“What I wasn’t necessarily expecting was what a fine teacher Wah! is. She is authentic, nothing extraneous, and right to the point — her message is Love, pure and simple.”
“What I wasn’t necessarily expecting was what a fine teacher Wah! is. She is authentic, nothing extraneous, and right to the point — her message is Love, pure and simple.”
The M.A. Center in Santa Fe, NM creates a new CD each year, allowing musicians, producers and devotees to come together and share their talents in a spirit of Guru Seva. Each year, a different group of people create, produce, and sing their songs. English Bhajan VII, the 2002 release, has a beautiful refreshing energy. “Come to Me” (from Hidden in the Name) is re-done and Wah! also sings a new song for this CD (“In This Night”). “Why These Tears,” “Help Me Amma,” and other soulful songs reveal the process of Her devotees. All proceeds for the sale of this CD go to the orphanages, hospitals, schools, and other charitable work of Ammachi in India. You can buy this CD at the programs during Her summer tour.
1. He Ma Durga (Donna De Lory)
2. Om Tare Tuttare (Deva Premal)
3. Alone (Ansar feat. Aisha and Dum Dum Project)
4. Heart of Tara (Suvarna)
5. Maha Laxmi (Wynne Paris feat. Jaya Shashidhar)
6. Hey Diwani, Hey Diwana (Dum Dum Project feat. Asha Puthli)
7. Jaya Radha Madhava (Radha Botofasina)
8. Sattvam (Sharon Gannon, Mixed by Mike D)
9. Sri Ma (Chloe Goodchild)
10. Closing (Wah!)
11. Gate Gate (Deva Premal)
Karuna Music/Triloka Records offers a 2-CD compilation called Planet Yoga. The first CD features tracks from all my favorite chanters, people I have worked with throughout the years – Krishna Das, Deva Premal, David Stringer, Jai Uttal, Rasa, Bhagavan Das, Diana Rogers, Wah!. The second CD is all instrumental tracks, featuring beautiful music by Ali Akbar Khan, Benjy Wertheimer, and Steve Gorn. This will be a wonderful addition to anyone’s CD collection.
1. Jai Ma (Wah!)
2.Kashi Vishwanath Gange (Krishna Das)
3. Gopala (Jai Uttal)
4. Govindah (Rasa)
5. Raghupati (Bhagavan Das)
6. Prayer to Rudra (Krishna Das)
7. Sri Ram (Diana Rogers)
8. Ganashyama (Dave Strigner)
9. Gayatri Mantra (Deva Premal)
This compilation of chanting exclusively from women is offered by GAIAM/The Relaxation Company. Titled Women’s Yoga Chants, Songs of Spirit, it includes tracks from women chanters in the West… Wah!, Sita, Diana Rogers, Suzin Green and Chaula Hopefisher. This collection offers some unique voices in devotional chanting.
1. Govind Gopala (Wah!)
2. Sadashiva Ranjani (Suzin Green)
3. O Ma Kali Ma (Chaula Hopefisher)
4. Bhava Bhaya Harana (Sita)
5. Ambe Mata (Wah!)
6. Sita Ram (Diana Rogers)
Transcendental Beats is a COMPACT DISC with mantras to hear in dance tracks. There are ten bands with main mantras that have been created into drum’n bass and electrofunk beats without losing the climate zen of the compositions. The two Wah! tracks are dance remixes of “Krishna in 7” and “Hare Ram Krishna” from the album CD Krishna.
Musician, producer, writer, yogini – Sharon Gannon is a modern day renaissance woman. Best known as co-founder, along with David Life, of the Jivamukti Yoga Method and Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City, Sharon teaches yoga as a spiritual path to enlightenment. On this second installment in the White Swan Yoga Masters series, Sharon offers a heavenly mix of divine women singers as an inspiring complement to your asana practice.
This enchanting collection of songs from Deva Premal, Donna De Lory, Wah!, Chloe Goodchild and others makes for a transcendent listening experience that will guide you through a grounded, steady and strong yoga sequence.
Deepening our connection with the Earth is one of yoga’s many benefits, and Jai Ma, which translates to “honor Mother Earth,” is the ideal soundtrack for doing precisely that.
