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Namaste and Aloha ABOUT EVER FREE NEVER BOUND The music on that album comes from another place; a different dimension. -- M.J., Hawai’i Babaji bob Kindler is still playing the same Indian-influenced music that made his last album, Tiger’s Paw, so exciting. Kindler sends long, elegiac cello lines arcing over strummed autoharps and propulsive tabla rhythms from Gregg Johnson and Daniel Paul. He’s joined by Sulubika, whose flutes tease and seduce the melodies, intertwining and trading off with the cello. Kindler’s Indian chamber music at times recalls the instrumental fire of John McLaughlin’s Shakti, but with a stronger loyalty to mood and melody. -- Billboard Magazine BABAJI BOB KINDLER: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Babaji Bob Kindler entered the realm of sacred sound at the tender age of 11, in Portland, Oregon. By his late teens he was awarded scholarships to Tangelwood and studied under contemporary masters of cello, composition, and orchestra. Joining the Honolulu Symphony in 1970, he developed unique styles of playing the guitar and autoharp while learning to blend cello into diverse musical forms. Simultaneous with his move to Hawaii, Babaji began an intensive study of Indian and Buddhist Philosophy and engaged in yogic practices, later taking initiation into the Ramakrishna Order. This triple immersion in the sacred disciplines of music, philosophical enquiry, and meditative practices began to fructify in the late 1970's and early 1980's with the creation of his first albums, Mystery’s Child and Wingspan, and the exquisite Music from the Matrix series. Inspired by the great modern day saint, Sri Ramakrishna, and by his meetings with contemporary spiritual teachers, he founded Jai Ma Music in 1982 as a vehicle for expressing the creative power flowing from Absolute Reality. Babaji has been successful in integrating Eastern and Western culture with the sacred artforms of music, dance, and poetry. Pioneering what has since become a popular genre of music, Jai Ma Music quickly became an effective creative tool and focal point for a unique set of albums using the chanting of the sacred and powerful Holy Names set in a musical firmament of Eastern and Western instruments. This musical expression, synthesized with sacred dance, poetry, and scripture, soon created a demand for tours and concerts. Jai Ma Music performed for temples, new age centers, ashrams, schools, professional groups, and major concert promotions in the south Pacific and U.S. mainland. Babaji and Jai Ma Music has since produced fifteen bhajan and chanting albums of exceptional beauty and inspiration in a style that is unmatched to this day, fusing the original Sanskrit and other Indian languages with heart-melting English translations woven into the music. In the early 1990's Babaji’s spiritual ministry through Jai Ma Music led to the founding of the independent Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations of Oregon, San Francisco and Hawaii. Babaji now devotes his time to teaching and writing, while continuing to produce instrumental and bhajan albums. The newest album, devoted to Sri Krishna, Gita Govinda Mala, was released in 2005. www.srv.org Check out the artist's website: http://www.srv.org Track List: 1. Pure Mind = Pure Joy 2. New Moon at Midnight 3. Be My Driver 4. Ever Free Never Bound 5. Gradual Perfection 6. Shyama Thrush Other Genres:
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