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deva premal & miten : Product Reviews
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| What People Are Saying |
"This is the music of earth angels, sublime and transcendent, divine longing held in every note. Listen with your third ear!"
–Gabrielle Roth
"Premal and Miten have a simple and clear message: In love all suffering and fear vanishes. Within the rapture of their music we are able to fall into the depths of our own hearts where love abides eternally. They are equally humble and bold as love. In their presence we are reminded of our own capacity for humility and bold love."
--Sharon Gannon, co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga Center, NYC
"Shima, Shima...Wonderful music. Please promise me you will sing this and The Other Side at my funeral." --Elizabeth Kuebler-Ross
“I love the music of Deva Premal and Miten. It is truly a portal into Presence. As you listen, the sacred space that lies beyond the mind emerges naturally and effortlessly. Pure magic. “ --Eckhart Tolle (author of The Power of Now)
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| Songs For The Inner Lover |
| A+ |
“With Miten in the forefront and Premal singing gorgeous harmonies, this is one beautiful, expansive, soothing and inspired CD. Miten is a Paul Simon calibre songwriter; here he mixes songs, chants & personal themes that are very universal. A+ on this one for 1st song alone...”
- Lloyd Barde, Lloyd’s Favorite Picks List, Backroads Music
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| Songs For The Inner Lover |
| Intimate & Joyful |
It has been six years since Miten last released a recording featuring his own songs and lead vocals. Six years in which he has played supporting partner to a trio of beautiful Deva Premal albums, performed for the Dalai Lama, and had seen his and Deva Premal's arrangement of the Gayatri Mantra covered by Cher.
As he sings on one of the tracks on his new album, Songs For The Inner Lover, he has "seen a lot of road." His albums with Deva Premal, his musical and life partner, are a tough act to follow but Songs for The Inner Lover emerges as a natural companion to The Essence, Love is Space, and Embrace, sharing their lush soundscapes and emotional swoops.
Yet Inner Lover is as singular a work as Miten has ever released and also his most intimate, full of a touching honesty and vulnerability. It starts sublimely with a cover of So Much Magnificence. The popular sing-along is transformed here into an elegiac hymn to nature and Spirit, slowed down and rebuilt around the vocal interplay between Miten and Premal. The moment when the wash of synths and piano give way to Miten's vocal is an extraordinary one, the sort of magical moment that happens all the time when Miten and Premal play live but is difficult to capture in the studio.
The two mantras on the disc, Sat Patim and Ishq' Allah, will be familiar to those who have attended the duo's voice celebrations. Sat Patim is a mantra for women to chant when looking for a life partner, and incorporates the mantra Om Shreem Shriyei Namaha, chanted by men to ask for more Shakti energy in their lives.
Ishq' Allah is the ancient Sufi chant [God is Love, The Lover, and The Beloved] transformed by Maneesh de Moor's arrangement into a silky contemporary testament to love and faith. Each feel like companions to Premal's mantra albums, sharing the same tapestry of harmony and rhythm.
However Inner Lover's finest moments come during Miten's originals. Vertical Reality features a terse bass line, adroit lyricism and the sort of chorus that reminds you that above all else Miten is a songwriter, a man who understands how to find a melody that embeds itself in your consciousness. Music to dance and feel to.
A pair of acoustic songs, Second Chance and Connection, find Miten at his most intimate. Recorded spontaneously in the studio one morning, they feature just him and guitar. They are honest, modest songs full of forgiveness and joy. When he sings during Second Chance to "forgive yourself for the things you tried and failed to do" the listener feels as if they are intruding on a performance almost too personal to commit to tape.
However the most powerful vocals come during Heartbeat, a simple song of thanks to his Master that is transformed by some remarkable singing. Here he reaches deep into himself for a performance as potent as anything he has ever recorded. When he sings of traveling "this winding road" you feel every inch of the way, the joy and, yes, even the need, for the gift he's received.
Miten has indeed seen a lot of musical road. His journey has taken him from the pared down acoustics of Strength Of A Rose, the dance rhythms of Global Heart Native Soul, the joyful funk-reggae of Dance Of Life and the singer-songwriter lyricism of Blown Away. However Songs For The Inner Lover brings together all four into a exhilarating whole.
When Miten advises on Second Chance to "pick up a musical instrument or plant a seed" you have to be glad that he chose to let someone else tend the garden, while he picked up his guitar and came forth with such beautiful, joyful and moving music.
- Paul Blake [Paul Blake is the editor at the new media company, 3. He was formerly Editorial Director of the web portal vnunet.com, and before that Editorial Director of Internet.com UK.]
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| Songs For The Inner Lover |
| Simply Magnificent |
Miten's newest CD, Songs For The Inner Lover, is simply magnificent, possibly his best ever.
This is pure vintage Miten - heartful, passionate, deep, devotional and soaring. Each song is a treat. We are now using the first song of the CD, Waves Are Coming In, in the final meditation of our workshops and his incredible love song, I Never Was Loved to inspire participants throughout the workshop to what is possible in love.
- Krishnananda {Author of the best-seller Face To Face With Fear and founder of personal growth and relationship seminars: Beyond Co-Dependency)
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| Satsang |
| Enchanting Music! |
A live recording from concerts by the serene, spirited duo of Miten and Deva Premal. While her beautiful chants are included, his love songs are also heard, and the combining of the two makes for a loving, perfect balance. All is offered in the spirit of meditation, as an hour-long program of song and silence. With Tibetan bells, humming, and extra space between selections, it works surprisingly well for healing, finding that simple space, and as respite from our busy lives.
Some past favorites from Premal's three previous masterpieces are heard. Equal parts Paul Simon, Sanskrit chants, spiritual lovesongs & divine coupling, this is enchanting music and the next best thing to being there!
- by Lloyd Barde, Common Ground, Marin County, California
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| Deva Premal's Music in the Movies |
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Walkout, a new HBO release that tells the true story of a group of Chicano students who staged a compelling 1968 walkout to protest the injustices of the public high-school system in East Los Angeles, features the mantra "Om Hraum Mitraya" from Deva Premal's Dakshina.
Director Edward James Olmos, who grew up in East Los Angeles and went on to a highly sucessful career as an actor and director, noted at a recent screening of Walkout that things have changed since his days in school, when violence and discrimination against Chicanos was rampant. But he added, "Not enough has changed. We still think there’s such a thing as a Latino race, an African race, a European race," and use that as a cultural determinant, "when there’s only one race: the human race."
The film's emotional climax uniquely illuminates this theme by using Deva Premal's rendition of the ancient Sanskrit mantra, "Om Hraum Mitraya", from her album Dakshina. Like Walkout, this mantra's message of friendship and respect implores us to realize that we are all one community, one family. That the theme of "Om Hraum Mitraya" so closely matches that of Walkout makes it an obvious choice for inclusion in the film. That Edward James Olmos selected a Sanskrit mantra for a film focused on Chicano issues highlights the universal principles inherent in each.
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