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Release Date: 16-10-2007
Label: Spirit Voyage Music
Catalog Number: CDS001880
Barcode: 801898008624
Musical Style: New Age / Chant
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Description:
Divas & Devas is Dave Stringer's amazing new album of East Indian bhajans with contemporary arrangements, sung as male-female duets, in Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. The album is rich with the romantic and intimate interplay of masculine and feminine, gesturing toward the larger relationship of the human and the divine. The arrangements also echo this dual interplay employing traditional Indian instruments such as tablas, sarangi and santoor, along with Western instruments such as vibes, cello, trumpet, flute, mandolin and lap steel.
Eight of the songs are a collaboration between Dave and a different diva ( a term he uses with great affection and respect): Donna Delory, Dasi Karnamrita, C.C. White, Kim Waters, Sat-Kartar, Suzanne Sterling, Wah!, and Joni Allen. Each singer is evocative of different qualties, with his voice as the through-line. The opening song is an ensemble piece on which all of the divas sing with him.
Biography:
Initially trained as a visual artist and jazz musician, Dave Stringer started chanting in the early 1990's when a film editing project brought him to the ashram of Swami Muktananda in India. When the editing project ended, he remained in India to teach school in a rural village, and continued studying the traditions of yoga with Swami Chidvilasananda. After returning to the US, Dave taught meditation and chanting to prison inmates, and began leading kirtans at yoga studios in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Dave's sound marries the transcendent mysticism of traditional Indian instruments with the exuberant, groove-oriented sound of American gospel. A spontaneous and articulate public speaker, he probes the dilemmas of the spirit with a sly and unorthodox sense of humor. His work translates the ancient traditions of kirtan and yoga into inspiring and thoroughly modern participatory theatre, open to a multiplicity of interpretations, and accessible to all.
One of the most compelling and innovative musicians to have arisen from the yoga communities across the country, Stringer and and his band first started touring widely in 2000, playing up to six nights a week in yoga studios, art galleries and theaters from San Francisco to New York City and Minneapolis to New Orleans, In the past four years Dave has given 359 performances, with total attendance exceeding 25,000 people. He has sold more than 10,000 CDs, primarily at his concerts and on the internet.
Additional Attributes:
| Relaxing | Uplifting | Meditative | Exercise | Healing | Chant |
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