When Dave Stringer sent me the Radiance Sutra material last year I wondered what would be created musically around these beautiful translations of the Sanskrit text by Lorin Roche. You’ll hear that musical creation in this interview, and the CD Elixer has been released and is now available for sale. It was fun to hear how excited Dave & Donna De Lory are about the material — I also loved how beautifully their voices blended to bring out the poetry of the lines. There are repeatedly moments where these Sutras give me chills & sometimes move me to tears, and they’re now on repeat on my IPod. I think of them as recipes – teaching me to be present, to play, and to use that as a way of touching the Divine in my everyday life. I hope you find them a doorway, as I did.

I hope you’ll come back this weekend to the New World Kirtan home page when we’ll be live video & audio streaming all the wonderful doings at Chantlanta. The schedule for the weekend is here, and there’s kirtan throughout the day. Come tune into Chantlanta this weekend and let the magic of the Bhav banish the winter blues. Until then my friends — Namaste.