All Bliss

All Bliss, a new CD by Narayan & Janet, transcends it's own mainstream appeal with a powerful purpose: to help everyone who hears it sustain a state of bliss in everyday life. It's like meditating with your eyes open, says Janet of the CD, which is scheduled for release in early 2010. Narayan adds With a little fearlessness and a lot of love inward and outward reality can become one. This music is for lifting your awareness and taking that state into the world. The genre-bending duo's first release, Why Not Now, drew on a unique blend of New Age, R&B, gospel, and Sanskrit chant influences. All Bliss has an even more eclectic, exciting palette, adding rock, pop, jazz and world music styles. Get Together is a fresh version of the Youngbloods' classic hit. Peace and Joy, an anthem for a new loving and peaceful age, evokes the songs of John Lennon. Soul Song and Walking in the Bliss are structured like chants, using repetition and a hypnotic beat to induce an uplifted trance state. Shivaya is a Sanskrit chant with a modern soundtrack. Be Yourself is a song with a pop feel and a non-conformist message, while Mostly Love evokes the smooth style of the Brazilian jazz singer Sad. The lyrics for the reflective Always Near are adapted from a poem by the Indian teacher Yogananda. Music is a spiritual phenomenon, says Narayan. and these songs are also infused with the realism of our shared spiritual journey. The duo describes the creation of the CD as a blissful, miraculous adventure. Each step along the way involved self-healing and a lot of visioning work and right when we needed it people who are masters of their art appeared, says Janet, starting with Grammy-award winner Eric Tingstad who produced and plays guitar on the album. Janet had met Eric while on tour with David Lanz, and was invited along with Narayan to be a part of Eric's highly-acclaimed live performances of music from Eric's solo album Southwest. Eric says Narayan and Janet are extraordinary musicians and songwriters and the three of us bring very complimentary musical senses into the studio. Making this album was a beautiful collaboration.