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		BEYOND THE REACH OF TIME Beyond the Reach is Mindia's newest recording and represents her most powerful excursion into the realms of Indo Jazz. Joined by jazz master adpets Joshua Rosen on grand piano and Kash Killion on bass, cello and sarangi, the three musicians go into unchartered territory creating a purely original 'masala' (mix) while clearly referencing the riches of western jazz and classical forms, Indian and Balinese traditions. Four distinct compositions skillfully blend in differing degrees and proportions bansuri and silver flutes,tablas, African sacred bells, gongs and gangsas over multiphonic beds of chordal piano epiphanies, sarangi and cello string choruses and bass beats. The journey takes one through the underworld of a cornucopia of emotions, sensations and surprizes re emerging into a new world redolent with meanings.	RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2008 special order copies available now (NOT YET REVIEWED)
		QUIESSENCE Quiessence is 73 minutes of pure, liquid like sound of the bansuri flute flowing in uninterupted tonal brilliance. In 'Reappearance of Dawn' Mindia weaves a garland of ragas expressing the subtle moods and colors of the day from early dawn to midnight, retuning again to the dawning of a new day. 'Nightingales Prayer' blends multiple layers of bansuri flutes, braiding together strands of longing, hope and beauty into a harmonic, contrapointal tapestry of resonance and vibratory color. In 'Moonlight Embrace', Mindia renders raga 'Yaman Kalyan', a devotional raga of the early evening. It's mood of prayerlike tranquility unfolds in an embrace of zithers and tambouras rapping itself ecstatically around you. A listening experience redolant with luscious, sensual, devotional romance.	REVIEWS *"The bansuri flute of Mindia . . great stuff . . sounds like a dove whistling in a forest of strings"* -Phil Elwood, JAZZ CRITIC, S.F. EXAMINER "{Mindia's music}..hauntingly pure .. extra-ordinary improvisations .. perfect for meditation, message, joyous celebratory dancing .. fills the heart .. simply and completely with devotional love."- Steve Ryals, NEW AGE RETAILER
		BALINESE DREAM BALINESE DREAM was created while Mindia was immersed in travels and studies with master musicians in Bali and India. Each composition reflects a feast of musical traditions, textures and impressions of Bali, India and China. Partially recorded live on Bali, village, jungle and ocean sounds blend with Balinese gamelan, Indian bansuri, esraj, sarode, sitar tablas, silver flute, guitar and piano. A chours of basso profundo frogs accompanies a passing gamelan temple procession. A waft of Kechak, the exhilarating Balinese Monkey chant, pierces the air and fades away into a twilight raga echoing live from the Taj Mahal. A stunning bouquet of exotic rhythms, mysterious tonalities and shimmering melodic episodes.	REVIEWS "It is rare to find East and West so harmoniously blended." - Pico Iyer, AUTHOR & TRAVEL WRITER "One of the East/West melds that really work." -Bob Tarte, THE BEAT MAGAZINE
		*RAGINI* FLUTED VOICE OF THE GODDESS Ragini's are ' female' ragas. These pure, sublime melody forms originating in ancient India are meant to express the essence of feminine energy. *'RAGINI'* is 50 minutes of melifluous, sparkling bansuri flute music by Mindia Devi with Dana Pandey, a disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain, on tabla, the Indian drums. You will hear classical ragas and bhajans (divine love songs) to Durga, the fierce protector Goddess, and Bhairavi, the quintessential Earth Mother Goddess. Both uptempo and contemplative, expressing deep pathos, playfullness, devotion and peace, RAGINI evokes a surrendering to the joys of meditative union.	ReviewsR "Listening to RAGINI..an ecstasy arises within the soul; like a mother running a soft and calming hand over the feverished brow of a child." -Nandini Pal, INDIA POST *"As World Music producer for KPFA, I review dozens of CD's a week. RAGINI stands apart..a pure, uplifting music that feeds your soul!"* -Sandy Miranda, KPFA PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK
		NATURAL RHYTHMS by ANCIENT FUTURE Featuring MINDIA DEVI on Silver & Bansuri Flutes & Balinese Gamelan - Natural Rhythms is one of the first ever recordings to win an award in the field of World Music by the 'National Association of Independent Record Distributors'. Now considered a classic, this is also perhaps the first recording to utilize authentic Balinese Gamelan instruments within the context of a non-gamelan tradition. Spurred on by recordings made with indiginous FROGS in 'Valley of the Moon' Sonoma County, California, Klein and Montfort discovered the Balinese also having an artistic love affair with the multitudes of aria singing, Tibetan Chanting frogs of the Balinese rice patties. While in Bali they continued playing and recording with the frogs and other Natural Elements integrating guitars, sitars, sarods, bansuri & silver flutes, zithers, tablas and other instruments into this truly lush, sensuous, and rhythmically charged soundscape.	Reviews "Ancient Future is one of the most artistically promising of yong acoustic ensembles to emerge from the Bay Area" -THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, Berkeley, California "Mindia's bansuri flute ... a performance so breathtakingly lovely, I'm grateful for the puffs of breath between phrasings as proof that this isn't interspecies jamming with an ethereal lifeform". - Bob Tarte, THE BEAT MAGAZINE "Two sides of highly pleasing instrumental music that will ... intrigue fans of such 'trance' music pioneers as (Steve) Reich, (Philip) Glass and Brian Eno. As beautiful as it is quietly reassuring." Blair Jackson, BAM MAGAZINE
		VISIONS OF A PEACEFUL PLANET by ANCIENT FUTURE Featuring MINDIA DEVI on Silver & Bansuri Flutes & Balinese Gamelan V.O.A.P.P. was Ancient Future's ground breaking first recording. The first East-West fusion album to be released by students of legendary Indian classical music Maestro USTAD ALI AKBAR KHAN, V.O.A.P.P. has a level of vitality and innocence matched only by its deeply lucid sensitivity and instinct for beauty. The recording has become a classic as each composition holds the listener in a a rapture of timeless 'RASA' and transendence. As the poem in the liner notes by Mindia Devi affirmed 'THE ANCIENT FUTURE IS A PLACE, IN OUR HEARTS WHERE WE DWELL IN ETERNAL EMBRACE'.	ReviewsRP "By listing the instruments involved in this wonderful, worldly recording project one can imagine the aural possibilities - sitar, steel-string guitar with scalloped fretboard, silver and North Indian bamboo flute, tabla, cumbal, zither, sarod, flamenco guitar, Irish harop, tanpura, etc." " The first thing that makes this recording a delight is the instrumental blending ...a kaleidoscope of beautiful sounds. 'MORNING SONG' (by Mindia Devi Klein) ..is based on Indian instruments, the Bansuri flute of Klen over a harmonic bed of sitar, tabla, sarod, zither, and tanpura: GREAT STUFF - sounds like a dove whistling in a forest of stringed instruments." - Philip Elwood - SAN FRANCSICO EXAMINER "This music exemplifies how ideas developed in cultures separated by politics, distance and time can be combined to create a unity of the best of many cultures." - WEST COAST NEWS, Northern California

