Mantras - new chants album.

[unclechristo]

I recently finished the 2nd album of chants with Ajahn Achalo, the Buddhist monk in Thailand. He asked me to set music to 2 chants which I finished a few months ago and were quite rhythmic. I asked him whether he would send over 2 more chants that would suit a more ambient accompaniment to balance the other 2 tracks but also to make the recordings into an album length, (as I like albums :-)). This he did and I added some ambient music to them and he made some suggestions which I acted on and it was done.

You can hear it online here.
Plus it's on Spotify and such now.

A funny thing happened after it was done. I had always assumed he was in a big monastery in Bangkok. But he corrected me - he is in a small remote monastery in the hills 5 hours drive north of Bangkok with just 8 others. He sent me photos. So it's nice to imagine he has been recording his chants in such a place.

He just contacted me to say the new chants have gone down very well with his students and online in his meditation pages.