Music With Pravesh & Friends


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Jai Gurudev!


Special thanks to Sri Swami Vishwananda Paramhamsa 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Sri Swami Vishwananda for everything!

Thanks also a lot to all the people who were sending videos of my live performances! You contribute nicely to the content of this website.

Here, not only Haribhaktas find informations about new releases of music with my musician friends and also about my solo projects such as “PRAVESH MANTRA MUSIC”. It offers different music styles such as: dance, rock, pop, classic, and experimental ethno music, often in 432 Hertz tuning.

I see myself as musician, "little yogi", and a follower of Sri Swami Vishwananda who gave me the name "Pravesh"* in 2015, and reminded me to spread Bhajan music, not only in Germany. This music website is for the purpose to help spreading Swami Vishwananda's message of “Just Love” and more values of a heart-oriented lifestyle, via special music, lyrics, and pictures, which hopefully help preparing a way to protect your minds from negative thoughts and emotions.

* one meaning of the name "Pravesh" is said to be "Lord Of Celebration", another has to do with "entry".

The Krishna on the left side is a picture of a pendant which was materialized for me by Swami Vishwanandaji in the old temple in Shree Peetha Nilaya, about two days after the first Justlovefestival in 2015. It is connected also with a special song which I had felt inspired by Guruji and Mahavatar Babaji to write. The song is called On Golden Wings. It is the last of eight songs in my 2023 online album "Bhajan Dance".

I wish a lot of fun and joy to you all listening to the music! Please feel free to share it with all your friends. Thank you!


Music Blog


2025 Releases


audio 1866 - Justlovers "18:66" Justlovers - Justlovers

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Famous verse of the Bhagavadgita, wrapped into music

Cover-art: Mirjam AdM
Vocals: Vinidra Dasi
Vocals, guitar: Biharidas
Vocals, bass: Pravesh
Composition: Biharidas, Pravesh
Released: December 2025



Audio "Because" - Beatles coversong with the Mantra "Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha"

Up Female vocals: Vinidra Dasi
Duduk: Giridhari (Ildar)
Male vocals, arrangement, mix: Pravesh
Released: November 2025

There are also very old Beatles coversongs from 1976 with my child voice ...


Mahavatar Babaji audio "Ba-Ba-Babaji-Narayan" - Beach Boys coversong

Up Female vocals: Vinidra Dasi
Male vocals, arrangement, mix: Pravesh
Released: 30. November (Babaji-day) 2025
Elder live version of this song from 2023 ...


audio Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha - Vince "Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha" - Vince

Up Composition, voice, guitar: Vince
Drums, production: Kabirdasananda
Bass, keyboard-sounds: Pravesh

Recorded: November 2025


There are four different versions of "El Cuarto De Tulsi" - Buena Vista Social Club coversong with the Mantra "Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha".
audio "El Cuarto De Tulsi"
A Capella version 		audio "El Cuarto De Tulsi"
Salsa Dance version
Salsa Dance version 		Audio "El Cuarto De Tulsi"
Orchestral version
Orchestral version 		Audio "El Cuarto De Tulsi"
Guitar version
Guitar version
A pre-version only with voice The popular Salsa Version Version with orchestra sounds; very experimental rhythm - mix between "Salsa" and Samba Version with only guitar and small percussion
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Female vocals: Vinidra Dasi
Male vocals, sound-arrangement, mix: Pravesh
Recorded: August-November 2025


2025
Justlovefestival in Shree Peetha Nilaya


Bhagavad Guitars Bhagavad Guitars Bhagavad Guitars backstage
Up If there is nothing else written as description for the songs, they are compositions of our own.

