Shashara

Product Description Sada Sat Kaur has followed up her Ajna Music debut chant sensation, Angels' Waltz, with another sublime collection of Gurmukhi mantra, Shashara. This time she's ventured even deeper into the cross pollination of western rock ambience and kundalini shakti energy. Sada Sat's mystical alto combines with an all-star cast of transcendent players and singers to create a CD that moves from whispered intimacy to choral gospel fever. Produced by Jeremy Toback and Chad Fischer (Garden State Soundtrack), Shashara features sublime vocal counterpoint from Paula Cole, ethereal organ work from Rami Jaffee (The Wallflowers), & ambient guitar textures from Greg Leisz (kd lang & Bill Frisell). But what makes the CD so special is the way these great artists let their deeply individual voices merge to serve the greater whole of Sada Sat Kaur's trance inducing devotion. About the Artist Sada Sat's name represents within yogic circles the alchemy of everyday custom turned into high art. For over 30 years she has toured the world, chanting mantras and singing kirtan in ashrams, concert halls, schools and public parks. In India, audiences have been known to flock to her as if she were the Beatles. 'We play to crowds of 200,000 people,' she says. For decades that sea of people has never managed to hoist Sada Sat Kaur toward a recording studio, until now. 'The feeling inside myself was that this was all going to happen when it was supposed to happen,' she says, 'and it did.' She grew up in New Jersey and graduated from New York University in the pivotal year of 1969; it wasn't long before she underwent a series of quick and dramatic changes. Watching the concert movie Woodstock, Sada Sat caught a brief glimpse of a man teaching Kundalini Yoga. As she puts it, 'I had to know what that was.' Under the guidance of her teacher, Yogi Bhajan, she soon found herself drawn to the naad, the sound current, and the way chants could convert a room into a sphere of limitlessness. 'The mantras and the chanting were very powerful for me. It was magical. I heard it and I said 'what is that? I have to do that.'' Sada Sat manages to find time for her music career in between teaching Kundalini Yoga, practicing classical homeopathy, and co-directing Golden Bridge Yoga Center in Los Angeles.