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Samir Bodhi: Stairway To Nirvana

by Robin B James
March 5, 2021

Traditional Indian instruments and vocals blended with synthesizers, studio effects and electric guitar in an amazing cinematic sounding production. Strong, resonant sounds encourage directed attention on a journey through the stages of life, moving from the mournful to joyful, and eventually ascending to reach enlightenment, engaging with naturally restorative influences. Vana means “weaving" and nir means “negation," thus Nirvana might be the ending of suffering and the cessation of the weaving of the mind. Swirling in space, it ...