The Kumbha Mela - East Of The River Ganges

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艺 术 家：VA
专辑名称：East Of The River Ganges
发行时间：2001.11.12
唱片公司: Dragonfly

01. East Of The River Ganges
02. Elephant Trax
03. Cleaning Fluid
04. Spiritual Journey
05. The Kumba Mela
06. Life After Death
07. That Which I Could Only Sense
08. Interstellar Hiss
09. Be Concious
10. Outro

The Kumbha Mela is a gathering of Sadhus, Yogis, Wandering Ascteers and Holy Men that converge on the River Ganges in India in their millions. They come to give puja and bathe in her sacred waters. This happens every four years, with a larger gathering every twelve years and every sixty four years an even more massive one occurs. The one in January/February was such a one. The idea to link up to this Mela came from a New Zealand film maker, Andrew, who was making a film on the “Ganges” called “Holywater” and wanted to commission a piece of music for it. This rapidly developed into an album with a special live link up to the Mela from our studios in South London via internet provided by Timmy B of Dreadzone and International psychic Uri Geller. On February 26th , the Suns of Arca’s Indian Backline, Various Dreads, Sadhus, even a Druid and assorted engineers, friends and filmcrew tuned in to the greatest gathering of Humans in the history of the world switched on and played for three hours straight. When the internet broke we got on the phone and when the phone stopped we went inside our minds and hearts. It was an amazing experience; the vibe was electric.

This album has metamorphosed from those original sessions and countless other heated all-nighters over six months to be distilled into what you are holding in your hands. Usually I would shy away from a detailed explanation of the recording, preferring to let the music do the talking. This was such an unusually rare event on all scales that I had to put pen to paper for those interested enough in how this all comes together! There was of course a very tragic disaster with the Earthquake and some of the proceeds and profit will be going to those relief funds.

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