Artist: Krishna Das
Genre(s):
Other
New Age
Discography:
Live on Earth...For a Limited Time Only (cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Live on Earth...For a Limited Time Only (cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Breath of the Heart
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
All One
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Door Of Faith
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Pilgrim Heart
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Pigrim Heart
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Live On Earth Cd2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Live On Earth Cd1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
The otherworldliness of India is blended with innovative, electronic influences by Long Island, New York-raised Krishna Das (b. Jeffrey Kagel). The founder of Triloka Records, Das continues to update the musical accompaniment to traditional Hindu chanting and satsong. Influential unearthly leader Ram Dass described Das as "an object lesson of mortal whose heartsongs open the channels to God". Das' connections to Indian otherworldliness developed in his early 20s. Having big up on jazz, blues and john Rock and roll out, Das was on the job as a school bus number one wood when friends inspired him to visit Ram Dass in 1968. Driving six hours through snow, Das arrived at his destination in New Hampshire. Although he only visited with Ram Dass for a few hours, the get completely altered the course of his life. Two eld after, Das travelled to northern India where he played out iI age as a lover of Guru Mahara-ji (Nim tree Karoli Baba). While in India, Das became involved with the religious aspects of the country's music. With his visa expiring, Das returned to the U.S. in March 1972. In 1990, Das founded Triloka Records. The label has go a leading distributor of world music recordings. His debut record album, Ane Track Heart, released in 1996, focused on updated chants from the antediluvian tradition of Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of Devotion). His second base record album, Pilgrim Father Heart, released in 1998, featured a guest appearance by Sting, world Health Organization panax quinquefolius on the tune "Spate Hari Krishna" and played basso on "Mob Song." Das continues to transmit intensive seminars, workshops and chanting roger Huntington Sessions, issue Live on Earth...For a Limited Time Only in early 2000.
