The Mystic JAMMS Band
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For information on booking The Mystic JAMMS Band, call
831-425-3234, or send email to
alx@karmatalk.com.
Experience
the Mystic JAMMS Band for yourself, with four of our
favorite songs. (MP3-compatible player required.)
 Jonathan
D. Rosen
Sacred singer Jonathan D. Rosen was, once upon a time, a soloist
with the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, and the New York
Shakespeare Festival, as well as a faculty member of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music. As the director of TransFormance
Theatre, Jonathan facilitated corporate healing & transformation
through the use of improv theatre, music, and profound subtle energy
techniques from Sri Kaleshwar, a healing saint in India.
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 Alx Uttermann
After performing as a classical pianist for twenty-five years,
Alx Uttermann blossomed into a singer-songwriter, composer & poet.
During a five-year residence at Sri Kaleshwar's ashram in southern
India, her training as a healer included learning, creating &
singing countless bhajans, sacred songs, in Sanskrit & English.
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 Martin
Lawrence
Singer, guitarist & drummer, Martin has been involved with the
Mount Madonna Center since its inception, and one of the main
musicians for Baba Hari Das' programs. He's performed kirtan all
over the Santa Cruz and Bay areas, including CSE (the Center for
Spiritual Enlightenment) in San Jose.
 Carmen DeVida
Carmen DeVida has a life-long love of singing and all things
musical, which led to working for some time in the recording
industry and public radio as a jazz DJ many years ago. More
recently, she began co-writing and performing inspirational music in
New Thought churches around the Central Coast and the Bay Area.
Since 2005, she has been ardently absorbing and digesting the
teachings of Sri Sai Kaleshwar, and is very pleased to offer
devotional singing 'to uplift the soul' as a part of her spiritual
practice.
Maya & Sage Knowles
 Maya & Sage are international recording artists who write and
perform soothing and healing music for the spirit. They sing their
spirit songs at New Thought churches and also create devotional
singing events that include inspiring mantras and lyrics, enchanting
melodies, golden harmonies, powerful healing instrumentation, and
energizing world rhythms. Between them, Maya & Sage have three CDs
being enjoyed around the world: Spirit of Love, Entering Devachan,
and Comin' Home.
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 "We look forward to your magical events every month and we feel
blessed to be a part of the healing magic."
— Amita & friends, Santa Cruz, CA
"We attended your full moon concert healing experience & had a
wonderful time. We had no idea that this Music As Medicine event was
even happening until about an hour before. It was just a calling for
us to be walking down the alley and notice the door open to the yoga
studio... Thank you again for doing your wonderful work, the world
needs you."
— P & L, Carmel Valley
"We experienced the Mystic Jamms Band at PCC last friday night,
and I want to share how powerful it was for me! I will be sure to
put the next full moon event on my calendar. Thanks so much for
all of your beautiful and Divinely inspired energy."
— D., Santa Cruz, CA
This beautiful blessing mantra, a super tonic for any problem, was
given by Sri Sai Kaleshwara Swami
in the United States in November, 2005. The melody for this
soul-music was developed by Maya and Sage. The sample available
HERE (MP3 player
required) is just a taste of what's to come; the full-on version is
nearly 41 minutes long, a veritable tapestry of interwoven harmonies
and offering 54 blissful repetitions of this sacred mantra.
Ordering Information
You can order this beautiful CD by visiting
the Soul Shop on this website...!
Lyrics
Om Mama Om Mama Om Mama
Atma Sukheebhava Sukheebhava Sukheebhava
Atma Shanti Shanti Shanti
Avaham Avaham Avaham
Poetic Translation
My inner-most being is joining with deep healing
I am merging with the sweetness of the highest purity
My soul is flowing with the most divine peace
I call it in, I pull it in
I join with that energy in my soul
Reviews
 "This
is really, really amazing work. Sends chills down my spine every
time I listen to it. Seriously, I could just drop this one into
continuous loop and drift away. Thank you. And Namaste."
— Becca M., Boulder Creek, CA
Namaste!
 On Friday night, the 19th of August 2005, in Santa Cruz,
California, we celebrated the launch of a new healing project,
called "Music As Medicine: Lifting Body & Soul Through Sacred
Song." Billed as a "full moon concert healing experience,"
featuring The Mystic JAMMS Band, the event was a powerful and
beautiful night of sing-along and stand-alone bhajans, kirtans, and
mantras for healing and lifting the souls.
The original Mystic JAMMS Band is comprised of Jonathan Rosen, Alx
Uttermann, Martin Lawrence, Maya & Sage (with Carmen DeVida
joining in 2006) —all Santa Cruz-area
musicians with long histories of sacred song composition,
performance, recording and production. The peace-and-trance-inducing
accompaniment included digiridoo, guitars, drums, harmonium, bells,
and many other instruments from this diverse & talented band of
players!
Local radio station KUSP was kind enough to feature the event on
their regular Tuesday show, Talk of the Bay, on August 16th, with
host Deanna Zachary. (You can hear this PBS station online at
www.kusp.org)
We transformed
Body & Soul, the yoga studio where we usually teach and do
weekly satsangs, with saris, roses, altars.... &.... a
7-foot by
7-foot Sri Chakra Yantra painting on cloth, complete with GLITTER on
all the angles and important points!
(For more details about this incredibly powerful Sri Chakra
Yantra, see
Alx's blog HERE.)
We hung the Sri Chakra in the yoga studio as a backdrop for the
concert—along with many altars and candles and healing yantras and
rose petals all over the floor, etc. It was COMPLETELY vibrating and
filled the room with Her energy and blessings........ A - ma -
zing......!
The event attracted a full house—not one seat was empty, and
there was a tiny space in the back for the two people who decided to
get up and dance....
The music really did convey the healing energy, and we saw many
people going into the blissful state, and into deep deep meditative
trance—all while singing and swaying along with the music. Wow!
The evening provided a profound confirmation of many spiritual
principles for all of us in the band. (For instance, the drummer
noticed that at certain times, every stroke he played was spreading
into the audience, and moving them from within. Waves of shakti,
waves of bliss.)
At the end, after the last song, people were just sitting, in
silence, drifting into deep meditation states. The whole room was
glowing!
Look for The Mystic JAMMS coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
You'll recognize us instantly—we're the folks leading a herd of
stampeding Ganesha elephants into town by the sound of the digiridoo!
On behalf of the JAMMS, we are so grateful to have the
opportunity to share this sacred music with all of you. May the
healing vibrations from these songs infuse this troubled world with
peace, love and relief from pain and suffering.
Loka samasta sukino bhavantu
Loka samasta sukino bhavantu
Loka samasta sukino bhavantu
Om shanti shanti shanti-hi...
Songfully,
— Alx & Jonathan, Martin, Carmen, Maya & Sage
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