Chinmaya Dunster & Sandeep Srivastav - Mystic Poets Of India (2014)

Many of the great mystics of India found their way to express the inexpressable through song. While we have their words, we can’t know what melodies they sang them to, so Sandeep Srivastav has composed melodies based on the Indian raga system, which would surely have been familiar to them. From an abundance of Masters we have chosen Kabir, Meera, Buleh Shah, Sahajo, Amir Khusrow, Nanak and a great scholar, Tulsidas. We have selected parts of their poems to be sung on this CD.

Chinmaya Dunster has set these melodies to chords, Western instrumentation and contemporary grooves with the help of Kavi, whose guitars set the basic flavour of each song.