October 25, 2015: I’m working on new music in multiple genres (as always), and while listening through all of my unrecorded stuff from the past 6 years, I found this experimental chant.
While mostly I write acoustic pop music, with all of the time I spend with yogis, I wanted to explore an all-vocal chant with a traditional Hindu phrase, Om Namah Shivaya.
This piece is meant to inspire inner reflection and space in the brain with the repetition of the chant in different voices and rhythms.
I asked Kirtan Artist, David Stringer for a consult on pronunciation as I found several variations. He told me that the varying emphasis on different syllables that I used in the different tracks was acceptable…and also that no matter how you pronounce it, someone will love it and someone else will hate it…just like just about everything else in life!
Please feel free to play for final rest or as an opening meditation in your yoga classes, and let me know what you think.
My primary writing focus now is on songs in English, (and I’ve some new ones on the way), but I thought this a fun departure and like the solemnity, especially as the nights grow colder and darken faster.
Enjoy!