108 Sacred Names Of Mother Divine

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Craig Pruess is one of the few session musicians, conductors and composers active in the UK music scene who has mastered and synthesised three great musical traditions of the world: Western classical and contemporary, Indian classical, and African music.His credits are extensive and impressive: two UK number one film scores for "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Bride & Prejudice", plus art films,"The Mistress of Spices","What's Cooking." and "Bhaji on the Beach".He has scored some of the most successful independent TV drama series in UK history ("Peak Practise" for ITV), and arranged and conducted orchestras for Massive Attack, Def Leppard, Bond and Sir Cliff Richard, including composing the number one UK chart hit single at the Millennium,"Two Worlds"(the double A side to Sir Cliff's "The "Millennium Prayer"- a million seller in the UK).As a session musician and Indian music consultant, Craig has played sitar on the Manic Street Preacher's number one UK album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours"(on the track "Tsunami").Craig has created the Indian music colours (playing sitar, tambura, swaramandala - zither) for the Johnny Depp, Tim Burton film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the Harry Potter film "The Goblet of Fire", the Madonna film "The Next Best Thing", the Heather Graham film "The Guru", and most recently "Shoot on Sight" with Greta Scacchi.Other keyboard and sitar session work has included Elton John, Mike Oldfield, Katie Melua, Gareth Gates, Selena Jones, Joe Cocker and Japan.Craig is an accredited yoga/meditation teacher for the international Art of Living Foundation, and regularly stages music/meditation concerts/experiences internationally.He has performed for the Dalai Lama, at the WOMAD Festival in the UK, Glastonbury Festival, and also for Prince Charles (an exclusive and private concert at the Prince's home in 2004).His original ground-breaking albums "Sacred Chants of Shiva","Sacred Chants of Buddha" and "The 108 Sacred Names of Mo...