Vocals: Sujatha
Electric guitar: Dhataruttama Das
Vocals, bariton-guitar: Pravesh
Recorded: July 2025


audio Sri Lakshmi Narayanaya - Justlovers "Sri Lakshmi Narayanaya" Justlovers - Justlovers
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Vocals, guitar: Biharidas
Drums, production: Kabirdasananda
Vocals, keyboards, bass, cover-art: Pravesh
Composition: Biharidas, Pravesh
Released: June 2025


Audio Giridhari Jaya Giridhari "Giridhari Jaya Giridhari" Moving Lights Orchestra - Moving Lights Orchestra

Up Main vocals: Kirti Dasi
Guitars: Rishi Aaradhakananda
Drums, production: Kabirdasananda
Keyboards, bass: Pravesh
Released: April 2025


video "Karna Re Hoye" - Future Saints Of Vitthala Future Saints Of Vitthala Future Saints Of Vitthala Pravesh

Up Released: April 2025


Guitar session lobby video Acoustic guitar session in the lobby

Guitar: Rishi Aaradhakananda
Bariton guitar: Pravesh

Recorded: October 2024


video "Dimita Dimita Dim" Sivaratri 2024 in Sri Peetha Nilaya



2023 Justlovefestival


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There was a "Music & Fun" performance with the Justlovers band on the small stage. It consisted of two parts. The more serious music part (unfortunately not many videos available) consisted of own compositions, the fun part consisted of coversongs, with "spiritualized" lyrics. Smiley
More from Justlovers:
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On the same JLF there was another job for me to do: some loudness measuring tests for the BM audio team, means testing how loud the festival music is heard from the village. Since I had to use my both hands in holding two different electronic devices for that purpose - in one hand the measuring device and in the other a camera - and at the same time they had to be protected from the rain, by which we were frequently blessed in that year, 2023 JLF Audioservice my outfit looked a bit funny.


Dance and Relax with Sanskrit Ethno-Music!


Dance music album in 432 Hz tuning, released in 2023:

“Bhajan Dance” by Pravesh solo as an all-in-one music engineer (musician, arranger, producer, mixer) - with singing voice and many different sampling-sounds from all over the world, arranged in multitrack-mode. That means solo-voice and also choir-sounds are mostly sung by one and the same voice, in different layers of recording. As a special feature, also the voice of Sri Swami Vishwananda can be heard with the repeated word "Narayana" in the song "Ramanuja". Thanks to God also as mother nature who contributed greatly in the form of sounds such as of human tribal singing and birds' voices!

Up The lyrics of the songs are mostly in Sanskrit and partially in English language. The album contains eight titles, five of which are traditional Bhajans 1. The rest are my own musical compositions2, including traditional Sanskrit mantras.

1 Traditional Bhajans, arranged in modern music styles: Up 2 Own musical compositions:
Date of release was March 20th, 2023. This date does not only mark the spring equinoxe of the year, for me personally it also marks a special anniversary: On March 20th in 1984 I started to study the science of Kriya Yoga, a decision which I did not regret even for a second in all the years since.

Mantra music 432 hertz, ethno music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, pop music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, rock music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, relax music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, dance music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, latin music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, jazz music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, salsa music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, bhajan music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, sanskrit music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, ethno music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, pop music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, rock music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, relax music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, dance music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, latin music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, jazz music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, salsa music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, bhajan music for dancing and relaxing Mantra music 432 hertz, sanskrit music for dancing and relaxing


Up Under this link you can see the cover art picture in full size with more details ...: Mantra music 432 hertz, ethno music for dancing and relaxing


Swami Sunny musicians Swami Sunny Dancers
Guitar: Aaradhakananda
Cajon: Kabirdasananda
Piano: Pravesh
Video "Swami (Sunny)"
Bobby Hebb coversong on a sunny day in Shree Peetha Nilaya

"Swami, yesterday my life was filled with rain - Swami, you smiled at me and really eased the pain
Well the dark days are done and the bright days are here - My Swami one shines so sincere
Swami, one so true, I love you

Swami, thank you for the sunshine bouquet - Swami, thank you for the love you brought my way
You gave to me your all and all - Now I feel ten feet tall
Swami, one so true, I love you

Up Swami, thank you for the truth you let me see - Swami, thank you for the facts from A to Z
My life was torned like a wind blown sand - Then a rock was formed when we held hands
Swami, one so true, I love you

Swami, thank you for the smile upon your face - Swami, thank you for the gloom that flows with grace
You're my spark of nature's fire - You're my sweet complete desire
Swami, one so true, I love you"


2022


Since my childhood, from time to time I loved to Church organ test music instruments, which were new to me. In January 2022 one of them was an nicely created Elsbeerenbass Video electric bass, made out of service tree (Sorbus Torminalis) wood, by guitar manufacturer Klaus Röder. He also had an sitar Video Indian sitar standing around. When I asked him, where he had it from, he told me that a Swami had brought it. It turned out that the Swami was the teacher of my former yoga teacher Yogi Dhiranandaji Yogi Dhiranandaji, and that the guitar builder and his wife had also themselves been Kriya Yoga students of my yoga teacher, a while before I had met Him in 1986.


