SOUVIK CHAKRABORTY
Shanti people
Our readers had been waiting for long to read this interview; It is just too exciting for our readers to finally be able to read your interview in a popular music magazine of India, can you say a big hello to our readers?
We’ re happy that we have fans in India. And it’ s a pleasure for us to give an interview for such a cool magazine as yours! We hope that you will connect us with them.
Shanti People come to our mind as a band, can you please introduce Uma, Bo, Chaban; tell us the story about how you guys kick started the amazing band of yours?
Being a professional vocalist Uma started to practice Bhakti-Yoga, became a vegetarian and started to study Mantra Vidya and Raga Vidya. Once she came to Kyiv to record some vocals at the studio. Bo( sound engineer and manager of the Shanti People band) was working there at that moment. Uma inspired him to work on the project. Since that time Shanti People is a pledge of love and a teamwork. Depending on the performance format Shanti People collaborates with different musicians such as electronic artists, guitarists, pianists, drummers and musicians that play classical indian instruments( bansuri, tabla, mridanga, sitar, tampura, sarod etc.) Rostyslav Chaban, the flare representative of the underground scene and multiinstrumentalist, joined Shanti People in 2016.
What was that seed of inspiration that helped you germinate and branch out to Shanti People; the band?
That was a desire to give music a deep spiritual meaning. In 2007 Uma based a band of professional musicians in Moscow and together they had started to experiment with the combining of music genres and Vedic hymns. of various spiritual systems to show people the diversity of Vedic culture and bouquet of God, that contains every possible flower in this world.
Shanti People has been phenomenal in popularizing mantra music across the globe, how much of an influence or inspiration do you draw from the land of mantras- India?
To us Bharatvarsha is a place where we study sacred knowledge and music. We meet new friends there and get inspired by the communication with amazing people from all over the world.
In a career of 10 years, Shanti People has put on a remarkable stint in the arena of world music, how have your lives transformed in the process?
The world is changing and it’ s natural that possibilities and circumstances are changing too. But our desire for spiritual and professional realization always makes us
How do you perceive the mantras in your music?
Mantras are not just a trend or a tradition to us. For many years we have consciously practiced Mantra-meditation in the succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Vedic culture. But in Shanti People’ s tracks Uma sings Vedic Mantras
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