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News on August 15th, 2010

Preview the 12 songs on my upcoming CD, “Sacred Love.”

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I played the Taylor GS-6 on my Shambhu “Sacred Love” CD which is being released in September. I visited the Taylor Guitar factory in El Cajon, CA and found a beautiful 816-CE acoustic-electric for my live performances. Here’s some video from that visit.

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News on July 31st, 2010

Here’s a fun, informative visit with my good friend Lloyd Barde, music editor at Common Ground magazine, who also wrote my Shambhu “Sacred Love” CD liner notes.  Watch here.

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Watch the Mix Session. I wanted to get into all the nuances involved with mixing so if it’s a bit too much, forgive me.

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This includes the recording of Nirab Amare, a beautiful song with Premik Tubbs. We recorded this outside with the birds singing. Give a listen…  Watch here

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My friend George Brooks introduced me to Brazilian drummer Celso Alberti who added some hot drum tracks to Maui Breeze and Together. Celso really hit this one outa the park and it’s blending nicely with the organic percussion tracks already performed by Jeff Haynes. Lots of fun in store for us during the mix. We [...]

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News on May 21st, 2010

I’m all about peace. I believe future success and prosperity in our world depends on how effectively we come together as a people and solve the issues that divide us by border, religion, culture and ethnicity. We are all in life together. We are really one heart. And every day we have a chance to [...]

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News on May 8th, 2010

On Friday I had the opportunity to record at Imaginary Road Studio with cellist and composer Eugene Friesen. Eugene Friesen is a 3-time Grammy Award winner for his work with the Paul Winter Consort. He’s a graduate of the Yale School of Music and currently teaches at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. With [...]

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News on May 5th, 2010

I had a great time in the studio on May 4th with Tony Levin who tracked his sweet bass playing on five songs from my upcoming CD, “Sacred Love.” All I can say is, “Wow!!” Lovely guy and a pleasure to work with. See some moments from the session in the video below with producer [...]

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Last week I had the incredible opportunity to record world flutist Ravichandra Kulur on my CD while he was in town performing with Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar. Ravi played on two tunes – Call to Spirit and an improv that I recorded at Imaginary Road two weeks ago. My good friend and east/west [...]

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