Glider

Samba Sadashiva

Samba Sadhashiva

Shanti Om

Bhaja Govindam

Gunghata

Saraswati Ma

Shivaya Namah Om

Jay Jay Ma Durga Kali

Lokah Samastah

Shri Ram Jay Ram

River

Ganashyama

Mala is a call and response kirtan CD with jazz, gypsy and country influences all evident. Dave Stringer’s ingenious and unorthodox arrangements are sweeping and cinematic in scope, integrating the Indian instruments of the traditional Hindustani kirtan style with exquisite vocal harmonies and accents of lap steel, banjo, trumpet and violin. 

With songs like the quietly driving 'Bhagavati' and the bouncy 'Govinda Jaya Jaya', Mala contains music that can be used both as an accompaniment to yoga and as music to listen to simply for the pleasure of it. Kirtan is a participatory form of music, so singing along with the CD can be a particularly rewarding experience (the Sanskrit lyrics are helpfully provided in the packaging). 

Produced by Saul David Raye. Special guests include Sheila Nicholls, C.C. White, Joni Allen, Shanti Shivani, Suzanne Sterling, Allie Stringer, Steve Ross and Girish. 

"India blasted me into billions of spinning particles and then slowly 
reshaped me, a process that was somehow both excruciating and ecstatic. I can’t begin to claim complete knowledge of all of the layers of philosophy represented by the mantras I learned to chant while I was there, but I can attest to their power. I’m not a Sanskrit scholar and not always a particularly focused devotee, but I am deeply committed to the process of inquiry that the practice of yoga suggests. 

I once read that Thomas Jefferson took a copy of the Bible and cut out the parts that most resonated with him, then reassembled his selections into a work that reflected his own way of saying his prayers. I suppose it is fair to say that as an artist, I am engaged in something of a similar process with yoga. I don’t know exactly where the journey I am making ends. I’m just trying to report honestly from where I am. 

Kirtan is rooted in a very old and profoundly joyful Eastern tradition. But I don’t know that it is possible for me to be traditional. As a Westerner, I can’t help but bring my own cultural biases with me. My intention, however, is to be authentic, in the sense that what I am doing originates in my heart. For me, to align the individual-dissolving Eastern tradition of kirtan with the individual-affirming Western traditions of gospel and jazz and rock music is no contradiction. Both arise from the same impulse toward expressing what is ecstatic and liberating and transcendent. 

Mantras are intended as a tool with which the spirit can release 
itself from the prison of attachments that the mind creates. It’s not unfair to say that the chanting of mantras is intended to be a completely mindless activity. Yoga doesn’t ask us to believe, it asks us to practice, examining our experience until we can witness the truth in the book of our own heart. My only suggestion is that you chant along. Whether these mantras are ancient wisdom or psychological metaphor or complete nonsense is up to you."

"Defiantly not your traditional kirtan album!" 
--- www.yogabasics.com 

"Not being a practitioner of yoga, I wasn't prepared for the impact this compelling CD would have on me. The eight rather indescribable songs on Mala take on a life of their own with melodies so beautiful you may want to cry. Mala is easily one of the most ear-opening records I've heard this year.” 
--- www.seaoftranquility.org 

"Stringer's most ambitious and best work to date. "Mala" is an important addition to anyone's collection of kirtan albums." 
--- LA Yoga Pages

Gaja Nana Remaster (2024 Remaster)

Shivaya Namah Om (2024 Remaster)

Bhagavati Remaster (2024 Remaster)

Govinda Jaya Jaya (2024 Remaster)

Shanti Om Remaster 2024 Stream

Shri Ram Jay Ram Remaster 2024 Stream

Devakinandana Gopala Remaster 2024

Hey Shiva Shankara Remaster 2024

Jay Ambe Remaster 2024 Stream

Ganapati Om Remaster 2024

Ten eclectic, modern songs inspired by The Radiance Sutras, Lorin Roche's poetic interpretation of the Vijñana Bhairava Tantra, one of the most ecstatic and iconoclastic texts of yoga philosophy. Elixir unites the talents of ecstatic chant artists Dave Stringer and Donna De Lory with contemporary singer / songwriter Joni Allen. From stimulating bhangra grooves to country anthems and sultry ballads, these are songs to be danced with and meditated upon. 

Flooded With Joy

Go There

Roar

Who Am I

Duke Mushroom's Brazilian-inspired remix of Aja Uttama, a duet by Karnamrita Dasi and Dave Stringer originally from the album Divas & Devas

Aja Uttama - (Duke Mushroom Brazilian Saints Remix)

Remix created from two different recordings of Govinda Jaya Jaya: Dave Stringer's version from Mala featuring Sheila Nicholls, and Donna De Lory's version from The Lover and the Beloved. 

