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Tracks:
1. Space-Time (1997)
Deepak Ram Flutes, keyboards
Thomas Dyani Percussion/special effects,
congas, timbales & cowbells
Russell Herman Bass, keyboards
2. Kitu (For My Wife, 1993)
Deepak Ram Flutes, keyboards
Tunde Jegede Kora, cello
Mukesh Desai Vocals
Julian Crampton Electric fretless bass
Thomas Dyani Congas, bongos, and percussion/special
effects
3. Father of Flute (Dedicated to my teacher, Pandit
Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Deepak Ram Flutes
4. Glimpsed Middle Reality
Tunde Jegede Kora
5. Cabbage and Roti (For My Mother, 1987)
It was a cold and rainy day in 1967. We had to stay in class during the
first lunch break at First Primary School in Lenasia. It was too cold
to play outside. I opened my lunch box and found cabbage and roti, so
lovingly prepared by my mother. Hungrily, I relished the cabbage and roti
while watching the rain through the classroom window. I still remember
the taste. Thanks, Mom.
Deepak Ram Flute, keyboards
Tunde Jegede Kora
Thomas Dyani Congas, batas, djembe, shaker,
cowbells, percussion/special effects
Russell Herman Bass, drum programming
6. Upasana - Between Notes
- Upasana, a discipline of observing silence in word and thought while
trying to gaze within, where bliss awaits. Like the silence between musical
notes, where music awaits.
Deepak Ram Flute, keyboards
7. A Night in Lenasia
- a movie at Apsara, a chip roll special, watching some ‘bra’
tilt the pinball machine...
Deepak Ram Flute, keyboards & vocals
Julian Crampton Electric bass
Nana Tsiboe Talking drum & shaker
Ansuman Biswas Udo & guiro
8. Vrindavan Lullaby (1994)
Deepak Ram Flutes, keyboard bells & vocals
9. Prince Down Gerty Street (For My Father, 1996)
- Trotting down the streets of Sophiatown, Prince was a horse that pulled
a cart, from where vegetables were sold. This was one of the many tasks
my father undertook, to provide opportunities for me that seemed so far
removed, against the odds and constraints of apartheid. Thanks, Dad.
Deepak Ram Flute, tabla & keyboards
Thomas Dyani Percussion/special effects
10. Between Thoughts (1987)
- The Flute, a seer sits in deep meditation chanting the various shades
of that primordial sound, Aum, trying to reach that silent space between
thoughts. That all-pervading ‘silence’ of which he is a part.
An angel, in the form of a piano, beckons him while the strings in the
form of three chords (Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh) cradles him. He dances
in the bliss. Suddenly! Body-mind consciousness re-emerges and he finds
himself in the chaos once again, struggling to re-enter that blissful
place between thoughts. The angel (piano) re-appears; he dances again
in that bliss.
Deepak Ram Flute & keyboards
Thomas Dyani Percussion/special effects
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