Mindia Devi Klein

Ah Muse, From Where Does She Come! Thundering Like Clouds Pregnant With the Eternal Waters of Life Pelting, Dripping and Overflowing With Wet, Fertile Nuance? or Like a Mist Descend and Seep Ever So Gently Forever Into The Moist Soil of the Soul

Biography

In 1979 Mindia co-founded the world fusion music ensemble Ancient Future as a vehicle for the creation of innovative music based on the group's studies and explorations of Indian, Gamelan and Western forms of music. After recording two albums with Ancient Future (Visions of a Peaceful Planet and Natural Rhythms), Mindia left the group to live and study in India and Indonesia where she could pursue the traditional forms of music at their source. She has continued performing, composing and recording on her own and with various ensembles and musicians. In 1988 she released her first recording on the Bamboo Moon Musik label called Balinese Dream. This unique work, partially recorded live on the island of Bali features the natural sounds of the island and indiginous orchestral processional music including the Kechak and Angklung ensembles interwooven with original compositions for an ensemble of Indian, Balinese and Western instruments. It ends with a haunting bansuri flute solo recorded live in the Taj Mahal in India. Her two most recent CD's are RAGINI: Fluted Voice of the Goddess and Quiessence,which feature the Bansuri, the classical bamboo flute of India.

• To the Mindia Devi Catalog of recordings and books.
• To a brief autobiography by Mindia Devi Klein.
• To a description of Mindia's instruments.
• To Mindia's artist web site: BambooMoonMusik.com

Featured Sound Files

Morning Song (Mindia Klein. 7:48). (>audio. Available with free trial subscription at Visions Of A Peaceful Planet @ eMusic.cm. ) Bansuri flute, sitar, sarod, esraj, and tabla bring the morning in. From Visions of a Peaceful Planet (Ancient-Future.Com 2004) CD-R- $19.98 list: Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now.

Semara (Montfort. 4:27) (>audio. Available with free trial subscription at Planet Passion @ eMusic.com. ) Balinese gamelan. Features instruments and rhythms of the Gamelan Semar Pegulingan and performances by the original 1978 line-up of Ancient Future. From Planet Passion. (Ancient-Future.Com AF-2001). CD/Gift Card, $17.98: Add 1 to Cart. Buy 1 Now.

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Partial Discography

Solo:

• Ragini: Fluted Voice of the Goddess (Bamboo Moon Musik, R-1)
• Balinese Dream (Bamboo Moon Musik, BD-0)
• Quiessence (Bamboo Moon Musik, Q-2)

With Ancient Future:

• Natural Rhythms (Philo/Rounder 9006)
• Visions of a Peaceful Planet (Beauty AF-79)

To reach Mindia Devi Klein, contact: mindiadevi@znet.com