2021 Justlovefestival


Namrock Spreme Abode Namrock Spreme Abode Namrock Spreme Abode video "Supreme Abode" - Namrock

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More from Namrock:
Lead-Voice, Guitar: Titikshava Karunika Das
Guitar: Rishi Aaradhakananda
Drums: Kabirdas
Bass: Kanakadas
Keyboard: Pravesh
Recorded: JLF 2021


Audio "Gamechanger"
An instrumental production which was actually made for someone's video-projects. Later on it became a song with a Sri Rama Mantra.

Up Duduk: Giridhari (Ildar)
Composition, mix: Pravesh
Released: March 2021


2020 Justlovefestival


Vrinda And Band Vrinda And Band Vrinda And Band Vrinda And Band     video "Friend" - Vrinda & Band
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Main vocals, composition: Vrinda
Background vocals: Manjula Dasi,
Drums: Ananta Das
Bass: Kanaka Das
Keyboard: Pravesh
Recorded: 2020


Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha
Music Video Parts


Krishna Babajis Eyes Sri Vitthala video Sri Vitthala video

    · video Part 1     · video Part 2     · video Part 3

Guruji's devotees had been asked to produce music videos with the back then new Mahamantra, so I decided to join and make also such a video.
Since I didn't have any picture of Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahman, I used images of different forms of Vishnu, Krishna, Pandurenga, and so on for the video.
As in different previous videos, I also used some selfmade and edited movies of clouds and other nature elements.
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The round Krishna picture above, which also appears in the video, has a special story. I had found a picture of Sri Krishna in the web, which I actually liked, but the eyes looked quite boring to me. So I put the picture in an editor program, copied the eyes of our Mahavatar Babaji picture and placed them into the Krishna picture instead of the boring eyes. The result looked much more like I imagine Krishna! Of course, I could also maybe have taken pictures of Guruji's eyes for it. ;)

The music in the video is a prototype of what later on was published on my 2023 "Bhajan Dance" album with the title Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha. It starts very slowly and becomes very fast over a stretch of about 17 minutes, going through very different music styles.


2019


Street Kirtan Street Kirtan Street Kirtan video Streetkirtan in Frankfurt



2019 Justlovefestival


Sujatha and Band Sujatha and Band Sujatha and Band Sujatha and Band

video "On Golden Wings" - Sujatha & Band

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Vocals: Sujatha
Guitar: (now Rishi) Aaradhakananda
Bass: Shrigopala-Dasa
Drums: Kamil Miszewski
Tablas:
Keyboard, composition: Pravesh
Recorded: JLF 2019


Good Time - Namrock Good Time - Namrock Good Time - Namrock video "Good Time" - Namrock

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Lead-Voice, Guitar: Titikshava Karunika Das
Guitar: Rishi Aaradhakananda
Drums: Kabirdas
Bass: Kanakadas
Keyboard: Pravesh
Recorded: JLF 2019


Guruji rattle ball shakers video Guruji shakes rattle balls - on stage with Sati Ethnica

Thanks to Guruji, also for enjoying us with His extraordinary sense of humour!
Recorded: JLF 2019


Mantras Con Amor Mantras Con Amor Mantras Con Amor video "Love Train Runnin" - Mantras Con Amor

In this video there is no Pravesh visible, just audible, with a funky clavinet sound.
Recorded: JLF 2019


Audio "Ugram Viram Mahavishnu" virtual choir Narasimha-Mantra

Up Vocals, composition, multitrack-mix: Pravesh
Recorded: May 2019

There is also an enlarged video live version of this song, including the Narasimha Kavacham, sung by Biharidas at Narasimha Day 2025 in the Bhutabhrteswar Temple in Shree Peetha Nilaya.


