“The Perfumed Garden” by Ananda Xenia Shakti and Love Power the Band comes from an intimate and profound spiritual experience and a fearless artistic commitment. It is both a celebration and a transmission, straddling mysticism and modern sound.
The music Shakti makes with Love Power the Band is all about healing, awakenings, and celebrations of life. Her sound melds ecstatic dance rhythms, mantras, and the rebellious blaze of her punk roots. What it adds up to is music that is true, breathing, and delightfully large.
“The Perfumed Garden” reveals that the Shakti took a profound journey of creative exploration. It was while Shakti was in India, going on retreat with the Baul singers of Bengal, that the song was written. It is infused with the spirit of a mystical lineage that thrives as nomadic singers in ecstatic devotion. The Bauls are not known for teaching, but for transmitting untamed song-craft and peculiar insights, and having a radical conviction that there’s a deity within everyone.
Its tone both inspires you to give up and makes you want to party. It thumps with lived unity, the kind of invitation that stretches limits and folds us into shared humanity. The arrangement feels broad and rhythmic like ecstatic dance traditions, but not so out there that it’s hard to follow. It’s a song that makes you want to move, emotionally and spiritually, if not physically.
Ananda Xenia Shakti and Love Power the Band’s “The Perfumed Garden“ is more than music. It provides a pathway to joy, presence, and connection, reminding us that art can heal, wake us up, and celebrate all at once. This release blooms, bright and fearless, with purpose.
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