Category: Featured Music

MUSIC FOR SAROD AND TABLA

Manish Vyas on tabla Rag Rageshri. Live in Buddha hall, Pune, sometime in the early ’90s. (31m)Rag Chandrnandan Alaap. Hamburg 1986. (3.25)Rag Shivranjani in Teental. live at BVIEER, Pune, 2004. (6.13)Rag Shivranjani in 7/8. Hamburg 1994 with Freidmar Hitzer (violin) (4.15)

LATIHAN and PRAYER with AMANO MANISH

In 2000, at the Osho Commune in Pune, I was lucky enough to engineer and record this music, composed by Amano Manish, for live ‘Mahamudra’ meditation. The two long tracks feature Manish Vyas on keyboards and Bikramjit Singh on bansuri. Supporting musicians were Murti on...

SPIRAL DANCE (1993)

Spotify Apple Music Amazon In 1992 Chinmaya got together with Persian musician Sangit Sirus (violin, oud, sitar and percussion) and producer Sangit Om (flute) in North Germany to make a whirling CD for Nightingale Records. Bengali Babu (also featured on Terra Incognita ‘No Goal but...

FENG SHUI (1996)

Spotify Apple Music Amazon Chinmaya Dunster (sarod, guitar, zither)Sadhu Bolland (accordion, vocals, swarmandel and piano), Manish Vyas (tabla, harmonium, vocals, swarmandel, vibraphone and santoor) Nandin Baker (flute, piccolo) Sangit Om (flutes, keyboards and dilruba),Henrik Gumoes (percussion) Andreas Bother (clarinet),Naman M.Leuschner (trumpet) and Friedmar Hitzer (violin).Produced...

SECRET STORIES

SONGS FROM THE SANDS OF TIME Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of...

THE BHAKTI PROJECT (2001)

WITH GERHARD FANKHAUSER 1: Hari Bol2: Govinda Jai Jai3: Sita Ram4: Nama Shivaya5: Jai Ambe6: Aum Jai Jagadisha Hare7: Taranana Modern sounds and rhythms blend with traditional Indian chants, many of which have survived almost unchanged for hundreds of years, gathering layers of meanings and...

RAGAS RELAX 2 CHILL MIXES

Chinmaya Dunster with Abhirama Sangeet and Sean O’Bryan Smith Multi-instrumentalist Chinmaya Dunster originally created the project Ragas Relax 2 as a duet with himself during Covid lockdown in 2020. His trademark sarod providing original melodies based on Indian classical ragas ,while his guitar work introduces...

CELTISTAN JOURNEY

A four-track EP of light Electronic Dance Music grooves, reinventing some of my favourite melodies from the ’90s/early 2000s. Spotify Apple Amazon TRACK LIST1. KONARK REDISCOVERED Spotify Apple Music Amazon SoundcloudBased on ‘Konark’ a melody first recorded on my 2002 album ‘Sacred Temples of India‘....