Discography
Ocean (2008)
"This album has been a real joy to work on. We started almost 9 months ago (I guess it took the standard time for bringing a new life into the world).
Markus and Angelika are such amazing artists - the music on this album is phenomenal. Angelika (a.k.a. Sat Hari) really has the voice of an angel and her harp feels like she’s playing your heart strings! Markus wrote most of the melodies on this album, and the tunes are so beautiful and so great for meditating!"
Karan Khalsa (Spirit Voyage)
DailyOM
September 24, 2008
Angelika Baumbach, a singer and harp player from Mexico, and her partner Mark Seiber (on vocals and guitar) met at a music festival and have been together ever since. Named after the sacred ceiba tree of Latin America, Mirabai Ceiba is a case of two people's creative gifts forming much more than the mere sum of their parts. Their beautiful vocal duets and harmonies are the root of this particular sacred tree; their love of life, the spirit, and each other is quite palpable (they have a daughter together). Ocean is a collection of Eastern chants as well as original songs recorded by the pair, featuring Baumbach's harp and Seiber's guitar working as one, aided by an array of tablas, bansuri flutes, violins, and natural ambience.
The opening "Adras Bhaee" is a beloved traditional chant (heard in many yoga classes) to which Mirabai Ceiba brings guiding warmth and understanding. Turning the chant into a loving duet, they lose themselves in its flow until a free-flowing improv naturally forms, the male vocals holding down the mantra in smooth repetitions over the harp and tablas while Baumbach slowly bends long overhead notes. The title track is an original sung in English by Baumbach in frail, gentle tones over melancholy orchestral strings and the gentle strumming of her harp: "The ocean refuses no river / No river / The open heart / Refuses no part of me / No part of you." Gradually Seiber's vocals come in like a nurturing friend, and a rain-stick shower leads to a beautiful midsong instrumental section. Baumbach's harp holds up the falling sky like loving hands holding up a tent as tablas, mournful violin strings, and melancholy vocal echoes sweetly conspire to bring it all crashing down.
Perfect for yoga and meditation but melodic and awake enough for driving or long misty walks, Ocean occupies a healthy, sturdy spot between New Age devotional chant and adult folk. Whatever the genre, this loving pair are musicians, above all, and whether transcending time through long devotional chants like the grounding "Ajai Alai" or moving the heart with their more folksy originals, it's always clear that the music is playing the musicians, not the other way around. Close your eyes and you can feel them enveloping you in their devotion as it emanates in waves from their entwined hearts outward to yours, the world's, and beyond.
Available:
- USA:
www.spiritvoyage.com - Germany:
www.satnam.de
www.silenzio.de
Ocean |
Sa Re Sa Sa |
Flores (2004)
Flores by Mirabai was recorded for Spirit Voyage Music (USA) with producer Thomas Barquee in Zen Den Studio, Los Angeles.
It is a mix of songs in Spanish written by Angelika and Markus, songs from the Native Indian cultures arranged by them, and a Gurmukhi mantra. Angelika's rich voice flows through the sounds of harp, gentle acoustic guitar, cello, woodwinds and bass. For listeners who don't know Spanish, the booklet has English translations of all of their lyrics.
Available:
- USA:
www.spiritvoyage.com - Mexico:
www.tecnologiassagradas.com - Germany:
www.satnam.de
www.silenzio.de
www.yogishop.com
Corazon |
Hon Hon Hon |
El Viento |
Mountain Sadhana (2005)
Mountain Sadhana is a mixture of six mantras from the Kundalini Yoga daily morning meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Mirabai set these mantras to music and together with friends, recorded and produced this album in the Xochipili Studio in Chalmita, in the mountains near Mexico City. It is a homage to the blue light at dawn, the change from night to day, and invites us to sing along, or you can just listen to the music and allow the healing sounds to work on you. The voices of Angelika and Markus are accompanied by harp, guitar, bass, silver flute, and percussion. The booklet contains the mantra lyrics with English translation.
Available:
- USA:
www.spiritvoyage.com - Mexico:
www.tecnologiassagradas.com - Germany:
www.satnam.de
www.silenzio.de
www.yogishop.com
Mul Mantra |
Rakhe Mantra |
Sat Narayan, Single (2007)
Sat Narayan is a 31-minute version of the ancient Chotay Pad Mantra in a wonderful musical setting by Mirabai Ceiba. Carried by the beautiful voices and arrangements of Mirabai, it gives us the experience to look behind things and realize the Infinity of the One Spirit.
Recorded 2007 in Dhruva Studios, Mexico City,
produced by Diego Quiroz and Mirabai Ceiba.
Featuring Rodrigo Duarte on cello.
Available:
- Germany:
www.satnam.de
www.silenzio.de
Sat Narayan |
Amanecer (2000)
Amanecer is a recompilation of traditional world chants and songs as well as original compositions in Spanish. For her first self-produced album, recorded in 2000 in Tepoztlan Morelos, Angelika Baumbach invited several musician friends to accompany her. The musical arrangements use instrumentation such as harp, guitar, vocals, flutes, drums, ocarinas, some other traditional instruments, and violin and cello on two tracks.
Available:
- Germany:
www.araki.de
Amanecer |
El Angel |
