Monday, November 16, 2009

Safe – Not Alone

01 – Make A Move
02 – Progress
03 – Without Your Guide
04 – Same Blood
05 – The Way We Planned
06 – Keep Away
07 – The Knower Of Dharma
08 – December
09 – Not Alone
10 – Ocean Of Mercy

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Classic ISKCON Vinyl – Vrindavana LP from France and/or Holland


Vrindavana
Parampara Productions
RPI 102

The Vrindavana LP, released by Parampara Productions, is tied for my favorite Classic ISKCON record with Temple Radha Krsna, also released by Parampara. It’s got almost everything you could want, including an amazing rendition of “Kesava Kali Mala” by Acyutananda Swami.

Sure, if you wanted to, you could see this as the poor-man’s Radha Krishna Temple (the George Harrison-produced LP that everyone has). Vrindavana seems to be trying mimic Radha Krishna Temple to a large degree. Most of the instruments are traditional, save a bass guitar and an often haphazardly played flute.

To me, however, the Radha Krishna Temple LP has always seemed over-produced. It’s too slick in many places and while a beautiful album, it doesn’t capture what you’d hear in the temple. Vrindavana pretty well fills that gap. It’s fairly well produced, but keeps enough of the temple spirit to satisfy my uselessly picky tastes.

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