Varimezova's faraway chants are siren calls, accented with muffled rhythms. Bracingly lovely! For the finale, Weaving unfurls an ominous blend of deep spectral energies, spare occurrences of mood-altering percussion and emotive flutational scene-setting.
MORE MUSIC:
Link to Yuval Ron Featuring Najwa Gibran
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Artist : Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Composer Yuval Ron, master musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek and a super group of Middle Eastern musicians join together for a complex spiritual journey, based on the sacred chants of the three religious traditions of the Middle East. A tapestry of soulful chanting, ambient sounds of the desert and countless musical layers reveal how similar the different cultures of the Middle East are. In One the music is pointing to the alternative path of peace, co-existence and the nature of being. It is One.
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Artist : Yuval Ron Featuring Najwa Gibran
Latest CD by Yuval Ron featuring music from the Arab, Jewish and Armenian traditions with Palestinian singer Najwa Gibran
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Artist : Yuval Ron Featuring Najwa Gibran
Sacred music of the Middle East featuring voice, duduk, zurna, shvi, clarinet kanoun, percussion, keyboards, oud and saz.
The US-based ensemble brings together the sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism (Islamic mystical tradition) and the Christian Armenian Church into a harmonious world of its own. A song of Sufi origin from Turkey is sung both in Arabic and Hebrew, a Jewish prayer from Morocco is introduced by an Armenian chant and a Yemenite Jewish prayer receives a gripping clarinet solo in the best tradition of the Armenian performance style.
MORE MUSIC
Link to Yuval Ron Artist Page
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The Lover And The Beloved
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Artist : Donna De Lory
These sanskrit mantras bubble with a groove and atmosphere that takes tradition to heaven and back. donna's voice resonates with ether and earth, beauty that asks you to join in, become one with the sound of deep celebration.
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Artist : Shannon Michael Terry
The music is intended to accompany the reader through the journey of this book, and to give air to the nine regions of the Labyrinth installation. A palette of sounds chosen to create a charged space of possibility.
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Endless Surrender Kirtan Experience
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Artist : Govindas
Come dive in to the Ocean of Devotion! Through the ancient practice of
kirtan, chanting the names God/Goddess, this musical meditation and yogic
adventure will draw you deep into the essence of Bhakti---the yoga of the
Heart, the yoga of Love! Govindas's 1st cd release, Endless Surrender is a
unique mandala where music, meditation, art, and prayer merge together as
One. In the spirit of his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and teachers Jai Uttal,
Krishna Das, and Bhagavan Das, Govindas is a shining star in the next
generation of kirtan singers.
Producer and Engineer: Jamie Cerniglia
Executive Producer: Govindas
Co Producer: Jacqui Radha Rosen
Recorded at 4th Street Recording Studio
Mixed by Jamie Cerniglia at Shadow’s Hideaway
Mastered by Louie at Marcussen Mastering
Featuring:
Govindas on vocals and harmonium
Radha Rosen onvocals, flute, knoll and kartals
Isaias Chandra on tables
Cautanya on ecstatic vocals, flute, khol, kartals
Leeanne Ellis on viola
Govinda on mridanga
Joey Lugassy on bass guitar
And Kakudmi Das on kartals
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Journey To The Inner East Vol. 2
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Artist : White Swan Records (Various)
Sporting a roster of contemporary spiritual artists that includes such names as Deva Premal, Prem Joshua, Manish Vyas and Suvarna, White Swan Records knows the kind of music that reaches people on a higher level. JOURNEY TO THE INNER EAST VOL. 2 is a collection of music from these names and more, totaling over an hour of great music. Most of the music here is Indian influenced, with low-tempo beats (of both the tabla and electronic trip-hop varieties), vocals, harmonium, sitar, keyboards and more. Includes "Om Triambakam" from Deva Premal, "Sea of Clouds" from Quiet Fire (Gary Stroutsos, Will Clipman, William Eaton) and "Funky Guru" from Prem Joshua. (-Music Design)
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Artist : Prem Joshua
After playing live at a trance event in India, multi-instrumentalist Prem Joshua and the Dutch keyboardist Maneesh de Moor knew that they were on to a new sound--one they had to rereate in the recording studio.
The result is Mudra, born from the silence of the Tuscan hills and the noise of downtown Amsterdam. On this excellent worldbeat recording, "trancey" analogue keyboard sounds fuse with sitar and ethnic flutes for a unique synthesis of ancient exotic instruments and contemporary Western grooves. Mudra promises a danceable, joyous and upbeat musical journey.
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Sattva - The Essence Of Being
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Artist : Manish Vyas
With 'Sattva', Manish launches his first album,
sharing the many years of experimentation
that have graced his musical journey – a
journey enriched by talented musicians
from around the globe.
Through songs and chants vibrating with
silence, devotion and prayer, this music
connects you with this very essence, bringing
the listener effortlessly into the heart.
Let his soulful voice and rich compositions
based on ancient mantras and 'tarana'
lead you into ‘Sattva’... the state of balance
and harmony.
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Shavasana - White Swan Yoga Masters Volume 3
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Artist : White Swan Records (Various)
With music for yoga in great demand, White Swan Records asked Sacred Movement's max Strom to provide them with some of the special music he uses in his classes for shavasana or deep relaxation.
Shavasana will satisfy yogis seeking the ideal sound for winding down their daily practice. This calming set of beautiful pieces is ideal for repose, meditation and healing work.
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Yoga Mela: An Eastern Vibrational Experience
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Artist : White Swan Records (Various)
Exotic sonic textures and chilled rhythms create a beatific Eastern backdrop for your power yoga session—or the festivities that follow. Crafted to flow with an upbeat mood, Yoga Mela lends a sensual vibe to any casual setting.
This collection matches some of the most popular names in the “yoga beat” genre--including Prem Joshua, Ikarus and Karmix—with rising stars such as Suvarna, Toires and Aziza A. Master mixologist dj Cheb i Sabbah lends his magic hand to previously unreleased remixes by Deva Premal and Manish Vyas. Together, these groove savvy artists dish up an Oriental concoction of the freshest flavor.
Evoking the worshipful, celebratory aura of Asian melas--or festivals--Yoga Mela invites you to immerse yourself in a relaxed aural experience that will move you at any volume.
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Artist : Deva Premal
Embrace finds this best-selling singer at the height of her art, expressing the ancient wisdom of mantra through a contemporary musical vision. Deva Premal's gorgeous voice, richer and more assured than ever before, floats above a cool, sensual groove provided by some of today's finest world fusion artists.
Deva Premal enthralled audiences worldwide with The Essence and Love Is Space. That phenomenal success continues with Embrace. Its relaxed, uplifting feel and elegant sense of space can only heighten the spell already cast by this mantra enchantress. Produced by Miten and Kit Walker (Walela, Kitaro, Pagan Love Orchestra), Embrace features a more fully developed musical dynamic, due in large part to virtuoso performances by such top flight musicians as Jai Uttal (dotar and distinctive vocals), Kit Walker (keyboards, grand piano, Hammond B3), Nepali native Manose (bansuri), Miten (vocals, guitar), Ty Burhoe (a star protégé of Zakir Hussain) and Marquinho Brasil (assorted exotic hand percussion).
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Artist : Deva Premal
Glowing with an inspiring, heart-centered passion, Love Is Space sets a new musical standard for mantra singing and is the perfect instrument for creating a calm, impenetrable oasis on the massage table, meditation cushion or yoga mat. Deva Premal’s gorgeous voice floats above graceful arrangements on guitar, piano, harmonium, flute and light percussion, bringing these ancient mantras to life.
Love Is Space, Deva Premal's second solo album, contains six sacred mantras from India, including "Gatè Gatè", the heart sutra of Buddha, and "Om Mane Padme Hum", the ancient Tibetan invocation. Also included is the exquisitely performed West African chant, "Idè Werê Werê".
This beautiful recording continues in the footsteps of Deva Premal's classic debut CD, The Essence.
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Artist : Deva Premal
Mantras are rapidly becoming the music of choice for people seeking solace in sound, and Deva Premal, dubbed by one reviewer as "the Enya of mantra," is the voice they're turning to. With close to 400,000 CDs sold worldwide and a buzz of interest from ardent fans ranging from yogis, therapists and alternative health practitioners to Cher and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Deva Premal and her partner Miten have achieved a huge degree of recognition in the blossoming niche world of yoga music. Deva Premal's music is driven by a simple yet elegant vision: "everybody with a voice can sing, and everyone with a breath in their body can experience their divinity...we share with others the healing power of music, and the bliss that it brings." The phenomenon of her groundswell of listeners is living proof that mantras are as relevant today as they were thousands of years ago. Featuring Deva Premal’s transcendent voice layered in a chorus of lush harmonies, Dakshina is a celebration of the divine, perfect for yoga and relaxation.
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Artist : Prem Joshua
Joshua comments on Dance Of Shakti: 'As the title suggests--it's again a more rhythmical, energetic album, and I had maximum fun doing this one. 'There are many soulful melodies on Indian instruments like bamboo flute, sitar, dilruba and santoor, flying over strong ethnic and modern grooves, hip hop, drum 'n' bass and trancey rhythms and sounds--all interwoven with Manish's 'pumping' tablas. But there is one more thing. I got totally into singing! I got into my own very contemporary version of Indian 'Tarana' singing and also chose some beautiful mantras. 'The main musicians I'm playing with are Manish Vyas, multi-instrumentalist from India; Maneesh de Moor, keyboardist from Amsterdam; and Rishi, drummer, producer and genius from Copenhagen. Of course there are also other musicians who left their juicy statements on the album, like Chintan and Dinesh from Hamsafar and great talents from the Indian and Danish music scene.'
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Jai Ma _ White Swan Yoga Masters Vol. 2
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Artist : White Swan Records (Various)
Musician, producer, writer, yogini—Sharon Gannon is a modern day renaissance woman. Best known as co-founder, along with David Life, of the Jivamukti Yoga Method and Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City, Sharon teaches yoga as a spiritual path to enlightenment. On this second installment in the White Swan Yoga Masters series, Sharon offers a heavenly mix of divine women singers as an inspiring complement to your asana practice.
This enchanting collection of songs from Deva Premal, Donna De Lory, Wah!, Chloe Goodchild and others makes for a transcendent listening experience that will guide you through a grounded, steady and strong yoga sequence.
Deepening our connection with the Earth is one of yoga’s many benefits, and Jai Ma, which translates to "honor Mother Earth," is the ideal soundtrack for doing precisely that.
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Satsang - A Meditation in Song and Silence
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Artist : Deva Premal and Miten
Recorded live in Australia, America, Germany and Denmark, this beautiful recording conveys the power and intimacy of Deva Premal and Miten's live performances. As it is with actual Satsang meditation, Deva Premal and Miten share their music without applause, inviting the audience to participate by joining with the chant, and to luxuriate in the collective silence between songs.
SATSANG features "unplugged" versions of some of the most popular chants from Deva Premal's best-selling THE ESSENCE and LOVE IS SPACE (including "Gayatri Mantra", "Chidananda" and "Yemaya Assessu"), plus songs by Miten, Deva Premal's partner in music and life. A bonus studio recording of "All is Welcome Here" is also included.
SATSANG is a simple yet precious recording celebrating the sacred space of silence and song. Joining Deva Premal (keyboards) and Miten (guitar), are their special musical friends, Kit Walker, Maneesh de Moor, Praful, and others.
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Artist : Prem Joshua
Sky Kisses Earth is a ticket to the ancient Tantric temples of India. Effortlessly, Prem Joshua blends the magic of Eastern music (sitar, tabla, flutes, santoor, etc) with transparent and modern Western sounds. These hypnotic grooves, fine textures and rich melodies will transport the listener to a cross-cultural mythic land of golden radiance.
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Songs For The Inner Lover
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Artist : Deva Premal and Miten
On his first release in six years, Miten delivers a heartfelt musical testament to the redeeming power of self-acceptance. Graced by Deva Premal's vocal harmonies, Miten’s songs take flight, seamlessly blending male/female energy to reveal the healing balance that comes through true connection with the self.
Miten created Songs For The Inner Lover as a soundtrack for the love and life experiences we all share. Insightful lyrics and refreshingly simple, melodic arrangements examine the many faces of love: from its manifestation on the physical plane and the master-disciple relationship to longing for meaningful companionship and the inner dialogues we conduct with ourselves.
Through their long and storied musical and life partnership together, Miten and best-selling mantra singer Deva Premal have created a true heart connection with each other and thousands of adoring fans worldwide. On Songs For The Inner Lover, Miten draws from that nourishing experience to offer a truthful and universal sentiment sure to provide healing comfort to all who are touched by love--or long to be.
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Artist : Manish Vyas
The dervish’s whirling is a meditation—communion and contemplation—set to music; the calm center of a spiritual cyclone. Sufi Splendor: Music for Whirling Meditation captures the music that drives this resplendent and timeless practice.
Serpentine ney (flute), melodic santoor, impassioned singing and ancient frame drum form a hypnotic rhythmic engine, building in intensity and carrying the listener to whirling ecstasy. Recorded in India’s Ishvani Kendra monastery, Sufi Splendor: Music for Whirling Meditation features seasoned musicians, masters of the sema’a (Sufi ceremony), performing this irresistible music that propelled the original trance dancers.
The Persian mystic poet Rumi, founder of the Mevlana Dervish brotherhood, wrote, “…Music uplifts the soul to realms above. The ashes glow, the latent fires increase. We listen and are fed with joy and peace.”
Immensely enjoyable for straight listening, truly indispensable for inner exploration, Sufi Splendor: Music for Whirling Meditation places the listener at the tranquil heart of that latent fire.
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Artist : Deva Premal
This top selling New Age/World beat CD is smooth, silky, calming and peaceful. Featuring Deva Premal's transcendant voice, ambient grooves, keyboard and hand percussion, THE ESSENCE invokes the heart healing power of ancient chants and mantras. The Gayatri Mantra, the oldest known to mankind, is the centerpiece of this truly meditative CD. Ideal for yoga, healing work, meditation and dancing.
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Artist : Suvarna
After the success of her first two recordings—the upbeat Fire of the Oracle and rhythmic Energia (by Infinity)—vocalist/violinist Suvarna takes her raga-based vocal improvisations into a more laid back, intimate space on This Dewdrop World.
Her latest effort plays like an aural massage: the songs unfold naturally, drawing the listener into a relaxed world of lush sonic textures and mantric ambience far removed from the frenetic pace of daily life.
This Dewdrop World features a world of instruments including kora, violin, saz, oud, mandolin and tabla, all expertly orchestrated by producer Martyn Phillips (Was Not Was, Soul II Soul, Khaled) to complement Suvarna’s gracefully confident voice.
Dedicated to “all who are striving for awakening,” This Dewdrop World is sublime accompaniment for introspective journeys and a delicate musical acknowledgment of life’s beauty.
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Artist : Prem Joshua and Manish Vyas
The River Ganges plays an integral role in India’s everyday culture and spirituality. This watery ribbon feeds the land and cleanses the souls of millions on its winding journey from the Himalayas to the sea.
Inspired by the legendary river’s mythic power, world travelers and long-time collaborators Prem Joshua and Manish Vyas, east-west alchemists of the highest order, invite you to take a trip down your “inner Ganges.”
Imbued with rich images of the East, Water Down The Ganges flows languidly from lush meditative ambience into rhythmic celebration of the great river of life. Disciples of some of India’s most respected master musicians, Joshua and Manish present this masterfully crafted recording, a perfect balance between acoustic clarity and electronic boldness. Just as one never stands in the same river twice, Water Down the Ganges offers a refreshingly new experience with each listen.
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Artist : Shaman’s Dream
When Los Angeles' Shaman's Dream gets ready to perform — "live" or in the studio — its members call upon the powers of nature to bring healing and positive transformation to their music. Like the shamans who take us into the spirit world to enlist the help of guides, animals, and nature, these prolific musicians use the same sounds, chants, and rhythms to take listeners on a musical pilgrimage to the mystical, primal heart of Africa. Here they serve up a delicious ethno-jammin' blend of chant, fusion, and deep groove for body centered movement, dance, or serious trans-dimensional drifting. The album features Donna DeLory, Dido Tshibangu, Marcel Adjibi, Abdou Mbaya, and Masai village men and women from the Serengeti plains.
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Artist : Prem Joshua
In the vast scope of his musical expression, Prem Joshua, himself a Yatri (traveller) beyond musical traditions, creates an inspired collection of songs that reflect a deep love affair with India.
People down the ages have heard a calling to sacred places within and without. In the East this journey is called Yatra (pilgrimage). If you feel this call — let this album be your travel companion.
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Earth n Bass - Volume One
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Artist : TriLoka - (Various Artists)
Earth N Bass fuses international sounds with electronica, merging eclectic traditions with digital futurism. Just as animal hide was molded into drum skins, humankind has harnessed iron and steel to create a diverse blend of down-tempo, four-on-the-floor and big beat rhythms to dance and lounge to. Turn it on, turn it up and discover the future... Featuring new music and remixes by Transglobal Underground (Tarika), Peter Kruder (Bebel Gilberto), Bill Laswell (Gigi), Manu Chao, Karsh Kale, Dub Farm (Krishna Das), Ex-Centric Sound System, Temple of Sound and more....
