Track Listing

1. Gayatri Mantra
2. Om Asatoma
3. Tumare Darsham
4. Om Namo
5. Shima Shima
6. Sammasati
7. Yemaya Assessu
8. Gayatri Mantra - Bonus Track

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1730 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-01
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
This top selling New Age/World beat CD is smooth, silky, calming and peaceful. Featuring Deva Premal's transcendant voice, ambient grooves, keyboard and hand percussion, THE ESSENCE invokes the heart healing power of ancient chants and mantras. The Gayatri Mantra, the oldest known to mankind, is the centerpiece of this truly meditative CD. Ideal for yoga, healing work, meditation and dancing.

"This is the music of Earth Angels, listen with your 3rd ear!" Gabrielle Roth

New Age Retailer, October 1998
German-born vocalist Deva Premal has the voice all singers aspire to: pure and warmly resonant, with perfect enunciation.

NAPRA Review Sept/Oct 1998
This is a recording of simple beauty. Her rendering of the Gayatri Mantra is haunting.

Customer Reviews

For what it is...
For what it is, a meditation CD, this is a perfect offering. The lady's voice is incredibly beautiful, the melodies are haunting and uplifting, and the significance behind the words is both meaningful and calming. Though it is definitely repetitious, mantras sung over and over, I have listened to it probably 50 times so far, know the words by heart, can sing the harmonies to her tracks, all levels, and find it lends to repeated hearing. I first heard it played very softly at my yoga class, and it caught my attention enough that I asked about the artist, then ordered the CD for myself. I love it. I come back to it again and again, for stress relief, for the energy boost that comes from the music but also upon consideration of the meanings. It's lovely, a blessing. The production values are superb, the musicianship lush and complementary. Wish I could sing with her live.
Get this CD if you value your sanity.

yoga music
this cd has been out for a whilenow and i finally broke down and bought my own copy. the first three tracks,and the last one, are the best in my opinion. I am glad I added this to my collection. Her voice is beautiful and I can use this in my yoga classes.

just what I hoped for
Great sound for Massage...I am a massage therapist. Also great for yoga or meditation. Nothing to abrupt or intrusive. Such a hypnotic sound!! The chanting is much more condusive to relaxation as opposed to some of her stuff with mitten, which is wonderful, but more for easy listening rather than meditative. The non-englsh (Is that a word?) allows you to not attach to the images evoked by our language.