2019 Maha Sivaratri


Maha Sivaratri 2019 Maha Sivaratri 2019
There were two parts of my contribution. The first was normal music.

The second part was a funny game, connected with a certain song, the "Sivayanama-Blues". We did it in several years at Sivaratri. I asked the audience, if they can sing five syllables, always in the same order. They always said yes, but they couldn't do it. So I invented a little support-game for them. There were five volunteers, one for each syllable. I stood behind them and during the band played the song, I touched their shoulders so they knew when they had to lift a shield with respectively one of the syllables. So the audience could follow better. I don't have a video from the live performance, but there is one from a Video test of the game.

Maha Sivaratri 2019 Maha Sivaratri 2019


2018


Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump Christmas 2018 Jump
It was Christmas time in the Light Hall, still "Silent Night" may be not an adequate term in this case. Somehow, an unexpected gap had appeared in the music program and someone demanded that some music should go on quickly. So nobody had planned that song for that evening, it just somehow happened spontaneously by itself:
video Jump - Bhaja Nitai Gauranga Radhe Shyam

Already for the first Justlovefestival in 2015, in order to create a musical greeting from Springen to the rest of the world, I had chosen the rocksong "Jump" by Eddie Van Halen as a coversong to bring the Mahamantra from earlier years, "Bhaja Nitai Gauranga Radhe Shyam Japa Hare Krishna Hare Ram" into some spicy musical form.
Why "Jump"? Because the German word "springen" means "to jump" in English. (It also means "sources" in elder German language - that is where the actual name of the village comes from.)
Of course, the lyrics were adapted to some more spiritual vibe than in the original song ...

"Bhaja Nitai Gauranga Radhe Shyam Japa Hare Krishna Hare Ram ://

He gets up, and nothing gets Him down
You've got it tough, cause He is the toughest around
And He knows exactly how you feel
You gotta roll with the punches and get to what's real.
Oh can't you see Him here, He's standing with His back against the record machine
He ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh can't you see what I mean
You might as well jump"



Session On Golden Wings video Session-version of "On Golden Wings"

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Guitar: Aaradhakananda
Composition, piano, vocals: Pravesh

Recorded: July 2018


Spontaneous sessions are a nice phenomenon in the world of livemusicians - be it in

video Open air session open air     or     in a video Temple session temple.

Recorded: June 2018


Building a stone wall video Such a physically visible, touchable, durable result of one's actions may occur only seldomly in a musician's life, who is studying, writing, practizing, performing and improvising mostly "things" that are existing mainly as invisible frequencies. Up
That is why I was very happy to be offered a chance to support something completely different, like the building of a natural stone wall in the Ashram. Still: invisible sound was involved also in this, because every single stone has been treated with a lot of mantra repetitions, of course. Smiley
Recorded: April 2018


2017 Justlovers Tour


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Slovenia
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With Swami Kanchalochananda and Prema Vahini in Zagreb 2017   Croatia   On an alternative fair in Zagreb 2017



2017 Justlovefestival


Vrinda and Band JLF 2017 Vrinda & Band



2016

More from Justlovers:

Justlovers Justlovers Early Justlovers
Austria, Karthik Night




Duhssera 2016 On Duhssera 2016, after a Navaratri with many bhajans, Guruji spread some presents to us. He gave to me a nice jasmin garland.


Audio Meditative part of "Babaji-Himalaya-Muni" This is a remix of records from 2008-2016, with the Mantra "Om Namo Narayanaya" and with my first tries of throatsinging. My musician friend Giridhari sent some Duduk-Tones from Moscow and I included them into the record.

Up Female vocals: Mira
Duduk: Giridhari (Ildar)
Composition, male vocals: Pravesh
Released: 2016


Video Waters romantische Pianomusik "Waters" Waters romantische Pianomusik Waters romantische Pianomusik Waters romantische Pianomusik

In 2011, two people dear to me, left their bodies: my Hatha- and Kriya-Yoga-teacher Yogi Dhiranandaji Yogi Dhiranandaji, and soon after also my younger physical brother Gregor. The latter had been the first person to study the lessons of Paramahansa Yoganandaji along with me, back in 1984. From Yogi Dhiranandaji I had got an education as Hatha Yoga teacher, and several initiations in some of the old Kriya Yoga techniques taught by Lahiri Mahasaya.
My yoga teacher had been also a remarkable singer. Yogi Dhiranandaji and me in 1988

