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ever called SRF's headquarters and been placed on hold and thought, what
beautiful music? Then this is the CD for you! Where Golden Dreams Dwell is the
long awaited follow-up CD to The Divine Gypsy, once again performed flawlessly
by Ron Hart on his now infamous Roland synthesizer. Recorded in 2003 almost
twenty one years after The Divine Gypsy, it was well worth the wait. An
instrumental recording of Paramahansa Yogananda's Cosmic Chants, each track is
imbued with feeling and devotion. Listening to this recording imparts instant
calm and peace. For a fascinating and complete history of how this recording came into being, click on the 'extended information' tab above.
Tracks:
1. From
Thy Sleep, Lord - listen:
2. In
the Land Beyond My Dreams
3. Come,
Listen to My Soul Song
4. Search
Him Out in Secret
5. Ever
New Joy
6. Dawn
Chant
7. What
Lightening Flash - listen:
8. Wake,
Yet Wake, O My Saint
9. Will
That Day Come to Me, Mother?
10. O Thou Blue Sky
11. He Who Knows
12. Desire, My Great Enemy - listen:
13. When My Dream's Dream is Done
About
the artist:
Ron Hart received his BFA in Music Composition from Ohio University
in 1969 and continued his post-graduate work in Composition and Film Scoring at
UCLA. Besides being a regular organist
at Self-Realization Fellowship's Lake Shrine and Fullerton temples, Ron has
played and recorded with a variety of new age, classical and jazz artists
including jazz guitarist Bill deArango (Dizzy
Gillespie, Charlie Parker), bassist/producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), Jorge
Strunz (Strunz & Farah), drummer
E.W. Wainwright (McCoy Tyner, Fats Waller),
South Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and many others. In 1981 Ron started Indie label ShadowLight
Records and released the Dancing Moments
album by the jazz fusion band, the Landress/Hart Group. In 1982 Ron recorded for SRF, The Divine Gypsy, followed in 2003 by Where Golden Dreams Dwell. In 2006 he started a new Indie label,
PureBeam Music, and in 2008 released The
Light Beyond the Atoms, a four-movement suite of original music featuring
Ron on grand piano with synthesizer orchestration. The music is intended to take the listener
within and the movements are designed around four of the soul qualities
described in Paramahansa Yogananda's God
Talks with Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita.
The movements' titles and qualities:
Daya (compassion/daya);
Simplicity's White Robe (purity/sattva-samshuddhi);
Baba Anand (radiance of character/tejas);
Train is a'Comin' (patience, perseverance/dhriti).
Editor's note: To this day Ron remains one of the most charming and cheerful
people on this planet. Playing
time: 41 minutes
$14.00
Recording assistance by Jan Fairchild. The words
and music to these and more than 50 other chants can be found in the book
Cosmic Chants by Paramahansa Yogananda, which is available in our book section.
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