DASI KARNAMRITA: Dasi: Prayers by Women

Dasi Karnamrita

Dasi: Prayers by Women

© 2003 Karnamrita (634479513558)

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Devotional singing with a blend of traditional Indian and contemporary instrumentation

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This album is an offering to women everywhere, evoking a peaceful, yet powerful essence of femininity and devotion. Their voices, thier wisdom, and poetry are felt in these songs: composed in both dance and meditative styles. Compiled as a decication to women of spiritual voices, this is a compelation of women's songs from India, sung in Hindi and Sanskrit. The songs reflects the styles of chants, Bhajans and Kirtan. The artists has composed the music and arrangements in dedication to her late mother, Kunti Devi.

In 1998, as my mother was passing away,she requested me to take my singing seriously and record. Although I had studied Sanskrit and sung bhajans for 28 years, I was apprehensive without proper training. That same year, I took her ashes to India, and searched for a teacher to begin studying the classical Dhrupad style. My two teachers, Pandit Vidur Malik and Tarun Krsna Das guided me through four years of wondrous meditation and training.
As a child in school, my teacher Kutila taught us to chant the women's prayers from the scriptures. Rembering this, I took the opportunity to search out more women in our Sampradaya ( spiritual lineage) and compose music to their words.
Here then, is my offering to these glorious women. Women who sing, pray and share their life with realizations. For all of us, there is a voice that we can relate to, whether it be Draupadi's song of letting go or simply the Arati celebration to the river Yamuna. Please sing along and let these women touch your heart.

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  • Beautiful, relaxing
    author: Patrick Holzer

    I love her music. It's so relaxing, absorbing. My two little boys love it, too. Thank you!

  • Dasi Karnamrita
    author: Helen Roberts

    Just beautiful. Takes me to a place of peace and devotion - a soft, gentle feeling. Thank you. xxx

  • Clean, pure sounds!
    author: Shefalika

    It's refreshing to hear music that's so clean. It springs from the heart and its simplicity calms you.

  • Amazingly powerful and sweet, overflowing with heart
    author: Liam Bowler

    This was my official work CD for over three months, any time of day.

  • Very good
    author: Presha

    It is an awesome Cd especially the song about the story of pingala

  • Anthems to wisdom, strength, courage and most of all….. love for Sri Krsna
    author: Shirley Marie Bradby aka MiraBai (JALEBI Music)

    Karnamrita's music and songs are anthems to the wisdom, strength, courage and most of all….. love for Sri Krsna that each of these Vaishnavi displayed during their lives on this planet called Earth thousands of years ago. Through her music their activities and realizations continue to encourage and guide us today in a world that is often so painfully devoid of truly positive and most of all spiritual examples! So I would just like to thank Karnamrita for her songs that inspire and remind all souls who are presently in female bodies…..and also those who are not …….that the answer to all our problems is to unflinchingly love and serve our dear Lord, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead!

  • I LOVE this CD. It is moving, deepening and uplifting!
    author: Christina Muir

    I play it over and over!

  • Worth every penny!
    author: DRCLlama

    This album is both mellow and inspiring. I have yet to play it without listening all the way through. If you like Indian spirituals, you should add this to your collection immediately!

  • satifying to the heart
    author: Devahuti

    Her 'GOLDEN VOICE' even made me love music although i never did love music before.Her voice is really beautiful and touching to the heart.

  • Stunning!
    author: Ragani

    How right reviewer Radhacharan Das is! The training is evident in Karnamrita's voice, and the depth of her singing takes you right into your heart, and right into the heart of India. How the ragas of these songs (e.g. "Devaki") make me long for ancient India! Beautiful... I can't wait to hear more from this artist, and I hope she releases a kirtan album one day too!

  • combines incredible vocal beauty with spiritual passion
    author: Radhacharan das

    Some performers of religious music have a beautfiul voice but lack spiritual depth. Some religious people have spiritual sincerity but a coarse or untrained voice. Karnamrita combines overwhelming vocal beauty with intense spiritual passion. Five stars are not enough to rate her -- nor are all the stars in the heavens

  • This is a Love and Prayer for Suprime through Singing ,Chanting
    author: Rajendra Trivedi,M.D.

    I know your singing is making not only you but many listeners and specially your mother Pleased.....Keep meditating.

  • Calming and enjoyed by many
    author: Heidi

    I knew I loved this CD when I got it, but I was very surprised when my (urban) public high school students entered the classroom, and hearing Karnamrita's music said, "What's that? Can we leave that on?" Teachers(who I don't believe generally listen to Indian music) also remarked how calming the CD was.

  • Her voice Smiles.
    author: June Eaton

    This CD is amazing. I can listening to it over and over again. I have been so blessed to see Karnamrita perform live. Her peformances are experiences. After seeing her perform you feel so enriched. Her voice Smiles.

  • Beautiful and uplifting
    author: Rebecca

    Karnamrita's beautiful voice is just perfect all thoughout this wonderful album, and Dasi has quickly become a staple of my collection of devotional Indian music. "The Glories of Sri Radha" always brings a smile to my face, while many of the other tracks evoke the spiritual calm I always look for in the Bhajans I listen to. In every track, Karnamrita unceasingly captures the joy and beauty that is appropriate in songs that sing praise to Sri Krishna and Sri Radha. If you are a practicing Hindu like myself and want something religious to listen to, or if you're just a casual music fan who appreciates the beauty of Indian music, this album is a must. I'll be eagerly awaiting any upcoming releases from this talented woman.

  • Amazing, it moved me to tears
    author: lalita ji

    This album is truly amazing, the first time I heard it, it almost moved me to tears. Still now when I listen to it I get goose bumps. The voice of Karnamrita touches deep into your heart. Difficult to put in words the feelings I get while listening to it. I strongly recommend it and I am a proud owner of a copy.

  • SOOTHING, SACRED, DEVOTIONAL MUSIC...
    author: Kirk Mann

    Deeply soothing sacred music. Wow! Karnamrita has a beautiful, powerful, clear, inspirational, rich, and transcendent voice. In the realm of devotional music, Dasi is a remarkable presentation of the poetry and songs of female saints from India. The sound is authentic, natural, and moving. I love listening to Dasi while doing yoga, meditating, before bedtime...it calms the mind and generates a spiritual feeling.

  • rating 5!! ...Mohini Murti dd this side...As I mentioned to you in Vancouver,ho
    author: Mohini Murti devidasi

    The beauty of this tasteful and soulful transcendental presentaion is the amount of variety! Excellent production sophisticated arrangements,obvious dedication and research along with simple but beautiful melodys make listening to this a pure delight. It rivals the purveyors and female "greats"in the World/New age catagory like Sheila Chandra,Lisa Gerrard,Natasha Atlas and Rasa hands down. Hope you win a grammy!!!!...Mohini Murti dd (SDG)...Calgary, Alberta Canada

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