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Ranjit Makkuni strum those strings, art, design and music , Mahamaya Experience, opera

But it’s Ranjit's an Mithilesh’s performance on the two-part live recording “Love (The Waves of the Here and Now)” – my top favorite song on this project - that truly stands out. The pairing between him and Ranjit is impeccable, as they use their respective musical skills to create a dynamic, oceanic wave-inspired (hence the title) call to action to embrace the ‘form’ of the present as opposed to waiting for things to change to fit your expectations.

ALBUM REVIEW: Mahamaya – “The Mahamaya Experience”

Matthew Bailey

Mahamaya Exerience

Mahamaya presents some of the most colorful, high energy, richly textured world music --pop rock and jazz -- emanating from South and South East Asia.

Mahamaya's music aims to restore happiness in a world hijacked by "ego!" They goad us to visualize how a world could look like if it did not have 'ego' as its base?

Its been clear that in the name of innovation, societies participating in and designing urbanization, and which have been primarily engaged in and immersed in the design nof media environments and economies --all fueled by ego-- have imposed their values on many in the rest of the world which live by ecological values, and whose world views have been centered in peace, non violence based happiness and transcendence.

The irony is that while the goals f the founding fathers of tech had been to produce peace, today, tech centered innovation based world view hasn't necessarily produced societal well being nor peace!

If, instead, the focus shifted from ego to non-ego, or a balanced ego, the Mahamaya project asks: can we not envision a world which focuses on compassion, and a sustainable technological innovation that lies in harmony with Nature and inner well being for all.

As people become educated, they learn all kinds of abstractions to represent, measure and act upon the world, and as a result most educated people live in Urban areas, living in their world of conceptual thoughts using and improvising on new structures modeling, predicting and controlling Reality. So much so that their minds are dislocated from the physical spaces around them.

This song, set in a 12 beat rhythmic cycle, is improvised on a combination of two ancient melodic scales asks the listener to experience the here and now. Set in the drama of never ending waves of form, like the surfer, and inspired by the wind surfer solving problems in the dynamics of the ‘here and now’ the song asks listeners to experience and focus on solving the ‘now’ now and not later.