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Artist : Ali Akbar Khan
At 67, veteran Indian music master Ali Akbar Khan successfully blends tradition and technology on Journey, a moving CD produced by his protege and student Jai Uttal. Journey, however, isn't modern secular Indian pop, but rather is best described as traditional Indian spiritual and devotional music using high-tech elements. Under Uttal's direction, Khan's sarod and other acoustic Indian instruments like the sitar, the tabla and the dholak successfully interact with electronic synthesizers (none of which sound forced or mechanical). Uttal had learned a lot from Khan, and showed his appreciation by seeing to it that technology was used soulfully throughout this album.
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Artist : Snatam Kaur
A Chant Album from the Sacred Writings of the Sikhs to experience Love.
Prem means the experience of love, deep love. It is the love that you have the courage and wisdom to feel in yourself for yourself, it is the love that God feels for you.
We project ourselves through every moment of time and space whether it is through sounds, thoughts, or feelings. The gift of every human being is to truly express the soul through the intelligence of the mind and body. Often times however we are burdened with so many expectations and desires of what we should be that we cannot truly express who we are. If you take a 60 second period and just watch your mind you will observe a cycle of experience that is identical to a longer cycle of experience over a day, a month, a year, a lifetime. It doesn’t matter how long you observe your mind; it is what it is. We cycle through receiving information, processing it, and then projecting out our reality through the medium of sound, thought, or feeling.
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Artist : Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra
Jai Uttal's 1997 album Shiva Station continues his eclectic fusion of Indian musical traditions with jazz and electronic elements. Sinuous, spontaneous pieces like "Guru Brahma," "Bhajore," and "Jaya Jagadambe (She Who Tears Apart Thought)" combine a loose, improvised feel with lush arrangements that include sitars, tablas, violins, banjos, trombones, and electric guitars. Bill Laswell's production adds to the organic, seemingly effortless blend of old, new, improvised, and structured musical styles on Shiva Station.
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Artist : Vieux Diop
From Mozambique to Nigeria to Ethiopia, many African pop artists use Western instruments exclusively. They're still embracing African rhythms, but they use western instruments to play them and exclude traditional African instruments like the kora (a string instrument with a harp-like sound), the mbira (one of Africa's various thumb pianos), and the kalimba. Vieux Diop, however, is among the African pop vocalists who favors a combination of African and Western instruments. On 2000's Afrika Wassa, the kora and other traditional African instruments interact with the drums, bass, and guitar. A native of Senegal who has lived in the U.S. since 1984, Diop is no stranger to multiculturalism -- on Afrika Wassa, he sings in Senegalese languages as well as English and French. His style of African pop isn't hyper and ultra-exuberant a la soukous, makossa, and zouk -- nor is it moody, smoky and jazz-influenced like a lot of Ethiopian and Sudanese pop. Rather, Diop goes for a gentle, relaxed, reflective approach and sometimes incorporates elements of American folk. Afrika Wassa isn't for dancing; it's best to sit down and listen to this charming, heartfelt CD.
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Artist : Ali Akbar Khan
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and a thirteen-piece East/West orchestra follow up his critically acclaimed Journey, performing classical ragas and Rajasthani folk songs. Combining sarod with Western classical instruments such as the cello, violin, bassoon and oboe, Khansahb brilliantly merges Eastern and Western musical traditions to produce an album of astounding beauty. The title song, "Garden of Dreams," explores memories of paradise and is an original raga composed by Khansahb. "Dhani," with guest artist Zakir Hussain, features a wind section of oboe, bassoon and native Australian didgeridoo. Also featured (and produced by) Jai Uttal.
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Artist : Mpath
Producers Gardner Cole and Mitchell Markus merge their assorted talents to construct the multifaceted studio experiment M Path. Their first disc, Meeting Rivers, on Markus' Triloka label, links trance, pop, and traditional Indian music, making this a worthwhile project for listeners of modern world music to investigate. The combination of sampling, percussion, tabla, violin, and the appearance of sarangi master Ramesh Mishra makes for an intriguing, eclectic project.
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Artist : Prabhu Nam Kaur and Snatam Kaur
On this gentle, deeply moving album, the intimate, musical conversation between mother and daughter wraps you in a soothing blanket of sound.
Five classical kirtan tracks feature the rich vocal interplay between Prabhu Nam Kaur and her daughter, Snatam Kaur. Accompanied by layers of tabla, harmonium, viola, bansuri, keyboards, guitar and bass guitar.
These devotional hymns are from the Sikh tradition of Gurbani Kirtan. The words are direct transmissions from the Sound Current, recited by Amar Das, the bards Satte and Balwand, and Guru Arjan, who lived in 16th century India. Anyone who sings or listens to these words with meditative mind and heart will be transported into the Sound Current from which the words have come.
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Artist : Mpath
Some records are indisputably world music. Others are much more world beat, poking a toe into other cultures while retaining more mainstream elements of their own country's musical sound. This is the latter. The melodies are American and reasonably catchy, but dressed in Indian colors that fit surprisingly well. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Gardner Cole, it might not be the spiritual sound they discuss in the liner notes, but it's certainly pleasant, and at times quite wonderful, when violinist Lily Haydn lets loose. There's really nothing to criticize here (except perhaps the production on a couple of tracks, where the meters sound as though they're far into the red); it's simply a pleasant record. And that, unfortunately, is the damning with faint praise. It's catchy, but there's little that truly sticks in the mind. Everything is competent and enjoyable, but not especially memorable. There's little doubt Cole's heart is in the right place, and he's obviously studied Indian music before grafting it onto his own. But the foreign element still feels to be that -- foreign, never completely integrated into the whole. Still, a pleasant listen
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Artist : Jason Shulman
This spontaneous collection of songs, music and lyrics were created in the moment by Jason Shulman (vocals, harmonium) along with musicians James Mark (violin, viola) and Kai Kurosawa (Worr guitar) and produced by Michael Frondelli. These songs provide a transformative listening experience in which one can listen to the process of creation crafted with a tender heart.
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Artist : Temple Bhajan Band
This CD is the latest creation of The Temple Bhajan band. With very brisk call/response kirtan, ancient mantras, and bhajan sung in traditional style by western singers, it’s a must for every world music enthusiast.
Temple of the Heart is a beautiful composition of modern duets, harmonies and music combined with traditional ancient mantras, chants and bhajans. Most of the songs are sung by Mahalaxmi and Sura. She sings sweet celestial soprano which mixes with Sura’s raspy (old blues singer ) voice, to create a kind of “Beauty and the Beast” scenario. Adwaita plays the mrdunga drum, which slowly brings the chanting to its crescendo again and again.
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Artist : Sheetal
Love of Ages is the debut album from Sheetal, formerly of the Zen Cowboys. In Love of Ages, she attempts to mix her Indian upbringing with Western musical forms from her American training. The basic idea is to take one of the revered ragas and mix in some aspects of Western harmony and theory as needed. Surprisingly, the result of the mix between East and West is pretty close to something Celtic. Sheetal lays out some ethereal vocals, often moving between various Indian languages and English as appropriate and putting a base of synths, drum machines, and tanpuras under the vocals. The album overall rarely quite choose one style or the other, but stays on the middle road, which makes it into a fine example of new age world music in many ways. The trance of Zen Cowboys is present to some degree, and aspects of both cultures are present to some degree. The key is the mix, and this album comes near the perfect points -- not quite reaching the full potential of fusion, but circling around that epicenter.
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Artist : Desert Dwellers
Desert Dwellers continue their yoga dub odyssey into the soul of the global heartbeat. Rara and Amani's trademark deep bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices and culture-crossing instrumentation meet Treavor Moontribe's insistent rhythms in this invigorating psy-chill soundscape. Like sonic incense, this spellbinding hybrid of studio and field recordings burns with a boldly modern sound reverberating with echoes of our tribal past- and future.
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Artist : Tulku
Intimate and sensual, fervent and powerful, Tulku weaves a global music tapestry whose melodies engulf the rhythms of trance. Combining sampled sounds from around the world with the warmth and organic qualities of live percussion, vocals and a variety of melodic instruments, Tulku creates a new body for an ancient soul.
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Artist : Emer Kenny
Emer Kenny's third outing follows up well on her previous two discs, essentially managing the same mix of traditional Irish with beats and programming, along with three of her own pieces. She's an attractive enough singer in the Sinéad O'Connor mold, with a slightly wispy voice that conveys hurt and loneliness well. However, she's at her best when the arrangements are at their sparsest and most natural. She doesn't always need the buoyancy of beats underneath her; sometimes a little silence can be far more effective. You have to wonder, too, about some of the song choices here -- does the world really need another take on "Scarborough Fair" or "She Moves Through the Fair," especially when these versions are going to be measured against other, better ones and found desperately wanting? This time, too, there seems to be little invention in the beats, as if they'd just been slung together and put in there with rudimentary rebar to hold the structures together. Kenny's own "Breton Dance" makes a sprightly enough ending, but neither "Cast a Spell" nor "Rescue Me," the other efforts from own pen, carry much weight against the power of the tradition. Next time it would be interesting to hear her do a completely acoustic album and turn her back on what seems to be rapidly becoming blandness. [Parting Glass was also released featuring a bonus Junior Vasquez mix of "Cast a Spell."]
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Artist : Rasa
Union, the follow-up to Rasa's stunning debut, Devotion, finds the intriguing duo taking the next logical step by updating traditional Sanskrit and Bengali prayers. These timeless texts are fleshed out with vocalist Kim Waters' sensual tones wending round Hans Christian's soulful cello leads, which are in turn complemented by understated keyboards, guitars, drums, and percussion. The album's thematic and emotional center is found in the deeply reverent "Sri Guru." An 11-minute supplication, the composition builds on gently looped vocals and shakers to burst forth as a full band swirl of elegant, sublime sound featuring flute, ambient percussion, and mouth harp. Reveling in textural earthly arrangements, Rasa makes music for the body as well as the spirit.
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Artist : Tulku
Using a variety of different ethnic singers, Tulku demonstrates the similarities of these strains of folk music. Leader Jim Wilson is the composer of these themes, plays synthesizer and electric keyboards, and is helped by a changing rotation of musicians through music that is derived from Persian, Australian, Egyptian, Eastern and Native American Indian, and Mayan sources. This is world or perhaps new age music, with a smattering of improvisation accenting textures of processed sound with natural elements and siderial female vocals added. Three pieces are very similar to Jon Hassell's voodoo priestess contingent. "Fields of Offering," "The Falcon," and the title track all have that ethereal quality: the first with ancient Egyptian text sung in native phrasings and English, the second a spellbinding praise to a higher power, the third a love of god anthem. In many cases a rock beat is prevalent. "Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth" has an invocation by Don Alexandro, a seventh generation Mayan medicine man from Guatemala, floating above the 4/4 beat. A hip-hop rhythm centers "Tipari," with Tim Reynolds' slide guitar adding contrast. "Meena Devi" brings American rock and spacy drone together. The most compelling track, "Spiral Dance," is a wraithlike swirl, and "Cold Mountain Meltdown" is once again rockish, but in a space ethnic synthesized fashion. The Native American chanting of group vocals and percussion of "Life Eternal," and the Aboriginal bent of "The Fire That Speaks" with didgeridoo, bullroarer, and wolfhound howls with a rock beat and pained vocals, makes for a unique sound. This is a most intriguing recording, one where in many instances the undertow of sounds is much more compelling than what's on top.
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Artist : Spirit Nation
Grooves have been laid down under every imaginable style of music and in every thinkable language. So why not, you might ask, in Saulteaux/Ojibway, a traditional Native American dialect? Don't fret, Spirit Nation has answered your prayers right here, right now with Winter Moons. (So you don't think you're crazy, be forewarned that a couple of lines in Hebrew get snuck into "All My Relations" as a nod to vocalist Tamara Podenski's Israeli father.) It's all the rage, this dance beat/traditional tune thing. Mike D produced a similarly vibed disc of East Indian chanting for Bhagavan Das. Lost in the rhythms as you might get, it is always a little disconcerting when they switch to English or you read the translation. In this case, the lyrics are all about the seven generations, the seven clan animals, the seven spirit beings, and the seven gifts of the seven senses. Oh yeah, and the four directions and five moons for five months of winter. Admirable and inspiring as they are, they're just not necessarily something you want to think about while you're in that pulse. An unusual and intriguing little record.
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Artist : Little Wolf Band
Little Wolf Band is the creation of Native American producer/performer Jim Wilson, a project that means to celebrate Native American songs as living things, as sources and keepers of wisdom, emotion and spirit. Wilson has achieved this with a sterling blend of samples and beats, mixing in some live instruments and live voices to help shape his work. If NA songs are seen as keys to doors to different states of being, states of mind, then this is a collection of keys. Given this, Wilson has crafted an album of fine assists to a trance state, one that bears up well under auto-repeat, even endless shuffle play. The mixtures of samples have an intriguingly hypnotic effect, pleasant and beguiling, mysterious and yet comforting.
Produced by Jim Wilson
Executive Producers: Mitchell Markus and K.D. Kagel
Mastered by Alta Vista Studio
Engineered by Herman Martinez
Technical Assistance provided by Dave Elledge
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Artist : Sultan Khan & Krishna Das
An interesting collaboration between Sultan Khan, the undisputed master of the sarangi (a bit of a dying instrument in itself due to the difficulty and pain involved in playing it) and Jeffrey Kagel, aka Krishna Das, a leader in updating chant accompaniment, among other things. It would seem at first glance that a master of accompaniment would work well with a sarangi player (itself often an accompanying instrument), but at the same time there's the potential for no lead to be taken whatsoever. During portions of the album, this is exactly what seems to be the case, as Khan can play out a beautiful bit of backing material alongside some electronics, neither of which take the forefront. For the majority of the album though, there is a definite focus. Khan gets the opportunity to take extended journeys on solo sarangi with great mastery displayed throughout. In other sections, the two take turns singing and chanting, often accompanied softly by guitarist (and incidentally composer of Midnight at the Oasis) David Nichtern. The end result of this is a very ambient sort of album, with a lot of exceptional sarangi to be heard.
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Artist : Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahluwalia was once a bond trader and is now a full-time musician with a fascinating and unusual mission: she writes and sings modern songs in the ghazal tradition -- one that originated in tenth century Persia and was transplanted to her native India in the 14th century. She also interprets traditional Punjabi folk songs, songs that form the basis of modern bhangra. But her influences range much farther than her native country's cultural traditions; Canada is her adopted home, and on this album she is accompanied by guest artists who include the acclaimed Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, whose playing adds a strange but lovely dimension to the beautiful "Jhanjra"; on that track, guitarist Rez Abbasi serves as a stylistic bridge between MacMaster's skirling Celtic lines and the more traditional percussion and sung melody, by playing Indian scales in a bluegrass-inflected, flatpicking style. For the most part, though, this album sounds less like an experiment in cross-cultural fusion than simply an honestly modern version of the ancient ghazal tradition -- its roots are firmly in the past, but jazzy chords and unusual instrumentation remind you that the music of this region is no more immune than any other to the effects of global communication. The album's highlight track is its final one, a gorgeous and contemplative number titled "Awara." Very highly recommended.
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Adi Shakti Gobinde Mukande
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Artist : Gurudass
Gurudass Kaur sings with beauty and power in a call and answer style with a group of singers on the 'Adi Shakti' mantra. Adi Shakti calls upon the Divine Mother, the Infinite and powerful.
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Artist : Jai Uttal
On Monkey, young Jai Uttal continued to fuse Indian spiritual music and American pop with generally pleasing results. Once again, he demonstrates his mastery of acoustic Indian instruments like the harmonium and the dotar while using electronic synthesizers in a very human and soulful fashion. Though some of the material bears some resemblance to secular Indian pop of the '90s, which also unites synthesizers and traditional instruments, Uttal's overall approach is far from secular. While Uttal's own songs (both instrumental and with vocals) are dominant, "Govinda" is a moving version of the time-honored Hindu prayer. Jazz improviser Peter Apfelbaum is heard on both tenor sax and drums, and a fair amount of jazz influence asserts itself on "The Hooded Serpent" and the title song.
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Artist : Samite
Samite's Tunula Eno is a musical memoir about the last year of the Ugandan singer/songwriter's wife's life. Unlike many similar records -- the Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, about the deaths of singer/songwriter E's mother and sister, comes immediately to mind -- Tunula Eno is not a difficult, depressing listen. Of course, this may well have much to do with the fact that the average Western listener won't understand the lyrics, which are written in Samite's native tongue, but even on a musical level, there's a lightness to Tunula Eno, a buoyancy familiar to fans of Ugandan and other South African musics, that lifts the spirits even on comparatively downbeat songs, like the delicate title track, or "Yazala Arambuti": reveries for voice and acoustic guitar that would not sound out of place on one of Cat Stevens' early-'70s records. The closing "Dawaya Mwoyo," a mostly-instrumental farewell for thumb piano and percussion, ends the album on an elegiac but oddly uplifting note.
