Gopal Das- guitar & vocals, Benjammin'- guitar, vocals, dulcimer & flute. Matura- guitar, vocals, harmonium & flute. Glenno Faulkenberg - Bass
The Mystic Travellers perform a faith based culturally diverse psychedelic folk music here in Eugene and often provide music for the tribal bellydance troupe Luminessah.
Influences
The Incredible String Band, The Beatles, Sandy Denny & Fairport Convention, Robin Williamson & Mike Heron, Bothy Band, Steeleye Span, Muddy Waters, The Good ol’ Grateful Dead, George Harrison, Lorenna McKinnett, John Renborn, Ali Farka Toure, Peter Gabriel, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Ian Anderson, The Moody Blues, Donovan, Paul Butterfield & Mike Bloomfield, Paul Horn, Cat Stevens, The incredible harmonica virtuoso of Eugene Emerich and all those who seek to raise an indestructable beauty in the world through truth, sound and music.
My spiritual influences run from east to west begining with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s example of Divine Love as lived and distributed by Srila Govinda Maharaj, Srila Prabhupad and Srila Sridhar Maharaj, (www.scsmath.com) Jesus Christ, St. Mary & the early saints of the Eastern Orthodoxy. Mother Theresa. Favorite holy books like the Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and the Philokolia. Great spiritual thinkers like Thomas aKempis, Thomas Merton, Emerson, Thoreau, Vernon Howard and the wise women and men of many asian and indigineous cultures throughout history who distinguish conscious substance from form.
Sounds Like
Extreme optimism of the Magical Musical Mythical Opti-Mystic.
I'm currently living in Eugene Oregon and play a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonium, flute and harmonica with various friends & groups. I'm not giging much at the moment but occasionally play with my friends like the Mystic Travellers, Bro. Roots Old time Ragged Revival, Fearless Love and The Eternal Now with Robert Scott Curlis. I'm also a rogue member and Harmonica sideman with The Conjugal Visitors, Eugene's high-energy bio-dynamic bluegrass band.
Check out some of my musical colaborations at these sites:
Electric Blues Rock:http://www.myspace.com/maturasbluethunder
Experimental jazz-rock:http://www.reverbnation.com/oceanfreethinker
Bluegrass & Roots music with the Conjugal Visitors:http://www.conjugalvisitors.com
Mystic Folk:http://www.myspace.com/mystictravellers
My roots are in the electric blues style inspired by Muddy Waters whom I had the good fortune to meet in the 70's. At the time I was musically inspired by the electric blues harmonica of Paul Butterfield and my band at the time was called BLUE THUNDER. Our powerful electric blues rock can be heard at the link above. Most of the songs on this cd posted here "Artistic-2-Mystic" were written during the transitional period between 2000 & 2004. Some were written in hotel rooms & beaches in Thailand. But most of them came about while living in Walton Oregon on my friends 30 acre wooded hillside by the Siuslaw River. The songs are primarily explorations of spiritual themes woven together with various folk influences. The general mood at the outset was a sort of eclectic Psychedelic world folk sound. Not psychedelic as in the use of drugs, but as in the original meaning of the word-psyche...meaning soul. Its an organic soul centered music with spirituality as its basis. "Artistic-2-Mystic" represents a renewal of my spirit through faith, music and an appreciation for the beautiful mysteries of life. This musical paradigm has grown over the years and was additionally inspired in part by the music, poetry, and seminal east-west musical fusions of Robin Williamson & The Incredible String Band. Like the ISB, my music incorporates various spiritual, celtic, indian, early american roots music and world influences. These songs speak of faith, unity, peace and inner transformation. All six of these tracks were recorded in Eugene using instruments like exotic drums, guitar, tampura, flute, harmonica, penny whistle and a modified sitar-like instrument. The full cd can be heard at the speakerheart link on this page. I'm grateful to share these songs and I hope they enrich your life by focusing on what is inspiring, bright and beautiful, for we always reap what we sow in our heart. "When everything is done for the Center of all beauty, everything is beautifully done."
Thank you for your inspiration to pursue my own life. i feel safe knowing there is someone looking out for my best intrests and supporting my choices and goals.
If you have a few minutes, please take a look at BhaktiCollective.com for a topical weblog on the subject of bhakti-yoga with written articles, music, photography and other arts.
A very special evening concert celebrating the sounds from the CD with Michael Ormiston, Candida Valentino & Eddy Sayer
7:30pm on Sunday 10th February 2008 at St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Rd, London NW1. cost £10/8 Tickets for sale on the door
Michael, Candida and Eddy will play orchestrations, improvisations and meditations on their unique collection of Symphonic Gongs, Wind Gongs, Gamelan Gongs, Conches, and Tibetan Singing Bowls with Harmonic Singing and live electronic atmospheres inspired from their Boundless CD.
The Gong is the spirit song. It is the primal whisper of the soul. Its sound is the echo of the Original Word that created the world, The sound within all sounds. Listen with outer and inner ears. Feel its pulsations and let the millions of vibrations dance and flow through your senses.
For more info phone 020 8558 6982 Email ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com www.soundtransformations.btinternet.co.uk www.myspace.com/eddysayer www.myspace.com/boundless232
Merry Chistmas & Happy New Year! All Glories to The Grand 79th Appearance/Birthday celebration of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Acharyya and Sevaite Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharyya Sri Srimad Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj! Falling this year on Christmas Day!
thanks for the add - and Thank You for being the Light that You Are! Your music is wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving - there is truly much to be grateful for.
Just passing to say Hi...not forgotten..kindred spirits cannot be.....Peace brother ...Julian...(a little bit of the Ganges for you today in my photo...will change though)
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