NEWS —
New Releases for Ben Leinbach Music
-I just finished producing, recording, and mixing this Kirtan album with the band Mukti. These super righteous folk write some gorgeous Kirtans and devotional songs. In my humble opinion, the album sounds fantastic.
Mukti
Light of the Sun
muktimusic.net
-Jennifer Holt's album is finished. She's a great singer who put together some beautiful chants from various tradtions. Here's an excerpt from the back cover of her CD. "Features unusual and entrancing combinations of mystical chants from Sufi, Gregorian (Catholic), Tibetan Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Native American, Hawaiian, and African spiritual lineages. Infusing the music with techno and hip-hop elements provides a fascinating twist and creates new relevance to devotional world music."
Jennifer Holt
Ecstatic Groove
cdbaby.com
-Filmmaker Marc Mulry captured some stunning nature footage from the Reno/Tahoe area on this awesome DVD. He licensed a few of my tracks for background music.
Reno/Tahoe Motion Pictures
Fall Edition
tahoemountainsports.com
-It looks like Brenda McMorrow is scoring a record deal for two albums that we've worked on together. This one below, Ameya, will be re-released this winter. We are currently finishing up the second CD, tentatively entitled Love Abounds, for a release date sometime next summer. Rock on, Brenda!
Brenda McMorrow
Ameya
brendamcmorrow.com
-Deva Premal's Moola Mantra CD, produced by yours truly, reached the top of the charts! It was the number one selling New Age album on Amazon.com in France for a spell.
Deva Premal
Moola Mantra
whiteswanrecords.com
-I helped Kabbalah Kirtan artist Yofiyah out with some production elements on her second CD, "Open". She writes some beautiful melodies using sacred Hebrew text and fuses it with Middle-Eastern, Indian, and Western instrumentation. It's a very cool vibe. She'll have some CDs available for sale on her website soon.
Yofiyah
Open
kabbalahkirtan.com
-I'm currently working on an album with Nashville Kirtan singer Amy Barnes. This puppy is going to rock hard. More later.
-I'm currently mixing some live tracks of Kirtan performances by Jai Uttal and Gaura Vani. Gaura Vani put on this great event with several performers on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration called Chant for Change. It features Jai Uttal, David Stringer, Gaura Vani and others. He plans to release a CD of it soon. The tracks that I'm mixing for Jai Uttal from an Omega retreat in New York will be available for download on his website.
-Snatam Kaur stopped by my studio during one of her tours to work on a beautiful song that she's offered to contribute to my devotional world music compilation CD. Thank you, Snatam!
snatamkaur.com
-I just finished editing, mixing and mastering another CD with non other than the fabulous Linn Brown. She put together a very sweet solo piano album. She'll be selling downloads of it from her website.
-I recently got to meet and judge a West Coast Songwriters contest with hit songwriters Steve Seskin and Andre Pessis.
-For those film makers and yoga teachers and website designers and such I have some fresh tracks available for licensing on my world music licensing library.
Thanks very much for reading!
Be well,
Ben
