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Unexpected Blessings

by Joel Veena

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1.
Ranjan (Raga Jog) feat. Jed Blume 05:48
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Raga Yaman (feat. Suraj Nirwan) 19:44
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Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma (feat. Gordon Korstange and Todd Roach) 08:15
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Raga Desh (feat. Kees van Boxtel) 19:27
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5.
Shell 04:22
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Break me out from my shell I want to feel touch I want to feel whole... Some days it's like a walking carapace I can't feeling nothing I don't feel no way You've got cell phone, email, text message, voicemail Facebook, WhatsApp I can't feel that Cell phone, email, text message, voicemail Facebook, WhatsApp Keep my heart on track Break me out from my shell I want to feel touch I want to feel whole Drop the articles and get to the flesh of the language Of bodies Just crucial information necessary for direction decision Wind whim, buoyed kite or bird To visit for awhile Wherefore stay location? Stay inner intention No tether singular direction Option, chance So when hand touch hand to dance Rhythm blesses circumstance Grateful, humble stance to curve hips and back In sweet romance Break me out from my shell I want to feel touch I want to feel whole Break me out from my shell I want to feel touch I want to feel love
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One for the Djinns (Raga Malkauns) 12:49
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about

This album is dedicated to tabla maestro Pt. Subhash Nirwan, whose magical appearance in my life opened the doors to Indian music by providing me with my teacher, Dr. Ranjan Kumar, and some of my closest musical companions.

Here, the Indian slide guitar is presented in many different settings; from traditional, to fusion and beyond. In no other recording will you hear the slide guitar playing a duet with the handpan, used as the carrier with a vocoder or in a fusion of Carnatic South Indian music and middle eastern drumming. It is a labor of love, recorded in India and in the US with world class musicians from around the globe.

Please accept my musical offering, play it far and wide, may it bring you peace, joy, strength and inspiration in all that you do.

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released February 15, 2017

Tracks 1, 3, and 6 were recorded and mixed by Matt Hall at Guilford Sound in Guilford, Vermont USA.

Track 2 was recorded at the Red Velvet Recording Room by Varun Gupta in Gurgaon, India. It was mixed by Matt Hall at Guilford Sound.

Track 4 was recorded live at Gratitude Heritage Home by Kees van Boxtel in Pondicherry, India. Kees mixed the track at Bless U Studio in Haarlem, Netherlands.

Track 5 was recorded and mixed at Root Cellar Sound by Joel 'Veena' Eisenkramer in Brattleboro, Vermont USA.

The album was mastered by Tom Hutten at Bionic Mastering in Chester, Vermont USA

The album art is by ESK Evan Wilson, Instagram: @evaneskwilson

Special thanks to all who helped to make this album possible, including...
Marcia Hylan, Peter Eisenkramer, Dan DeWalt, Vidhi Salla, Suraj Nirwan, Puraskar Nirwan, Matt Hall, Jed Blume, Kees van Boxtel, Gordon Korstange, Jeanne Korstange, Dylan & Megan Richardson, Matt DiLuzio, David Snyder, Todd Roach, Virginia Soukoup, Ranjan Kumar, Tom Hutten, Paul Eisenkramer, and Bhaba Sindhu Biswas and his team for making the instrument I play on this recording.

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Joel Veena Guilford, Vermont

A chance encounter with the 20-stringed Indian slide guitar more than a decade ago in Delhi turned into a life-changing event for Joel. He has since immersed himself in the oral tradition of North Indian classical music, studying with some of the great musicians of India.

A prayer and a process, Joel’s music aims to heal, calm and strengthen. ... more

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