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* A Hundred Blessings has been another incredible process of deepening Mirabai Ceiba's creative relationship with the sound current of Gurmukhi mantras and spiritual poetry.
* Angelika Baumbach's harp & piano and Markus Sieber's guitars provide a musical foundation that perfectly supports the intimate marriage of their voices on this album.
* Their artistry flows through the album on a wind of rich creativity, musical depth, and sacred spirit. With a beautiful blend of mantras and songs, the album includes the prayers and mantras of Guru Nanak and Yogi Bhajan blended with the poetry of Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Mirabai Ceiba's own gentle poems.

Mirabai Ceiba

 

Miirabai Ceiba is a musical project created by Angelika Baumbach from Mexico (vocal and harp) and Markus Sieber from Germany (vocal and guitar). They perform a compilation of original songs in Spanish and English as well as newly arranged chants from different traditions of the world and Gurmukhi Mantras. The name Mirabai Ceiba expresses the influences of both India and Native Latin America. The Ceiba is the sacred tree of Latin America, where these trees are never cut but are allowed to grow very tall.

 

A gentle yet expansive spirit pervades all the music of Mirabai Ceiba. The delicate sounds of harp, piano, and guitar blend with lovingly intertwined voices amid lush celestial soundscapes. Their concerts are group celebrations for peace-joyous and loving occasions that embody the duo's profound belief in music as a universal language uniting all the world's peoples, cultures and traditions.

Mirabai Ceiba is a duo consisting of guitarist/singer Markus Sieber and singer/harpist/pianist 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.

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. Through exquisitely crafted recordings like their CD A Hundred Blessings, Mirabai Ceiba weave a beguiling tapestry from these diverse influence and sources. And that's what the music feels like: a beneficent and abundant gift from the universe. In concert, they inspire all present to chant together in a spirit of compassionate love and Oneness.

 

Even the name Mirabai Ceiba embodies the influences of both India and Native Latin America. Mirabai (1498-1547) was a Hindu mystical singer. Her songs express the longing of the individual self to be one with the universal self, represented by Krishna. For Angelika and Markus, the name Mirabai "is the exploration, the devotion, the inspiration in all the different aspects of divinity."

And the Ceiba is a sacred tree of Latin America which is never cut and grows very tall. "We wish our music could be like the Ceiba tree," say Markus and Angelica, "with roots deep in Mother Earth and branches extending far and wide into Father Sky."

 

   专辑《A hundred blessings》出自2010年3月13日，是 Mirabai Ceiba组合的第7张专辑，专辑《A hundred blessings》给予聆听者一种灵魂的安慰。也可以说是心灵的祝福。让你我在安详宁静的声音中感知自我内心的本来。（Mirabai Ceiba是由音乐家 Angelika Baumbach 与 Markus Sieber 一起创立的一个音乐项目。Mirabai Ceiba出自于拉丁美洲的一种圣树，这种圣树从诞生起就不允许被修剪，所以它可以长的非常高大。Angelika Baumbach 与 Markus Sieber 希望他们的音乐也能像这一种树的根一样在祖国大地和树枝延伸无限，在神的指引下给予自己无尽的奉献精神与灵感。

　　Angelika Baumbach 1977年出生在美国的亚利桑那，成长在墨西哥的一个边远的小村庄。自幼受到锡克教的音乐与歌唱的影响，15岁参加了当地的一个墨西哥乐队 CIeloy Tierra，于1992年在华纳唱片发行过一张专辑，在哪里学会了竖琴与作曲，在2001年欧洲巡演的时候在爱丁堡遇见了与 Markus Sieber。于是 Mirabai Ceiba诞生了。

　　Markus Sieber 1974年出生于德国，在1990年曾经创立了一只摇滚乐队 Ponyboy，周游于德国，波兰和俄罗斯，后乐队解散就读于柏林和圣彼得堡，主攻戏曲与电影，当遇见 Angelika Baumbach 时一个新的音乐理念由此诞生。（

 

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