Retailing Insight

Compared to chant recordings on labels such as White Swan and Spirit Voyage, Manish Vyas’ Atma Bhakti on New Earth Records is a marked departure. Other than the concluding five-minute “Vedic Chanting,” there are only two tracks on the album, each about 30 minutes in length. In addition the brief mantras on each track are interspersed by long stretches of instrumental music (swarmandal, keyboards, bells, tanpura, and bamboo flute).
Musically this is somewhat akin to works from Indian ambient fusion artist Al Kromer Ghan, but less centered on electronics and more on traditional Indian motifs. It’s ideal meditation music with serene, contemplative atmospheres like aromatic incense wafting upwards in the air.