Putumayo Presents: Yoga

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Overview

Yoga may have been born in India and developed over the past 5,000 years, as Sean Johnson's liner notes to this album attest, but it is best known in the West as a variant of exercise taught and practiced by suburbanites who have never bathed in the Ganges. Putumayo World Music, a label that exists to address the taste for light exotica among such music listeners, has created an appropriate soundtrack to yoga exercise on this various-artists compilation, containing many performers who, like Johnson, are actually Westerners with Eastern training. Based in New Orleans, Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band (which consists of Alvin Young and Gwendolyn Colman) present a typical selection in the second track, "Om Hari Om/Sharanam Ganesha (Refuge)," which finds Johnson singing in a voice that might be James Taylor or John Denver, if he weren't singing in Hindi. Some of the tracks are more overtly Indian, notably the instrumental "Cerulean" by Ben Leinbach and Geoffrey Gordon, on which Gordon plays tabla and Jai Uttal dotar. But usually the music is a hybrid of Indian elements with laid-back Western folk-rock, which should make it highly palatable to its intended audience. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	09/14/2010
Label:	PUTUMAYO WORLD MUSIC
UPC:	0790248030425

Tracks

1. Ghungate Ke  -  Lucknow Project  -  Sheer Om  -  Traditional
2. Om Hari Om/Sharanam Ganesha (Refuge)  - Gwendolyn Colman  - Sean Johnson  -  Wild Lotus Band  - Alvin Young
3. Purnamadah  -  Shantala  -  Traditional  - Benjy Wertheimer  - Heather Wertheimer
4. Bolo Ram  -  Wah!
5. Cerulean  - Geoffrey Gordon  - Ben Leinbach
6. Devaki  - Dasi Karnamrita
7. Bangles  - Niraj Chag
8. El Bosque Eterno de los Ni¿¿os [Children's Eternal Rainforest]  -  Amounsulu  - Cyril Dupuy  - Santos Gasslebayle
9. Moods of Kirtan (Siksastakam)  -  As Kindred Spirits  - Gaura Vani
10. O Rama  - Sam Mills  - Ayub Ogada  - Susheela Raman  -  Traditional
11. Hanuman Baba [Dub Farm Remix]  - Krishna Das
12. Sira  - Ablaye Cissoko  -  Cissoko
13. Offering Chant  - Lama Gyurme  - Jean-Philippe Rykiel  -  Traditional
14. Bliss  - Katarina Di Leva  -  Traditional  -  Yogini

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Susheela Raman   Primary Artist
Yogini   Primary Artist
Jean-Philippe Rykiel   Primary Artist
Shantala   Primary Artist
Niraj Chag   Primary Artist
Krishna Das   Primary Artist
Geoffrey Gordon   Primary Artist
Ablaye Cissoko   Primary Artist
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze   Primary Artist
Gaura Vani   Primary Artist
The Lucknow Project   Primary Artist
As Kindred Spirits   Primary Artist
Sean Johnson   Primary Artist
Lama Gyurme   Primary Artist
Wah!   Primary Artist
Dasi Karnamrita   Primary Artist
Amounsulu   Primary Artist
The Wild Lotus Band   Primary Artist
Ben Leinbach   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Estefani Garcia   Photography
Josh Simons   Design,Project Coordinator
Katarina Di Leva   Composer
Alvin Young   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Gwendolyn Colman   Composer
Lane Gibson   Mastering
Jai Uttal   Photography
Dan Storper   Song Selection,Executive Producer
Susheela Raman   Arranger,Photo Courtesy
Ayub Ogada   Arranger
Krishna Das   Composer
Lee Everett   Photography
Radhanatha Das Jakupko   Photography
Santos Gasslebayle   Composer
Sheer Om   Arranger
Ben Leinbach   Composer
Benjy Wertheimer   Composer
Jean-Philippe Rykiel   Arranger
Sam Mills   Arranger
Niraj Chag   Composer
Geoffrey Gordon   Composer
Peter Simon   Photography
Ablaye Cissoko   Composer
Gaura Vani   Composer
Stephanie Black   Project Coordinator
Rameshwar Das   Photography
George Long   Photography
John McQueeney   Project Coordinator
Sean Johnson   Composer,Liner Notes,Project Coordinator
Sonia Skelton   Project Coordinator
Lama Gyurme   Arranger
Cyril Dupuy   Composer
Nicola Heindl   Cover Art,Illustrations
Youri Lenquette   Photography
Heather Wertheimer   Composer
Jacob Edgar   Project Coordinator
Lisa Lee   Project Coordinator
Joanna Thomas   Project Coordinator
Kaitlin Ketchum   Project Coordinator
Wah!   Composer
Rasa Acharya   Photography
Dasi Karnamrita   Composer
Ajay Chag   Photography
Aleah Stanbridge   Photography
Alejandra Quesada   Photography
Bradley Black   Project Coordinator
Eldad Danieli   Photography