A New Man Has Come!

Description

From the radiant realm of Jai Ma Music arrives a new album of precious Bengali Bhajans, devotional songs to Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, and Lord Shiva.  Shifting between joyous, tender, powerful, and ecstatic moods, each bhajan radiates love and reverence through every instrument and every vocal.  Jai Ma Music’s signature style of heart-melting English translations woven into the music reveals the devotional and mystic wisdom inherent in each song.

Traditional favorites of the Ramakrishna lineage, such as “Esheche Nutan Manus” (A New Man has Come) and “Aji Premanande Manre Gaha,” (For the Attainment of the Highest Bliss…) make this a very special musical portal for the Western devotees.

Babaji Bob Kindler, Artistic Director of the Jai Ma Music sacred arts ensemble, has arranged and/or composed each piece, masterfully blending Eastern and Western styles and instrumentation.

“I have been listening to your newest album, A New Man Has Come. Your rendition of Manre Krishi Kaj Janana, is wonderful. This may be my favourite Bhajan, and how you render together the Bengali music style with Western instrumentation – is absolutely captivating. The singing is so graceful and effortless, that the concept of ”language-barrier” of the Bengali language never crosses the mind.  The song made me think of the precious perspective of beholding Mother Kali as the highest ideal, both as a truth-form made of consciousness and the antar-yami.”         – G.K. Gudmundsson, Iceland

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Titles included in this album:

Esheche Nutan Manus, by Devendranath Masumdar

Manre Krishi Kaj Janana, by Ramprasad Sen

Aji Premanande Manre Gaha, unknown

Vaikuntha Hate Lakshmi Elo, by Abhayapada Bandyapadhyaya

Banga Hrdaya Gomukhi Haite, by Swami Prameshananda

Ke Re Padma Palasha Lochana, by Swami Prameshananda

Karuna Pathar Janani Amar, unknown  watch simple music video

Jaya Shiva Shankara, by Girish Ghosh

Musicians:

Babaji Bob Kindler – Vocals, Cello,  Autoharp, Tamboura, Karatolas, Recitations

Lokelani Kindler – Vocals, Recitations

Benjy Wertheimer – Tabla

Girish Gambhira – Tabla

Achyut Bhandari – Tabla

Annapurna Sarada – Flute