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My original concept for this album was to keep things simple; 'Just' the Hare Krishna maha mantra, short intros, sparse arrangements and short tracks. I pretty much stuck to that, although I did record way more instrumentation than I had planned, just couldn't resist it.
Once I'd written the melodies I recorded the album track by track, recording all the instruments one by one, then I did the vocals, then I mixed and mastered.

Although the word kirtan has come to mean call-and-response chanting, involving musical instruments and ancient mantras, in the simplest terms kirtan means to glorify. Here Srila Prabhupada gives an elaborate description of kirtan, its practice and it's great importance. http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/7/5/23-24

Like Your Life Depends On It

In Timbuktu Too

I Happen To Like Krishna

High On A Low Level

Everything Is About To Change

Does Happy Dance?

Dig Deeper, Avoid Bombs

Desire To Desire To Desire

Coming To The End Of My Journey

Before Time Eats Us Up

Sri Radhika Stava.mp3

Sri Radhika Stava.mp4

Yashomati Nandana.mp4

Yashomati Nandana.mp3

Narada Muni Mp3

Invocation

This tune was supposed to be recorded simply; a little acoustic guitar, maybe some tanpura drones to give it an exotic feel, some light percussion perhaps, but I was never any good at resisting temptation and before too long we had pianos, trumpets, melodicas and wah-wahs added to the palate. So what started out as a simple little song played on a guitar turned into hours upon hours of recording and editing and mixing and foot-tapping. Oh, and chanting Hare Krishna too. Hope you think it was worth it!



Hare Krishna

A Little Something About This Track

I loved this song from the very first time I heard it. It was twenty years ago, when I was brand new to the kirtan world. I was browsing through some cassettes and, without knowing which to choose, I picked up Bhakti Rasa by Agnideva Das and went to the check out. Listening back at home I found Radha Krishna Bol to be beautiful yet melancholy, ancient yet relevant, haunting yet soothing. 

Then, a few months back,  I found myself inspired to record it. 

Firstly, I turned the mridanga upside down and played the bottom end like an African djembe and then I added the top end to make a three-handed groove. With a bit of spacey electric piano, tanpura drones and flute I had the backing track done.

The song itself follows Gaura-Nitai 'wandering' around Nadia (West Bengal) inducing the people to chant (bol) the names of Radha and Krishna. For one who does so there is the assurance of no further misery in the land of maya and the promise of one's body shaking in ecstasy and tears of happiness pouring from the eyes. Radha Krishna bol bol, bolo re sobai; Chant! Chant! Everybody chant!

Radha Krishna Bol

One evening, while in his garden, Srila Prabhupada looked at the sky and said; "So, is the sky the colour of Krishna?"  
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***Lyrics***
I, am running for shelter,
this ain't no shower of nectar,
that's falling on me now.

Your beautiful smile soaking up my tears,
I feel my pain's reseeding,
and all my wounds are heeling.


Chorus

Your beautiful form,
is lifting me up high,
I feel, far from the storm,
You're the reason why,
You're the colour of the sky.


Your, open invitation,
coming down from heaven,
the damn has burst.

The tide is in, 
the stars are out.
Your beauty's shining,
I wanna be soaking,
in its waves.

Chorus

Your beautiful form,
is lifting me up high,
I feel, far from the storm,
You're the reason why,
You're the colour of the sky.


Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama 
Rama Rama Hare Hare 


Chorus 2

Your beautiful form,
where I want to come to rest,
and feel, far from the storm,
where clouds run dry,
to show the colour of the sky.

The Colour of the Sky

Krishna Sharma

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