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Artist : Tarika
Its title a play on Manu Dibango's 1973 worldwide smash, "Soul Maskossa," this album sees Tarika delving deep into the roots of Malagasy music -- 1,500 years deep, in fact, the period when Indonesians settled the island off the African coast known as Big Red. Recorded in Sulawesi and Bandung, as well as the band's London base, it's still very definitely a record of music from Madagascar, with the tubular valiha harp and the zither-like marovany combining delightfully with acrobatic guitar work. But the framework of songs like "Sulwesi" and "Baraka" have an Indonesia touch, while "Tovovavy" introduces a strain that bears an odd resemblance to American alt-country --- country and Madagascar. The closer, "Madindo," even has a Malagasy rap that doesn't sound out of place. Group leader Hanitra Rasoanaivo has done her research thoroughly, connecting the two cultures, reaching back to her own past with "Malalko," which most listeners will recognize as "Be My Baby," a song she heard as a local 1970s hit for a band called Les Surfs. Guests, including former 3 Mustaphas 3 bassist Sabah Habas Mustapha and one-time Small Face Ian McLagan on Hammond organ, offer subtle contributions, and this remains very much a band disc. Not quite a concept record the way their earlier Son Egal was, it certainly adds a new twist to the idea of roots music, and stands as another milestone in a glowing career.
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Artist : Walela
The Coolidge sisters return as Walla with another dose of new-age gospel. Unfortunately, the blending of Native American motifs with heavy synthesizer and highly produced vocal harmonies makes the overblown spiritual message seem rather smarmy. Indeed, it's pretty difficult to find true inspiration in saccharine tunes like "Gathering of Eagles" and "The Sequence."
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Artist : Walela
Familial vocal trio Walela's self-titled debut album is also their finest to date, an amalgamation of Native American roots music (specifically Cherokee), singer/songwriter folk, pop, and Southern gospel that's also not unappealing to new age sensibilities. Although the music is deeply rooted in tradition, its hybrid uniqueness gives it a contemporary, even forward-looking feel. The angelic three-part harmonies of Rita Coolidge, sister Priscilla, and niece Laura Satterfield breathe exquisite life into these songs, which are already strong to begin with; the results constitute one of the best issues of contemporary Native American music in some time.
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Tibet - Cry Of The Snow Lion
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Artist : Jeff Beal
Every film score presents a unique dramatic and emotional challenge. Trying to find music to accompany a film that so thoroughly chronicles the richness of Tibetan Buddhism, the political tragedy of occupation, and the countless stories of personal sacrifice and suffering, was a vast puzzle to solve. Utilizing many extraordinary field recordings that the filmmakers captured on their many visits to Tibet, Jeff Beal’s first step was to incorporate these elements into “instruments” with which to write. These field recordings in fact included many inspiring Tibetan chants that became the basis used to create themes and cues including “One Human Life”, “The Celebration”, and fervent title track “Cry of The Snow Lion”. Flute and piano improvisations evolved into the tracks “The Mandala” and “Peace Prayer”. On other tracks the majesty of the film’s images became the artists’ muse. Nawang’s personal relationships with many of the people chronicled in the film added a heightened emotional sensibility to this passionate and radiant work
Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion is an enhanced CD containing three music videos featuring footage from the film and a bonus MP3 track “Freedom Suite (Duet for Trumpet and Tibetan Horn)”, believed to be the first ever duet improvisation between a jazz trumpet player and a Tibetan horn player!
Produced by Jeff Beal
Executive producer: Mitchell Markus
Featuring:
Nawang Khechog on Tibetan and other bamboo flutes, vocals, Tibetan long horn, Tibetan bell and cymbal, Digeridoo
The Monks of Namgyal Monastery on vocals
And Jeff Beale on piano, trumpet, keyboards, and electronics
Tracks 1,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,13,15 published by Post Meridian Music and Tibet Universal Music, BMI
All other tracks published by Post Meridian Music BMI
Mixed and Recorded by Jeff Beale at Many Rooms Music
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Language Of Love - Music For The Kama Sutra
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Artist : Craig Pruess
Language Of Love is a sensual musical work inspired by the timeless Indian writings of spiritual and physical love the Kama Sutra. The Kama Sutra, written sometime during India's Classical Age (320-540 AD) is much more than an ancient sex manual. Indeed, it is a treatise on engaging the five physical senses - hearing, touch, smell, taste and vision - to allow body, soul and spirit to be elevated through love. It is this goal that Craig Pruess aspired to in the creation of the music for Language of Love.
Many are the moods evoked on Language of Love: romantic, passionate, serene and sexual. As Craig reflects 'The intention (sankalpa) behind this CD is very simple: music specifically imagined, composed, performed and recorded to help create an environment for loving and heart-centered sex - lively and yet settled; attention on beauty and the universal connection of breath, sound and form; compassionate, giving and caring; fun, playful, light and uplifting; meditative and deep.'
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Artist : Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Turkish virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek opens a window into the divine passion and poetry of Sufism, the mystical sect of Islam. Burning performances on Middle Eastern instruments, intricate rhythms and intense devotional songs of slowly unfolding magnificence create an ideal world where old and new cultures comingle and time is suspended in the One Truth of music.
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Kirtan - The Great Mantra From The Himalayas, Vol. 1
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Artist : TriLoka - (Various Artists)
Think of this as a field recording disc, since that's what it is, taken from tapes made by the label heads over the years at an Indian ashram. In other words, it's true chanting for a sacred purpose in a holy place, instead of a disc custom-made in a studio. And that's how it should be. But to judge it as music is both unfair and difficult. The chants are what they are, ways to praise and to achieve a heightened state, and they're not sung by professionals, but by monks and devotees. Aptly, the chants aren't called by name, but by number. They're hypnotic, and certainly draw in the listener, but what you make of them is what you will, nothing more or less.
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CO - Creation (Music for Meditation)
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Artist : Rashid Lanie
Enter a realm of serene tranquility, as pianist Rashid Lanie co-creates a musical gift with the piano in his albumn, Co-Creation. All music Composed, Performed and Produced by Rashid Lanie.
Music preformed, produced, and composed by Rashid Lanie
Recorded and engineered by Ramin Mirsepassi at Studio City Sound
Art Work and Graphic Design by Catherine Williams
Design Concept by Rashid Lanie
Copyright 203 Rashid Lanie
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Artist : Ram Dass
Personnel include: Ram Dass (spoken vocals); John McDowell (various instruments). Ram Dass came to prominence in the 1950s and '60s as Dr. Richard Alpert (one of Dr. Timothy Leary's cohorts in the early experiments with LSD), and has continued a path of personal exploration and spiritual practice ever since. MEDITATIONS ON THE GITA combines readings by Ram Dass from the Bhagavad-Gita with musical accompaniment from a variety of guests. These include keyboardists John McDowell, bansuri player Steve Gorn, and vocalists Diana Rogers and Shyamdas, who join Dass in extended chants. The music is peaceful, soothing, and highlights the pearls of wisdom Das dispenses from the Gita, creating an overall experience conducive to meditation and self-realization.
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Artist : Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning
The Katurran Odyssey is a wonder-filled musical journey of contemporary instrumental music sure to delight and inspire both those listeners who are familiar with the book and those who are not. Johnson’s richly exotic keyboards and production is full of wonderfully, organic backdrops for the incredible improvisational skills of Dunning (flute) and Fitzpatrick (violin), along with Slovakian cellist, Jozef Lupák and classical singer, Janet Chvatal.
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Artist : TriLoka - (Various Artists)
"Planet Chant is a moving an hypnotic exploration of the possibilities of the human voice, which includes British, Russian, Tibetan, Bulgarian, South African and Native American contribution. A veritable multilateral force." -- Creative Loafing "Planet Chant - Triloka takes a different approach to global compilation with this gathering of largely vocal music. Intriguing...from the chanting of Lama Gyurme and Choying Drolma to the choral sounds of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Bulgarian ensemble Angelite." -- LA Times About the Collection Chant has been practiced as a spiritual tradition for centuries, and virtually every culture, past and present, has chanted in some form or another. Its legacy is as long as it is rich and varied. Planet Chant includes a number of chant traditions: Tibetan Buddhist, Qawwali, Hindu, Zulu, Bhakti Yoga, the peyote songs of The Native American Church, early music of the Russian Orthodox Church and 14th century Spanish Catalonia, as well as contemporary interpretations of chant. The chants on Planet Chant are performed by some of the most gifted proponents of the genre including the Qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan, Ladysmith Black Mambazo from South Africa, contemporary Native American singers Primeaux and Mike, Indian chanteuse Sheila Chandra, The Orthodox Bulgarian choir Angelite and the east-west styling of Krishna Das.
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Artist : Ram Dass
Baba Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) is best known as Timothy Leary's sidekick during the lysergic era, but where Leary had a pranksterish quality that made him more of a media-friendly hippie icon, Ram Dass was a much more earnest spiritual seeker who went early into a devoted study of Indian religions and cultures and stayed there. This made for much less interesting copy, so he was largely forgotten by the time Altamont rolled around. 1994's The Chord of Love, however, proves that Ram Dass stuck to his beliefs long after they were no longer fashionable: an album of traditional chants led by noted singers Krishna Das and Jai Uttal -- "Govinda Jai Jai" and "Om Namah Shivaya" are two that might be familiar to those who have explored Indian music and religion -- and readings from the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass in his familiar sonorous baritone, all set to simple, completely traditional Indian instrumentation, The Chord of Love is beautifully, deeply spiritual.
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Artist : Krishna Das
Hardcore followers of Indian religious philosophy may find much to recommended in these modernizations of traditional Bhakti Yoga chants. But the yogi rock created by Das along with Jai Uttal and Jim Wilson may strike nonbelievers as too guileless to survive the electrification process. Ethnic Indian experimentation with external forms are one thing, since they usually redistribute the weight of sufficient cultural baggage to yield interesting results. But this disc begins with a feeling of secondhandedness and from there borrows yet again, leaving the listener decidedly shortchanged.
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Artist : Krishna Das
It's hard to say whether hindsight is an effective tool or not when it comes to music. To look with a critical eye back over the span of an artist's career may not be exactly fair, but it seems quite useful to a listener trying to make a selection of, say, a greatest-hits collection versus individual releases. The work of Krishna Das is a great example. If you examine his albums closely, you will begin to notice a few trends in the track listings. More than once has he done "Hanuman Chaleesa," "Devi Puja," and "Hara Hara Mahadeva," though the former makes nary an appearance on this particular record. However, Sting does. He chirps his way through "Mountain Hare Krishna" with that ever-entrancing Sting voice of his. Of course, the song "Mountain Hare Krishna" was reincarnated on Das' Live on Earth release in 1999. What to do? If you're a hardcore kirtan lover, then you'll want this on your shelf. If you're only looking for a Das sampler, you'd do better to pick up his Live on Earth. That way you throw a wider net capturing his work, and as a bonus you get to avoid the very odd, slightly disconcerting, calypso-style "The Ring Song."
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Artist : Krishna Das
Krishna Das continues his spiritual albums, mixing Indian inflections with a Western base (which comes in the way the songs are constructed, often owing a lot to folk music). Produced by Rick Rubin, this has a wonderful, full sound with some excellent touches, like the emotional cello on "Sita's Prayer." It's a very slow album -- the pieces blooming gradually like flowers -- intended to give its pleasure over time rather than in a single play. While this is obviously a commercial venture, it's also a labor of love and devotion. And make no mistake, it is a truly lovely disc, accessible in its structures (in fact, "Shri Hanuman Chaleesa" would be a rock song if it had a drum kit) and its style, thanks in part to Rubin and his experience. This would be excellent as a meditation aid, but it also transcends that to become a fascinating listening experience throughout. Das sounds like Tom Waits without the voice cracks, which is no bad thing -- his voice is somewhat hypnotic, as befits the music he's making. The underlying sample (a processed voice?) on the last track adds texture to what's really a country song in disguise, altering it completely. A record that's an experience in every possible way.
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Greatest Hits Of The Kali Yuga
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Artist : Krishna Das
GREATEST HITS OF THE KALI YUGA collects the highlights from five of spiritual leader/singer Krishna Das's albums (plus one new track and a remix). A disciple of devotional yoga and kirtan (chanting the names of God), Krishna Das creates a remarkably effective combination of traditional Indian chanting and Western pop structures and melodies. Harmonium and tabla blend with guitar, bass, violin, and auxiliary percussion in ways that bridge East and West, giving rise to a stirring spiritual music that is both catchy and meditative. GREATEST HITS also includes a full-length DVD, a documentary on Krishna Das entitled ONE LIFE AT A TIME. In addition to illustrating Das's dedication to bringing the wisdom of Eastern spirituality to the ears of Western music fans (the DVD includes some fine concert footage), the documentary also charts Das's long path of discovery, including his experiences in India and his enduring friendship with Ram Dass (a.k.a. Dr. Richard Alpert). It is a fascinating document, and complements the music nicely, making this a highly worthwhile package.
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Artist : Hearts of Space - (Various)
It's another journey to the timeless place where whistles and fiddles, harps and pipes, guitar and piano play in a fantastic landscape of synthesizers and electronic woodwinds. To our great delight, our first compilation in this series became an international hit: over a year on Billboard's Top New Age Albums chart and still counting, the #1 Indie New Age Album of the Year!
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Artist : Krishna Das
Considered the leading Western proponent of kirtan chanting, Krishna Das shows his stuff on the double-disc Live on Earth. The live setting is where Das really shines, with posse in tow generally singing in the traditional call-and-response fashion. Devotion flows through his husky baritone voice and enthusiasm abounds in the claps of the group. This is how these mantras are meant to be sung, their blessings showering down on every chanter. The explosive "Radhe Shyam" and "Samadhi Sita Ram" open the session with a bang while praising the glory of Govinda and Ram along with their consorts, Radha and Sita. Then, a hush falls and stillness overwhelms when Das and bansuri flutist Steve Gorn offer themselves at the feet of the guru with "Shri Guru Charanam." Going on like this, balancing the ecstatic and the solemn while holding the sacred, Das makes his offerings to all of the major Hindu deities -- Krishna, Hanuman, Kali, Lakshmi, Rama, and Shiva. Particularly enchanting is the ancient hymn "Hanuman Chaleesa." Das sings it to please his own guru, though it was composed in honor of the monkey god Hanuman, noble hero of the great Indian epic Ramayana. One of the most well-known nama sankirtanas in the West repeats the names of Hare Rama Hare Krishna. Das includes two different renditions, "Three Rivers Hare Krishna" and "Mountain Hare Krishna," perhaps signifying his own fondness for the simple beauty of this chant. For the most part, Das sticks with the tried and true Indian instrumentation of harmonium and percussion to create his sound, though he does add a bit of keyboard, cello, and bass to smooth out the edges and truly make it his own. That's fair, and the result is splendid.
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Artist : Krishna Das
According to ancient Indian scriptures and saints, the traditional practice of chanting God's name -- be it Krishna, Rama, Ganesh, or another of the numerous deities -- is a tried and true path leading to union with the divine. Kirtan is one of the main forms of this practice, wherein a leader sings out the call and a group echoes with a response. Breath of the Heart is a live recording of Krishna Das in such a setting. Of course, being a westerner, he rounds out the sound with a little more than the customary harmonium and drum of the "motherland," adding Rob McDonald's solid electric bass, Lili Haydn's exquisite though underused violin, and Steve Gorn's mystical bansuri flute, along with various percussion and such. A single kirtan can go on for as long as the leader feels appropriate, although here Krishna Das limits the pieces to not more than 15 minutes or so. That's just enough to get you going before he moves on to the next, which is good for newcomers but perhaps frustrating for true practitioners. For the result is a quick build that doesn't allow you to so much linger in the melody, but rather pulls you along with the rhythm. It's a forgivable consequence when taking his audience into consideration. Nevertheless, with Rick Rubin at the production helm and topnotch musicianship supporting Das' instantly recognizable voice, the combination is a truly enjoyable, and possibly enlightening, offering.
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Lotus Feet A Kirtan Revolution
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Artist : David Newman
Lotus Feet: A Kirtan Revolution was born out of a vision to express the healing power of Indian devotional chanting, known as Kirtan, in a contemporary western musical context. The goal was to both respect the chanting tradition while staying true to the sensibilities of the western singer songwriter idiom.
On Lotus Feet, ancient chants are rich with catchy hooks, evocative melodies, and passionate chord changes. Pop song structures are laced with Sanskrit mantras accented by English lyrics. Acoustic guitars are propelled by world rhythms, hip hop loops, dance grooves and ambient textures. The mantras are the message and the music the messenger. The chants embody a universal language of peace and love while the musical presentation strikes a familiar chord in the western ear and psyche.
Lotus Feet: A Kirtan Revolution offers a gift from the heart of the east on the wings of the west straight to you, the listener, as cosmic sonic nourishment for the Body and Soul.
