Donna De Lory - a vocal talent not to be messed with. She is constantly keeping fans on edge and testing her chops on new styles and vocal abilities. She takes us from "Bliss" to the meditation styles on "Lover & The Beloved", showing us that no matter what the style of music, it can affect you in a way that nothing else can. This record is various chants and mantras, used primarily in yoga practices. Myself, not knowing anything yoga, was put in a relaxed, care feee mood when I first heard this. The vocals are soothing and the mantras, will help ease the problems and fears you have and put you in a place where you can be at one with the world. This is a must have record.Product Description
Donna de Lory has several solo albums out, but she's still best known as a back-up singer for Madonna, fleshing out choruses since the mid 1980s. There's more than a little bit of Madonna in De Lory's voice, at once fragile and vulnerable, yet still powerful, with a gospel-like yearning. On her own, De Lory has crafted artful pop on albums like Bliss and In the Glow, but she also tends toward the mystical and began incorporating Sanskrit mantras or Kirtans into her songs, a tact culminated on The Lover & the Beloved, a full-fledged Mantra journey. De Lory draws from the golden oldies of mantras, including "Hare Krishna," but revs them up with electronica beats, verse-chorus arrangements, multi-tracked vocals, and electronic textures sprinkled in with the sitars and tablas. Cameron Stone weaves his processed cello through De Lory's melodies and harmonium in serpentine rivulets, tying together the tablas of Girish Gambhira and the answering chants of Kirtan singer, Dave Stringer. Endowed with the materiel girl's sense of pop form and irresistible hooks, De Lory posits a confluence between pop and spiritual music, in which a repeated chorus has the same mantric effect as a chant. Her chants could be hymns to Krishna or a plea to a lover, but they are equally ecstatic and powerful. --John Diliberto
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