Tracks (titles with a link launch a popup window with an mp3 sample) we share with others the healing power of music, and the bliss that it brings." With close to 400,000 CDs sold worldwide and a buzz of interest from fans ranging from yogis, therapists and alternative health practitioners, Deva Premal and her partner Miten have achieved a huge degree of recognition in the blossoming niche world of yoga music.ĭeva Premal's music is driven by a simple yet elegant vision: "Everybody with a voice can sing, and everyone with a breath in their body can experience their divinity. Mantras are rapidly becoming the music of choice for people seeking solace in sound, and Deva Premal, dubbed by one reviewer as "the Enya of mantra," is the voice they're turning to. At the end of the page is a link to Deva Premal and Miten's website, and links to some free songs you can download. That may be what touches people.”īelow is a selection of recent CDs with sample mp3s. "Her voice is such a pure expression," says Miten, "there' Everyone was astounded by the sound of her voice, including Miten. One morning, Miten was sitting on the edge of his bed playing guitar when Deva Premal spontaneously began singing harmony with him. "We play to nourish a longing in the heart for that which never dies the experience of love and meditation."ĭeva Premal and Miten originally met at an ashram in India. S not a matter of entertaining people," says Miten. "Our music is born out of meditation and a celebration of life. Now Deva Premal and her partner Miten travel the world sharing their gift of mantra and yoga music with enraptured audiences. Singing mantras has been a passion for Deva Premal since growing up in a German home permeated with Eastern spirituality. My life has been shaped by mantras I have become their servant." - Deva Premal As a result, this album developed into a musical statement that we had not originally anticipated."I wake every morning feeling like I'm living in a miracle where spirituality, creativity, work, and love have all come to mean the same thing. Maybe it had something to do with our time in Byron Bay…the spirit of the vast untamed land of Australia is still wild and free, and it encouraged and challenged us to explore. Deva's voice became more transcendent, more 'there,' more ethereal. We found ourselves at the feet of the Great Musical Spirit, and we threw ourselves into its sublime mystery. ![]() Like raising children, you begin with great intentions and a pre-conceived idea as to how best support and nurture them – but, just like children, music is a living phenomenon, and it has ideas of its own, which we did our best to honour. Miten comments, “Every album has its own spirit. But, as the recording sessions unfolded, so did the musical expression. Mantras for Life was conceptually focused on supporting the listener on his or her journey into a committed meditation practice, and in its original intent had a minimalist approach to music. White Swan Records is now proud to announce the release of the third recording in this series, Mantras for Life. ![]() The Gyuto Monks are a tantric order of Tibetan Buddhism, and tantra’s deep, harmonious balance between masculine and feminine energies is profoundly illustrated on this intensely evocative album.īoth projects met with widespread success and captivated an ever-growing global base of fans interested in undertaking a daily meditation practice. ![]() It was followed in 2011 by the groundbreaking Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times, recorded with the Gyuto Monks – with whom a western woman had never before been afforded the privilege of chanting and recording. When Deva Premal and Miten recorded Mantras for Precarious Times in 2010, they saw it as the first in a series of albums offering thoughtfully curated selections of mantras chosen for particular applications in everyday life. ![]() Deva's contemporary interpretations of Sanskrit mantras have been forged ever since with the subtle and sensitive instrumental accompaniment of Miten and in recent years also of Nepalese bansuri flute maestro Manose. Raised in Germany to the sound of mantras, Deva Premal met UK rock musician Miten in India, at an Ashram where they both studied meditation. Based upon the tradition of Japa, a spiritual discipline centered upon the meditative repetition of mantra (in cycles of 108 recitations), Deva Premal and Miten invite the listener to join them in chant - and to utilize humanity's most powerful healing tool: the voice.įor nearly two decades, audiences around the world have flocked to concerts and collected the recordings of beloved mantra singers Deva Premal and Miten. Mantras for Life CD by Deva Premal and Miten with Manose on Nepalese flute includes chants to invoke very specific intentions, among them: for animal welfare for the blessing of children for poetry, music and learning for perfect timing for physical strength, and for the earth itself.
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