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Artist : Temple Bhajan Band
Mantra Yoga CD: This new CD is a beautiful composition of modern duets, harmonies, and music combined with traditional ancient mantras, chants and bhajans. Most of the songs are sung by Mahalaxmi and Sura. She sings sweet celestial soprano which mixes with Sura's raspy (old blues singer ) voice, to create a kind of Beauty and the Beast scenario. Mahalaxmi sang with the Australian National Choir for 5 years and her pristine angelic presence is felt throughout the CD. Adwaita plays the mrdunga drum, which slowly brings the chanting to its' crescendo again and again. Several men and women make up the background and harmony vocals to make this CD soulful, mellow and timeless.
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Artist : Temple Bhajan Band
Bring the sound of the New Dwarka temple into your home. Join the blissful voices raised in devotional songs, or bhajans.
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Artist : DivAria
DivAria "Fresh" -- Classical Duets in a contemporary style.
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Artist : The Open Door Orchestra
Combining the spoken word of Shannon Michael Terry and the contemporary eclectic sound of the ODO. Thirteen world class musicians throwing it down in the moment.
Featuring Shannon Michael Terry: voice, C.C White and Circe Link: backing vocals,Boujou Badialy Cissoko: vocals, Domonic Dean Breaux: Saxophone, flute, harmonica, Richard Hardy: Saxophone, Gerry Sutyak: cello, Ian Walker: electric and upright bass, John Ossman: piccolo bass, sitar, Andrew Werderitsch: didjeridu, Jason Hann: drums and percussion, Jim McGrath: drums and Dj Drez.
The Open Door Orchestra (ODO) is a revolving ensemble of players from around the world that utilizes an array of primitive instrumentation and contemporary influences to create timeless music. ODO artistically blends musical styles, taking the listener on an ambient, avant-garde, world beat journey.
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Artist : The Open Door Orchestra
Avant-garde neo classical world beat art music
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Artist : DJ Drez
Jahta Beat is an exploration through Hip Hop and Downtempo with a focus on vibrations from India to North Africa.
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The Ancient Art Music Of China - Yangqin
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Artist : Lily Yuan
This CD of ancient art music of China presents the yangqin (pronounced yang chin) performed by Lily Yuan, one of the foremost Chinese yangqin players. The instrument is a hammered dulcimer; that is to say, the Chinese version of the East European cimbalom or the Indian and Middle East santur. It has strings stretched over a wooden sound box, and the strings are hit by bamboo beaters. As many Chinese instruments, it came to China through Middle East, and most possibly Persia. Previously, it was an accompaniment instrument. It is only recently that it has become a solo instrument. The repertoire Lily Yuan proposes to us includes old traditional pieces, one dating back more than 1,200 years, all adapted for the yangchin, and some recent works. A gracefully talented musician.
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Artist : G.S. Sachdev
One of the foremost figures of Indian classical music today, the great bansuri master G.S. Sachdev is joined by internationally acclaimed, legendary tabla master, Zakir Hussain, in a brand new, digital recording that comes very close to perfection. Sachdev takes the listener with him on a highly personal and reflective journey of improvisation in Indian music that transcends all geographic boundaries.
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Indian Music for Sitar and Surbahar
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Artist : Ustad Imrat Khan and Shafaat Miadaad
A world famous musician of astounding accomplishment, the great Ustad Imrat Khan performs here on sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) with his son Shafaat on tabla two extended ragas intended for evening, a time of meditation and romance. One of the finest examples of Indian improvisation on CD by two master musicians.
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Buddhist Drums, Bell And Chants
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Artist : Lyrichord - (Various)
Drum of the Zen service. Hannya Shingo (Heart Sutra), Goeika (Pilgrim Chant), Aki Wasan (Jode Funeral), Choshi (Meian Priests), Shomyo, Temple Bells (Myoshinji) recorded at actual services in the temples of Kyoto, Japan.
Recorded at actual services in the temples of Kyoto, Japan
Booklet design by Julia Lee Prospero
Mastering by DMS Digital Mastering Studios
Copyright Lyrichord Discs Inc.
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Artist : Lyrichord - (Various)
Lyrichord has searched its vast World and Early music catalogs and unearthed some of the most powerful meditation music created by the human race in the last 2000 years. This unique collection includes six separate, ten minute transcendental-music backgrounds that have been specially enhanced and edited to maximum effect when used in conjunction with daily meditation. Recorded in remote locations throughout the world, World Meditation includes monastic Gregorian and Greek Orthodox Chant, Japanese Buddhist Bells, Drums an Chants, a Japanese Shakuhachi meditation, Tibetan poly-tonal ritual chant, and a potent Shaman's frame drum meditation by healing-rhythm specialist Randy Crafton.
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Artist : G.S. Sachdev
Bamboo Flute of India, G.S. Sachdev - Long recognized as one of the world's foremost bansuri masters, G.S. Sachdev gives an exquisitely sensitive performance on this beautiful, ancient instrument. Six gentle ragas that are a masterful realization of tranquillity and peacefulness. With tanpura and swar-peti (no tabla).
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Artist : Steven Gorn
Two serene performances in the "old world India" style. In the mysterious unfolding of Rag Marwa, the great Bansuri master Gour Goswami evokes the essence of twilight and dusk. Steven Gorn, his American disciple renowned for both his solo work and for his work with Glen Velez, concludes the recording with his rendition of the late night Rag Jog, illustrating the transmission from guru to disciple of this timeless musical tradition. Tabla accompaniment is provided by Samir Mazumder and Ray Spiegel. Digitally remastered under the direction of Steven Gorn.
Produced by Steven Gorn
Digitally remastered under the direction of Steven Gorn
Digital Mastering on the Sonic Solutions System at Digital Soundworks
Lyrichord Discs Inc.
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Japanese Masterpieces For The Shakuhachi
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Artist : Lyrichord - (Various)
This famous bamboo flute, historically the instrument of the Samurai, is here played by the Masters of Meian-ryu, Kimpu-ryu, Tozan-ryu and Kikusui-ryu, at Darumaden of Nanzenji, and Meianji, Kyoto.
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Artist : Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin
Over twenty years ago, shakuhachi master Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin established Ki-Sui-An which has since become the largest and most active shakuhachi dojo outside of Japan. He is one of the most widely sought Shakuhachi masters in the world today. His students hail from seventeen states and five countries outside of the United States.
On Ichi On Buttsu, his first Lyrichord CD, Nyogetsu Seldin sumptuously plays seven traditional, and one original composition on several shakuhachis of different lengths. Ichi On Buttsu is a peerless collection of traditional shakuhachi performance, a disc which quite possibly demonstrates the most profound link between music and the ancient Eastern journey toward enlightenment, that has yet been committed to tape.
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Inti Mystical Music Of The Andes
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Artist : Jorge Alfano
This is a collection of invocations played on traditional Andean instruments. They are for the deities of INTI, the religion of the pre-Columbian peoples known as the Kechuas. The Kechua people have occupied the Altiplano region of South America (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador) for thousands of years and still survive there today.
Jorge Alfano, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina spent most of his life studying many forms of music and searching for the higher purpose in life. This form of music has led Jorge back home. "Jorge's music is ancient and modern-his flute touches the soul with elegance, compassion and joy."...Steve Gorn. Note: Part of the proceeds from this recording go to Samana Wasi, a foundation which provides food, shelter and spiritual education for children and elderly in need.
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Artist : Sandra Reid
Featuring Jerry O'Sullivan, uilleann pipes, penny whistle, Nilson Matta and Jered Egan, bass, Sean Harkness, guitar, Amy Platt, tenor sax, clarinets, Randy Crafton, percussion, Amit Chatterjee, tanpura, Chris Cunningham, sintir, Michelle Kinney, cello, Jon Kass, fiddle, Jorge Alfano, kena, Wayne Hankin, gemshorn. Produced by Randy Crafton. In her first solo recording, Sandra Reid invites the listener to share her enchanted journey through the musical traditions of French and Breton folk songs. With selections from the Old World and the New, sung in their original languages, Sandra evokes the journey that her ancestors made, crossing the Atlantic to settle in an unknown land. What she achieved in the exclusively Celtic realm with her last successful disc Hal-an-tow, Songs of the Six Celtic Nations, Sandra now brings to the songs of France, Brittany, Canada and Louisiana. Her glowing vocals celebrate the richness of traditional music by weaving her fresh innovations through these ageless tunes. Sandra Reid's exuberant singing brings us "home", no matter what our roots are. Excellent liner notes by Alexei Kondratiev printed in English and French.
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Artist : Krishna Das
Over three days in November 2004, in the renowned Avatar Studios in New York, a choir of 70 and an orchestra of 20, came together to create All One. Featuring Krishna Das (Vocals and Harmonium), Walter Becker (Bass; Co-producer), Def Lepard’s Rick Allen (drums), Ty Burhoe (tabla) and David Nichtern (Guitar; Co-producer and well known composer “Midnight at the Oasis”) the songs were all recorded live in one take with the exception of some additional overdubs added later). The music that flowed was an amalgum of sounds- Violin and Cello with Bansuri Flute- Sarod and Esraj with Piano and Drums- Electric Guitar and Bass with Tabla – Gryphon Guitar with Trumpet and African Percussion… But throughout was the thread of Krishna Das’ deep emotive voice and the voices of the choir and the hypnotic mantric names spun from the living spirit in the room.
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Artist : Bonnie Devlin
A journey to the heart of the urban Vodou experience with Afro-Caribbean percussionist Bonnie Devlin. Devlin is the only woman ever initiated as a Huntogi (ceremonial drum master) in the Haitian religious Vodou tradition where she is also an initiated Sou-Mambo (woman priest), having drummed at hundreds of Vodou ceremonies. "Action of Grace - The Soul of Urban Vodou" is a recorded representation of a Vodou service of thanksgiving, including prayers, invocations, libations, chants, calls and 62 minutes of the most explosive trance-inducing drumming ever put on disc!
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The Celtic Fiddle Of Liz Knowles
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Artist : Liz Knowles
A show-stopping soloist with Riverdance, new fiddler for the John Whelan Band, who has also performed or recorded with pop singer Paula Cole, jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, and minimalist pioneer Steve Reich, Liz Knowles is a remarkably talented fiddler with a particular affinity for Celtic and classical music.
On this, her solo debut, she nimbly mixes elements of classical and world music into a repertoire of Celtic traditional and original tunes showcasing her complete mastery of the fiddle and considerable skills at composition. Such top flight musical guests as John Whelan, Joanie Madden, Eilis Egan, Brian Conway, and Jerry O'Sullivan heighten the pleasure of this impressive album by Liz.
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Artist : Steve Roach, Stephen Kent &Kenneth Newby
Halcyon Days explores via the extensive, diverse instrumental talents of Roach, Newby and Kent, the essential nature of sound itself: not merely what it is, but what it is created from, and in turn, what it creates. Looking under a forever shifting rhythmic surface, this recording, in a similar manner to Roach's other collaborations, Suspended Memories, Forgotten Gods and Earth Island, reveals the elemental and mystical spaces which swirl endlessly in the fluid textures of the sonic universe. This is music that names and erases itself while simultaneously naming its other. It reverses its body and logic, always searching for the elusive center where things previously thought to be oppositional converge. It conjures images, shapes and states of light and darkness, temporally bringing them to the fore while acknowledging their evolutional transience.
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Artist : Beaver Chief
A powerful spiritual leader and member of the Lummi Nation, Beaver Chief performs authentic traditional sacred healing songs and chants of the Northwest Coast Salish people. Beaver Chief's moving and effective Medicine songs produced with respect and insight by World Music producer and instrumentalist, Reverend Jorge Alfano.
With vocals, drums, bell and rattles Native American flutes, bamboo flutes, Hopi flute, shakers "Our old people told us of a time when we would be able to bring out the teachings in "a good way" and all the people would be ready to hear the teachings of our way of life." - Beaver Chief
Produced by Jorge Alfano Exec. Producer: Nick Fritsch
Digitally Recorded and mixed by Jorge Alfano
Featuring:
Beaver Chief on voice, drum, bells, and rattles
Jorge Alfano on native American flutes, bamboo slutes, hopi flutes, drum, voice and shakers
Additional voices by Lisa Brody, Ted Ryan, and Frederick FD Jameson
Coptright 1999 Lyrichord Discs Inc.
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Chasky-Spiritual Treasures Of The Andes
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Artist : Jorge Alfano
Composer, and multi-instrumentalist Jorge Alfano takes us on a very special journey on which the ancient Andean and South American cultures find new expressions, and the flame of a living tradition is rekindled in a new form. Using both pre-Colombian and contemporary instruments in his work, Alfano is able to express the need to preserve the legacy of his culture, and at the same time present it in a contemporary idiom. “Chasky” Messenger of Light delivers an ancestral message through music a message that we must now hear. Includes Kenas, Peruvian whistling vessels, Ronrocos, Armonio, Shaman?s whistles and rattles, Andean Harp, Mocse?o, Charango, Bombos, ceramic drums, Accordion, and other instruments.
All songs composed by Jorge Alfano
Recorded at Sacred Sounds Institue USA
Mixed and Mastered by Randy Crafton at Crafty Productions
Produced by Jorge Alfan
Executive Producer: Nick Fritsch
Photos by Stella Fuse and Jorge Alfano
Copyright 2000 Lyrichord Discs, Inc.
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Artist : Ali Jihad Racy
The Art Of Improvisation in Arabic Music, with Ali Jihad Racy, Buzuq, and world famous Simon Shaheen, Ud. Two virtuosos perform extended, magnificent improvisation. A must have CD for anyone interested in Arab music!
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Artist : Ali Jihad Racy
Racy's first solo release in almost twenty years!
New from the Lebanese master player and composer whose world renown Ancient Egypt is still captivating new listeners decades after its original issue on Lyrichord. A dazzling array of musical selections recorded live in concert with Racy and Middle-Eastern percussionist Souhail Kaspar at the Los Angeles Festival. Racy performs on the nay, 'ud, buzuq, and bowed-tanbur with Kaspar on the Egyptian tablah and other percussion instruments. The album presents music from the Arab world in a breathtaking and superbly inspired performance.
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Artist : Suspended Memories
It is easy to grasp the concept that Suspended Memories is one of the greatest e-music trios ever. Each member -- Steve Roach, Jorge Reyes, and Suso Saiz -- had a brilliant solo career before forging ahead as a trio. Earth Island, the group's second CD, explores the concept of this planet as an island in the sea called the galaxy. The composition titles make references to the dawn of man and hide isolation and desolation. The music is deep, inspirational, and distant. Roach, Reyes, and Saiz bring their own spiritualities to the table along with their own sound worlds. When they emerge, they emerge as one. This disc is an amalgamation of three distinct entities that intertwine and interact seamlessly. They do not just bring out the best in each other; they bring the totality of each other. The dark atmospheres are full of ethnic spirituality and cultural richness.
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Artist : Larisa Stow & Gathering Guru
Larisa Stow & Gathering Guru create an unprecedented blend of ancient Eastern mantras with the contemporary sounds of the West. Larisa's voice is absolutely mesmerizing, as these empowering messages of peace and love transport your heart and soul on an inspirational journey ... including sacred chants in Sanskrit, Aramaic and English.
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Artist : Rasa
Shelter is a rich sounding and fully orchestrated collection of vaishnava songs that is 'classic RASA'. Kim's soft and full timbred voice is framed and gently carried by Hans' swirling and pulsating strings and rhythm arrangements. Danceable yet meditative, Shelter's sound is purely transcendental music from India and beyond.
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Artist : Hans Christian
Ten instrumental arrangements of renaissance madrigals (four part vocal music) from the 15th and 16th century. Skillfully performed by Hans Christian on cello, nyckelharpa, and sarangi, this CD stays within the stylistic boundaries of this beautiful musical period. No "modern" elements (such as synthesizers, drum machines, etc) were added so as to present an intact acoustic listening experience.
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Artist : Rasa
An elegant blend of devotional songs from India, with impeccable arrangements, soulful vocals, and virtuosic playing. Calm and meditative, this CD is a healing session for the heart and nourishment for the soul.
RASA's most calming CD.
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Artist : Devi 2000
Devi 2000's debut CD Devotional features special guest performances by kirtan artists Dave Stringer and David 'Durga Das' Newman, the up-and-coming neo-folksinger Andrea Bunch, Poi Dog Pondering violinist Susan Voelz, jazz flutist Nikki Mitchell, and drummer Gary DeMichele. Core group members Kenny Dread and Steve Emmerman multi-task as guitarists, singers and producers, and the full sound of a kirtan response chorus is provided by members of the Chicago satsang, a spiritual community grown out of yoga centers, kirtan concerts and trance dance events.
Devi 2000 is Chicago’s premier kirtan group, central to a vibrant chanting scene developed over the last five years with monthly performances at Moksha Yoga Center. Deep reverence, a sense of ritual, and ecstatic peaks of singing and dancing are the vibe at a Devi 2000 kirtan.
