We just posted a new music video on YouTube. It is based on my song “It’s the System” which is on the CD “As the World Spins Around.” Here is the video and if you like it, share it with friends:
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At the beginning of the year I was inspired and announced that I was going to produce a CD of songs for children, and even wrote the title song for that CD. Shortly afterwards, I lost momentum and thought that I would have to postpone or cancel the project. But in the last few weeks, the project has been put back on track.
I met a collaborator and we started working on the CD. We have twelve tracks in progress, including the the title track “Do What You Can.” A few of my previous songs are included as well as some children’s standards and old time sing along songs. It is going to be an “unplugged” type of recording and it will closely match my live-in-person performance. If all goes well it will be ready sometime in August.
I have been in Malaysia for the past two weeks and participated in a big spiritual retreat where I gave a one hour concert. After the retreat I gave lectures in three places: Ipoh, Alor Star and Penang. I sold all the CDs that I brought with me and enjoyed the warm friendship of the Malaysian people. I look forward to returning here in the near future.
Here are some photos from the tour:
Songs and stories on May 24th
The retreat at Batu Gajah, Malaysia
I have been writing a series of articles on the ethical base of yoga, known as Yama and Niyama. There are five principles of Yama, and these instruct a person to restrain his or her conduct in order to remain in harmony with the external environment and society. The five points of Niyama are practices that a spiritual aspirant adopts in order to get internal harmony and purification. My latest article in this series is about achieving thorough contentment which in yoga is known as santosha or santos’a. You can read the article on this site by pressing this link.
by Dada Vedaprajinananda
Richie Havens, one of the greatest contemporary American folk singers, passed away this week and his passing made me remember him, his unique music and my own evolution in the 1960s.
Sometime in 1967 or 1968 I was sitting in a coffee house on my college campus and I heard a record playing Richie Havens’ version of “Just Like a Woman.” It was a track from his album “Mixed Bag.” The pleasing melody of Bob Dylan’s song and Richie Havens’ comforting voice really struck me and I liked it immediately. Continue reading
