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Lead us from the darkness to the light (Tamaso Mā Jyotir Gamaya ~  तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ).  "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya" originates from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.  Jai Sri Krishna! ॐ

Players:  Maeve McBride (vocals), Ambika (vocals, percussion), Niranjan (instruments, vocals, percussion, & effects). Recorded in 2009-2011 @ "55 Studio", Burlington, VT & Kailash Ashram, Middlebury, VT. Mixed for AM Radio by Niranjan Arminius.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

Narasimha

Track 2 from the new Ananda Rasa kirtan album 'Mulani - dub Kirtan' featuring Tahir Faridi Qawwal on vocal solo and Don Fontowitz on Mohan Veena.  Produced, composed and arranged by Ananda Rasa lead vocalist/bandleader David Estes. Mixed by Michael Goldwasser (Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread and many more). Ram artwork by Jennifer Mazzucco. Currently available for purchase on CD or Digital Download at www.anandarasakirtan.com.

Ananda Rasa kirtan : Mulani - dub Kirtan 'Shri Ram Jay Ram' (feat. Tahir Faridi Qawwal) Track 2

Maha Mantra

Guitar & Vocals: Madhava Narasimha Das
Vocals: Nikunja Gopi DD - Nirupama Nandini DD - Kokila Vana Radha Lila DD - Bkt.Meera Rajan

Radhe Govinda

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA electronic Version by TK

TK - OM NAMAH SHIVAYA - LOVING GUITAR VERSION - 2014

Hari Guna Gao (from Return to Shiva Station)

Radhe Govinda music video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnjzwLE871g

Radhe Govinda   feat. Amala Harinam & Krishna Kishora

This track is from my Bliss of Kirtan album and is available for purchase on my website at this link: https://nateshkirtan.com/store.

Entire treatises are written about this ancient and powerful mantra and its meaning(s).  I've read that it originated from Shri Rudram, which in turn comes from the Yajurveda.  I show a very simple meaning following the lyrics.  It is known as the Great Redeeming Mantra and also as Panchakshara (the 5-Syllable mantra, which doesn't count the 'Om') amongst devotees of Lord Shiva, and there are also associations between those 5 syllables and the five elements.  I invite you to do your own research for more about this mantra.

This is the only track on the Bliss of Kirtan album where I sing all of the 'calls' of the call and response format.  The response "chorus" is comprised of Ben Leinbach, Monnie Ramsell, Prajna Vieira, Yvette Om and myself.  The chant has a very trance-like quality as it continually shifts back and forth between 2 different chords and the two lyric variations of the mantra.  

Instrumentally, the track features Steve Oda on sarod, Monnie Ramsell on esraj, Ben Leinbach on electric guitar, keyboard bass, drums and percussion, and myself on guitar, drums and percussion.  I recorded the sound of the thunderstorm that opens the track one night when the noise of the storm was preventing me from doing some other preliminary recording for the album.

The lyrics are:

Om Namah Shivaaya Om Namah Shivaaya

Shivaaya Namaha Om Namah Shivaaya

Meaning (simple):  

Salutations to Shiva

Shivaya Namaha Om Namah Shivaya

"Politics and people will let you down and life can be very disappointing. At such a time, when you hear Krishna's flute... how can you resist?" - Cheb I Sabbah. 

"Live at Rudra Mandir" is the Kirtaniyas's first live album recorded on February 02/15/2013 at Rudra Mandir in Berkeley, California. 

The project was produced by the late Cheb I Sabbah who mixed and supervised mastering of the recording and was his last musical project. 

Kirtaniyas are ever grateful for the opportunity to sing the glorious names of the Divine in a traditional form, using melodies and rhythms taken from the ancient Bhakti lands such as Vrindavan, India and Navadipa, Mayapura, India.
credits
released 13 January 2014 

Lead vocals: Vijay Krsna 
Co-lead vocals: Jahnava Dasi 
Violin and backing vocals: Sarasvati Dasi 
Mrdanga: Madhumangala Das 
Backing vocals: Prajna Vieira 
Karatals and backing vocals: David Estes (Ananda Rasa Kirtan) 

Producer: Cheb I Sabbah 
Recording engineer: Michael Braden at Seven Channel Sound. 
Mastered by: Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio NYC. 
Executive producer: Vrindaban Misri. 
Co-executive producer: Anurag. 
Photo: © LakshmiGrace Designs.com 

Special thanks: Lloyd Barde for booking and promoting the event, KD Devi Dasi for creating and alter. Rob and Elizabeth Sidon for sending their beautiful Krsna deity blessing the Kirtan.

Radhe Syam - Live at Rudra Mandir - Kirtaniyas

From album Lifeline: The Essential Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach Collection, out now on Sounds True
http://JaiUttal.com/store
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/LifeLine-Essential-Uttal-Leinbach-Collection/dp/B00M45SQTG/
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lifeline-essential-jai-uttal/id908538918

Twameva (Lifeline Mix)

Radhe Radhe Shyam (Ecstacy Mix) was recorded live almost 5 years ago during Prem Baba's daily satsangs at Sachcha Dham Ashram in Laksman Jhula, Rishikesh, India.  

Radhe Radhe Shyam (Ecstacy Mix) ~ Awaken Love Music (Prem Sangha Band)

vande krishna nanda kumâra 
I praise Lord Krishna, the son of Nanda

nanda-kumâra madana-gopâla 
the son of Nanda, the sweetheart of the gopîs

madana-gopâla mohana-rûpa 
the sweetheart of the gopîs, how beautiful His body

mohana-rûpa nanda-kumâra 
so beautiful His body, the son of Nanda,

jaya jaya deva hari 
glories, glories to Lord Hari

jaya jaya deva hari 
glories, glories to Lord Hari


Mantra Lounge Vol 1

The Sweetheart Of The Gopis_Jahnavi Harrison_Mantra Lounge

Rāmānanda Rāya continued: "Those who are devoid of all transcendental mellows are like the crows that suck the juice from the bitter fruits of the nimba tree of knowledge, whereas those who enjoy mellows are like the cuckoos who eat the buds of the mango tree of love of Godhead."

arasa-jña kāka cūṣe jñāna-nimba-phale
rasa-jña kokila khāya premāmra-mukule

~Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya, 8.258

Sweet Holy Name

MANTRA OM SURYAY NAMAHA VYANAH  Full CD@Vyanah.com

Mantra - Om Namo

Guitar & Vocals: Madhava Narasimha Das 
Vocals: Nikunja Gopi DD - Nirupama Nandhini DD - Kokilavana Radhalila dd  - B.Meera Rajan

Maha Mantra - Hare Krishna

Track 8 featuring The Mayapuris from the new Ananda Rasa kirtan album Mulani - dub Kirtan. Produced, composed and arranged by ARK lead vocalist/bandleader David Estes. Mixed by Michael Goldwasser (Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread and many more). Radha Krishna artwork by Jennifer Mazzucco. Currently available for purchase on CD or Digital Download at www.anandarasakirtan.com.

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