Devotional is Devi 2000’soffering to the yoga and kirtan community, and to all those who follow the path of bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. Reaching out to the dance and chillout scene, Devi 2000 will follow-up in summer 2006 with Prepare Your Soul To Dance, a full-length CD of Devotional tracks remixed by producers including Radiohiro and Preston Klik.
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Artist : Gurudass
This album offers 3 very powerful and elevating mantra music recordings. Beautifully produced, with a blend of eastern and western instrumentation, this album is a jewel for meditation and relaxation. The Asankh Nav mantra in particular has a profound trascendental quality to it, while the Wahe Guru Jio takes you into the depths of meditation and bliss.
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Artist : Daveed
This album is as soothing as a glass of very good wine and a plate of excellent tapas. The music is soothing, elegant, and intriguing without ever crossing the line into vapid elevator music. While Spanish guitar and Mediterranean influences predominate, Daveed doesn't limit himself to those traditions only and that adds a pleasing element of the unexpected to his compositions. Listening to Daveed makes me exceedingly glad to be blessed with hearing and very sad that there are so many calories in so many of those tapas because I think Daved plus the wine and tapas might even be better than Daveed alone.
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Artist : Daveed
Spanish guitars, gypsy violins and duduk flutes take you on a magical journey. Don't Be Sad is a great addition to your music collection and your yoga practice.
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Artist : Wah!
This collection of chants is designed for deep relaxation. In yoga class, the posture for deep relaxation is "savasana" - the practice consists of dissolving the body and mind into a space of deep spiritual peace. This CD features harmonium, tamboura, violin, flute, bass, and free-flowing vocals.
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Artist : Wah!
This collection of chants is designed for deep relaxation. In yoga class, the posture for deep relaxation is "savasana" - the practice consists of dissolving the body and mind into a space of deep spiritual peace. This CD is a beautiful continuation of the magic created in Savasana, and Wah! continues channelling healing energy through her music. With luscious instrumentation, overtone vocals, and ambient textures and harmonics, Wah! guides you into a heightened state of relaxation.
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Artist : Wah!
Jai Jai Jai weaves simple lines of devotion with hip production and industry talent. Tracks contributed by Katisse Buckingham, Kirk Margo, George Shelby, Paul Hollman, Girish Gambhira and David Leach. Chants to Durge, Ram, Krishna, Gayatri Mantra and Om Mani Padme Hum. Also includes "What She Has to Give." Hip production, mellow grooves and a trippy acoustic band set the stage for Wah!'s sweet, silky voice....
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Artist : Stellamara
Rising from within Turkish, Arabic, Balkan, Medieval European and Persian musical traditions, Stellamara expresses sublime devotion to the music of eastern cultures with extraordinarily beautiful vocals and instrumentation.
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Yoga Morning Resound Unto Infinity
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Artist : Gurutrang Singh Khalsa
Gentle, clear and easy-to-meditate-with musical renditions of Kundalini Yoga morning mantras in subtle, contemporary, folk guitar-choral arrangements.
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Artist : Bill Douglas
After 2000's "best of" compilation Eternity's Sunrise, Bill Douglas is back with this contemporary choral/instrumental gem. Once again the Ars Nova Singers deliver touching and inspiring harmonies, supported by Bill's sensitive piano playing and brillianly melodic arrangements for oboe, bassoon, clarinet and flute. In a career marked by extraordinarily beautiful and poplular music, A Place Called Morning may be his most appealing work yet.
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Artist : Dave Stringer
Dave Stringer: Brink
Reviewed By Derk Richardson in Yoga Journal
Kirtan singer Dave Stringer makes his debut as a folk-rock singer songwriter
with 11 songs that unite his spiritual and secular interests in a surprisingly seamless blend. Following a path parallel to that of Jai Uttal, Stringer moves back and forth between original pop songs performed in English and traditional Sanskrit chants, thus gently obliterating any doubt about these two forms belonging on the same record.
Continuity is provided by ingenious arrangements that incorporate a fluid mix of Eastern and Western acoustic and electric instruments – a combination of various guitars (including dobro and Hawaiian steel), dulcimer, piano, accordian, harmonium, tabla, sarangi, cello, violin, flute, trumpet, drums and a plethora of ethnic percussion and backing vocals.
An accomplished record producer as well (Axiom of Choice, Suzanne Teng),
Stringer has organized the diverse sounds into a sequence of elegant aural rainbows, retaining an Eastern cultural resonance even when fleshing out unabashedly pop melodies.
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Dhyana Aman Meditation of No Mind
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Artist : Manose
For ages, spiritual seekers have looked East for the key to cutting through material illusion in their search for the divine space we all share, a temple accessed only via the inner travels of the quiet mind.
Recorded in Kathmandu, Nepal, Dhyana Aman: Meditation of No Mind evokes the boundless expanse and reverberating stillness of the Himalayas, paving the listener’s path to this elusive, mist-shrouded sanctuary of true realization. Timeless chants beckon from the towering quiet, floating on bamboo dreamscapes and the singing bowls’ eternal ring.
Manose’s flute threads through the music like drifting incense vapors, a gentle reminder of a steadily burning ember. Radiant chanting by Tibetan nun Choying Drolma and monk Dorje Lama lend a transcendent, otherworldly feel to a recording that is breathtakingly beautiful in its simplicity.
Ideal for relaxation, meditation and bodywork, Dhyana Aman: Meditation of No Mind reveals a new petal in the lotus bloom of Tibetan/Nepali meditation music—a vehicle for introspective journeys imbued with the healing aspects of an age-old tradition.
Using only traditional instruments and arrangements, this is a purely acoustic recording. The sounds of these ancient callings create an ideal atmosphere for meditation and bodywork.
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Artist : Mathew Joseph
"Firefly" is an intricate blend of Western and Eastern musical styles that merges elements as varied as classical guitar, chant rhythms, reggae, swing, blues, jazz, ragas and Indian folk music in a seamless tapestry. An all acoustic album, it combines a string section of acoustic Spanish and steel string guitars, cello, violin and bass, with a percussion ensemble that includes tabla , dumbek, mrdang, kanjeera, hand cymbals, chimes and drums. Brilliant flute, piano and percussion solos and rich vocal harmony embellish this work that includes six songs and two instrumentals. Reminding us of the tragedy we see unfolding in Kaliyug, the age of destruction, it urges peace and harmony and brings a message of hope, evoking the ethereal magic of the high Himalayas, the wisdom of its sages and the jubilation of the golden age to come.
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Hemalayaas OmStream Playlist
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Artist : Hemalayaa Behl
This is a personal compliation of Hemalayaas' favorite omstream songs.
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Artist : Prem Joshua & Chintan
With Ahir, multi-instrumentalists and composers Prem Joshua and Chintan harvest the creative fruits of a 15-year musical partnership. Drawing on material from their recent world tours and travels through India, they take Prem Joshua's signature modern raga sound into exciting new terrain, resulting in a true masterpiece of fresh and inspired global music.
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Artist : Acoustica
First of many recording to come from this talented group of individuals...
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
A glowing, watercolor wash of angelic sounding choirs and ancient Greek
chants, Paul Avgerinos' new album is based on the Gnostic tradition and wisdom of ancient Greek mystery societies. A stellar cast featuring Kevin Braheny and Steve Gorn weave a rich tapestry of Tabla, Oud, Sarangi, and Cello. Allmusic.com recently called Paul "one of the giants of ambient music," and the stellar sound design on this new release makes apparent how he earned the title. Gnosis is luminous and relaxing .
Awaken now, journey to the center of your heart into pure being into GNOSIS Breathe - Smile - Calm your body Breathe - Smile - Quiet your mind Be Between your thoughts within your heart eternally now you know
Produced at Unicorn Studios
Featuring:
Paul Avgerinos on cello, fretless bass, layered choirs, sound design, synthesizers, percussion, and guitars
Kevin Braheny Fortune on EWI
Steve Gorn on flute
Rohin Khemani on tabla
Steve Waite on guitars
Bragim Fribgane on oud
Rafiq Khan on Sarangi
Antonios Paravalos on cantor
And Christine Yandell on female vocals
Round Sky Music ASCAP
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
Powerfully portraying an ancient Mayan ritual, deliciously cryptic ambient soundscapes and sacred words are chanted over ceremonial percussion . Over the hill, the soft chant will soon draw forth light and shadows from other realms in a ceremony that reverberates rich with devotion and the renewal of life.
Design and illustrations by Randy Reed for Dgroupe
Capyright 2005 Round Sky Music ASCAP
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
Vibrant with the elemental beauty of the Greek islands , flowing with the bardic song , dancing with the ancient rhythms , Muse of the Round Sky journeys to the heartland of Western civilization to find a resonance for today . Avgerinos draws on his classical music background and his Greek heritage , exploring a mythos inspired by Homer’s epic poem , The Odyssey .
Composed, Produced, and preformed by Paul Avgerinos at Studio Unicorn in Bridgeport, CT
Featuring:
Paul Avgerinos on vocals, percussion, electric guitar, fretless bass, samplers, and synthesizers
Brian Keane on guitars
Marion Meadows on Soprano saxophone
And O. Faruk Teknilek and kavala flute, bendir and darbuka
Copyright 2002 Spirit Voyage Music
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
Produced by Grammy Nominated artist Paul Avgerinos, Phos Hilaron ( foss hill-a-ron ) is a deeply devotional ambient soundscape setting ancient Sacred Hymns sung in English within a tasteful Ambient Space . The title hymn, Phos Hilaron , dates back to the first century . Top Ten for 3 Months on the New Age Radio Chart, Phos Hilaron, featuring Kevin Braheny weaves ancient Sacred Hymns into a deeply devotional ambient soundscape . The title hymn, Phos Hilaron , dates back to the first century .
Produced by Paul Avgerinos at Studio Unicorn in Redding, CT
All pieces published by Round Sky Music
Al these hymns are in The Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church
Featuring:
Paul Avgerinos on chants, choirs, bass violin, guitars, fretless bass, keyboards, and sound design
Kevin Fortune Braheny on EWI
Jordan on flutes and sound design
Jeff Pearce on processed guitars
Steve Waite 12 string acoustic
John Widgren on pedal steel
And Christine Yandell on vocalizations
Copyright 2005 Paul Avgerinos/Round Sky Music
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
Chosen as The Best Recording of 1998 by Wind & Wire Magazine, Sky of Grace is sophisticated and sensuous sound design, an architectural landscape sculpted with world beat drums, guitars, violins, cellos - pulsing with the power of 200 voice choirs . Healing and uplifting , expansive with the infinity of mind - The Sky of Grace .
Produced at Studio Unicorn, Redding. CT
Cover art: Laurie Downing
All selections written by Paul Avgerinos and published by Round Sky Music ASCAP
Featuring:
Paul Avgerinos on bass violin, fretless bass, keyboards, guitar synthesizeer, and 200 voice choirs
David Darling on cello
YoYo Blue on violins
Chaula as female vocalizations
And Brian Keane on guitars
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Artist : Paul Avgerinos
Words Touch, is a subtle and delicate tapestry of gentle melodies and exquisite sound design . Featuring the soaring EWI ( Electronic Wind Instrument ) of Kevin Braheny , The masterful guitar of Brian Keane , the unique guitar work of Jeff Pearce, and the fabulous Cello of David Darling , Words Touch is perfect for Massage , Meditation , Relaxation and Contemplation .This album has a steady, even and deep flow , designed to nurture profound states of consciousness.
Produced by Paul Avgerinos at Studio Unicorn in Redding, CT
All songs written by Paul Avgerinos and published by Round Sky Music
Featuring:
Paul Avgerinos on fretless bass, sound design, and vocal choirs
Jeff Pearce on guitars and wire choir
Kevin Braheny on the wind synth
Brian Keane on the 12 string guitar
David Darling on the cello
Copyright 2005 Round Sky Music
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Artist : Geoffrey Armes
Noor, a concept album chronicling the compelling true story of a pacifist Sufi Indian princess who made a seemingly incongruous choice to become a radio operator spy for the Allies during WWII, was subsequently captured by the Gestapo, tortured, and executed at Dachau. This is a rich, movie-ready tale that has been compartmentalized into seven songs which conjure myriad images of the destiny-determining situations Princess Noor Inayat Khan heroically confronted during her short life. Moreover, the listener is easily drawn into a vicarious position of thinking about how they themselves might respond upon facing the same life-shaping choices and tests of the soul she confronted with great courage and virtue.
Noor reveals itself to be rather like a hybrid Arabic, Indian, West-African world music nod to prog – an avant-garde progressive world music if you like labels. These are longer length songs (five of the seven songs range from 7-11 minutes) often parsed together using movements, which helps Armes to flesh out these musical vignettes. They are primarily driven by keyboards that shift through jazz inflected electric piano vamps, textured synth washes, and a wide variety of dialed-up sounds such as xylophone and Egyptian oboe with tempered microtones. Modal acoustic guitar riffing skirts the periphery but jumps to the forefront in the right spaces, and is underpinned by a melodically insistent bass joined by what has become by now, Armes’ hallmark admixture of strongworld percussion this time featuring talking drums, dumbek, ubang and udu.
Recorded and Mixed at Village Recording by Geoffrey Armes and Tom Desisto
Featuring:
Geofffrey Armes on guitar, vocals, keyboards, and percussion
Copyright 2006 Geoffrey Armes ASCAP
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Artist : Snatam Kaur
Anand, layers of keyboard, tabla, harmonium, violin, sarod, bass and the dancing flute of Manose create an incredible landscape behind Snatam’s ethereal vocals. This album carries a mesage of profound bliss and joy.
“Anand is the state of bliss that comes when every word that you speak and action you take supports the light and journey of your soul. ” - Snatam Kaur
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Celtic Lamentations Healing Music For Twelve Months And A Day
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Artist : Áine Minogue
Inspired by the traditional wisdom of giving ourselves “a year and a day” to grieve, Celtic Lamentations offers a “companion in music”—a collection of recordings by Áine Minogue that carries the Celtic tradition of healing through music, and focuses on the return to everyday life. On September 11, 2002, Minogue was trying to decide how to honor the Americans who lost their lives in the Twin Towers the year before. Being an acclaimed international musician, she turned to her beloved music collection to get her through, but soon realized there was nothing that really captured her grief. With Celtic Lamentations, she has created the recording she wanted to hear that day. The eclectic array of tracks includes Celtic keening, the Banshee, Ireland’s classic “Year and a Day,” several original compositions, and “Deus Meus”—an unusual fusion of Latin with Gaelic.
Áine Minogue is an artist who has long explored Ireland’s themes and mysteries, and who captures its very essence in her vocal and instrumental melodies. Now listeners join her to experience music’s ability to help us acknowledge and let go of that which we’ve lost—and to remember the joys that lie ahead—with Celtic Lamentations.
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Artist : Michael Perricone
ONLY FOUND ON OMSTREAM.COM
6 Savasana performances recorded live, featuring 15 antique Tibetan singing bowls.
Bowls provided by
Bodhisattva Trading Company
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Artist : Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey
This recording highlights Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey's unique world music sound that is as soulful as it is joyful. Instruments include bass, alto and C flutes, ocarina, Native American flute and flutes from Indonesia, India, Turkey, and China as well as hand drums from Africa, India and Egypt and sitar, saz, guitar, string bass, didgeridoo, cello and oud.
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Artist : Suzanne Teng
7 Beautiful and heartwarming mediations played on alto flute, bass flute, bamboo flutes, and the rare contrabass flute with delicate accompaniment on harp, dulcimer, harmonium and zithers. Music for peace
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Artist : Suzanne Teng
Suzanne's first CD is a collection of her original compositions featuring Suzanne and 17 master musicians on flutes, strings and percussion instruments from around the world.
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Artist : Manose
Offering three mesmerizing pieces for solo bamboo flute, each based on a different Indian scale, this leads the listener deeper into a mood of serenity.
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Notes From Home - Himalayan Folk Tunes
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Artist : Manose
A lively and lilting combination of Himalayan instruments: bamboo flute, the violin-like sarangi, and Nepalese two-headed drums accompanied by acoustic guitar. Flautist Manose's arrangements of these traditional tunes are at once cheerful and nostalgic.
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Artist : William Asad
This is a personal compliation of Williams' favorite omstream songs.
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Artist : Sounds True- (Various)
Dive into the expansive soundscape of Immersion, Volume 1—evocative rhythms, soothing melodies, and sacred chant from the Sounds True music collection. Here, modern meets traditional with eleven ambient tracks including: Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach’s “Gopala” from Music for Yoga and Other Joys; “Deep Inside” by Pathaan from his lush and exotic Tandava; “Jai Hanuman” by Shaman’s Dream—who lead Los Angeles’ yoga music scene; Grammy® Award-winning percussionist Glen Velez offers “Ostia” from Rhythms of Awakening; David Hykes’ “Times to the True”—a profound composition that opens you to expanded states of consciousness; “Moon’s Lament” by Layne Redmond—Drum! magazine’s Percussionist of the Year award for two years running; Irish harpist Áine Minogue’s “Caoineadh” from Celtic Lamentations, and more.
