![]() His move to Los Angeles in 2000 brought him to the nation's epicenter of chanting and world music. Soon he was accompanying many of the names in the yoga music genre, including Wah!, Dave Stringer, Donna DeLory, Thomas Barquee, Snatam Kaur, Shanti Shanti, Steve Ross, Swaha, and Rasa. In this context, Girish was quickly introduced to a wider world of music for yoga. Krishna Das was just gaining popularity at that time and Girish played with him regularly. It was in northern California that Girish met other musicians at the forefront of the chant music explosion in this country. ![]() Girish also studied with legendary tabla master Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar School of Music in Marin County, California. ![]() Traveling and performing with Babaji helped cement this notion. It became clear to him that his innate musical passions didn’t conflict with, but in fact lead to a spiritual livelihood. "From Babaji, I learned that sacred music is a viable outlet of spirituality, one that is profoundly uplifting and transformative," says Girish. He also traveled to New York to learn the art of Indian drumming at Siddha Yoga Ashram.Īfter New York, Girish then connected with the musician and spiritual teacher Bob Kindler, known as Babaji. Guided as always by rhythm, and now by his spiritual pursuits, Girish began to study tablas with Jagadish in the Nada Yoga tradition (yoga of sound current), which emphasized the spiritual import of music. This event set him on a life-changing course. He thought he had given up music for his spiritual practice, but one day he happened upon a set of tablas at the ashram and was instantly compelled to play them. Girish also studied Sanskrit as a means to understand the deeper meanings of these ancient chants, and helped his teacher translate dozens of hymns. As a monk in the ashram he spent hours every day chanting. Yet, here, another compelling sound force emerged for Girish: the chanting of Sanskrit mantras. Girish lived in the ashram for five years, giving up music and taking the vows of a monk in the Divine Mother tradition called Dakshina Marg or Mahashakti Yoga. ![]() Thus began an unexpected journey-a seeming detour that inadvertently nourished his musical artistry. By the time of his college graduation, Girish was so deep into these practices that he decided to move into an ashram in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. A college philosophy class inspired him to explore spirituality through Kundalini yoga, meditation, and the study of Eastern scriptures. ![]() These moments came just as Girish was feeling pulled toward a sacred life. "During improvisational sessions," he recalls, "there were these unexplainable moments of synchronicity and intuition that felt like magic." His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. In his teens, he started experimenting with pop, rock, jazz and orchestral music. His musical talents find expression in a wide array of instruments – including tablas, world percussion, guitar, harmonium, and voice.ĭrumming has always been instinctual to Girish, flowing freely from his fingers and knowing no musical bounds. Kali durge namo namah full#When he was eight years old, his parents gave him a little red snare drum as a bargaining tool to stop him from banging on everything else in the house.ĭrumming has always been instinctual to Girish Read Full Bio Girish is an eclectic artist with roots in jazz, world, and sacred music. His musical talents find expression in a wide array of instruments – including tablas, world percussion, guitar, harmonium, and voice.įor as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. Girish is an eclectic artist with roots in jazz, world, and sacred music. ![]()
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