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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

The Essential Snatam Kaur: Sacred Chants for Healing

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February 16, 2016
The Essential Snatam Kaur: Sacred Chants for Healing
Snatam Kaur
2010

If songs were lakes, most would be rippled, even turbulent, but the songs of Snatam Kaur would be so clear and calm that you could see into them as if they were a mirror to the sun above, reflecting perfect light and love that no amount of armor and cynicism could resist—even the hardest armor is warmed by the sun. Collecting some of her most precious and radiant works, The Essential Snatam Kaur is an embodiment of the Sikh tradition, and contains some of the most beautiful, healing, timeless kirtans brought into the context of modern adult listening, with beautiful synth pads, violins, flutes, tablas, sitars, and dazzling harmonics in a spacious, crystalline recording, so that her soul can reach yours and ours.

A protégé of the kirtan tradition, Snatam Kaur was born in the United States but raised in a deeply immersed yogic tradition, and has studied the kirtan and the ancient Sanskrit language of Gurmurkhi since the age of six. Her devotion to this beautiful and sacred musical form is undeniable—the beauty of the spirit has its most perfect voice in Snatam Kaur. "It is in dying that we are born / Into each eternal life," she sings in the beautiful "Servant of Peace," over mandolin, tabla, a rich bed of backing vocals, and the guitar of Guru Ganesha Singh. "Ra Ma Da Sa" (sun, moon, earth, infinite) hangs suspended in huge golden teardrops of sunlight, with Kaur's voice rising and falling over soft accents of harp, keyboards, drums, and flute by Pedro Eustache.

"By Thy Grace" has an almost country-and-western twang. And with its graceful melody, funky tables, and violin, "Long Time Sun" is a song often sung at the end of yoga classes. This is a beautiful interpretation with gentle acoustic guitar and Kaur's voice doubled and overlapping on waves of synth-enhanced sound that warm the spirit down to the bones. No sunshine has ever sunk so deep into the soul as Kaur's celestial voice: "May the longtime sun / Shine upon you / And all love surround you / And the pure light / Within you / Guide your way on." A CD booklet is included with the Sanskrit and Gurmukhi lyrics translated, so join in and let The Essential Snatam Kaur show you how bright that pure light within you can shine.

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"Servant of Peace" "Ra Ma Da Sa" "Long Time Sun"

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