There's more to come in this department, but we have some samples of live chanting with the Kirtan Wallahs on this page and additional audio samples available here. All the audio on both pages are in the mp3 player on the home page. The video on this page is designed to play automatically so that is the sound you hear when you arrive at this page. Simply stop the video prior to listening to any of the audio samples on this page.
The PDF files available below via links labeled "PDF" contain the music in Western notation for the chants you'll hear, along with guitar chords and lyrics. All these chants are by Natesh* (aka Craig Ramsell), who invites you to utilize these chants for your own kirtan if you like or download for listening. He only asks that any of his chants that are recorded for broadcast or sale be credited to him as the source.
We will eventually post audio samples and the music for all of Natesh's 140+ chants and hope to have most of them posted within the next several months.
* Some of Natesh's chants have traditional "lyrics" (Divine Names, mantras, etc.) with the music created by Natesh.
Sample Video from New Year's Eve 2008
The Kirtan Wallahs have chanted in the New Year at 7 Centers Yoga Arts for 7 consecutive years. This is a sample of the chant Jay Vitthale Jay Jay Vitthale (PDF) from New Year's Eve 2008, with special guest and former Kirtan Wallah, Scott Stine, on bass.
Introduction to Bliss of Kirtan Audio Excerpts
Below are audio excerpts from different Bliss of Kirtan programs for the past two New Year's Eve programs. You may download (or just listen to) the mp3 files by clicking on the related link in the "sound icon" column on the right. The "MB" information for each link specifies the approximate file size in megabytes.
Audio Excerpts from New Year's Eve 2010 Bliss of Kirtan
Following are excerpts from the chants in this past New Year's Eve program in the order in which they were chanted. Again, all these chants are available for listening in the mp3 player on the home page.
Note that Mahadeva Mahadeva below was done during a break with fewer musicians and more audible talking in the room. Also, the second, longer version of Ram Ram Hanuman adds the ending of the chant going right up to the New Year, which ending does not have written music.
The final two chants are shorter ones done after midnight, so the entire chant is there. The first, Shri Krishna Vasudeva, is based on the melody of Auld Lang Syne but using Divine Names, which we've been doing for a few years now, and the second is a short chant to Lord Ganesha to start out the New Year.
Audio Excerpts from New Year's Eve 2009 Bliss of Kirtan
Below are excerpts from the prior New Year's Eve program in the order in which they were chanted. (The Shri Krishna chant based on Auld Lang Syne is omitted.)
Additional downloadable audio excerpts from other Bliss of Kirtan programs, including New Year's Eve 2008, are available here. As above
, all the recordings on that page are included in the mp3 player on the home page
