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2018-10-12 07:36:00
The world has dorkified itself
[…] teachings and on the album cover below Mclaughlin is wearing a Chimnoy button. Sadly this post does not have a happy ending. Carlos Santana broke from Sri Chimnoy in the early '80s because of the cult-like behaviour surrounding the guru. This break resulted in Chimnoy becoming, to quote Santana, "pretty vindictive for a while". John Mclaughlin's unfriending of the guru was more subtle. Following the 2009 publication of Jayanti Tamm's best selling book of life as a Chinmoy disciple Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult in which she documents his "masterful tactics of manipulation", images of Chimnoy were removed from the CD re-issue of Love, Devotion, Surrender and from My Goals Beyond, another Mclaughlin album dedicated to Chimnoy, . The relevance of Love, Devotion, Surrender to our obsession with the parallel universe of dorky social media extends beyond […]
2018-05-29 11:09:00
Stay away if you want mollycoddling
[…] 2007 the Independent's obituary described him as "spiritual leader and peace activist" and Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar were among those who paid tribute to him. But my portrait of the now forgotten composer Olivier Greif described how like so many gurus Sri Chimnoy fell from grace. Following his split with Chimroy Carlos Santana described his former guru in a Rolling Stone interview as "vindictive", and elsewhere there are allegations of homophobia. In 2009 Jayanti Tamm published her best selling book of life as a Chinmoy disciple Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult in which she documents his "masterful tactics of manipulation", and there have also been allegations of sexual misconduct. All of which meant that when John McLaughlin's My Goal's Beyond was transferred to CD the Sri Chimnoy visual was quietly dropped and replaced by the artwork below; a cover which, incidentally, must win the […]
2018-01-25 18:36:38
Celebrating Estonian style - the stylishly distinctive Estonian Voices
[…] spectacular scat singing. They create a very particular sound, the individuality of the arrangements is striking and much to be commended.Each song was introduced in English by one of the singers, often including an element of what might be called pop psychology, presenting us with a world view rather different to the manufactured image of many such groups. Visually they were six individuals too, rather than a pre-packaged, shrink-wrapped line-up.The second set finished with Arno Tamm's N'anga Nala during which the members of the group produced a remarkable array of animal noises including a spectacular monkey cry from tenor Mikk Dede. But this wasn't the end, and the group's encore was a lovely, intimate close-harmony number with minimal amplification, showing that they really can sing!The group was formed in 2011, and most of the singers are former students at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Their first album Ole Hea (Be […]
2016-12-03 12:29:00
[…] Chinmoy was invited by UN Secretary-General U Thant to give twice-weekly meditations at the United Nations and in 1994 he received, jointly with Martin Luther King’s wife Coretta Scott King, the ‘Mahatma Gandhi Universal Harmony Award’ from the American based Indian cultural institute. But inevitably Sri Chinmoy's activities generated controversy. In a Rolling Stone interview Carlos Santana said his guru was "vindictive" when they split, and elsewhere there are allegations of homophobia. In 2009 Jayanti Tamm published her best selling book of life as a Chinmoy disciple Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult in which she documents his "masterful tactics of manipulation", and there have also been allegations of sexual misconduct. Sri Chinmoy died in 2007, the Independent's obituary described him as "spiritual leader and peace activist" and Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar were among those who paid tribute to him. During the 1980s […]
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