Pascal de Lamaze 
DJ, Percussionist, Performer, Producer. His focus on rhythm and dance has made him friends in many communities. Performing artists appreciate his steady, rocking world percussion and transcendental grooves. Dancers dig how his innovative DJ style connects with his energetic, modern drumming. Pascal is Organizer & resident DJ of Ecstatic Dance Berlin. For Dave Stringer's Govinda Jaya Jaya Remix he joined forces with Berlin based Producer Grooveisen. 
Website: www.pascaldelacaze.life

Buy on Bandcamp

Govinda Jaya Jaya (Pascal De Lacaze & Grooveisen Remix)

Jaya Durge

AjaUttama (Duke Mushroom Spirit Voyage Remix)

"An amazing supporting cast & some of the deepest vocal, chant-oriented music in a long time."
--- Backroads

"Great work!!!!! I understand our similar musical schizophrenia... Awesome. Killer production. Great singing. Great songs."
--- Jai Uttal

Brink is a cinematic exegesis of sophisticated pop melodies and traditional Eastern music that achieves a striking level of emotional and spiritual intimacy. Ingenious arrangements incorporate a fluid mix of East Indian and Western instruments in a sequence of elegant aural rainbows. Dave Stringer's voice conveys a sense of grandeur as it plays across maturely constructed arrangements with mantras and lyrics in Sanskrit, Hindi, Farsi, English and purely improvised emotional language.

Country and and bluegrass instruments like mandolin, pedal steel and acoustic guitar are embellished with all manner of East Indian instruments such as harmonium, tamboura, santoor and swaramandala. The soul stirring "Shivo'ham, Shivo'ham" is an intense awakening that starts out in haunting solemnity and is gradually transformed into a jazz-inflected and eastern-tinged celebration. The album moves seamlessly into "Sleep" evoking mystery, imagination and spirituality with its quiet beauty.

Songs like the tabla-driven "Checking the Arithmetic" are flavored with pop melodies and sound like Stephen Fearing vacationed in Rishikesh, took up transcendental meditation and brought back a band of Indian musicians. The soaring harmonies of the Appalachian anthem "The Carbon Cycle" simultaneously invoke both wonder and pain.

Compelling in its understatement, "The Satellite Sky" is a lush balled of love and longing delivered with disarming intensity. Time seems to stop in "Ganashyama", a haunting vocal duet with Azam Ali, accented with sarangi, trumpet and piano. Brink lacks pretense and feels natural, appealing to Indian fusion music enthusiasts and West meets East spiritual pilgrims alike.

Brink is an elegant and philosophical work that seamlessly blends elements of Americana with influences from World folk traditions and Jazz, producing a new genre that might be called Country and Eastern. Dave Stringer, a well-known Mantra and Kirtan artist, explores his themes of spiritual inquiry and quandary with a well-travelled eye, and tightly woven, lyric driven songs similar to something Bruce Cockburn or Joni Mitchell might write,. The result is an album as much for the world music community as western Yoga practitioners.

Shivo'ham Shivo'ham

Jay Jay Ram Krishna Hari

Hey Shiva Shankara

Om Namo Bhagavate

Dave Stringer is a producer, musician and songwriter who has been widely profiled as one of the most innovative artists of the modern Yoga movement. Bhakti Without Borders, an album he produced, was nominated for a Grammy® in 2016. He was nominated in 2023 as an artist in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category for Mantra Americana, along with his collaborator Madi Das. He's both an inspiring singer and a compelling public speaker, resolving neuroscience, yoga philosophy and art into a participatory theatrical experience. He is featured in the documentary films Mantra: Sounds into Silence and The Power of Mantra and has toured extensively, leading concerts, workshops and retreats all over the world. 

“High energy, ecstatic chanting at its best.” 
-- Yoga Journal

"Dave Stringer has integrated his interest in Kirtan, an Indian tradition of  devotional chanting, with his masterful grasp of Western popular music, creating an exciting style of psychedelic pop as informed by traditional Eastern music as the Beatles." 
-- All Music Guide

“A volcano of a voice! Stringer transported us to another time and place.  His fiery, soulful voice gave the entire room a feeling of a down-home gospel jam and one could not help but sing along.”  
-- LA Yoga Magazine

“A departure from ancient kirtan. Stringer’s performance shaped the experience into a far more compelling musical encounter.” 
– The Los Angeles Times

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