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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