Up Sometimes I experimented with Willow moon nature pictures, filmtricks and video production. The above video with the self-composed romantic piano music "Waters" and also the next video I used back then as a promotion to get jobs as bar pianist.
In the following video I was improvising over some jazz-standards, in a piano bar in Stuttgart. Video Barpianist
Recorded: around 2011


Rocksounds instrumental Rocksounds instrumental Rocksounds instrumental

Video Rockmusic "Winter", instrumental on keyboard

Recorded: 2011


Video Akademie der bildenden Kuenste Muenchen

In July 2010, an art student of the "Akademie der bildenden Künste München" (Academy of fine arts Munich) engaged me on some project days for a music performance in a small elevator, into which she had managed to install electricity. So I could come with my electronic keyboard, microphone and amplifier.

Recorded 2010, published 2011


Video Concentration exercise

Once, in order to increase my financial income, I offered some music-lessons online. Being aware of some of the benefits of yoga-exercises such as "Tratak", I taught my students also some concentration-exercises.
Having had experimented a bit with trick-movies made out of photographs of clouds, I took such a clouds-video as a basic, put a black spot in the middle of the video and recommended to the students to concentrate on the spot without getting distracted by whatever may go on around it.

Recorded: 2010


Rocksounds Rocksounds Rocksounds

This was a Video promotion video for me as rockmusic entertainer.
It was great fun for me to play that persiflage as Clown in the video intro. Smiley

Recorded: 2008


Video Soccer Swing

This video is about Swing music.
Funnily, for a major part of my life I was surrounded by soccer-playing people, but I for myself only seldom felt enthusiastic about playing that ball game. So I felt somehow inspired to write this Video little funny Swing about soccer playing.

Recorded: 2008


In 2007 or 2008, it happened to me that in some inside very negative moment, all of a sudden the mind tried to make me believe that my 2007 Pravesh physical appearance looked much too old than that any people, specially younger ones, would ever like to engage me as music entertainer for their celebrations, which meant my main financial income at that time.
It was a typical negative thought and fear spiral which became so strong that within minutes, I felt extreme physical effects of that anxiety. My whole optimism and vision narrowed down, even my physical sight was like looking through not more than some narrow tube, and I felt like nearly fainting. Although all that may have been much "psychosomatic", still it felt very real to me.

Soon I identified that phenomena as "midlife crisis".
It lasted about two hours. Smiley
Then God seemed to be merciful with me and brought my mind on more useful ideas again. I clinged to that little spark of Atma which I felt inside and started to prioritize my Sadhana even more than usually, which means I did up to three rounds a day of Kriya-Yoga exercises, even if I was not at home, but in my little car at some parking place or so.
Then later on, I got more jobs as a live musician than ever before.

Never I have regretted my Kriya Yoga practice for even a second. It always helped me in overcoming the tricks of the mind, such as existencial sorrows.
The Kriya Yogis may relate Bhagavadgita 2:40 to their Sadhana: "Even a little of this practice saves one from great fear."

Up The whole incident reminded me also of what my yoga teacher had told me about the metaphysical meaning of the story of Matsya Avatar, when Manu cared for Him as a little fish. As you may know, every day the fish grew more and more, so that it had to be put into bigger and bigger vessels, until only the ocean was sufficient to give enough space to it.
In the metaphysical meaning, the little fish can mean the Atma, and every time one gives attention to It, It takes more space in one's life, until in the end, It saves one even from the apocalyptic events of this world.
Hopefully this may inspire other seekers to never give up their noble efforts, and to never neglect their Sadhana.


