Pratyavartana
Pratyavartana is Sanskrit for “Homeward Journey”. The intention of this CD is to bring you back “home” to your Source where you will find yourself in a state of tranquility and bliss. Whether used for meditation, a healing/massage session or your yoga practice, the music on this CD will greatly assist you to go deeper. Steve Booke, a Reiki master and master of Atrostonic healing, embedded the music with high frequency healing energies to intensify your experience while listening. The calming sounds of this recording will provide the perfect background for whatever you intend on using it for. Let the music and energies take you away to your own personal paradise.
Premik, a composer, arranger, producer and an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, performs on various flutes, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones. He was a touring and recording member of John McLaughlin’s groundbreaking fusion group, Mahavishnu Orchestra on the Visions of the Emerald Beyond album and tour. He has also worked with Carlos Santana, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, Ravi Shankar, Narada Michael Walden, Jean-Luc Ponty, Clarence Clemons, Jackson Browne, Lonnie Liston-Smith, Sting, Billy Joel and James Taylor, to name a few. He played the saxophone solo at the end of Whitney Houston’s number one hit “How Will I Know” and the sultry sax interplays in Regina Belle’s hit “Come to Me”. The 2008 schedule had him playing Sting’s Rainforest Concert at Carnegie Hall and extensive touring with Russian legend Boris Grebenshikov, beginning in London at the Royal Albert Hall, continuing on to Dublin, Kiev, Milan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, ending the year in Vienna.
Steve Booke, a Berklee College of Music graduate, makes his living as a composer of music for film and television. He endorses Fender Guitars, Larrivee Guitars, Dunlop, GHS strings, Mogami cables, Soldano, Peavey, Graph Tech, L.R. Baggs and Digitech. Steve’s music can be heard on everything from The Oprah Winfrey Show to any and all major cable networks such as Discovery, A&E, MTV, VH-1, Animal Planet and many more. He was featured in Guitar Player Magazine and won the June 2005 Song of the Year contest for one of his world/fusion compositions. Steve performs his own music with his five piece acoustic world music ensemble, Violet Samudra, in the New York area. He performs regularly in NYC with different groups several nights a week and is a regular performer at visionary artist Alex Grey’s NYC based gallery, CoSM. Steve has eight CDs of his own music released and appears on fifteen other recordings alongside such artists as Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, John Paul Jones, Steve Morse and many others.
Produced and Composed by Steve Booke and Premik Russell Tubbs
Recorded and mixed by Steve Booke
Premik Russell Tubbs – Bansuri, Celtic Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute and Metal Flute
Steve Booke – Acoustic Guitar, Fretless Guitar
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