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Rare Elements (Ustad Sultan Khan Remixes)
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Artist : Sounds True- (Various)
On RARE ELEMENTS, a crew of celebrated re-mixers tackles one of the biggest names in Indian classical music with smooth, danceable results. Ustad Sultan Khan is a world-renowned sarangi master and vocalist who descends from India's famed Khan family of musicians. His unique voice and sarangi playing have made him a sought-after collaborator. He has performed alongside Ravi Shankar and contributed to tracks by Madonna, Duran Duran, and other popular western musicians. The sarangi is a string instrument, held upright and played with a bow. Its ability to imitate the human voice has made it a popular instrument for singing performers. The sarangi is used to great effect in many of the tracks on RARE ELEMENTS, such as Joe Claussell's "Sayaji." Claussell uses a repeated sample of sarangi to punctuate Sultan Khan's vocals, which alters the usual drone of the instrument and gives it a new, modern context. Thievery Corporation delivers the most mellow track, "Tarana," a deep, beat-driven number that Sultan Khan's vocals float over, while ambient melodies punctuate the sparse arrangement. RARE ELEMENTS gives a diverse mix of music, from moody down-tempo to hard dance beats. Most importantly, the album is expertly sequenced so the music flows without any jarring transitions.
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Artist : Yofiyah
Kabbalah: the mystical teachings of Judaism. Kirtan: the art of devotional chant. Bring them together, and you unfold the beauty of "Kabbalah Kirtan," an ecstatic new musical form that invites you to sing to—and join with—God.
On Kabbalah Kirtan, YofiYah offers her gifts as a voice teacher, artist, and improvisational musician to create a safe and spiritually charged environment for listeners from all traditions to find and free their authentic voice, and experience the presence of God. "Our unity with God is likened to that of lovers," she explains. "As we come together, we delight in the other’s otherness, but at the moment of union both self and other fade into an ineffable oneness. Kirtan is among the most powerful methods we have of surrendering to this love."
Using vocals, harmonium, frame drum, tabla, oud, bansuri flute, and more, Kabbalah Kirtan is your invitation to experience the ecstasy and liberation of this passionate, sacred connection. Detailed liner notes with translations of each Hebrew chant help you understand the message as you move closer to the meeting.
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Artist : Brad White & Pierre Grill
This seminal recording from the Sugo label production team of Brad White and Pierre Grill is a synergy of these New Age instrumentalists' strengths. Grill's Hawaiian-influenced piano provides an alluring, soothing backdrop to White's spicy combinations of panpipes and various ethnic flutes, composing a travelogue through Africa, Europe, and the tropics.
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Artist : Maneesh de Moor
Stunning in its sensuality and lush with ethereal and earthly rhythms, Sadhana gathers a circle of musicians from around the globe for ten tracks of ethno-ambient chill/world that serve as an "aphrodisiac for the soul." Here, Dutch composer Maneesh de Moor has created an ecstatic blend of Tibetan chanting and didgeridoo, tamboura and acoustic bass, Persian santoor and piano, and the heavenly voices of Sudha and Sandhya Sanjana that will allow listeners to hear their walls dissolve into a joyful awareness of life.
A master of keyboard layering, Maneesh has taken his mastery of sound-synthesis and infused it with the sounds of nature—birdsong, flowing water, crickets in a nighttime soundscape—and the human voice—from whispers to deep, baritone chanting—to evoke "Sadhana": a contemporary tribute to the spiritual life of devotion and meditation.
On this new musical creation, de Moor ventures off into a sublime and devotional sound all on his own. "This album is not about musicality, but about transformation—this music is made for the energetic, physical, and mental state of well-being in the listener," says de Moor. "The music on this CD came through from the Beyond, guided by Spirit. All I had to do was to be open and receptive to it and record that space, that energy." The result is Sadhana, a journey inspired by the magical rituals of India, Tibet, Yoruba, and Native American and Sufi worlds—and meant to create a space for visions and Oneness.
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Artist : Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach
Enter Loveland... a place where time dissolves, and the heart within your heart is awakened... where world music visionary Jai Uttal merges the pulsing beat of the universe with the flowing source of energy through sacred melodies to the Divine. Here, the Grammy® Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist and vocalist joins Ben Leinbach to create six extended tracks of evocative compositions that celebrate the breath of life, revel in the power of infinite love, and invite you to deeply experience the numinous.
Grammy nominated world music pioneer Jai Uttal, and multi-talented producer/instrumentalist Ben Leinbach offer a moving mix of melody, rhythm, texture, and chant on "Loveland," the very personal and engaging follow up to "Music for Yoga and other Joys". Known for their eclectic blend of Eastern and Western sounds, Jai and Ben have produced this CD specifically designed to accompany your yoga practice as it joyfully permeates every aspect of life. Featuring fine musicians like Manose (Bansuri), Daniel Paul (tables) and Nubia Texeira (chanting, singing, prayers) this CD offers considerably more of Jai's passionate singing, plus dotar, electric guitar, slide tamboura, banjo, and zither, "Loveland," which is subtitled "Music For Dreaming & Awakening" this CD will take you on a gentle journey into the mysterious ocean of Spirit.
Songs written by Jai Uttal, Ben Leinback, and NubiaTeixeira
All songs published by Pavana Suta Music/BMI and Old Bull Music/BMI 2005
Copyright 2006 Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach
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Artist : Nawang Khechog
Ancient Tibetan teachings tell us that merely seeing an image of the Medicine Buddha—or even hearing his name—holds the power to heal. Now, acclaimed musician and former Buddhist monk Nawang Khechog invokes the blessings of this potent deity on his new recording, Music As Medicine. Nawang is one of the few Tibetan musicians today who has received the blessing transmission of these teachings—and shares them here with the outside world as a catalyst for transformation.
On this all-new album, premier native American musician R. Carlos Nakai joins Nawang Khechog as a special guest artist to create a cross-cultural “apothecary” of soothing melodies and healing chants to infuse this universal energy within anyone who listens.
With Tibetan flute, long horn, and overtone chanting; native American flute and drum; universal horn; and calming chants to restore balance and health.
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Artist : Andrea Marcum
This is a Compliation of Songs Andrea Marcum has put togther as her debut album on Omstream!!!!
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Artist : Nawang Khechog
From the Tibetan Highlands comes a wordless prayer for peace and the beauty of meditatio, or "quiet mind". With Tibetan bamboo flute, dideridoo, ocarina, incan pan pipes and silver flute.
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Dakini Lounge - Prem Joshua Remixed
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Artist : Prem Joshua Remixed (Various)
ere, an eclectic collection of cutting edge mixologists including Karsh Kale, Sean Dinsmore (The Dum Dum Project), Joi and Dharma Dogz (of Waterbone) shed new light on Joshua’s signature sound, translating his East-West alchemies into stunning dub, chill and dance floor masterworks.
Prem Joshua has come a long way from the 18-year-old German rocker, mind blown by a Ravi Shankar performance, answering a mysterious call from a faraway place. While spending the better part of 20 years in India (where he has sold well over 50,000 records), Joshua has developed a unique musical style employing sitar, Indian flutes, saxophone, electronica and tarana-style singing that artfully—and skillfully—bridges the gap between traditional Eastern sounds and Western jazz forms, prompting the Times of India to dub him “the new guru of East-West fusion music.”
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Artist : Snatam Kaur
Snatam Kaur's heart-opening new release is a musical celebration of the spirit of peace featuring 3 beautiful new songs as well as transcendent mantras and musical invocations of peace from her previous albums. This CD is part of the Celebrate Peace program, which spreads a hopeful message and cultivates the practice of peace. We believe in the power of peace and we witness peace everyday, all around us. Peace begins with a choice, develops through practice, and spreads by example.
We present Celebrate Peace to spread a hopeful message and to cultivate the practice of peace in daily life, through a national series of workshops and other educational programs, musical celebrations, and internet-based community.
By celebrating peace, we acknowledge that it exists, call attention to it, unite around it, and inspire others to embrace it.
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Longing To Belong - Mantra Meditations
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Artist : Gurudass
The mantras selected for this album come from the tradition of Bhakti (devotion). Such love is expressed through singing. The entire being becomes an instrument that resounds "the music of the inner universe." That is the power of this CD – it places one in the realm of inner peace. Chanting these mantras will open the heart and make love blossom within. From the warm and soothing voice of Gurudass Singh in Ad Gurey Nameh to the powerful chanting of Gurudass Kaur, this couple’s beautiful singing will touch all who listen to this album.
Produced by Gurudass Singh
Art & Design: Guru Sandesh Singh
Recorded at Villavecchia Studios
Featuring:
Gurudass Singh on vocals, acoustic and classical guitars and arrangements
Gurudass Kaur on vocals and harmonium
Siri Sat Kaur on backup choir and extra harmonies
Tiaga Singh and Gurulal Kaur as backup choir
Jordi Rallo on tabla, udu and percussion
Mauricio Villavecchia on keyboards and arrangements
And Bernat Romani on vocals, acoustic guitar, sound engineering and digital editing
Spirit Voyage Music
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Artist : Aurah
Another chapter closes ...and opens with Etherea Borealis. We first came to America and stranded as students in Boston. It was a cornucopia of information and at the same time a period of culture shock. We soon understood we had nurtured our left brains enough and that it was time to dive into the actual practice of being musicians rather then studying its technicalities. We packed a still small studio and drove to sunny California. (Heard that one before, right..?) With our first album entitled Judith Martin, we immersed in the path of songwriting we had practiced and learned through years of schooling and formal training. Very soon our approach to music took on a whole new vantage point. The inspiration to record music as an emotional backdrop, a painting of sounds if you will, allowing us as well as the listener to undertake a journey of day dreaming and imagination, was born out of reading the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. We put aside everything we learned about traditional songwriting, about catchy song forms, hooks, 3 min. 30 second time limits... and we created from intuition and heart. Without being fully aware of it at first, it just happened. The music wrote itself. Yes, we still had to put it all together, but it was effortless. Just like the difference between a task you feel you have to perform and something you love to do. Out of this came the CD Songs of the Alchemist. Some songs were electronic yet organic, while some were instrumental and ethnic. Some had vocals but no lyrics. Some were reminiscent of a film-score. Why not take it a step further? Judith took paint, her diaries of recorded dreams and emotions, and started looking for sounds to create an all encompassing, multi-sensory and hypnotic experience. We called it Kismet. Picture and words became as much part of the project as music. How can you separate one art form from the other anyway...; sometimes they just merge together. This brings us to Etherea Borealis where we combine songs with the elements of ethereal soundscapes we had learned to love. Some songs were written over the course of the last years and others are extended cues of the feature film score Loving Annabelle, which we recently composed. The creative process is an interesting and unpredictable one, sometimes one cannot explain what makes something ready and ripe to be released into the world. We feel this music to be a true reflection of who we are today, knowing that tomorrow a new truth will be born again. We hope you will enjoy it, too. - AURAH
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Artist : Baird Hersey
Waking the Cobra is an overtone singing Chakra meditation CD recorded by Baird Hersey who later went on to form his Overtone Singing Choir PRANA. The only thing other than reverberation on this recording is the sound of Baird's voice.
The CD opens with a piece called "Atha", a Sanskrit word which means, "May the following have an auspicious beginning and successful end". It is the opening word of Patanjali's Yogasutras.
Next, is the title piece, "Waking the Cobra " which is in fact a collection of seven short pieces. They are meditations on the traditional shape, color, element and sound for each of the chakras. Hersey first recorded a multi-layered vocal background drone or moving harmony. Then, singing two pitches at once, he recorded the high melody parts.
This is followed by an extended piece called "The Conch Shell, The Wheel and the Sword". These words are taken from the invocation chanted before beginning the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. Call and response, rising harmonies, vocal textures, and overtone melodies, are used in this extended piece to investigate the symbolic meaning of the objects.
The CD concludes with "Between Sthira and Sukha. This is a phrase from Patanjali's Yogasutras which means between alert steadiness and relaxed comfort. This piece searches to balance those qualities by alternating low Multiphonic voice overtone singing and high falsetto harmonies.
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Kirtan The Art & Practice Of Ecstatic Chant [Disc 2]
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Artist : Jai Uttal
Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space – and digging into the heart's deepest well - to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
On "Kirtan - The Art and Practice of Ecstatic Chant", world music pioneer Jai Uttal guides us through the profoundly transformative practice of Kirtan singing the many names of God and Goddess - the heart of devotional, or "Bhakti" Yoga.
Kirtan is one of the gifts given to us by the yogis and seers of ancient India, a key to unlock the vast mystery world within our hearts. By chanting these Sanskrit mantras and melodies without inhibition or self-judgment, we effortlessly enter a space of deep emotional release, inner connectedness and surrender. There are no beginners or experts in this practice. Kirtan is simply prayer, and with the power of our own voices and emotions we create a bridge that spans the vast ocean of consciousness and infinite love.
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Kirtan The Art & Practice Of Ecstatic Chant [Disc 1]
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Artist : Jai Uttal
Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space – and digging into the heart's deepest well - to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
On "Kirtan - The Art and Practice of Ecstatic Chant", world music pioneer Jai Uttal guides us through the profoundly transformative practice of Kirtan singing the many names of God and Goddess - the heart of devotional, or "Bhakti" Yoga.
Kirtan is one of the gifts given to us by the yogis and seers of ancient India, a key to unlock the vast mystery world within our hearts. By chanting these Sanskrit mantras and melodies without inhibition or self-judgment, we effortlessly enter a space of deep emotional release, inner connectedness and surrender. There are no beginners or experts in this practice. Kirtan is simply prayer, and with the power of our own voices and emotions we create a bridge that spans the vast ocean of consciousness and infinite love.
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Artist : Baird Hersey and Prana
Overtone Singing Meditations: A nine voice choir. singing a music that blends western vocal music and the musics of Mongolia, India and Tibet.
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Artist : Golaná
MOON OF FIRST SNOW is the fourth album from N.A.M.A. (Native American Music Award) nominated artist Golana, a.k.a. Scott Cunningham. Comprised of mood-drenched flute pieces backed with rhythmic accompaniment, the album features a selection of nature-themed works performed with profound grace and beauty. The pure elegance of Golana's melodies can be felt strongest on songs like "Time of Long Nights," with its lush symphonic backdrop and ethereal vocal textures, as well as "Beloved," a pastoral piece that pairs acoustic guitar with the artists's flute-playing. Golana's outdone himself this time around; MOON OF FIRST SNOW is pure enchantment!
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Artist : Pathaan
In the realm of electronic world beat, Pathaan is arguably the singular choice. Truly the ambassador of international sounds, his Stoned Asia Music series and sound are solid. Now, he teams up with co-producer and internationally renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea to offer Tandava, an energizing mix of sensuous rhythms, meditative riffs, and world music. Inspired by Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti DVD series, Tandava is perfect for flow yoga, bodywork, exercise, or just terrific listening.
Featuring Amniotic, Abakus, Prem Joshua (remixed by Sean Dinsmore), fjRehmi, Gaudi, Govinda, Ikarus, Karsh Kale, Sonik Gurus, Ma Faiza & Veet Sandeh, Bahramji & Maneesh De Moor, Abhijit Pohankar, Adham Shaikh
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Artist : Big Fish (Various)
Settle back for a serene listening experience that transports the imagination to a peaceful place and seduces the body to surrender to a world of blissful tranquility. Conceived by David Nichtern of New York City’s famous OM yoga studio as the ultimate music for yoga and meditation. With nine gentle tracks that cross the boundaries between world music, fusion, contemplative, and pop, At Ease will soothe listeners with guitar, synthesizer, vocals, percussion, flute, violin, and more.
JAMIE LAWRENCE-(Meditation) When he’s not in yoga class, Jamie writes music for film and television (he has won four Emmy awards). He recently released his first solo CD for kids called Bad Mood Mom (on Good Mood Records). Jamie lives in New York City where he is raised by his three children.
DRALA(Home Again) A multi-instrumental world fusion band, Drala is on the cutting edge of a new musical genre that weaves elements of world grooves, dance, trance, classical Asian, and pop music. Drala joins the forces of guitarist/producer David Nichtern and bansuri flute master Steve Gorn).
CLIFFORD CARTER (Earthdream) Clifford Carter's versatility and depth as a keyboardist have led to demand for his talents both as a touring musician and in the recording studio. He has recorded with (among others) James Taylor, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Rosanne Cash, Michael Franks, and Paul Simon.
DAVID NICHTERN (Shambhala Moon / Simplicity) An Emmy award winning, Grammy nominated composer, guitarist and producer. Nichtern composed the classic song Midnight at the Oasis, the score and title songs for The Big Picture, One Life To Live and As The World Turns, and has recorded with Jerry Garcia, Christopher Guest, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Maria Muldaur, Dr. John, and Billy Crystal.