1994


Music and pantomime group Mimicry Music and pantomime group Mimicry in Heilbronn, Germany
One of the rare adult photographs of me without beard Smiley



Indian beauty Audio "India"
After my first journey to India, I wrote this love song to India and recorded some instrumental orchestra-like arrangement for it with my keyboard. It was also one of several music pieces which I sent 1994 to film regisseurs, trying to get jobs as a movie musician. I also soon created some lyrics for the song, but firstly I recorded just the instrumental version, since for the film music demos, vocals were not needed.
Up Funnily, the voice record for the song which you can hear above was recorded not before recently in 2025. So maybe it is suspicious for Guinness book "of records" (?): the longest time between the record of an accompaniment track and the record of the respective voice track of one and the same song production - 31 years. Smiley

Composition, sound-arrangement, vocals: Pravesh
Recorded: 1994-2025


1993
Indian music instrument Surbahar


In early 1993, I did my first of two journeys to North India, travelling with my back then yoga-teacher Yogi Dhirananda and a bunch of co-students, exploring some of the footsteps of Paramahansa Yoganandaji, Sri Yukteswarji, Lahiri Mahasayaji and Mahavatar Babaji. We visited places such as ShimlaShimla, RishikeshRishikesh, VaranasiVaranasi, Serampur Sri Yukteswarji MandirSerampur Serampur Sri Yukteswarji Mandir - palmtree planted by Sri Yukteswarji Serampur Ghat where Mahavatar Babaji met Sri Yukteswarji, and Calcutta, where we went to Paramahansa Yogananda's Calcutta, Paramahansa Yoganandaji family house Garpar Road family house, Calcutta, with Harekrishna Ghosh, descendant of Yoganandas brother Sananda met nice people there and Calcutta, Yogananda family house saw family relics. I was even allowed to meditate in Calcutta Paramahansa Yoganandaji meditation roomParamahansa Yoganandaji's former meditation room, from where Yogananda had dropped his clothes though the window down to his friend, when they tried to flee to the Himalayas.

Up Having heard that I am a musician, some of my teacher's friends dragged me through adventurous paths to a music shop, where I saw a Surbahar, Calcutta Surbahar, which is the big bass-sister of the Sitar, fell in love with it's sound, and bought it.
Also bought a book with Tagore-songs. It was written in Bengali (hieroglyphs for me) and I wanted to learn how to read it, sitting on a Calcutta rooftop - one of those houses they just had stopped to build when they had accomplished the eight floor. A crow with a piece of paper in it's beak came by and sat near me. It watched me as if to say: "Please show me how to learn from a piece of paper!" I thought: "I am sorry, I don't understand myself what I am doing here!" Having learned from "Kaka Bhusundi", I quit trying to learn Bengali by my own. Smiley But of course I didn't stop to learn more music.

As soon as I had returned back to Germany, I tried to play on the Surbahar also more Western music, such as Surbahar, Bavaria Audio Christmas songs and other Audio classical and Audio non-classical music.

Released: 1993

You can hear the sound of the Surbahar also in some of my other recordings, such as in Sri Vitthala Giridhari Parabrahmane Namaha (2023 album "Bhajan Dance"), between minute 11:20 and 11:40.


1990
Solo-single publication


audio "You Are My Life" - Rick Towner * Rick Towner
A song for God
Style: Synthpop-Reggae

It had been actually one long song. The production company divided it into two parts, with the vocal version on the first side of the vinyl single, and an instrumental version on the second side, which then contained audio the piano-solo which actually belongs to the song. I for myself was not too happy with that separation.

* Rick Towner was my artist's name in the 1990s. Actually it is just kind of a translation of my German citizen's name (Ulrich Stadter) into English. Smiley
Some Youtube-commentator wrote that this "Rick Towner is nearly a mythical figure." No wonder, because after that publication I never released anything publicly under that name again.

Up Composition, lyrics, drumbox-programming, vocals, keyboards: Pravesh
Released: 1990


From 1988 to 1992, I worked as a Rick Towner keyboard and organ teacher for kids and adults at a private little musicschool in Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart.


1986
Rocksong with Bhagavadgita-lyrics


Audio "He Who Perceives Me Everywhere" - Rockband

Back in 1984, I had started with the practice of Kriya Yoga. Two years after that, inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda, I practiced a self-composed song with a rockband. The lyrics of the song consist of Bhagavad Gita verse 6:30, when Krishna says to Arjuna:
"He who perceives me everywhere, and beholds everything in me,
he never loses sight of me nor do I ever lose sight of him."

