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Release Date: 16-07-2008
Label: Spirit Voyage Music
Catalog Number: CDS001556
Barcode: 751937275428
Musical Style: Chant
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sita Ram [04:21] | 6 | Hanuman 2 [04:22] |
| 2 | Shiva Shakti [05:38] | 7 | Ganapati [06:07] |
| 3 | Shiva Shambo [03:48] | 8 | Govinda [06:07] |
| 4 | Narayani [06:02] | 9 | Tara [07:05] |
| 5 | Krishna [06:02] | 10 | Gayatri [04:16] |
Description:
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. Mantra was never the same again...
Biography:
For as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. When he was eight years old, his parents gave him a little red snare drum as a bargaining tool to stop him from banging on everything else in the house. In his teens, he started experimenting with pop, rock, jazz and orchestral music. His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. This came just as Girish was feeling pulled toward a sacred life. A college philosophy class inspired him to explore spirituality through Kundalini yoga, meditation, and the study of Eastern scriptures. By the time of his college graduation, Girish was so deep into these practices that he decided to move into an ashram in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Girish lived in the ashram for five years, giving up music and taking the vows of a monk in the divine mother tradition called Dakshina Marg or Mahashakti Yoga. As a monk in the ashram he spent hours every day chanting. Girish also studied Sanskrit as a means to understand the deeper meanings of these ancient chants, and helped his teacher translate dozens of hymns. One day he happened upon a set of tablas at the ashram and was instantly compelled to play them. This event set him on a life-changing course. Guided as always by rhythm, and now by his spiritual pursuits, Girish began to study tablas with Jagadessh in the nada yoga tradition (yoga of sound current), which emphasized the spiritual import of music. He also travelled to New York to learn the art of Indian drumming at Siddha Yoga Ashram. After New York, Girish then hooked up with the musician and spiritual teacher Bob Kindler, known as Babbaji. It became clear to him that his innate musical passions did not conflict with, but in fact lead to a spiritual livelihood. Girish also studied with legendary tabla master Swapan Chanduri at the Ali Akbar School of Music in Marin County, California. Krishna Das was just gaining popularity at that time and Girish played with him regularly. In this context, Girish was quickly introduced to a wider world of music for yoga. Soon he was accompanying many of the names in the yoga music genre, including Wah!, Dave Stringer, Thomas Barquee, Snatam Kaur, Shanti Shanti, Steve Ross, Swaha, and Rasa. Girish continues to explore and expand musical borders, and has found new avenues for his artistic expression. Yearning to express the power of Sanskrit mantras through his own voice has been a driving force behind his new CD, Reveal, fittingly titled because it reveals this artist's multi-layered musical talent, which is firmly rooted in his spiritual explorations.
Additional Attributes:
| Relaxing | Uplifting | Meditative | Exercise | Healing | Chant |
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