Category: Music Blog

MAUI 1997-2002 MAKING MUSIC AROUND OSHO’S MUSICIANS Part 2

I arrive in June from Pune via South Africa, broke and in a troubled relationship. I’ve got my room back in Shastro’s house and am given a little box room off the garage to use as a studio. Anugama loans me an eight track recorder and a funny little drum machine which displays “bummer dude” whenever I make one of my frequent blunders in using it. I stuff the room with borrowed instruments, most of which I’ve never played before – Celtic harp, santoor, bass, keyboards – as well as my trusty sarod and embark on what I plan to be a follow up to the previous year’s ‘Celtic Ragas’ album.

Hindustani Classical Music: a Muslim-Hindu Orgasm

A warm spring night in New Delhi, April 1979. I’m seated on carpets under a cavernous and brightly-coloured marquee set up in a park. Around me a no-less brightly-coloured crowd eats fried snacks, attends to straggling infants and periodically calls out approval to some particularly...

‘TERRA INCOGNITA’ My first CD recording, 1990 Munich.

2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of my first-ever CD: Terra Incognita – ‘No Goal But the Path’.  Here are extracts from my diaries of the time. As background I should explain that with my German partner Rasamaya, I had flown into Munich in early spring...

The Sarod

The sarod is a Hindustani classical instrument (often said to be the ‘male’ to the sitar’s ‘female’), which has its roots in the Afghan rabab. In the 19th century the rabab was put through an Indian transformation: its gut strings replaced with steel; its wooden...

My first-ever Live Concerts in UK

A sell-out concert at Assbburton Arts and another at Malvern Cube just completed. We covered thirty years of my recording history, from early Indian Classical, through East-West fusion, new songs I composed in New Zealand last year and some guest performances from band members (and...

TWENTY YEARS WITH NEW EARTH RECORDS

WE MADE A POST OUT OF THIS IN THE CATEGORY ‘MUSIC’ It will soon be my 20th anniversary with New Earth Records and, as they are releasing my first ever compilation CD ‘Land of the Buddhas’, I feel it is time to have a glance...

TWENTY YEARS WITH NEW EARTH RECORDS

(2010) It will soon be my 20th anniversary with New Earth Records and, as they are releasing my first ever compilation CD ‘Land of the Buddhas’, I feel it is time to have a glance backwards. It all began in 1990 (when NER was Tao...