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Ramani Ramana is arguably the most fun and audacious track of the album, an Indian wedding band meeting a New Orleans front line. James Harrah’s electric guitar offers up some gritty distortion and drive, as tabla and mridangam dance in playful rhythmic interplay. A horn section of Corbin Jones on tenor sax and Aaron Janik on trumpet keeps the Mantra Americana party lively.

Radha and Ramana are indivisible and always together, electromagnetic forces in a universe of love. Radha takes the name Ramani, representing how polarities can flip, feminine assuming the guise of masculinity, all pairs of opposites and energies becoming the other in a cosmic dance of endless transformation. Vrindavan, known as the childhood home of the god Krishna, represents innocence and play as our natural state of consciousness.

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Shri shri radha, jai shri radha
Shri shri radha, jai shri radha
Shri shri radha

Ramani radha ramani radha

Shri shri radha ramana, ramani radha, ramani radha, ramani radha ramana

Hare krishna hare krishna
Krishna krishna hare hare
Hare rāma hare rāma
Rāma rāma hare hare

Radha raman, radha raman, radha raman, radha raman

Ramani ramani ramani ramani ramani ramani ramani ramana
Radha ramanaji radha ramana, radha ramanaji radha ramana

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from Mantra Americana II, released August 25, 2023

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Dave Stringer Los Angeles

Grammy-nominated producer, singer, composer and innovative international Kirtan artist. Stringer’s sound connects the transcendent mysticism of East Indian ragas to the exuberant grooves of Gospel and the ringing harmonies of Appalachia.

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