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The bouquet of songs on the album Boat on the River was inspired by the Ganga Maiya Trio's visit to Benares in 2023.

Asit Poddar's Painting

On Shivaratri 2023 the lyric of the song Ganga Maiya was envisioned on the terrace of Tulsi Ghat Varanasi.

And it was that very place where the trio performed to celebrate the album release on Shivaratri of 2024.

Shiva Rea Joins The Boat on the River Album launch

Paper Boats with QR codes leading to the music were let into the Ganga to release the album

And lo! Shiva Rea was there in attendance and invited the band to the Golden Boat waiting there for a sundown cruise with apsaras...

The boat of shiva

The song's stirred Kolkata's acclaimed artist Asit Poddar who shared copies of his amazing series of paintings on the Ganga Ghats.

He graciously permitted to use his paintings in this tribute to the muse of muses. Ganga Ji

The spectacular paintings have been animated by Prajjwal Vinodh in the Ganga Maiya song video, And his team Nomadic Studio have designed a square  collage which folds into a boat.

Cover Art
Cover Art
Cover Photo folded into boats

Just Launched!!!
Boat on the River

For Indian Audience

For International Audience

The purchase of this album of acoustic music enables you

 A) To download these 8 songs 

  1. Boat on the river : The title track based on mantras is in the rhythm of 11/8. And the boat starts its  glide smoothly down the Ganga. Past the arathis along the ghats of Kashi.

  2. Ganga Maiya : based on an ancient carnatic swara pallavi, this funky delta bluesy melody clothed in verse first formed itself on shivratri 2023.

  3. Bogarting in Benares : A Joyful song composed on the kalimba a thumb piano. On the banks of the Ganga.

  4. ⁠Rāve : A telgu geetham in the raga - Anandha bhairavi sung in harmony.

  5. Eliminate Hate : The songwriter woke up one morning from a deep dream with the mantra : Eliminate Hate.

  6. Moksha : A thoughtful instrumental version of the master piece of carnatic music greats Sri Thyagaraja. On Tulsi Ghat

  7. Make my day : A healing song in khanda (5) rhythm. Composed on tubular bells of Swaram. FeaturingKindakool  rap based on the rhythmic language Konnakol .

  8. ⁠Samba Shiva : The mandolin punctuated Irish rhythm surprisingly morphs into a joyous call to Shiva .

B) Entry to Kala Yatri Events, for the summer of 2024

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