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Namaste and Aloha Welcome to the celestial realm of Jai Ma Music, where music is God's voice and lyrics are the Universal Mother's Wisdom. Jai Ma Music’s extensive and multifaceted collection encompasses chanting, Hindu and Western devotional songs, Divine Mother poetry and instrumental albums, reverently offering the sacred sounds of East and West. ABOUT TIGER'S PAW Babaji Bob Kindler is unique, to say the least. A cellist, he often plays jazz tinged with Eastern shadings. Tiger’s Paw is a slightly offbeat collection of some mighty fascinating music, inspired by Eastern Indian rhythms and melodies. There is a wonderful crispness in the recording, a testament to Kindler’s quality engineering, and lively interplay between the flute and cello. Two tracks, Warrior Goddess, with the cello so artfully replacing the sitar and some truly incredible tabla tarong work, and the title track, by themselves are well worth the price of the disc. --Online Digital Review Too much of what passes for ‘New Age’ or ‘World Beat’ music these days seems like lackluster imitations of itself. And one of the people being imitated a lot is Babaji Bob Kindler. We all know what the sincerest form of flattery is. You’d have to sit up and take notice at this album’s opening moments, for Kindler has a knack for taking the sounds of other cultures and making them eminently accessible. He is forever nimble, intelligent, and gentle, even when rocking hard. This is another superb album by Babaji Bob Kindler, filled with joy, energy and freshness. -- New Times This is an intriguing blend of unlikely instruments. It’s East meets West in a truly synergistic context, not just “let’s put a sitar in the mix.†This highly improvisational ensemble explores themes of mysticism and cosmic awareness. Challenging, but not too obscure or esoteric. -- Victory Review ************************************************** 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/bks-tapes.html Track List: 1. The Master's Perpetual Play 2. Warrior Goddess 3. Tarong Sarong 4. Sojourn in Musical Realms 5. Tiger's Paw 6. Surfing Waves of Ecstasy Other Genres:
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