BEYOND THE REACH OF TIME

Beyond the Reach is Mindia's newest recording and represents her most powerful excursion into the realms of Indo Jazz. Joined by jazz master adpets Joshua Rosen on grand piano and Kash Killion on bass, cello and sarangi, the three musicians go into unchartered territory creating a purely original 'masala' (mix) while clearly referencing the riches of western jazz and classical forms, Indian and Balinese traditions. Four distinct compositions skillfully blend in differing degrees and proportions bansuri and silver flutes,tablas, African sacred bells, gongs and gangsas over multiphonic beds of chordal piano epiphanies, sarangi and cello string choruses and bass beats. The journey takes one through the underworld of a cornucopia of emotions, sensations and surprizes re emerging into a new world redolent with meanings.

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2008

special order copies available now

(NOT YET REVIEWED)

QUIESSENCE

Quiessence is 73 minutes of pure, liquid like sound of the bansuri flute flowing in uninterupted tonal brilliance. In 'Reappearance of Dawn' Mindia weaves a garland of ragas expressing the subtle moods and colors of the day from early dawn to midnight, retuning again to the dawning of a new day. 'Nightingales Prayer' blends multiple layers of bansuri flutes, braiding together strands of longing, hope and beauty into a harmonic, contrapointal tapestry of resonance and vibratory color. In 'Moonlight Embrace', Mindia renders raga 'Yaman Kalyan', a devotional raga of the early evening. It's mood of prayerlike tranquility unfolds in an embrace of zithers and tambouras rapping itself ecstatically around you. A listening experience redolant with luscious, sensual, devotional romance.

REVIEWS

"The bansuri flute of Mindia . . great stuff . . sounds like a dove whistling in a forest of strings"

-Phil Elwood, JAZZ CRITIC, S.F. EXAMINER

"{Mindia's music}..hauntingly pure .. extra-ordinary improvisations .. perfect for meditation, message, joyous celebratory dancing .. fills the heart .. simply and completely with devotional love."- Steve Ryals, NEW AGE RETAILER

BALINESE DREAM

BALINESE DREAM was created while Mindia was immersed in travels and studies with master musicians in Bali and India. Each composition reflects a feast of musical traditions, textures and impressions of Bali, India and China. Partially recorded live on Bali, village, jungle and ocean sounds blend with Balinese gamelan, Indian bansuri, esraj, sarode, sitar tablas, silver flute, guitar and piano. A chours of basso profundo frogs accompanies a passing gamelan temple procession. A waft of Kechak, the exhilarating Balinese Monkey chant, pierces the air and fades away into a twilight raga echoing live from the Taj Mahal. A stunning bouquet of exotic rhythms, mysterious tonalities and shimmering melodic episodes.

