A collection of special melodies meant to inspire feelings of love, peace and calmness. Eastern Classical musical style improvised to blend into a contemporary fusion music rendering with Sarangi, Flute, Saxophone, Vocals, Chaturangi - 24 stiringed slide guitar, Electric Guitars and Bass, Rabab, Cajon, Madal, Dholak, Tabla... The album composer and Tabla player Navaraj Gurung further throws in special guitar riffs and beautifies this album with his new ventures of multi instruments he plays. 1. The Story of Love Close your eyes, feel your beloved self in you, in your breath, in your heart, in your being… Seekers of the divine, poets of love, solitude soul, star crossed lovers, whoever however you may be this is your gift of love… Here is a soft, gentle, beautiful blossom of a colourful music, coloured with the charm of Chaturangi, Bansuri, Tabla, beat rich percussions and... 2. Musk the Kasturi Far in a remote mountain village, a young bride awaits for her love to return home from a foreign land. She sings her message of longing, across the hills and valleys, often sitting under the tall trees along the top of a hill looking out towards the setting sun… Sarangi melody brings her to celebrate the seasonal festivals, Flute and Madal make effort to make her happy, but like a musk deer unaware of the fragrance coming from its navel, she continues to live in her dream to see her beloved... 3. Meeting You In the evening light, against a deep blue sky and golden strands of clouds brushed by the winds appears a silhouette of a man holding a suitcase and a rucksack on the distance. A joyful cry, his beloved rushes towards him, and the world starts to move in slow motion… Saxophone Acoustic guitar strings weep in happiness, When two lovers meet, after much separation, it happens – this music! 4. Romantic Experience Like a wind, like a sound, love blows and reverberates everywhere, blends anywhere, anytime... the ultimate romantic experience. This composition is inspired from the evocation of love for the divine and for the beloved as resonated in the Qawali songs originating from the Urdu cultural heritage. It portrays the experience of attaining this bliss in Qawali style but with a touch of the typical Nepali folk flavor blended with the question answer melodies of the folk duets called Lok Dohori. 5. Hara Mahadev From the intricate strands of dreadlocks of Shiva Mahadev – the god of all gods, emerges the sacred Ganges plunging to the vastness of the earth. She traverses through the mountains, hills, valleys, gorges and the vast plains until she opens up her entire existence in the deep blue ocean.. The chant in this composition evokes the water element of Mahadev, the electric guitar brings the rock edge, the lightning, the thunder and the rain.. May the god of destruction and rain bless the entire earth and its being with the rainwater aplenty for live to thrive, love to blossom, and procreation... 6. Inside Journey To be lost is to be found as someone famous once said… The sense of loss is what makes us human. Because we feel the loss, we seek for the essence of life, the divine, the love.. The moment we cease to feel the loss, we might as well be ceasing to feel, celebrate, live, bring peace, and continue to plant seeds of hope for the future of humanity. Inside journey is a music composition for a journey back into your heart, to your inner self... 7. Shanti Sutra As has been the story of the past, the present, and the future, Shanti is not an ultimate destination of life. It is an endless search. The search itself is the Shanti within. Shanti thus is a process, of every passing moment of time, in the little things we do, share, live, celebrate. It is ever transient, volatile, yet strong, that finds us, binds us and makes us one. This soft, slow and peaceful music composition attempts to bring this essence into reality for the listener, the ultimate pilgrim of Shanti Sutra...