Full length album of mantras & songs that inspired my SACRED JOURNEY

This album is a celebration of the mantras I’ve learned and songs that have emerged over the past 10 years of my sacred journey into devotional music, yoga and meditation. It contains 6 tracks of mantras and 2 original songs including my award winning song Himalaya.

Tr 1: Moola Mantra (10:48mins) feat. Arnando Bharti

Tr 2: Jai Gurudev(9:46mins) feat. Shyan Kishore

Tr 3: Shiva(10:20mins)

Tr 4: Stealer Of Hearts (3:50mins) feat. Arnando Bharti

Tr 5: Shakti (9:00mins)

Tr 6: Surya (10:05mins)

Tr 7: Letting Love In (9:15mins)

Tr 8: Himalaya(7:33mins) Awarded Best Song Adult Contemporary 2016 NCEIA Music Awards

© 2017 Jo Kelly

The story of Sacred Journey.

I’ve been singing all my life but my true musical heart was untouched until I went to India. I spent blissful time in the ashram of my guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar where I practiced yoga and meditation, danced and sang in the temple and learned how to find my true joyful self again. After a time I yearned for the sacred mountains and as I heard them calling I began my pilgrimage to the Himalayas. I fell in love with this divine healing land, the beautiful sounds, exotic instruments and classical mantras that touched my heart and helped me find inner peace and contentment. So profound was my experience that it inspired me to write Himalaya a song which later won the NCEIA Dolphin Music Award for best song adult contemporary. Since India my singing blossomed into a love affair with sacred mantra and Indian classical music and I created Cafe Mantra Music for yoga and meditation. This album is a celebration of the mantras I’ve learned and songs that have emerged over the past 10 years of my Sacred Journey.

With Gratitude A BIG thank you to my crowd funding supporters who have helped me raise the money needed to release this music. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to you all. Tonia, Paul, Sheree, Jen, Lila, Mohan, Lesley-Anne, Mary-Anne, Graeme, Brian, Seonaid, Monica, Shivam, Yolande, Julie, Johanna, Chaitanya, Ruth, Philip, Maya, Kate, Stephen, Chantelle, Julia, Ishka, Debbie, Helene, Tiffany, Alice, Malinda, Janette, Lainie, Michael, Nathalie, Mia, Anne, Susie, Jacqui, Sam, Elizabeth and Bart. Also … thank you to Shyan Kishore for your sublime bansuri flute solos on Jaigurudev and Arnando Bharti for your haunting and heartfelt dilruba solos on Bhagavati and Stealer Of Hearts. My appreciation to Chris Wilde and Fiona Cheng of Quiet Earth who have supported Cafe Mantra from the beginning by publishing and distributing my works and creating such divine CD covers.