Surya Botofasina - Ashram Sun (Deluxe Edition) [CD Deluxe 4Panel Digipak With Original Artwork]

SPIRITMUSE RECORDS

£12.94

Format: CD (4 panel digipack w/ original a/w)
Catalogue No.: CDSPM014X
Barcode: 634457188860
Release Date: 08 Nov 2024
Genre: Jazz

Ashram Sun', Surya Botofasina's much-anticipated album follows his hugely acclaimed debut 'Everyone's Children' and his first offering since his contribution to 'New Blue Sun' and global touring alongside Andre 3000 - It is an ode to Surya's upbringing and musical teachings in the tradition of Swamini Turiyasangitananda - aka Alice Coltrane, by the spiritual jazz colossus Herself, at Her Sai Anantam Ashram in California - 'Ashram Sun' is a deep listening, spiritual masterpiece with close collaborators Carlos Nino and Nate Mercereau, and is produced by the prolifc Carlos Nino, whose vision has become a pivotal point for contemporary progressive jazz music.

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Ashram Sun features appearances from musical luminaries, including multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid, Los Angeles saxophonist Randal Fisher, vocalist Mia Doi Todd, as well as collaborations with vocalist Midnight Roba and acclaimed harpist and vocalist Radha Botofasina, among others. The album continues to expand on and conversate with the innovative spiritual- jazz configurations of recent works by Shabaka Hutchings, Andre 3000 and Carlos Nino --all of which Surya plays on. This evolution follows from his debut album 'Everyone's Children', also produced by Nino, which was one of the earliest offerings of this fresh, spiritual approach. As the keyboardist on Andre 3000's New Blue Sun and an integral member of Andre's touring group, Surya has already directly brought the legacy of Alice Coltrane/ Turiyasangitananda into this rich new current in creative music.

The music on Ashram Sun is tuned into these wavelengths, consolidating a new jazz lineage with energies directly from the source. The album blends improvisation in the creative music tradition with washes of cleanly spiritualised keyboard work, atmospheric percussion, and sanctified vocalisation. As Surya Botofasina explains,
"Swamini (Alice Coltrane) and the Ashram have taught me that the only place worth going to, is within... I am always going to be an Ashram Sun."

Tracks:
1. North Triunfo Canyon Road Front Gate Shanti with Carlos Nino
2. Thru Her Wisdom Eye with Mia Doi Todd
3. Ashram Sun Sai Anantam with Nate Mercereau
4. Turiyasangitananda Eternal Pranams
5. There Will Be Brighter Days with Angel Bat Dawid & Nate Mercereau
6. (The Circle) of Compassion with Midnight Roba
7. Our Cottage to Across the Stream
8. Your Soul is Perfect (Supreme Uniter) with Radha Botofasina
9. Avatar Bookstore Bal Vikas with Turn On The Sunlight
10. Chumash Pradesh Mandir Steps Reflection with Randal Fisher