FALGUNI (Subah) Trained as a classical Indian vocalist since childhood, Falguni has toured extensively as a soloist and has performed and recorded with renowned drummer Kenwood Dennard, legendary Indian musician Ustad Sultan Khan, Asian Massive leader Karsh Kale, and her own band Karyshma. A frequent guest vocalist on Dharma Moon recordings, Falguni will be releasing her first “cross-over” solo CD on the label in early 2004.
KIRBY SHELSTAD (Sangye)As a composer, percussionist and vocalist, Kirby Shelstad has come up with his own unique fusion of East/West music. Drawing on 30 years of cultivating the “inner arts”, Kirby masterfully layers his chanting and singing of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts over elaborate and moving world music arrangements.
STEVE GORN (At Ease) Master bansuri flute player Steve Gorn has combined the essence of classical Indian tradition with jazz and a contemporary world music sensibility. Steve has collaborated with a vast array of artists, including Paul Simon, Richie Havens, Paul Winter, Jack DeJohnette, Glen Velez, Krishna Das, and Jai Uttal.
MICHAEL HEWETT (You Won’t Let Anybody Down) A graduate of the renowned Berklee College of Music, composer/guitarist Michael Hewett has been inspired by influences ranging from Aaron Copeland and Michael Hedges to Radiohead. John Diliberto of Echoes radio describes Michael as a “composer of quietly epic dimensions.”
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Artist : Wah!
These extended remixes are designed for immersion in healing and meditation. Two different approaches ~ one energetic, and one receptive ~ weave dub, mantra and ambiance together to create an experience of spaciousness. Just enough mantra to keep you present, with loops and effects to send you out...
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Bhakti Seva- Service in Love
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Artist : Temple Bhajan Band
This new CD is a beautiful composition of modern beats, harmonies, and music combined with traditional ancient mantras, chants and bhajans. Most of the songs are sung by Sura. He has a raspy blues singer voice, being from Chicago, and played and sang the blues in coffee houses in his college days. Devadeva sings the Hanuman Chalisa which will ring in your ears for days and days. The lovely Ardas and Mahalaxmi sing sweet pure innocents to contrast Sura’s mood. The amazing Christo and Adwaita play percussion, which slowly brings the chanting to its’ crescendo creating a kind of Kirtan Dance Party . Eddie Young plays the bass and cello, while Marty is the master of sitar. Several men and women make up the background and harmony vocals to make this CD soulful, mellow and timeless.
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Chanting The Chakras Roots Of Awakening
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Artist : Layne Redmond
Chanting the Chakras features a union of a 2000 year old Yogic meditation practice with trance-inducing drumming, masterful Indian Sitar and Tambour, and euphoric Mantra chants. By chanting the seed syllables of the chakras, you can retune your mind and body in a Yogic manner, resulting in deep relaxation and well-being of the entire self.
This recording is stunningly beautiful, whether you choose to chant along or simply listen. The mesmerizing mantras, chanted in their original Sanskrit syllables by master musician Amit Chatterjee, are accompanied by enchanting Sitar melodies and Tambour drones and soothing Bansuri bamboo flute which flow over a solid foundation of steady, hypnotic drum beats.
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Artist : Baird Hersey and Prana with Krishna Das
** EDITOR'S NOTE: "Gathering In The Light" is Yoga Instructor Sarah Ivanhoe's CD of the month **
THE CD
"Gathering In The Light" is a pairing of two musical forces. Kirtan master Krishna Das, and Baird Hersey and his overtone singing choir Prana unite here to make music that’s whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. With the open hearted sound he is so well know for, Krishna Das sings seven of his most beloved chants over arrangements created by Baird, and sung by Prana.
But, Prana is far more than a human harmonium. The other worldly ensemble sound of Prana's drones, textures and rising harmonies are a perfect setting for both Baird's high arcing overtone melodies and Krishna Das' rich baritone.
The two featured voices, sometimes support one another, and sometimes act as a foil for one another. When placed in the frame of the 8 voice choir, they shine like two spirits in pursuit of the same ethereal goal.
Although this is neither purely a Prana CD or Krishna Das CD, It is like nothing else you will hear. "Gathering In The Light" is innovative, heartfelt, and breath taking.
THE STORY
In October of 2004 Krishna Das attended a release party for PRANA's first CD, "The Eternal Embrace". After Prana had sung, Krishna Das said to Baird, "Let's make a record together or something".
Over the next two year the "or something" was Krishna Das inviting Prana to sing at his larger benefit Kirtans in the New York area. As a part of those evenings KD would join Prana to sing Baird's arrangement of his chant "Puja". The combination of the ethereal sound of overtone singing supporting the rich, open hearted voice of Krishna Das was stunning.
In 2006 Baird and KD decided to record "Puja" for Prana's new CD. The resulting 12 minute piece was so striking, they resolved to record an entire CD together. The result is "Gathering in the Light", Krishna Das singing seven of his most beloved chants over arrangements created by Baird and sung by Prana.
On four pieces percussion was added: Jerry Marotta, (Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello) on hand percussion and drums, South Indian Masters Drummers Subash Chandran, playing ghatam (clay pot), Ganesh Kumar playing kanjira (tunable tambourine), and Arjun Alan Bruggeman on Tabla. The only instrument on the CD other than percussion is the human voice.
The singers of PRANA are; Peter Buettner, Amy Fradon, Kirsti Gholson, Julie Last, Bruce Milner, Julian Lines, Leslie Ritter, Joe Veillette
"Gathering In The Light" is dedicated to Pattabhi Jois and Neem Karoli Baba.
All Chants Composed by Krishna Das., arranged and produced by Baird Hersey
Satsang Music Inc. #26001 ©2007
Link to Omstream page for Sarah Ivanhoe
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Moon On The Water (Disc 1)
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Artist : Stan Richardson
What is the sound of the moon on the water?
It is the music of utter stillness and complete spaciousness—the perfect reflection of self within the universe, and the universe within the self. There is no finer instrument for capturing this music of Zen than the shakuhachi bamboo flute, the instrument which Stan Richardson has dedicated his life to master. With Moon on the Water, Richardson offers two musical experiences. On the first CD, listeners enjoy the pure tones of the solo shakuhachi, as it has been played for centuries. For the second CD, Stan Richardson combines natural sounds recorded during his travels across the Japanese countryside—the rushing of water, the wind over waves, the singing of cranes—with the beauty of the bamboo flute.
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Moon On The Water (Disc 2)
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Artist : Stan Richardson
Pure and elegant, intricate and subtle—Moon on the Water invokes the Zen mind, and makes for the perfect musical complement to massage and bodywork, yoga, and any moment of peaceful contemplation.
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Artist : Nawang Khechog
Nawang Khechog takes listeners on a musical pilgrimage into the experience of compassion through music. Nine original compositions meld the ancient ritual sounds of Nawang’s Tibetan homeland with traditions from across the globe to invoke within us the uplifting power of Universal Love.
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Andrea Marcums OmStream Playlist
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Artist : Andrea Marcum
This is a personal compliation of Andreas' favorite omstream songs.
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Artist : Jalal Joubi & Ensemble
The pieces are traditional Andalusian compositions from the middle ages through the 19th century, representing roots of Arabic Music. Essential for understanding this rich musical culture.
Jalal Joubi: Amr Omari (oud); Louwi Tnnari (violin); Mhammad Bshkar (keyboard); Taha Sabbagh (tabla); Shadi Bashir, Mazen Hamami (unknown instrument).
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Artist : Antar Sudhananda
This album features a memorable collection of melodic steel guitar compositions accompanied by an interesting array of world percussion instruments, such as tabla, hand drum, shaker, chimes, and more. Orchestrated pieces for cello and alto flute add to Antar's expressive guitar and feelings of sincere joy and gratitude throughout these 12 quiet mood pieces.
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Artist : Girish
Shiva Machine goes boldly where Sanskrit chant has never gone before, taking the listener on a journey
through mesmerizing trance-funk grooves, trip-hop devotional dirges and heart warm electro-acoustic
ballads.
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Artist : Rasa
Rasa continue to rise like perfumed smoke above the chanting hordes with their Eastern acoustronica and the enthralling singing of Kim Waters. The Rasa signatures are all there on Saffron Blue: Hans Christian creates a global fusion playing Swedish nyckleharpe, Indian sarangi, cello, electric bass, and synthesizers, orchestrating them across deep throbs of Indian percussion. But it all starts with Kim Waters, intoning Hindu mantras and bhajans in a voice that is both comforting and seductive. Christian builds her up in echoing choirs and canons that just seem to climb higher and higher.
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Artist : Sanjay and Sumi
Devotional Sanskrit bhajans in classical Indian style with lush accompaniment bring us into direct communication with God, opening our hearts to receive all the blessings of the Guru.
LINK to albums by Sri Swami Satchidananda
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Artist : Dave Stringer
Call-and-response kirtan accented by lap steel, sitar, horns and gypsy violin. 'Mala' (in Sanskrit, a string of beads, used like a rosary, to facillitate concentration on a mantra) has the same intentions as its predecessor, 'Japa', but the melodies and modes it explores reflect a deeper Eastern influence.
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Artist : Deva Premal
Bestselling singer Deva Premal offers an expression of Oneness honoring all spiritual paths, religions, creeds and traditions. Guided by Deva’s magnificent voice, the Moola Mantra moves through a landscape of sitar, bansuri, dotar, string quartet, grand piano, tabla and ambient electronica. Produced by Ben Leinbach, the CD features special guest musicians Jai Uttal, Nepalese flautist Manose, Kit Walker and Benjy Wertheimer.
White Swan Records is proud to proffer this portrait of an artist on a compelling journey, extending her boundaries in a quest for music that deeply moves and connects us all.
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Artist : Peter Sterling
Heart and soul is a heartfelt musical offering from award winning harpist / composer Peter Sterling. Ranging from Joyous and playful melodic compositions, to deeply introspective and soulful improvasations, HEART & SOUL reaches deep into the wellspring of love, hope and dreams that live in all of us. Celtic harp layered with synthesizer and vocal textures blend with guitar, violin and for the first time Peter's Irish penny whistle! Tracks include... Sailing in the skyboat. Jambo Mambo. Son of the Sea. Day Dreamin'. Emanuel. Walk in the woods. Transcendance.
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Artist : Prem Joshua
In accordance with Prem Joshua’s musical philosophy, Taranga (Sanskrit for “wave’ or “vibe”) unites many eminent musical masters from India and Europe to create an energetic, yet intimate, recording full of depth, feeling and nuance.
Refocusing on the natural, acoustic soundscapes of the sitar, bamboo flute and Indian vocals, Joshua entwines India’s ancient musical legacy with the contemporary global atmospheres of urban lounge and a touch of jazz.
Prem Joshua, dubbed by the Times of India as “the guru of East-West fusion,” is India’s #1 best-selling world music artist and recipient of the 2007 Indian “Emmy” for Best Film Music on Indian TV. When he’s not performing around the world, Joshua resides in India and Italy.
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Yoga 10 Minute Quick-Fix Video
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Artist : William Asad
First in it's Series, a Short Yoga Practice which can be done anywhere, anytime! EXCLUSIVE only on Omstream.com
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Artist : Brad White & Pierre Grill
The follow-up album to the bestselling Voyage I, Voyage II brings another evolution in the development of Brad White's and Pierre Grill's collaboration of pan flute and piano. trad's ancient woodwinds of panpipes and Irish whistles, combined with Pierre's lush orchestrations and sparkiling acoustic piano will take you on another Voyage
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Artist : Brad White & Pierre Grill
Isle of Dreams is the encore to Brad White and Pierre Grill's tremendously successful debut release, "Voyage." Sail along with these two original musicians as they mesmerize you with swirling flutes, sparkling piano and lush orchestrations. Close your eyes and lose yourself in this tropical setting with exotic sounds, floral scents and exotic breezes. You'll create your own Isle of Dreams.
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Artist : Satori
The Sanctuary Series is dedicated to enhancing the time you set aside for yourself. Escape provides a serene tapestry for relaxation; ideal for massage, Yoga, soaking in the bath or quiet time.
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From The Goddess O Great Spirit
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Artist : Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song
From The Goddess is a weaving of three wellknown goddess chants in a celebration of the rebirth of the feminine spirit. Sung by the 24 women of On Wings Of Song with beautiful background instrumentation.
O Great Spirit is Inspired by Native American moonlodge chant, and sung by the voices of On Wings of Song and blended with the nighttime song of crickets and cicadas.
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Artist : Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song
In 1985 Robert Gass and On Wings Of Song released their first recording, Om Namaha Shivaya. Over 150,000 copies later, cited by New Age Journal as one of the twenty most influential recordings of the last two decades, Om Namaha Shivaya has been re-issued in an exciting 10th Anniversary edition. The new release contains the entire original album, plus a bonus track – an extended chant of the ancient Sanskrit seed syllable Om, with powerful Tibetan and Mongolian overtone chanting.
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Artist : Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song
Two versions of this widely known Sanskrit chant to Ram (of the Ramayana), in the spirit of our best-selling Om Namaha Shivaya. Traditional and contemporary instrumentation.
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Artist : Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song
Medicine Wheel is a unique and magical journey into the world of Native American-inspired music. Master composer/producer Robert Gass has artfully blended traditional American Indian songs and instruments with original compositions (including an exquisite choral piece based on the well-known speech of Chief Seattle), all set into a background of natural soundsÑthe Colorado river, wind, thunder, songbirds, crickets, cicadas, a red tail hawk - the music of the living Earth.
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Artist : Turiya Nada
Debut Album of Turiya Nada: Cave of the Siddhars is the sacred transmission of powerful and potent mantras and meditative energies that have been passed down through an ancient lineage of enlightened Sages, the Siddhars of South India. Accompanied by the didgeridoo, harp, singing bowls, djembe, udu, gongs, flute and other instruments, each track of Turiya Nada 's "Cave of the Siddhars" will take you on a mystical spiritual journey that will both delight and transform you!
The Ultimate Consciousness Music! Cave of the Siddhars has calibrated at the level of enlightenment on the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness.*
- Combines powerful Siddhar mantra chants of the enlightened yogis of South India with the didgeridoo, harp and percussion.
- Chants that have secretive and hidden for thousands of years even in most of India.
- Enhance the depth, intensity and intent of your yoga & meditation.
- Transform your inner and outer world by simply listening and enjoying Source energies!
About the Siddhar Sages:
The Siddhars are enlightened Sages who journey beyond the realms of the limited mind state. They are in the state of higher consciousness that is beyond sleep, dream and wake. It is this divine state called Turiya that they sing and chant and dance in the higher resonance with sublime bliss.
* Raise your Consciousness with Turiya Nada "Cave of the Siddhars". Conscious Multimedia Database applies Dr. David Hawkins' revolutionary conscious calibrations through the use of applied kinesiology. According to Dr. Hawkins' Map of Consciousness, any vibrations above 500 heals and that above 800 enlightens. Kinesiology vibrations above 1000 is said to be rare on planet earth. "Cave of the Siddhars" has been calculated to have broken the limits of "1000".
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Artist : Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song
Songs of Healing will touch and open your heart with softly repetitive and profoundly healing waves of hope, peace and blessing. Drawing from diverse sources ranging from the Indian spiritual teacher Yogananda, famed Jewish mystical singer Reb Shlomo Carlebach, and the Christian Monks of Weston Priory, to The Who and Carly Simon, master composer/producer Robert Gass has artfully arranged the heavenly voices of the On Wings of Song chorale to the accompaniment of acoustic guitar, flute, piano and more.
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Vitality- Renewal Through Rhythm
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Artist : Big Fish
A collection of music designed to enhance the time you set aside for yourself. Vitality was produced specifically to restore energy through rhythm. A unique blend of contemporary rhythms and intriguing instrumentation.
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Artist : Peter Sterling
Three years in the making, harpist Peter Sterling’s sixth album is also his magnum opus. An impassioned work of musical brilliance, inspired melodies, and earthy rhythms, Harp Dreams is destined to be a treasure for lovers of New Age, Jazz, Classical, or Contemporary styles. With its impeccable orchestration, talented guest musicians, and memorable melodies, Peter has recorded, produced, and mixed in his Sedona Shadows studio an album of lush, intricately textured music whose songs are each exquisite treats. Harp Dreams boasts an ensemble cast of musicians like popular New Age guitarist Bruce Becvar, talented Sedona guitarists Robin Miller and Fitz-Hugh Jenkins, exceptional flute and sax work by Richard Hardy, the breathtaking violin of the accomplished artist Dov, and the evocation of the goddess represented by Ani Williams. Each song seamlessly weaves a musical tapestry of enchanting, sexy, cultural, and rhythmical splendor, making Harp Dreams your perfect choice for entertaining, relaxation, inner reflection, and especially romance. Harp Dreams is a precious jewel among harp albums. While other harp music can sound fluttery and repetitive, Peter’s contemporary style emphasizes distinct melody-driven songs stemming from his predominant finger picking style that is at once seductive, hip, and angelic. Its captivating, multi-layered sound endears itself into your heart, never tiring from repeated listening. The stunning mystical world depicted on the album cover, by internationally known painter Dale Terbush sets the tone for the magical journey Harp Dreams will take you on.