1. He Ma Durga (Donna De Lory)
2. Om Tare Tuttare (Deva Premal)
3. Alone (Ansar feat. Aisha and Dum Dum Project)
4. Heart of Tara (Suvarna)
5. Maha Laxmi (Wynne Paris feat. Jaya Shashidhar)
6. Hey Diwani, Hey Diwana (Dum Dum Project feat. Asha Puthli)
7. Jaya Radha Madhava (Radha Botofasina)
8. Sattvam (Sharon Gannon, Mixed by Mike D)
9. Sri Ma (Chloe Goodchild)
10. Closing (Wah!)
11. Gate Gate (Deva Premal)
2 mantra CDs, 2 hours of inspiring music! Prem Joshua, Deva Premal, Sacred Earth, Bhakta, Gabrielle Roth, Wah!, Dya Singh and other spiritual artists weave downtempo background with mantras to invigorate and inspire, to soothe the soul and lift the heart. Excellent for yoga, relaxation and inner peace, or chant along for an uplifting spiritual vibration with universal messages of harmony.
1. Shiva Bolo (David Newman)
2. Sri Rudram (Anant Jesse)
3. Amba Amba (Larisa Stow & Gathering)
4. Gayatri Mantra (Chloe Goodchild)
5. Teyate Om Muni (Ariel Kalma)
6. Chen Rezi (Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors)
7. Ma Durga (Tarshito)
8. Om Namo Narayana (Manish Vyas)
9. Om Namo Bhagavate (Deva Premal)
10. Tibetan Tantra Tara (Subway Bhaktis)
11. Ascension (Sacred Earth)
12. Gate Param Gate (Ariel Kalma)
13. Lakh Khushian (Dya Singh)
14. Satguru Vachoni (Azar Baksh)
15. Closing (Wah!)
One World Music offers a compilation called Mantras in Motion. Mantras in Motion brings together the modern and the ancient – blending modern day sounds with the ancient wisdom of the mantra. Compiled and mixed by One World Music’s internationally renowned DJ Leigh Wood, this amazing 76-minute journey will take you through a plethora of emotions wrapped up in mystical soundscapes, hypnotic beats and stunning mantra vocals. Perfect for chilling, yoga and meditation this remix album features exclusive tracks from Sacred Earth, Jai Uttal, Amanaska, Robert Gass, Adam Shaikh and Wah! amongst others.
1. Namaste (Maneesh de Moor)
2. Yoga Dub Mystic (Desert Dwellers)
3. Om Shanti (Robert Gass)
4. Salva Me (Thomas Barque)
5. Indu (Adham Shaikh)
6. Pilgrim (Amanaska)
7. Govind Hari (Sacred Earth)
8. Dina Dayal (Jai Uttal & Rara Avis)
9. Maha Deva (Wah!)
10. Vajra Guru (Bhakta feat. Jalalo)
11. Bliss (Yogini)
From Music Brokers Argentina, a 2-CD set of electronica and ambiant tracks introducing audiences worldwide to hip yoga music.
1. Hidden Sky – Jami Sieber
2. He Ma Durga – Donna De Lory
3. Satori (Spiritually Remixed) – Downbeat Corp.
4. Dancing Buddha – DJ Free feat. Brent Lewis
5. Govinda Jaya Jaya – Donna De Lory
6. New Hopes – Oman Chali
7. Yoga Groove – DJ Free feat. Brent Lewis
8. Hey Diwani, Hey Diwana – The Dum Dum Project
9. Get Back to Serenity (J.Bar Mix) – Vargo
10. Medicine Dream – Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors
11. Sky is Open – Donna De Lory
12. Jai Ma – Wah!
1. Crescent Moon (Luminous)
2. Sonwaji Farewell (Northern Comfort)
3. Manana (Christophe Goze)
4. Maha Deva (Wah!)
5. Lotus Blue (World Radio)
6. A New Planisphere (Al-Pha-X)
7. There Was Evolution (Govinda)
8. On Mayja (Deja-Move)
9. Indigo World (Radiophonic)
10. Light India (Masala)
11. Red Eyes (Amon)
12. Calm (Govinda)
Yoga may have been born in India and developed over the past 5,000 years, as Sean Johnson’s liner notes to this album attest, but it is best known in the West as a variant of exercise taught and practiced by suburbanites who have never bathed in the Ganges. Putumayo World Music, a label that exists to address the taste for light exotica among such music listeners, has created an appropriate soundtrack to yoga exercise on this various-artists compilation, containing many performers who, like Johnson, are actually Westerners with Eastern training.
