“Cheah’s articulate violin is a strong lead voice throughout, recalling
Shankar’s own electric experiments in the Indian tradition, but his
shimmering runs and cathartic highs are almost always draped in electronic
effects and folded into a lush sonic tapestry courtesy of Laswell.”
- Rhythm Magazine, March 2008
WHO WE ARE
Metastation features eclectic and spiritually oriented music by top artist, specializing in world, electronic, yoga and ambient music. Metastation allows artists to express themselves freely, through their vision and talent and to reflect different styles of music for a global audience
Dorian Cheah’s journey in music began with violin lessons at the very early age of 2 1/2 and continued with his studies at The Julliard School. Dorian’s virtuosity on the electric violin is a unique combination of his classical training with a soulfulness that has attracted some of the great contemporary musicians to collaborate on this debut release.
Legendary bassist and producer Bill Laswell has created a star roster to launch Dorian’s career: Zakir Hussain is considered the best tabla player in the world. Tabla player Karsh Kale has just released a CD with Anoushka Shankar. Hamid Drake one of the best percussionist in improvised music and Bernie Worrell keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic and The Talking Heads.
Click Here to purchase the new Black Lotus Remix track by DJ Cheb i Sabbah, exclusively on ITunes!
ALBUMS
Asana - OHM Shanti - (CAN BE PURCHASED ON ITUNES)
Produced by BILL LASWELL with Zakir Hussain, Kiran Ahluwalia, Sultan Khan, Karsh Kale, Asha Pluthi and many others.
Check out Bill Laswell’s most recent entry in the Asana series, OHM Shanti (Meta). Enhance your practice and if you don’t want to practice to them, these CDs still make great listening. Yoga Journal, March 2006 New release put this one first and indicate that it is a new release.
Asana 1 - The essential yoga soundtrack featuring music by Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart, Zakir Hussain, Nicky Skopelitis, L. Shankar, Najma, Sussan Deyhim and many others.
Asana 2 - Musical contributions by Bill Laswell, Zakir Hussain, Sultan Khan, Nils Petter Molvaer, Material, Pressure Drop, Asiatronic, Mike D. and Divination. "A collection of booming, dance-oriented tracks that make for a hip yoga session.
Asana 3 - Peaceful Heart Featuring Bill Laswell, Pattabhi Jois, Pharoah Sanders, Zakir Hussain, Asha Puthli, DXT and others. "The ancient science of yoga meets modern music technology on this compilation of electronic dance grooves, gravelly chants and meditative soundscapes." - LA Yoga
BIOGRAPHY
Meta Records, a label dedicated to world, spiritual and eclectic music was created by Janet Rienstra in 1996. On the eve of her 30th birthday she found herself doing research in Cuba for a record. After a particularly heated debate over the content of an album recorded in West Africa between the artist who held his finger on the erase button and the unbending executives from the label, Janet decided that the only way she was going to manifest the kind of records she envisioned with the kind of creative control she believed artists deserved, was to form her own record label. So when she returned home to New York, she did just that, and founded Meta Records along with legendary musician/producer Bill Laswell.
Janet Rienstra & Bill Laswell
In addition to Laswell, the label features such music heavyweights as Pharoah Sanders, Buckethead, Sussan Deyhim, Jah Wobble, as well as Mike D of the Beastie Boys and Zakir Hussain. Prior to forming Meta Records, Janet worked as an independent music producer, recording in such far-flung places as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Egypt, Africa, Indonesia and Cuba. She started Gang of Seven, a spoken word label, with Will Ackerman of Windham Hill. She has worked with renowned authors, poets and musicians including Paul Bowles, Patti Smith, Peter Matthiessen, William Burroughs, Willem Dafoe, The Last Poets and Philip Glass. In addition to running her own label, Janet has produced several musical charity events including Rock for Choice at the Kitchen and various events at Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York. Her events have included performances by Sting, Christy Turlington, Ravi Coltrane, John Zorn, and Donna Karan among others. Her commitment to the environment extends to her current project, producing an event with ethnologist Jane Goodall www.janegoodall.org and actively supporting the Natural Resources Defense Council www.nrdc.org. She travels to India once a year to do field recordings, practice yoga and raise funds for an orphanage. Her recordings, which are incorporated in the Asana series, include the chanting of Brahmin Priests at the dedication of the Krishnamacharya Temple in Cowshika, India; chantings in Gokul, the birthplace of Krishna; and chanting in the Indus Valley, the cradle of civilization. Janet studies with Pattabhi Jois the living master ashtanga yoga teacher at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute www.ayri.org. She is currently seeking funding for the Bapuji Children’s Home, an orphanage in Mysore. Janet was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved eleven times (including stints in Belgium, France, Holland, and Canada) before the age of nine. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband, Gil Friesen and her son, Theo-Henri.
YOGA Master Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, or Guruji, as affectionately known by his students, began his studies in 1927. In 1948 he founded the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, to practice the curative value of Yoga as described by these ancient texts. Ashtanga focuses on the union between body, mind, and spirit and must be practiced with dedication, as Guruji says, " Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory."
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Master Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
Practise the Primary Series at home with this new spoken instruction cd from Sharath Rangswamy. Sharath is the grandson of ashtanga master, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and director of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India.
PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THIS CAUSE! Meta Records has made generous contributions to help support this cause in saving the chimps from living in filth-infested facilities that already led to 6 deaths this year alone. With no septic or sewer system, workers rinsed out animal feces that drained into Leon Creek where wild animals such as raccoons pick up this waste that contains harsh contagious laboratory diseases that could be extremely harmful. Please help in supporting this cause that could save the lives of many!!!
To get more information, please visit www.peta.com
We support Barack Obama for President, for more information on Barack, please visit www.barackobama.com
Make sure that you do not miss the "Electric Love" event at Sandbar this weekend. We will be giving away a New Ipod Nano to someone attending that is on our myspace friends list. We look forward to seeing you there.
Hello there, We are glad to inform you that "Ara" has been airplayed in our latest radio program. Please note that our show is broadcased on 14 radios. You can listen to the Mission 118 on www.solenopole.org. Hope to hear from you soon. Best regards Le Solénopole
Two prominent land owners in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica have agreed to donate a site for the University for a Sustainable Future. A formal announcement of this donation was made at an international news conference held near the Papagayo Peninsula on September 5, 2007. This was followed by a formal reception honoring the work of Dr. Jane Goodall.
Your donation will help build the University for a Sustainable Future. Funds are urgently needed for master plan development, facility construction, program development, and more.
I thank you for the Add. May the days of you and yours be blessed a thousand fold with beauty, abundance, and joy in all areas of your life. Also Please, feel free to come to my page and sign my slide Map Guestbook :) Have a Wonderful weekend and a Great Holiday!
Thanks Metastation for finding me. I am an old friend of Shebi Saba. I also have a CD out that was produced by another old friend of mine - Hector Zazou. I never did hook up with Bill and Janet (except by phone) This music is very beautiful. Let me know if ever want vocals! Be well. With affection and peace, Penta
Avast Ye Scurvy Pirates! Shipwrecked Pirate Music Festival be throwin a rowdy Talk Like A Pirate Day Party at Pirates Tavern er i mean Eastside Tavern this Sat Sept 22nd 2007, Doors open at 8pm. Only a paltry $5 Doubloons Matey! Come hear the awesome Pirate Metal of AWOKEN SHADOWS!!! Dress up in yer scurviest pirate garb. Bring a saucy wench. Bring a rowdy rogue! Drink Rum and Ale all night long and Talk Like A Pirate!!! Be seein ye thar ye bilge pumpin land lubbers! Captain Lash & Captain Kaos A Shipwrecked Pirate Music Festival Production
hi metastation, there is great news for you.... Chill Om Records artists TaTvA-Kundalini are on BBC Radio's Pathaan Musical Autorickshaw poll.
Their song Raag Des has been featured in the indian electronica compilation alongside some great artists like talvin singh, dj spooky, etc. click the link below to kindly vote for TaTvA-Kundalini and help support the independent artist movement. http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/pathaansmusicalrickshaw/
Also, for the best in Chill out, ambient, lounge, down-tempo electronic music kindly log on to www.chillomrecords.com
Thank you for the add, and of course your wonderful productions! May the inspirations of your music spread to the reaches of every seeker of beauty and harmony.
yom..nice to find you guys here.. i got your cd at yoga shala in mysore 2003..was a nice suvenier.. thanx for your music and add me. light & respect from Brasil..
I absolutely love your Asana "Ohm Shanti" album. I picked it up just looking for something similar to Tabla Beat Science and fell in love with it. My friends at Maharishi University share my perspective too! I just wish your stuff was easier to find!
We are very excited to announce the release of our debut album 'Make it Right This Time'. Available on iTunes and other download stores <form method="get" action="http://www.misnoma.com/email/albumannounce.html">.. type="submit" value="here"></form>
Man, it has been a long road since I met James in Brighton in 1999 and we have had some great adventures. Getting this disk out, with all the recording, getting into all the new technologies, incorporating more lovely musicians and arriving at the winning formula of Esteban and Jules, mixing, mastering, designing, gigging, registering, forming our own label XirniguitoMusic, all the paperwork, blood sweat and tears, it feels like we just had a baby except even more painful!!
We of course appreciate all the incredible support and all you friends in Myspace help make us feel connected and appreciated and your feedback has helped us keep on keepin on!
We are going to celebrate on Saturday at the album launch and we'd LOVE it if some of you myspace people who we havent met could come and we can thank you personally in the flesh!
Here's the scoop:
Sala Monasterio (Psg Isabel II, 4 sótano)
22h00
only 5€ with discount of you buy the CD.
If you're unlucky enough not to live in Barcelona- you can check out the tunes on our webpagewebpage or even buy it on iTunes here.
Thanks so much and hopefully meet you soon!
Ayesha and all of MISNOMA __________________________________________
Hola Meta Records
Me alegro deciros que ya podeis disfrutar del sonido Electro-nujazz-mestizo-pop de MISNOMA porque el album debút 'Make it Right This Time ' esta HECHO (!!!) y en la venta
The Non-Aligned Movement presents an ethno- electro live act by
TaTvA_Kundalini Featuring Electronic fakir at SOho, Hotel Ashok, new delhi
on 19nth may. live set starts 11:00 pm.
lets have some fun!