The above audio file is a remix of old tape records which have been done during the rehearsals of the musicgroup (which didn't exist very long and didn't have an official name yet), in Bad Aibling, a town in Upper Bavaria.
The rehearsal room was in the big cellar halls of an old spinning factory, in which many bands were practizing, such as also Edens Taste, a band which was known mainly in Bavaria in the 1980s. To me they were a bit like elder brothers. Two of them participated later on in the above rockband-song with the Bhagavadgita lyrics.

Up Bass: Fatty Ziegler
Vocals, keyboards, composition: Pravesh
Electric guitar, vocals: Andi Recher
Acoustic guitar: Matz Offel
Drums: Dirk Zimmer

Recorded: 1986


1980


When the lessons in school didn't remind Pravesh 1980 me enough of music or anything I felt interested in, I sometimes spent the time there trying to draw comic pictures ... Comic Comic
Of course, these kind of drawings made their way also into the rehearsal room Comic Comic of our Musicband Krakenburg musicband, with which we played somtimes Musicband Krakenburg live gigs. "We" means some friends from around Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria.


video Skateboard One of the eldest videos of my physical appearance that I am aware of was very short and was recorded with the Super-8-camera of a friend's father (it was a bit different from today: nobody had smartphones, and to be able to use a movie equipment was kind of a special blessing). We had a little filmclub with some schoolfriends and with this film we wanted to test slow motion and time lapse. Just recently I cut the video and put as background sound some self-made music, from some years later.
Later on, we produced two movies - Science Fiction Action Thrillers. One was about 15 minutes, the other over an hour. For the latter we played and recorded all the music ourselves.
Considering the story ideas, back then we had been strongly influenced by James Bond and Star Wars. Of course we didn't have great technical and financial means, so we overbridged a lot with bizarre humour and creative ideas.
(Maybe later on I may be able to bring some visible and audible examples ...)

Recorded: film around 1979, music around 1982


1978


Not aware that in that year Guruji was already on His physical manifestation "landing track", I was busy doing some live performance live performances with my first schoolfriends-musicband schoolfriends-musicband. Since we didn't have too much money for equipment, instead of microphone stands we bound the improvised microphone holder microphone around the neck with a rubberband and used a tape machine as amplifier. We played mainly Beatles-coversongs and compositions of our own, and even had a little Audio bunch of fans.
Up Two of my music-friends on a birthday had presented me some lyrics for one song which I had written the music for. The text was about old age, and what a wonderful life I would live Audio "... If I were 60 years old: then I would live a life in gold ..." Funnily, by Guruji's grace, many of the optimistic visions of those lyrics nowadays have come true, at least for me. Okay, I mostly don't "sleep all the day", as we sung. This part of the vision may rather have come out of overstressed pupils' minds. Smiley


Old Beatles coversong records,
sung by me as a twelve year old, before I had my first musicband

Recorded: 1976/1977

Up These are some of the eldest records with my voice I found. As twelve years old "Pravesh", I may not have believed much in God back then, but I definitely believed in music, as you may be able to hear. If you would have asked me the names of four Apostles, I probably would have answered: "John, Paul, George, and Ringo!" Smiley

Looking at it from now, I would say: Guruji inspired me a lot to get in touch with the Divine through music. I would not have called it "Divine", but I always felt there was something very great behind good music.
Inspired by a certain Beatles song, nowadays in the house which I am living in, there is a kneading machine on which is written: Yellow Kneading Machine "All you knead is love".

The only Grimace photograph of me from 1976 which I found looks a bit funny, since I loved to do grimaces. From the next year 1977 there is a more musical picture with electric guitar with an electric guitar, which I had got as a birthday present. I remember having said to my mom in that moment: "No, don't photograph!" That is why I may look a bit surprised on the picture. Many years later, the same guitar was passed on to the next generation with electric guitar.
My physical father used to write books (about psychology and such stuff), and he always had some recording devices like audio tape machines and tape recorders around him, in order to record his ideas, which then later on he wrote down on paper. He also sometimes presented me some old devices of his when he had got newer, better ones.