Based in New Orleans, Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band present a typical selection in the second track, “Om Hari Om/Sharanam Ganesha (Refuge). Some of the tracks are more overtly Indian, notably the instrumental “Cerulean” by Ben Leinbach and Geoffrey Gordon. But usually the music is a hybrid of Indian elements with laid-back Western folk-rock, which should make it highly palatable to its intended audience. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
1. Ghungate Ke (Lucknow Project)
2. Om Hari Om/Sharanam Ganesha (Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band)
3.Purnamadah (Shantala)
4. Bolo Ram (Wah!)
5. Cerulean (Ben Leinbach & Geoffrey Gordon)
6. Devaki (Karnamrita Dasi)
7. Bangles (Niraj Chag)
8. El Bosque Eterno de los Niño (Amounsulu)
9. Moods Of Kirtan (Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits)
10. O Rama (Susheela Raman)
11. Hanuman Baba (Krishna Das)
12. Sira (Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze)
13. Offering Chant (Lama Gyurme & Jean-Philippe Rykiel)
14. Bliss (Yogini)
Nutone Music releases a compilation of songs from world class artists inspired by the lifestyle of yoga and united for a higher cause. Sarah McLaughlin, Michael Franti, Sting, Sheryl Crow, Wah!, Deva Premal and more, this deeply moving musical journey is the ultimate soundtrack to a more connected, joyful and balanced life.
1. Narayana / For Your Love (Krishna Das)
2. Salala (Angelique Kidjo featuring Peter Gabriel)
3. Sea Dreamer (Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale featuring Sting)
4. Ganesha (Wah!)
5. Prayer of St. Francis – Sarah McLachlan
6. Love is My Religion – Ziggy Marley
7. I Know I’m Not Alone – Michael Franti
8. Bathe In These Waters (EarthTones Mix) – Donna De Lory
9. I Am – Guru Singh with Seal & Friends
10. Om Namo – Eeday
11. I Shall Believe – Sheryl Crow
12. Angeli – Sasha Lazard
13. Om Tara Tuttare (Red Fulka Remix) – Deva Premal & Miten
14. Long Time Sun – Snatam Kaur
From Sounds True, a stunning 2-CD compilation featuring today’s best kirtan artists
1. Om Gang Ganapataye Namaha (Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band)
2. Om Namah Shivaya [Bhakti Brothers Remix] (Deva Premal)
3. Om Shreem Shriyei (Steve Gold)
4. Rock On Hanuman (MC Yogi)
5. Rock On Hanuman (Krishna Das)
6. Durge (Wah!)
7. Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu (Donna DeLory)
8. Jai Jagadambe (Diana Rogers)
9. Bliss Ma (Lullaby) (Suzanne Sterling)
10. Ganesha Sharanam (Jai Uttal)
11. Ananda Namah Shivaya [Live] (Krishna Das)
12. Amba Bhavani (David Newman)
13. Krishna Radhe Shyam Suite (Shantala)
14. Adi Shakti (Snatam Kaur)
15. Bolo Bolo Submila Bolo (Dave Stringer)
The leading lights in contemporary kirtan and mantra music are showcased in this 2-CD set of recordings captured during a spring weekend of inspiring musical prayer recorded at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY.
1. Om Namo Bhagavate/Oneness (Deva Premal & Miten)
2. Ram Ram Hari Ram (Snatam Kaur)
3. Lalitamba Live! (Wah!)
4. Hare Krishna (Shyamdas)
5. You Gotta Move(Miten & Deva Premal)
6. Full Circle (Carioca)
1. My Foolish Heart/Bhaja Govinda (Krishna Das)
2. Hey Natha Narayana Vasudeva (Jai Uttal)
3. Govinda Hari Hari Gopala Jai Jai (Vishal Vaid)
4. Shri Krishna Govinda (Shyamdas)
The Orchard creates a compilation for yoga and ambient music from contemporary alternative artists (April 2015):
1. Listen to the World (Sean Kelly)
2. I Was Having a Bath on the Sea (Avatar)
3. Greetings 2 Paradise (Prosis)
4. Morning Breeze (Nuform)
5. Waterfall (Simone Mencarelli)
6. A Sunny Day (Nova)
7. My Mind Inside the Volcano (Zac F)
8. A Song for the Sea (DJ A)
9. World Lounge (Mono Field)
10. Kefren’s Garden (Cephalonya)
11. Spirit of the Sea (Digital Project)
12. Blissful Awakening (Anandmurti Gurumaa)
13. Water (Wah!)
14. In a Dream World (Amita Dalai)
15. Harmonious Adaptation (Kaanchman Babbar)
16. The Vision (Lee Boice)
17. Cold Land (Cephalonya)
18. The Door of Paradise (Anandmurti Gurumaa)
19. Smell of Roses (Christos Stylianou)
20. Speaking Tree (Igor-Bezget)
21. Autumn (mural Ali)
22. Dancing Rain (Priyesh Vakil)
23. A Beautiful Place (Avatar)
24. Time for Trees (Digital Project)
25. Deepest Blue (Ables)
26. Peaceful Night (AB Music)
Compilation by White Swan Records
Kirtan The Bhakti Yoga of Chanting Mantras