Shantala’s second live recording captures the beauty, power, and devotion of their live kirtan experience.  It features a wide range of moods and tempos, from gentle to fierce, bringing the listener on a devotional journey through every color of the heart.

The chants on this album are songs we’ve been singing on tour during the last few years.  Each one has a special place in our hearts, and we’ve wanted to share recordings of them with you for a long time. We hope you enjoy singing along!

Benjy and Heather Wertheimer are joined on this recording by extraordinary musicians including Steve Gorn on bansuri flute, Bibi McGill on electric guitar, Jared May and Greg Barnett on bass, David Trasoff on sarode, vocalists Gina Sala, Sarah Maines, Sean Frenette, Parvati Pascale LaPoint, and many others.

The story of this live album began in 2017 in Portland, OR. We arranged a tour of the Pacific NW with an incredible band, and our friend Curtis Kidwell filmed two of the events and created our most successful video so far, Govindam Adi Purusham. We finished recording in November 2019 with a live event in Rochester, NY. When the COVID-19 pandemic ended our touring in 2020, we finally found the time to stay home and finish this project with mixing assistance from our friend, the masterful audio engineer Frank Stearns. We added additional vocals to the chorus with the help of many fine singers.

1. Jai Gurudev (11:00)
2. Soul of the World (18:07)
3. Shiva Panchakshara (10:28)
4. Shri Krishna (10:53)
5. Narayana (17:35)
6. Govindam (8:27)