So in my room I had a big tape machine (weighing about ten kilos) which allowed even multitrack records. Okay, "multi" in that case meant only two tracks, but to me it was still phenomenally exciting to try around with it.
So I recorded a drum track, with drums built out of old can lids, laundry detergent boxes etc., which I played "a bit" amateur-like, with the "snare drum" on the 1 and 3, instead of 2 and 4. Smiley
On another track I recorded the piano, which I had started learning since about the time when I came to school. Guitar I had learned by myself, studying a little Bavarian folk music book with basic chords. The different voices I sang along with playing respectively one of those instruments, so the outcome was something that sounded like two twin musicians singing different voices and playing different instruments.

Up Since my physical parents were both fans of Classic, Jazz, and Beatles-music, I grew up with a lot of Beatles-songs. There was also a Beatles book, out of which I could read the lyrics. Since I didn't have English as a subject in school back then, I mostly didn't have too much of an idea of what was the meaning of what I sang.

There is also a much newer Beatles coversong record from 2025 ...


The guys who had arranged my physical incarnation, also loved good music. Physical parents They both played piano quite well, by the way.
(Still, my actual parents look more like this:) Parents

Musically, my first exercises were strictly "a capella" - only with voice. Smiley
Soon I learned to distinguish between different dynamics in the art of singing, for instance:
forte piano fortissimo piano forte
forte piano fortissimo piano forte,
and so on ...


Then I learned to play drum: Play drum Fortunately, they didn't beat me too hard.

Also from the yogic standpoint, God gave me some good "Punya":
Little Yogi? Little Yogi?
Born between meditation pillows ... ... always ready for a smile! Well, that one smile is just practizing headstand.

Guruji asked me in the interview, if I am a little yogi. Well, I hope so!
I want to thank Guruji and Mahavatar Babaji in each breath for everything.

Prem Se Bolo Satgurudeva Sri Swami Vishwananda Mahaprabhu Ki ... Jai!!!




Much love and greetings from Springen, Jai Gurudev!    Smiley


- Pravesh
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432 Hertz tuning: why - and what does it mean?

Actually, the world of music has had 432 Hertz tuning already a long time ago, but unfortunately many cultures lost the knowledge about that. The traditional Indian music still knows it.

To understand that 432Hz-thing, we first have to look at some more technical aspects:

One circulation of planet earth around the sun takes one earth-year - okay, that's nothing new. This circulation is a frequency so low that most of the normal human beings would not hear it as sound, would they? No, because the normal range of human hearing capacity is something between 16 Hz and 20000 Hz (20 kiloHertz), "Hertz" meaning vibrations per second.

If you want to calculate a frequency which would be like the earth-year, brought into some audible range, then you can just "octave" (double) the frequency several times (about 32 times) and you will get some frequencies like 136,1 Hz or the next higher octave 272,2 Hz which are within the human audible range, means normally you can hear them very well as tones.

So if you are "octaving" the earth year often enough for it to become some tone which can be heard, then by this you get some sounding note with a pitch about inbeween "C" and "C#" (C# = "C sharp" - one halftone-step higher than C). If you declare the octaved earth-year-tone as your "C#", then the typical tuning note "A" automatically lies at 432 Hz. Clarified why it is called 432hz-music?

This is exactly what the traditional Indian musicians do: they take the earth's year-frequency like some great underlying basic bass tone and build their music up on it.
Besides: on the CD with Sri Swami Vishwananda chanting "Om", which is sometimes played at the beginning and at the end of events with Him, Guruji sings the Om in quite exactly that tone.

Nowadays, it becomes more and more commonly known again, that this natural frequency works much more supporting and harmonizing towards the human physical and mental health, as well as towards spiritual efforts, than the international 440-Hz-tuning many of us have "been grown accustomed" to.

Some may find it interesting that the number of 432 is also a multiple of 108, which in turn is considered a very important number by Yogis and other spiritually oriented people. The number of beads (pearls) in a mala (pearl-chain) is often 108 or some related number. But the number of 108 has also been used in many various calculations such as the pyramid building architecture. For instance: the ancient Egyptian measurement of one "Remen" represents a 108th millionth part of the earth's equator length. 3

In case you like, you can also play around a lot with that number 108, such as: Up
3 [Source: 1984 book "Cousto - Die kosmische Oktave", Chapter 5ff; ISBN 3-922026-24-9]





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