Music From The Temple of Light is the first release from the new Iskra Records imprint from English writer/composer Peter Culshaw. The album skilfully deploys esoteric Christian and Sufi chants, as well as Hindu mantras as part of a spiritual journey based on the concept that, as the Sufis say, “There are different paths up the mountain”; or as the mystic Rumi said “The lamps are different, the light is the same”.
Music From The Temple of Light was recorded mainly in Half Step Audio in Mumbai with some of the most vital contemporary Indian musicians including Paras Nath on bansuri flute and Chandana Bala Kalyan on enchanting vocals. The music is a haunting mix of East and West, ancient and modern, led by minimal tantric piano - objective, meditative music for a chaotic age. Other tracks were recorded in pre-war Odesa, in venues including the Odesa Film Studio and the Odesa Fine Arts Museum where the album’s first single and video, “Sat Nam 2024” was recorded.
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Reviews
“Ear-opening, transporting, exquisite music"
Shirley Collins, (Folk Heroine)
“Ecstatic, mystical …Never just fusion for fusion’s sake, like the very best fourth or global jazz, it feels like music beamed from a better future".
Joe Mugford, The Shuffle
"The whole album is marvellous. One of the best albums of the last couple of years, a classic that will be played in decades to come"
Alexis Herreria, Viento Solar (Mexico)
★★★★- 4 stars