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Thursday, January 2, 2014

Review: Sacred Love Meditations Mirabai Ceiba

Mirabai Ceiba is a duo consisting of guitarist/singer Markus Sieber and singer/harpist/keyboardist Angelika Baumbach. They come from different parts of the world. Markus is East German. Angelika was born in Tucson, Arizona, and grew up in a small village near Mexico City, the daughter of a Mexican mother and German father.  Markus and Angelika first met at a street fair at Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and quickly fell in love. Markus was pursuing a successful acting career at the time, and Angelika was touring the world as a singer/songwriter. But the newly formed couple decided to share their love with the world through uplifting music steeped in spirituality, tenderness and beauty. Together, Angelika and Markus have forged engaging new style of world devotional music blending Gurmukhi mantras from the Kundalini Yoga tradition with original songs in English and Spanish that reflect a Native American influence and also draw words of wisdom from Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Guru Nanak and Yogi Bhajan.

Music for lovers, Sacred Love Meditations by the duo Mirabai Ceiba is a gorgeous collection of songs that focus on love.  The voices of both Angelika and Markus interweave throughout the album, along with the music, a deeply symbolic gesture of the unity between them.  The delicate sounds of harp, piano, and guitar blend with their voices amid lush celestial soundscapes. The meditations use the ancient technology of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan to help each one of us access a sacred space within to allow us to communicate from soul to soul and establish communication on a deeper level which may bring light and healing into our relationships.

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