1. God, Krishna,
Christ, Gurus - listen:
2. Radha, Krishna,
Govinda
3. The Water is Wide
4. Hare Krishna
5. Dawn Chant - listen:
6. Thou Art My Life
7. Listen to My Soul Song - listen:
8. I Am Here
9. In the Land Beyond My Dreams
10. Into the West
Musicians:
Harmonium
and vocals - Michael Dunn
Guitar - Owen
Kortz
Bass - Benjamin
Davis
Tabla - Alan
Meyers
Violin - Terry
Glenny
Tanpura - Susan
Bowen
Djimbe - Gary
Nathan
Cymbals - Kristine
Dunn & Sharon Pyne
Bells - Donna
Caesar & Zofia Karubin
Percussion -
Sarah Rosencratz
Backing
vocals - Michael Glover, Alan Green, Zofia Karubin, Owen Kortz, Gaya O'Neall,
Robyn Rosencratz, Sarah Rosecratz, Nina Swan
About the artist: Michael Dunn brings to the ancient art of kirtan a devotional intensity and simplicity that many have found profoundly moving. For the last fifteen years, Michael has led kirtan meditations at the SRF's Lake Shrine temple in Pacific Palisades, California.
After an award-winning fifteen year career in theatre and music, Michael heeded an inner need for a spiritual sabbatical and began work many years ago as a vegetarian cook at the Lake Shrine ashram, immersing himself in the teachings of Yogananda. His beginnings as a kirtan artist can be traced to an earthquake! The 1994 Los Angeles temblor left the Lake Shrine short of a kirtan leader (who chose to move to a more stable tectonic plate) and the head monk there asked Michael to learn the harmonium. Years of leading chants and meditations followed, culminating in a pilgrimage to India for the Maha Kumbha Mela in 2001. There he learned chants from the monks of Yogoda Satsanga Society at Dakshineswar, and at a Himalayan retreat in Dwarahat, near the cave of Mahavatar Babaji. This pilgrimage also planted the seeds of what would become the CD, "Adoration " Chants for Meditation" which has earned much acclaim from devotees around the world.
After performing many joyful kirtans in Southern California and around the U.S., Michael is now bringing devotional chant to interfaith gatherings around the world - in Assisi last summer for The Global Peace Initiative of Women at a summit of contemplatives on The Divine Feminine; in Washington D.C. this fall at the American Alliance of Contemplatives, and at a global gathering of spiritual leaders during the crucial United Nations Conference on climate change in Copenhagen.
It is Michael's hope that these chants will find a place in your heart.
