samjjana's previous three albums honour the raw simplicity of their unique instruments. With 'Follow your Bliss' it was time for immersion in the creative joy of multi layering, and to add vocals for the offering of many beautiful, powerful messages. 'Follow your Bliss' includes guest musicians, Jianwen (Nicholas Ng) ~ masterful on erhu and zhonghu; and Grammy Award winning percussionist, Carlos 'Tapado' Vargas ~ weaver of magical rhythms and sounds.
Being very different from their previous albums, 'Follow your Bliss' offers something quite fresh with unexpected elements, yet it still retains what makes samjjana's music so captivating ~ a delicate tapestry of unique sounds, soothing, nurturing simplicity and a blissful expanse in which to rest in the tranquility of Self.
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~ FOUR ALBUMS ~
Follow your Bliss (2011)
Peace Within (2010)
Elixir (2009)
Gently Now (2009)
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Ambient/Spiritual/New Age/ Instrumental ~ 19 tracks hang CD 60.36 minutes; 6 tracks bonus harp disc 15.34 minutes.
Printed on recycled cardboard using soy inks.
samjjana performs with a range of instruments, however, this album has been created to honour the many requests for an album just of the hang.
The extraordinary, enchanting ‘hang’ is a unique ‘sound sculpture’ ~ lovingly hand crafted into magical harmonic resonance by two intuitive, inspired Swiss artisans. Although contemporary, its sounds are ancient and timeless.
When played from the heart with attention and sensitivity, its purity and profound gentleness touch the listener deeply.
Opening and closing with the divine tones of Alchemy Crystal bowls, this album ~ and the bonus harp EP ~ offer exquisite, utter simplicity, caressing the soul and stilling the mind.
Released November 2010. More details/samples...
Review: Nexus Magazine "Exquisitely quietening."
'Gently Now' (2009) is a deeply soothing, hypnotic album, ideal for meditation, massage, yoga, birthing, natural therapies, relaxation and rejuvenation whether listened to intently or played in the background.
Released September 2009. More details/samples...
Review: Conscious Living Magazine
"Delicate, light and delightful...this album is designed to take you gently and peacefully into the realms of tranquility, meditation and a deep sense of well being...Each track is very individual, but linked together in a seamless harmony allowing a free flow of thought, sacredness, sound and joy to enter the soul."
Meditation/Ambient/Spiritual/New Age/Instrumental ~ 62.45 minutes ~ A continuously themed album. Printed on recycled cardboard using soy inks.
'Elixir' (2009) offers our ever-popular signature pieces of hang and D drone Native American Indian flute together, featured as first and last tracks ('Alchemy' and 'Advaita'). The alternating hang and flute pieces in between range from meditative and gentle (hang pieces like 'Grace' and 'Sattva' and flute pieces like 'The Peace of Dawn' and 'Canyon Echo') through to more dynamic tracks (evocative and powerful flute pieces like 'Vision Quest' and 'The Calling').
Released September 2009
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Review: Conscious Living Magazine
"Gentle, simple melodies strung together to form a divine and soul reaching album...Samjjana has delivered an album that is as far reaching and timeless as magic. Refreshing and delightful, peaceful and relaxing, dip into the tranquility presented through sound and melody."
Ambient/Spiritual/New Age/ Instrumental ~ 56.50 minutes ~ 15 tracks
peace within
elixir
gently now
"I have used samjjana's music in yoga class and also on our last retreat and it is fabulous, so resonant and peaceful. It really is quite magical...if you want music to relax to or for 'healing arts' it is perfect - a really slow tempo, hard to find!"
Kathleen, www.beyourself.com.au (Australia)
"I love the CDs! They are so so beautiful, so powerful and filled with love that I was in tears when I heard them."
Prema Diaz (Costa Rica)
"We love your CDs and they are getting played constantly at the moment! We are really happy that you will be playing at our wedding and now that we are getting close to the birth of our baby we have loaded both CDs onto our ipod in readiness for the day!"
Colin & Melissa (Australia)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
follow your bliss
NEW ALBUM!
December 2011
'Follow your Bliss' celebrates the magical unfolding of the highest potential of humanity ~ an enchanting journey of expansion, transcendence, awakening and bliss.
In this concept double album, their fourth album, Pratika-Sahayak and Maia offer divinely inspired original compositions, improvisations, instrumentals, soulful harmonies and chants ~ interwoven with inspired words from illumined beings.
The album features the ethereal 'hang'; exquisite swarmandal, harp, sansula and Alchemy crystal bowls; and haunting Native American Indian, Bansuri and Shakuhachi flutes.
Double album, one hour, 40 minutes.
Printed on recycled cardboard using soy inks.
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