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Deva Premal & the Gyuto Monks of Tibet have created a powerful, deeply moving mantra meditation album, offering eight Tibetan mantras chanted 108 times each. As Deva notes, this album arose out of her “personal desire to chant with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet. Their incredible voices, infused with such a deep immersion into the holy Sound, create a perfect tool for personal mantra practice.
Deva is accompanied on cello by Grammy Award winner David Darling. Kit Walker (producer of Deva’s bestselling Love is Space and Embrace) plays keyboards and Manose, longtime and current accompanist to Deva Premal & Miten, is also featured, on bansuri.
The handsome packaging includes notes from Deva and from the Gyuto Monks on how to best use these mantras for a personal meditation practice. This album is a must-have for anyone interested in Mantra Practice, as well as for those who simply want to take a ride on a soulful, sound-healing trip, with Deva, the Gyuto Monks, and three great musicians.
All of Deva's proceeds from this CD are directed to the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, the Phowa Project, and Veggiyana.
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Artist BioDeva Premal Deva Premal grew up in Germany in a spiritual family where she was introduced at an early age to chanting and meditation. Her mother is a musician and her father an artist.
"My father has been on the spiritual path since the 50's, studying Yoga, spiritual scriptures and whatever books were available back then, making it his daily discipline to meditate every morning between three and five am," she says.
"When I was growing up he devised exercises for my sister and I, to help us become more aware of the moment: We were taught to say 'Om' whenever we placed something on the table, for example. Another was to say 'Ram' whenever we switched on the light!"
As a child she studied the violin and piano but it wasn't until she met Miten, at the Osho Commune in India, that she began exploring her voice.
"When Miten began encouraging me to sing harmony with him, I didn't need a big push! I had grown up with music so the ground work was already done. And we sounded pretty good together! At first I played a supporting role, singing second voice, playing keyboards, and co-leading our workshops, which used mantras and chants from different cultures. I was very shy to sing alone, but encouraged by Miten, I became more confident and eventually discovered my voice."
 | Episode Description | Episode Date | Download | | Special Guests: Deva Premal and Miten | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |  | | Special Guest: Deva Premal and Miten | Thursday, February 17, 2011 | |  The Monks of Gyuto developed and perfected a distinctive multiphonic chant, in which each monk sings not a single note but what sounds like an entire chord. “This remarkable, transcendentally beautiful sound,” notes Robert Thurman, religious scholar at Columbia University, “is thought to arise only from the throat of a person who has realized selfless wisdom.” The monks have toured periodically throughout the world and have released several recordings, the most recent of which is Tibetan Chants for World Peace |
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