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The Dream Is Valid - A Benefit Compilation for Kiva Org
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Artist : Zaadz Visionary Music
At Zaadz Visionary Music, we are motivated by our belief in the power of music to effect positive change. Music has always been a unequaled organizer of people - over one hundred million dollars is spent on music every day in the United States. That's an enormous pool of resources and attention that could be harnessed to make the world a better place while still enjoying ourselves. When musicians give their creative gifts in support of loving effort, and audiences exercise their purchasing power to support that effort, all of us get to help and have fun at the same time - to "put play to work."
Our first group project is this benefit compilation for Kiva.org - an organization that arranges microloans for entrepreneurs in developing nations. Everyone involved, including our kind hosts at Omstream, has relinquished their profit from the sales of this album so it can go directly to empowering sustainable business practices in local economies all over the planet. Not just once, but over and over - as our microloans are repaid and album sales continue, this compilation will be the center of an ever-expanding wave of global support.
The Dream Is Valid is a reminder to not just rest in peace, but to act from it - because even if this life is an illusion, it's the only one we have. And now, The Dream Is Valid for many more of the hardworking people in the developing world, who have a new ally in their struggle against the tide of globalism.
But as much as this is a project for the greater good, it is proof that socially-conscious music can sound awesome, too. It's been an honor to work with the diversity of incredible talent represented on this collection - visionary musicians, every one of them. Enjoy the tunes, and rest easy knowing that your entertainment money is making a difference.
love
Michael
Zaadz Visionary Music:
www.michaelgarfield.zaadz.com
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Artist : Eluv
Octaves of Light came about as a divine inspiration and exploration into the healing power of music and sound as a healing modality. During the time I wrote and produced this record, I was going for several Qi Gong teacher training exams deepening my Qi Gong skills. The extended practice and testing sessions were extremely demanding and challenging, physically emotionally and spiritually. It is a work of deep commitment and a sharing of sincere love through this music to all peoples of all nations.
Sound is a universal language, an ancient tool for healing, meditation, spiritual practice and the celebration of life. To truly heal, we must first settle our heart, mind and body. The vibration of sound has the power to restore balance to our harmonic patterns, dissolve blockages, settle us, clear our energy centers, lift our spirits, empower us and heal us.
I invite you to find a comfortable quiet place for your practice. Simply “be”, and feel the vibration of sound wash over your whole being. Allow the sound to permeate deep within you. The vibration of sound within the body is like an internal massage. Each and every pore, cell, organ, muscle, gland, bone, and every part of your whole being will receive this nurturing gift of sound healing energy. As the sound resonates within your whole body, you may experience your energy changing as your vibration begins to shift. This is healing in action. Enjoy…
Your “Journey of Relaxation®” and Healing has just begun…
Love Eluv
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Waves of Love- India Kirtan Sessions
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Artist : Govindas
Govindas and Radha are California-based bhakti yogis and kirtan singers. They are a husband and wife team with great love and devotion for the Divine, their Guru, each other, and life itself. This is the essence which is reflected and transmitted through their music. Through the sacred practice of kirtan, repetitiously chanting the names of God/Goddess from ancient India, they guide you on a musical mediation and yogic adventure deep into the essence of Bhakti- the yoga of the Heart, the yoga of Love! Through the grace of their teachers, they have uniquely melded ancient Indian mantras with western melodies, yet still playing traditional Indian instruments. Their music has been described as a trance including mandala, where organic ambience, meditation, art, and prayer merge together as One. Govindas and Radha lead evenings of kirtan, bhakti yoga workshops, and transformative retreats throughout the world.
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Artist : Eccodek
Rising from the underground of Toronto’s multicultural music melting pot, eccodek’s visionary blend of downtempo grooves, tribal electronica and world dub is quickly capturing the attention of the international music scene, moving Global Rhythm to declare that, “eccodek reveals the modern face of global music.”
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Layali Al Sharq, Authentic Egyptian Bell
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Artist : Big Fish (Various)
Movses Panossian - Executive Producer · Andreas Adamec - Design · Mher Panossian - Producer · Fatme Serhan - Vocals
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World Festival Of Sacred Music - Los Angeles 2002
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Artist : The World Festival of Sacred Music
The first Festival was initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1999 to mark the millennium with a message of peace, cultural understanding, and spirituality: the goal was to present the Festival on four continents. Building on the success of the “Americas” Festival, the LA organizing partners - UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, Foundation for World Arts and EarthWays Foundation - committed to the creation of a new Festival in 2002 and every three years thereafter. In 1999, 2002 & 2005 this community oriented, citywide Festival had a combined estimated attendance of 120,000 people and featured 4,000 artists in 185 venues all across Los Angeles.
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World Festival Of Sacred Music - the Americas
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Artist : The World Festival of Sacred Music
The World Festival of Sacred Music (WFSM) - The Americas was a series of 80 events over a nine-day period in October 1999. The Festival idea was initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who sought to enter the new Millennium in a worldwide celebration of peace.
As a result of an outpouring of interest and enthusiasm from the public, the artists and the community partners alike, the organizers - UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, Earthways Foundation and the Foundation for World Arts - committed to the creation of a Festival in 2002 and every three years thereafter. In September 2002, 2,000 artists performed in 42 sites across the city to an estimated audience of 30,000 people over a 16-day period.
This double CD set features a wide range of artists, from Balinese Gamelan to Native American Flute, and illustrates the heart of the festival as expressed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama: "There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community - music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all over the globe."
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Artist : Joe Okuda
Worldwide heritage, to the Yaku island to instantaneous time slip!
Stereophony of the worldwide highest sound quality, reproduces the unknown world
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Artist : Peter Sterling
Gypsy road is a cross cultural global journey through the rich and diverse musical heritage of the world. Latin, Asian, gypsy, folk and Caribbean influences are woven together with contemporary instrumental sounds for an exotic sonic tapestry that brings to life the magic and mystery of far off distant lands. A journey to remember! Recorded at the foot of the Sange'de Christo Mountains in Santa Fe', New Mexico.
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Artist : Glen Velez
Glen Velez highlights drums and other percussion on this album, addressing them as a way to reflect the human body, and, specifically, the breath. There is certainly is a world fusion element to the generous mix of tribal drums, Eastern woodwinds, and Western instruments, but Velez's unusual compositional style, unique use of incidental vocals, and guttural male chants makes this effort pleasantly difficult to classify. The overall effect of this percussion-based album is meant to stimulate the body's healing center, and induce a state of comfort while promoting proper breathing.
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Artist : DJ Free
In some cases, there is a disparity between the way an artist perceives his/her recording and how the listener perceives it. That isn't to say that the recording is necessarily a disappointment -- it could simply be a case of the recording having one appealing flavor instead of another. And Cafe Santa Fe is a good example. In the liner notes, this instrumental collaboration between Soulfood's DJ Free and Ra Music's Ron Cohen is described as a combination of chillout/downtempo electronica and the flavor of the Southwestern desert. Well, the chillout/downtempo part is accurate, but the Latin flavor that prevails is generally often more Spain than New Mexico or Arizona. When one thinks of Latin music in the American Southwest, one thinks of regional Mexican music -- the Mexican culture is as strong in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California as the Cuban culture is in Miami -- and Cafe Santa Fe, for the most part, really feels more like a journey from Madrid to Valencia (by way of North Africa) than a journey from El Paso to Santa Fe to Tucson. Cafe Santa Fe is really a place where electronica's chillout/downtempo aesthetic meets nuevo flamenco more than a place where electronica's chillout/downtempo aesthetic meets norteño, tejano, ranchera, duranguense, or mariachi (which isn't to say that regional Mexican music doesn't have Spanish influences -- it has plenty of them, certainly). "Kiva," with its Native American vibe, is arguably the disc's most Southwest-sounding track. But regardless of whether one thinks of Cafe Santa Fe as more Spain or more Southwestern U.S., this laid-back CD is a thoughtful example of electronica and world music coming together. The performances have both charm and character, making Cafe Santa Fe one of the more noteworthy chillout/downtempo releases of early 2006.
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Artist : Asoma Music
Created specifically as Yoga music, the time and place
for this recording is broad.
It was produced, as is all Asoma Music, with prayer and an openness to
serve the higher Good. It is contemporary sacred music.
Whatever your choice of use for this music, open your heart and allow the
healing power of Love to flow in and through you.
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Artist : Yuval Ron
An unusual pairing of saxophone and didgeridoo provides the building materials for Dij wall; the air fills with oscillating growls and smooth sax meanderings, embellished with tinkling ceramics. A rythmic, machine-like accompaniment leads to the semi-solemn, though quite lovely Cantus non verbus, which is based on a Gregorian chant, and performed by a string quartet. Similar, though less structured musically, Zerox meditation is another blend of music and machine; gentle electronic strings rise and fall behind mechanical humming and clunking in, with a bit of entropy toward the track's end.
A sudden, surprising slash of strings opens Dark spirited forest angel. Sparse interjections of violins, cello and viola are menacing, and cricket-y background sounds definitely add that woodland feel, so the title certainly seems apt. Heart circles swelters quietly... a string-like synth chord rises from behind, and the hazy shimmer of a distorted flute dances in front, though never fully becoming "visible". Muted clanks and other sounds add further texture. Instrumentally, the pulsating drone which evolves during Propeller etude features the sounds of "rubber roar" and the "plastic rainmaker". Reminiscent, but not exactly a replication of a stormy nocturnal airplane flight, the track should appeal to fans of drone and pulse.
From within a murky haze, strange fragments of sound randomly emerge... in Night time, one hears fluttering electronic soundshifts, warbling woodwinds, clattering windchimes, all of which combine to a spookily, disorienting effect. The strings of the New Hampshire Philharmony make an appearance in Seed dream, playing second fiddle to a rapid clatter and an echoey metallic clank. Mostly subdued, the track is set upon early on by a relatively fierce outburst, then continues with the peaceful coexistence of its elements.
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Artist : Wah!
A collection of chants from Hindu traditions, performed with traditional instruments (harmonium, violin, tabla, kartals). This CD has a simple, uplifting energy.
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Artist : Wah!
This CD embraces the devotional energy of Krishna. An all-chant CD featuring Girish Gambhira on tabla & percussion, Tal Herzberg on bass, George Shelby on sax and flute, and great response vocals by local chanters in the Los Angeles area. These grooves to the great Krishna are at once accessible and mesmerizing. Don't miss the Dub Version at the end of the CD - a real treat!
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Artist : Temple
Ancient Hebrew Medicine – a must have addition to any collection of sacred music. Take a transformative musical journey through sacred Hebrew mystical poetry.
Featuring Danya Uriel and Eyal Rivlin
with Ty Burhoe, Steve Gorn, Benjy Wertheimer, Bill Douglas, Rachid Halihal, James Hoskins, Sandra Wong, and more!
Love resonates from each note of the long-awaited musical collaboration of American singer Danya Uriel and Israeli guitarist Eyal Rivlin, the duo known as Temple. The alchemical fusion of Uriel's angelic soprano and Rivlin's hypnotic instrumentation results in Coming Home, a collection of original Hebrew chants that honor the sacred and foster inner healing and inspiration. Fans of Jewish music and Kabbalah, as well as lovers of Kirtan and chanting, will delight in this collection of prayer songs.
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Artist : Dave Stringer
Divas & Devas is a CD of East Indian bhajans, sung as male-female duets, in Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. The overall feeling is romantic, with the intimate interplay of masculine and feminine gesturing toward the larger relationship of the human and the divine. The arrangements also echo this duality, employing traditional Indian instruments such as tablas, sarangi and santoor, along with Western instruments such as vibes, cello, trumpet, flute, mandolin and lap steel.
The English word diva conveys a number of shades of meaning, some complimentary and some pejorative, ranging from accomplished artist through demanding ego. The origin of the term, however, is the Sanskrit word deva, which means luminous, shining, god, or heavenly one. And it is toward this original meaning that much artistic expression ultimately points. For me then, the title of this CD, ‘Divas and Devas’, refers to the relationship of our limited sense of self to the expansive awareness that we call divine love, as one reaches toward the other.
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Artist : Stuart Balcomb
Yoga Master Peter Sterios writes: "From the beginning of this project, it was clear to me that those involved in putting together my first yoga DVD all shared one vision: to create from a space of inspiration. From the outset, the cinematography, choreography, editing, authoring, and finally with the composing of original music which you will find on this CD, every aspect reflected that commitment made by all the artists. Stuart Balcomb's music is the icing on an already amazing cake that brought all the pieces together seamlessly. This music is perfect for creating the 'acoustic space' for yoga, for massage, for meditation, and for any activity where music and sound can invoke the power to transform."
Balcomb writes: "This is a new kind of yoga soundtrack. I took an approach entirely different from what has traditionally been done. After seeing the elegant footage, I knew I needed to 'sculpt' the music to enhance the movements instead of simply writing tunes that would merely function as background music. Peter and I spent two days meticulously spotting the footage to determine different changes in energy levels and movements for almost every frame of film. This is something normally done for a feature-length film, not yoga videos. It then took 5-1/2 weeks of solid composing, recording, and mixing to create three hours of music for the DVD."
Produced by Conscious Enlightenment and Transcendent Sound, the Gravity & Grace soundtrack, containing over two-and-a-half hours of music.
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Artist : Yotam Haimovitch
GangaDance is classical Indian ragas translated into electronic tones and tempos by means of the syntar - an original musical instrument combining a special crafted sitar and a synthesizer. This instrument enables Yotam to convert the deeply philosophical foundation and technical elements of the Classical Indian Music to the more familiar MIDI format, thus enables the Western listener to experience the full range of deliberate emotions that Classical Indian music traditionally hopes to arouse among its listeners.
Born in 1973, Yotam spent most of his adult years in Banarass India learning sitar and Classic Indian Music from Pandit Shivanath Mishra, one of the world's greatest sitar artists and head of the Musical Department at the Sanskrit University of Banarass. Educated in both modern Western music and classical Indian music and philosophy, Yotam's music reflects the combination of the two. Using the syntar - and accompanied by an ensemble of musicians of various backgrounds, Yotam plays the classical Indian Ragas he had mastered in synthesized electronic tones and produces a new and exciting kind of music that sweeps the listener into both physical and spiritual reality special to each of the segments in this album.
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Artist : Krishna Devi
Her latest release combines Sanskrit mantras with upbeat melodies for a chanting experience that will open your heart to the divine.
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Artist : Sathya
Sacred Music for your Yoga & Meditation Practise. Music that opens your heart and serves you on your journey towards oneness.
Sathya’s debut album is "Orange Sun" - Music dedicated to the divine in all beings and an affirmation to surrender to that magnificence in us. His insightful lyrics and sweet melodies result in a truly sacred songwriting. Accompanied by his unique angelic voice from the heart his music is a channel of love, peace, healing and a gateway into stillness & deep meditation. It touched the hearts of thousands around the world and continues to spread the message of love, peace, unity & divinity throughout the globe.
Sathya who enjoys singing mantras since his childhood says, "Chanting is a spiritual tool for deep transformation. It is a direct link to open the heart and to connect us with our inner truth, the stillness within. Through devotional chanting we are able to enter the space of pure being, allowing us to ultimately embrace our very Essence." To guide the listeners into that sacred inner space is the purpose of Sathya’s music.
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Artist : Sathya
"ONE" is the CD to celebrate Unity. Its message is oneness - the unity of all religions & all beings.
"One" features Mantras from all major religions. Sathya chants the Heart Sutra, the Prayer of St. Francis, as well as prayers in Sanskirt, Hebrew, Arabic & English.
We chant different names, we worship different forms - still there is only One. Now is the time to see unity in diversity and to embrace the oneness of all & everything.
"ONE" is the first CD which brings the devotional chants of the many different religions together; to celebrate unity, to go beyond separation and to find that the
ultimate truth is everpresent in all of us & we can access that sacred inner space through chanting those divine songs.
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Artist : Big Fish (Various)
Amr Omari (oud); Louwi Tnnari (kamancha); Shadi Bashir (nay); Jalal Joubi, Ibrahim Hassan, Mohamed Saddigh.
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Artist : Brent Lewis
60 minutes of Yoga/Movement music with rhythmic percussion, warm synthesizer, exotic flutes, mystical sitar, grand piano and mantras. Yoga instructor favorite, guidance was provided by Kripalu and certified yoga and movement instructors.
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Artist : DJ Free
Yoga Dream was created while DJ Free was co-teaching a program called “Finding Your Vision” at Esalen Institute. Throughout the month-long process, which focused on how music, consciousness and mediation interact with the dream state, as well as in the months that followed, DJ Free consulted and worked with Swami Shivalingam Saraswati, Yogacharya and several yoga instructors to create an ideal musical complement to yoga, massage and meditation.
On Yoga Dream, grand pianist Peter Schimke and percussionist Brent Lewis add to Free’s keyboards, soundscapes and native flute. More generous than most New Age faire, each CD offers (refers to Celestial Meditations also) at least 60 minutes of laid-back musings. This is great stuff, ideal for floating away.
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