Full Length Albums
Music to inspire presence in the Here and the Now. Rhythm-less explorations of raga on sarod, flute and piano.
Over ten million plays on Spotify. The ultimate raga relaxation music.
One of Paul McCartneys favourites. A joyful and unique blend of India and Ireland.
One of the first-ever albums for yoga practice, released twenty years ago and still a top-seller.
Mantras from the Upanishads with contemporary grooves from Chinmaya’s ‘Akasha’ project.
Chill-out with an Indian classical touch on sarod, bamboo flute, guitar and tabla.
Melodies by sitar maestro Niladri Kumar, produced by Chinmaya with light hip-hop beats and ambient, jazzy textures.
With vocalist and composer Sandeep Srivastav, his and Chinmaya’s tribute to the songs of some of India’s famous mystics.
Chinmaya explores the Chinese/Tibetan tradition on a range of instruments from santoor, to harp, penny whistle to Spanish guitar, with a Celtic touch.
Chinmaya’s tribute to the Earth’s wild places, featuring a kaleidoscope of musicians from Israel, Hawai’I, Japan, India, Crete and more.
A selection of Chinmaya’s best released on New Earth Records between 1998 and 2005
Evocative melodies on sarod, with rich supporting textures from a wide range of instruments.
Indian slide guitar and bamboo flute play Indian classical themes over smooth backgrounds and relaxing grooves on clay pot and Spanish guitar.
FRAGRANCE OF THE EAST
Chinmaya with his Celtic Rags Band, a re-release combining the best of two albums of uplifting East-West fusion. One live at the ‘Concerts for India’s Environment’ in Pune, India in 2004, the other a studio follow-up.
Chinmaya’s ‘Akasha’ project. Mantras with contemporary instrumentation plus various Indian acoustic instruments.
Rare and unreleased recordings marking Chinmaya’s quarter century (1990-2015) as a recording artist.
THE BELOVED
Chinmaya’s ‘Bhakti’ project puts Indian devotional bhajans to East-West fusion backing.
Chinmaya’s songs to nature and mystery, composed and sung in 1996/7. Free listen and download on Soundcloud
Four CDs released on this German label in the ‘90’s. Long out of print and now hard to find.
Two CDs made in ‘90/91 with Prem Joshua, Ravi Freeman and others. Now collector’s items.
Singles
(single 2018) Song in 7/8 time based on a poem by medieval Punjabi mystic Bulleh Shah with rock instrumentation
Song with a Latin feel and based on the poem by Rabindranath Tagore, in which a new mother gazes in wonder at her first-born.
Based on ‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy, the music is a swing fusion using Western and Indian instrumentation. With Auckland’s ‘Grateful Dads’ band.
(2013)
Chinmaya’s first ‘rock’ single, his lyrics provoking some unsettling insights into our self-awareness. Free download on Soundcloud.
RIVER SUITE (2019)
An instrumental based on classical guitar and strings. Inspired by Devon’s River Dart
Danceable rock single, with lyrics all based on titles of books by Osho
