Shabda : शब्द

Singers and musicians from Nepal, Algeria, Tibet, Poland, Morocco and Portugal have contributed their cultural background to Margot Reisinger’s own style of spiritual world music. Margot has composed nine unique songs on the base of traditional as well as newly arranged mantra texts, interpreted by beautiful vocals and accompanied by choirs, violin, ney, flutes, guitars, piano, sitar, Tibetan horns and cymbals, keyboards, singing bowls, percussion, monochord, drums and more..

Infused with haunting vocals and lush grooves, Mercy Songs merges Tibetan Buddhist mantras, Latin Christian church hymns and ancient Vedic chants into a single songbook of devotion.

Guy’s new album has been officially released on the 26th of March 2009 on UK record label MG Music. It’s the stunning completion of his successful trilogy inspired by India and tells the story of Ganesha, the Hindu God with the elephant head.

This collection has some nice songs of Vaishnav`s (Krishna`s) music, performed in a modern way, and therefore very pleasant for Western people. Among the tracks there are the songs in the words of Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Govinda Dasa, and even pandit Satyavrata and Shankaracharya.

This beautiful album brings to you 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. Prem is for those who wish to uplift themselves through Sound Current, for those who wish to partake in the sacred mantra, for those who understand that experience is priceless. May it bring self-love and healing into your life.

Deva’s enchanting new CD, Password, was created with Miten and Manose at the end of their 2010 world tour, and marks an exciting new direction in their unique blending of East and West, embedding the extraordinary energy carried by ancient mantras into a rich fusion of sound and silence. Deva’s golden voice, guided by Miten and The Essence producer Rishi, glides through shining soundscapes created by some of the best young jazz musicians in Europe, offering haunting, seductive invitations to return home to our hearts. As Deva notes, “Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.”

Given the CD bears the name of a Buddhist monastery, one would naturally conclude that the tracks are dominated by chanting, but this isn’t the case. The mantras themselves are almost incidental, merely adding an exotic touch to what is otherwise very Western music dominated by English lyrics. The disc has definitely been engineered for the Western ear. Although we tend to associate Tibetan chanting with resonating throat singing, the mantras are, with one or two exceptions, performed in normal voice. In fact, the producers point out on the CD sleeve that the music and melodies are not used in daily rituals as the monastery observes tradition strictly.