|
Sings the Moola Mantra | 
| Artist: Deva Premal
Label: White Swan
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $10.79
You Save: $6.19 (36%)
New (39) Used (9) from $10.79
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3234
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 77
UPC: 717147007723
EAN: 0717147007723
ASIN: B000SGHSLU
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Invocation | | • | Part I | | • | Part II | | • | Part III | | • | Incantation |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
German-born Deva Premal is a certified diva of the new age, having traversed the requisite Eastern spiritual paths, communing in Indian and following the late guru Bhaghwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. While her last CD, Dakshina, had a bit more of a pop-Enyaesque sensibility, Moola Mantra is a much more meditative affair as Premal sings a single, 15-word Sanskrit mantra over the course of six lushly smooth Indian fusion arrangements. The disc is something of a mantra super session, with kirtan crooner Jai Uttal playing dotar, Nepalese bansuri flute player Manose, pianist Kit Walker, sitarist Peter Van Gelder (who played with Grace Slick and the Great Society) and esraj player Benjy Wertheimer. They're among the ensemble providing the patchouli-scented ornamentations that surround Premal's serene voice. With producer Ben Leinbach's detailed arrangements and Premal's overdubbed vocal choirs, Moola Mantra recalls similar Hindu adaptations by Rasa more than any other Premal CD. Like Rasa's Hans Christian, Leinbach is a capable multi-instrumentalist with a gift for trance grooves that don't tire and evocative instrumental touches like the tremolo guitar bleeding into Uttal's dotar solo on "Part II." The music is a languid float down an endless stream, but the repetition of the mantra, even with inventive melodic variation, can get tiresome. Premal tries to have it both ways, mantra as art and as spiritual practice. --John Diliberto
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Very relaxing! October 2, 2007
Jody Porta
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have almost all of Deva Premal's CDs and love them all. Her voice is haunting on this CD as she sings mantra for "unity-in-diversity". I have played this CD for my clients during their massages and everyone enjoys it. I often tell my clients that they don't have to understand the mantra to feel the music and compassion of her words.
I would encourage anyone to buy this CD but stay away from her CDs that have Miten singing on them.
A Blessing to the Listener September 10, 2007
Vicky Thompson (Portland, OR USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
It is said that the benefits of the Moola Mantra, a Sanskrit mantra, include the revitalization of all cells with divine energy and blessings for a happy life. Bestselling singer Deva Premal's rich and entrancing voice is a blessing to the listener. Premal sings the Moola Mantra over the course of five smooth and relaxing Indian fusion arrangements, featuring Jai Uttal, Nepalese flautist Manose, Kit Walker and Benjy Wertheimer (a Pacific Northwest favorite). Premal offers an expression of oneness honoring all spiritual paths, religions, creeds and traditions.
-[...].
Soul Soothing! September 24, 2007
Linda Stoner (Tacoma WA USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Another soul stirring cd from Deva Premal! Perfect for yoga, for meditation or just to soothe you after a hectic day! I admit that I was doubtful of a cd of just a mantra, but if you loved "Embrace", or any other Deva Premal recordings, you will so enjoy this!
 sweetsounding mantra-pop September 3, 2007
Bodhi Heeren (Copenhagen)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I think everyone who has had the pleasure of seeing the beautiful couple of Premal and her partner Miten in concert will agree, that they have a powerful radiation og joy and love from the stage. And that they transmit the silence of their master Osho.
So it's a shame that Premal's recordings are so relatively bland. If you listen to Indian recordings of mantras, f.ex. Ravi Shankar's excellent "Chants of India", you will here something far removed from Western aesthetics. Something ancient and timeless, raw and metrically refined, coming from the Beyond and speaking directly to the soul. Whereas Premal's version of the mantras are sweet and pleasing, but does not reflect their cosmic dimensions at all.
Her voice is pristine and angelic, and you should be very insensitive not to be touched by it's purity. But at the same time her vocal delivery is one-dimensional without hardly any dynamics (or finesse).
This time they have had the good idea of enlistning renowned producer Ben Leinbach, probably best known from his collaborations with Jai Uttal, with whom he had made some deep and mind-expanding records, fex. "Loveland". And he has added some much needed depth to Premal's music, though not as much as I would have liked.
It works best on the opening track, "Invocation", where Premal sings in classical Indian style, accompanied by deep electronics and sitar, showing how great a vocalist she actually is. But after that it is business as usual, the mantra sung to a pretty melodi over some rather lush backing. Sprinkled though with some fine soloing from some of the genres best musicians: Manose, Kit Walker, Benji Wertheimer, Uttal.
When you have sold more than 400.000 copies and are endorsed by so diverse icons as Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle and Cher, you obviously must be doing something right. And I can recommend this to anyone looking for some relaxing music with authentic spiritual content. I just wish Premal would leave the shallow waters and allow herself to dive deeper in the ocean of mantras and music
Beautiful beyond words September 23, 2007
Michigan yogini (Michigan, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a very big fan of Deva Premal and Miten. I have seen them both in concert, and at 4 day retreat. This CD is a must-have for anyone who loves Kirtan, devotional chant music, and Deva & Miten. The backup musicians on this CD are stars in their own right ( I have seen them as well )and add so much to the energy of this Mantra experience.
It is different than their other CDs because there is no variety in the content. The Moola Mantra chant is sung the entire time. But, the musical accompaniment and arrangement provides enough interest ( for me, at least ) so that it is not boring.
It is hauntingly beautiful, healing, and a perfect way to start my day.
If everyone listened to this while driving, road rage would no longer exist !
|
|
|
We'll be adding even more exciting features to assist you in the coming year.
Thank you for shopping at the Depot.com online shopping depot.
©2008 Depot.com | |