REVIEWS

"It is rare to find East and West so harmoniously blended."

- Pico Iyer, AUTHOR & TRAVEL WRITER

"One of the East/West melds that really work."

-Bob Tarte, THE BEAT MAGAZINE

RAGINI FLUTED VOICE OF THE GODDESS

Ragini's are ' female' ragas. These pure, sublime melody forms originating in ancient India are meant to express the essence of feminine energy. 'RAGINI' is 50 minutes of melifluous, sparkling bansuri flute music by Mindia Devi with Dana Pandey, a disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain, on tabla, the Indian drums. You will hear classical ragas and bhajans (divine love songs) to Durga, the fierce protector Goddess, and Bhairavi, the quintessential Earth Mother Goddess. Both uptempo and contemplative, expressing deep pathos, playfullness, devotion and peace, RAGINI evokes a surrendering to the joys of meditative union.

ReviewsR

"Listening to RAGINI..an ecstasy arises within the soul; like a mother running a soft and calming hand over the feverished brow of a child." -Nandini Pal, INDIA POST

"As World Music producer for KPFA, I review dozens of CD's a week. RAGINI stands apart..a pure, uplifting music that feeds your soul!"

-Sandy Miranda, KPFA PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK

NATURAL RHYTHMS by ANCIENT FUTURE

Featuring MINDIA DEVI on Silver & Bansuri Flutes & Balinese Gamelan - Natural Rhythms is one of the first ever recordings to win an award in the field of World Music by the 'National Association of Independent Record Distributors'. Now considered a classic, this is also perhaps the first recording to utilize authentic Balinese Gamelan instruments within the context of a non-gamelan tradition. Spurred on by recordings made with indiginous FROGS in 'Valley of the Moon' Sonoma County, California, Klein and Montfort discovered the Balinese also having an artistic love affair with the multitudes of aria singing, Tibetan Chanting frogs of the Balinese rice patties. While in Bali they continued playing and recording with the frogs and other Natural Elements integrating guitars, sitars, sarods, bansuri & silver flutes, zithers, tablas and other instruments into this truly lush, sensuous, and rhythmically charged soundscape.

Reviews

"Ancient Future is one of the most artistically promising of yong acoustic ensembles to emerge from the Bay Area"

-THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN, Berkeley, California

"Mindia's bansuri flute ... a performance so breathtakingly lovely, I'm grateful for the puffs of breath between phrasings as proof that this isn't interspecies jamming with an ethereal lifeform".

- Bob Tarte, THE BEAT MAGAZINE

"Two sides of highly pleasing instrumental music that will ... intrigue fans of such 'trance' music pioneers as (Steve) Reich, (Philip) Glass and Brian Eno. As beautiful as it is quietly reassuring."

Blair Jackson, BAM MAGAZINE

VISIONS OF A PEACEFUL PLANET

by ANCIENT FUTURE

Featuring MINDIA DEVI on Silver & Bansuri Flutes & Balinese Gamelan V.O.A.P.P. was Ancient Future's ground breaking first recording. The first East-West fusion album to be released by students of legendary Indian classical music Maestro USTAD ALI AKBAR KHAN, V.O.A.P.P. has a level of vitality and innocence matched only by its deeply lucid sensitivity and instinct for beauty. The recording has become a classic as each composition holds the listener in a a rapture of timeless 'RASA' and transendence. As the poem in the liner notes by Mindia Devi affirmed 'THE ANCIENT FUTURE IS A PLACE, IN OUR HEARTS WHERE WE DWELL IN ETERNAL EMBRACE'.

ReviewsRP

"By listing the instruments involved in this wonderful, worldly recording project one can imagine the aural possibilities - sitar, steel-string guitar with scalloped fretboard, silver and North Indian bamboo flute, tabla, cumbal, zither, sarod, flamenco guitar, Irish harop, tanpura, etc."

" The first thing that makes this recording a delight is the instrumental blending ...a kaleidoscope of beautiful sounds. 'MORNING SONG' (by Mindia Devi Klein) ..is based on Indian instruments, the Bansuri flute of Klen over a harmonic bed of sitar, tabla, sarod, zither, and tanpura: GREAT STUFF - sounds like a dove whistling in a forest of stringed instruments."

- Philip Elwood - SAN FRANCSICO EXAMINER

"This music exemplifies how ideas developed in cultures separated by politics, distance and time can be combined to create a unity of the best of many cultures."

- WEST COAST NEWS, Northern California