April 19, 2008

• I graduated from DBT!!
  No more Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 to 11:50 am!

  My brother and sister-in-law took me here

  

  for dinner!  Had the famous Monte Christo sandwich—mmm, good!
  They have wonderful French Onion soup.  For dessert I had the Brownie thing.
  They have Death by Chocolate, but it sounded like a little much!  I brought half of the sandwich home.  We had a great time.  Trisha’s cousins Scott and Brian came along,
  as well as Brian’s girlfriend, Anne.  It was really busy on a Friday night.

  Goddess Chants
  by Padma
  Previ
  2005

  A talented singer from the West who discovered her inner passion
  for yoga as a young visitor to Mumbai, Padma Previ is the best sort of New Age
  music artist. Never straying too far into either the earthly or purely spiritual
  realm, she offers a hand on either side of the veil, mixing down-to-earth
  vibrancy with crystalline beauty, the music of a true dweller on the threshold,
  a trickster dancer in the flame who brings earth to sky and sky to earth.
  Goddess Chants functions as a heart-soothing backdrop to one’s earthbound
  life, organically steering its listeners to their inner centers of calm, while
  still (sort of) rocking out on occasion.

  That rocking out you can hear
  best in sinuously, slow, and gyrating jams like “Ganairindrasya,” a heady mix of
  Indian, Middle Eastern, and—if you let your headphones take you deep
  enough—1970s Western rock flavors. Deep bass, psychedelic sitars, crashing
  cymbals, and fading echoes of Gobi desert winds provide the Bolero-style
  backdrop for the sexy and mystical vocalizations, which are Previ’s unique gift
  to the world. Under the knowing third eye and ear of producer J. Deere, the
  sound is full and rich throughout the soundscape. (He got his start producing
  Australian didgeridoo music, which is renowned for posing challenges in bass
  reproduction.)

  Similarly sexy is the opening track, “Om Shri Rama,”
  which carries Previ’s vocals into your speakers on an ornate caravan of moog
  synths, buzzing tamboura, and drum cymbal thunder. This relatively devotional
  chanting gives way to a more Westernized melody with “Om Shrim Swaha,” which
  opens on an eerie, childlike melody. Gradually, layers of Previ’s vocals slide
  in as glittering shadows in the dark, and the gongs and cymbals keep crashing,
  keep breaking up the inertialike accrual of ego and obsession. What Padma Previ
  has on Goddess Chants is one anklet-adorned foot in the genuine mystic,
  the raw archetypal energy that precedes symbols and language—and one without.
  With the help of some friends, she opens the doorway into our own possibility
  and hangs there, waiting for us to cross over or back when we would like,
  comforting like a mother, beguiling like a lover, and yearning like a seeker of
  the truth beyond all these illusory differences.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Om Shri Rama” “Om Shrim Swaha” “Ganairindrasya”

  Buy this CD

  

  Still waiting for the woman in Human Services, to set up an ‘overview’ for the data
  processing job I’ve mentioned before.  I am certainly anxious to find out more,
  and to know if I will be hired for the project!  I will let you know as I hear…

  

  Earthquakes in Tennessee?  Yes, this one occurred in Lawrenceberg.

  Enjoy your weekends, as best you can!
  Remember, happiness comes from within,
  not from things!

  I love you!!

  

  
  

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