Category: Music Blog

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.

1997 the birth of CELTIC RAGAS I arrive from India in the spring of 1997 at the invitation of Shastro, whom I’d met in the music department at the Osho Commune in Pune. I join eight sannyasins living in two houses on his two acres...