Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 22, 2005 16:06:08 GMT 1
Crispian Mills posted this message on his new bands (T he Jeevas) website...it makes interesting reading...
Dear Friends,
Welcome to a new year, and a new chapter in the uncertain life of our planet; and since nothing seems to be as uncertain as when the next news will arrive on our web site, here’s a quick hello and a LONG overdue update on musical goings on. As you have all probably heard by now, we’ve been hard at it, producing a new record, bulging with strange and wonderful collaborations, and heavily dosed with large pinches of fairy dust.
The album is a collection of traditional chants, songs and meditations from the Bhakti tradition of ancient India. But hang on there- suspend any worrying preconceptions you might have; this is not a typical fluffy pink clouds, crystals and yoga mat album. Not even slightly. In fact it’s a full-blown close encounter of the 23rd kind, complete with panoramic, ambient soundscapes, unbridled psychedelia, traditional folk songs, peppered with maximum rock and roll.
We three Jeevas, played on three of the eleven tracks, perfecting a new sound, a synthesis of Country music and Indian chants, called "Country & Eastern", which by some miracle of harmonics, actually works; adding to the excitement, we were lucky enough to have the great Pretender, Chrissie Hynde sing on the track with us. The record also features performances by kids from the School of New Braja, all of whom are amazingly talented, trained singers of Indian devotional music, whom I got together with in California last June, to record the first tracks for the album. We were also honoured by the quiet genius of Mark Pritchard, Jedi-Knight, AKA Troubleman, who produced one track; and lastly, but not leastly, the album features a whacked out new track performed by a reunited Kula Shaker.
It’s not yet confirmed which mad-person is going to distribute the record at present, but discussions are in progress, and we hope to have it released by springtime. What’s clear is that it’s going to be a real ‘one-off’. The world could definitely benefit from a strong hit of transcendental sound vibration right now, methinks.
In the meantime, I wish you all the best. Apologies are in much order for the lack of activity to the website… you are very patient and, I dare say, quite used to it.
Hope everybody is doing okay, and y’all being good to each other. As Jon Bon Jovi likes to remind us, "Keep the Faith".
Keep taking the Peace
Love
Crispian x
Dear Friends,
Welcome to a new year, and a new chapter in the uncertain life of our planet; and since nothing seems to be as uncertain as when the next news will arrive on our web site, here’s a quick hello and a LONG overdue update on musical goings on. As you have all probably heard by now, we’ve been hard at it, producing a new record, bulging with strange and wonderful collaborations, and heavily dosed with large pinches of fairy dust.
The album is a collection of traditional chants, songs and meditations from the Bhakti tradition of ancient India. But hang on there- suspend any worrying preconceptions you might have; this is not a typical fluffy pink clouds, crystals and yoga mat album. Not even slightly. In fact it’s a full-blown close encounter of the 23rd kind, complete with panoramic, ambient soundscapes, unbridled psychedelia, traditional folk songs, peppered with maximum rock and roll.
We three Jeevas, played on three of the eleven tracks, perfecting a new sound, a synthesis of Country music and Indian chants, called "Country & Eastern", which by some miracle of harmonics, actually works; adding to the excitement, we were lucky enough to have the great Pretender, Chrissie Hynde sing on the track with us. The record also features performances by kids from the School of New Braja, all of whom are amazingly talented, trained singers of Indian devotional music, whom I got together with in California last June, to record the first tracks for the album. We were also honoured by the quiet genius of Mark Pritchard, Jedi-Knight, AKA Troubleman, who produced one track; and lastly, but not leastly, the album features a whacked out new track performed by a reunited Kula Shaker.
It’s not yet confirmed which mad-person is going to distribute the record at present, but discussions are in progress, and we hope to have it released by springtime. What’s clear is that it’s going to be a real ‘one-off’. The world could definitely benefit from a strong hit of transcendental sound vibration right now, methinks.
In the meantime, I wish you all the best. Apologies are in much order for the lack of activity to the website… you are very patient and, I dare say, quite used to it.
Hope everybody is doing okay, and y’all being good to each other. As Jon Bon Jovi likes to remind us, "Keep the Faith".
Keep taking the Peace
Love
Crispian x
