Shashara

Sada Sat Kaur | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ajna Music
• ASIN: B0006OJQSM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Adi Mantra

2. Mul Mantra

3. Ajai Alai

4. Sat Siri

5. Naam Kumaree

6. Hay Gobinda

7. Gobinday Mukunday

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

This is Sada Sat Kaur's second album. That, in and of itself, should be a source of astonishment. Sada Sat Kaur'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, 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. "They want to touch you and get your autograph. You go to these parks when it's a Sikh holiday, and they hear that these American Sikhs are going to sing, and you can't even see the end of the sea of people." As the decades have passed, 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." In 2000 she was hanging around the watermelon tent at a Summer Solstice retreat in the mountains of New Mexico when she fell into an exchange with musician and producer Jeremy Toback. "We just got to talking and Jeremy and I were like, `Let's do an album." The result of that chance encounter is Angels’ Waltz, a debut disc from a 56-year-old homeopath and yoga instructor who also just happens to be a master of a musical and spiritual form. It's not uncommon, when you're speaking with Sada Sat Kaur, to feel the conversation tipping toward the subject of transformation and that makes sense: Her life is full of transformation, as is her music. 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?'" "We have so many thoughts going on all the time. We call it the monkey mind, because it's always jumping around," she says. "When we chant, you're giving your mind something to focus on that's going to transform you and uplift you." In other words, Sada Sat's transformations are yours-and that, it turns out, is yet another source of astonishment.

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Wonderful Album from Sada Sat Kaur, February 9, 2005

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Shannon "pahvog" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shashara (Audio CD)

Where ANGEL'S WALTZ was a wonderful introduction to the beautiful musical mantras of Sada Sat Kaur, SHASHARA goes even further presenting even more impressive offerings. The Western Traditional ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO is wonderfully warm and relaxing where NAAM KUMAREE will entice you to sing along. My favorite, MUL MANTRA, has been the background music in my mind since I first listened to this collection.

Impeccably produced, this CD is sure to please anyone with an affinity for yoga, meditation or mantra. Highest Rating.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shashara makes me happy, February 25, 2005

By 

Elizabeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shashara (Audio CD)

Shashara makes me happy. Sada Sat Kaur's voice goes

right into my heart and makes me feel like dancing.

The accompanying musical instruments are rich in

detail and vibrancy.

The CD has a natural rhythm from start to finish

crescendoing in Naam Kumaree and then easing the

listener down into the bliss of recognising Gobinday

Mukanday as our true Source.

Love it Love it Love it!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elevate your world with these beautiful mantras., February 23, 2005

By 

Dawn Ellerd "kyogadawn" (Saint Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shashara (Audio CD)

Receiving this CD truly turned a bad day upside-down. It's been playing in our home almost constantly since it's arrival.

The first thing that struck me after listening through completely once, was how whole and centered and loved this CD made me feel. Most of the mantras are ones I have heard her sing in person, and the power of her presence comes pouring out through her voice. The sound just cocoons you.

After listening to it in it's entirety for a few days now, I can truly say this is music that transforms. Everything feels different when this is on. I'm at home with 2 young children and having these mantras playing can definitely smooth out the rough spots...both for me and the kids. The energy feels lighter, emotions are diffused, and we can all enjoy each other a bit more. It's music that sweeps you along with it.

One stand-out favorite for us...the recording of the Mul Mantra gets bodies moving with it's super infectious beat. Even if I'm cooking dinner I find I'm grooving along. It's something noticeable throughout the recording...the melodies and background music are catchy. You get the traditional sounds of the instruments and the words, but there is something modern underlying it all that ties it all together and makes it very appealing to a wide range of people.