It's All Interlude - Music for Mystics by Padma Bhajan Bearji

Bearji on the Radio - Padma's Podcast of Enlightenment

How do I explain this?

At the age of seven, I had a mystical experience that showed me for one, I could pick up almost any musical instrument and play it. Not true of course, but that didn’t stop me from trying.

I loved stringed orchestra music the most at the time as I felt it expressed the emotions the best. And at age seven I was already an emotional wreck because of life circumstance. So I took violin lessons, age eight cello, age nine stand-up bass.

In high school, I was the drummer in the one rock band that played a lot of the school gigs. LOL, We wanted to call our music “Acid Rock,” but the high school wouldn’t let us. We did a full set of originals, copied Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Hendrix… we were good too.

Oh yeah, all the LSD explains a lot here too.

Then there was the birthday my daughter bought me a piano! There's a messy story too of course ... I got the black Fender bass, she... the powder blue Telecaster. But that's when I truly found myself as a bass player, and bass as the lead instrument.

These songs come from what I have called my LOST TAPES. Recorded mostly with a Korg KARMA music workstation keyboard, I purchased when I was offered to work on a movie score in 2000. It has tens of thousands of sampled instruments from around the world all played by masters of their craft on the best musical instruments in the world. It has an onboard sequencer/recording studio. I had endless tracks to work with.

These were recorded in my home studio in the high elevations of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I had a home base in a small cabin on a lake near Durango. I was only there for days at a time as I was otherwise on my Non-Stop-Go 'Secret Teachings' book and speaking tour. My second bestseller at the time.

I would get these short bursts of days off, ten days tops, and so sometimes I may drive 19 hours straight just to be home for four days in the studio.

Track One: My Stargate Guitar - Orchestra Strings, bass, starry guitars.. all songs a journey of themselves to find home... finding themselves within themselves.

Track Two: The Story of My Driving Meditation - This is really a story... It speaks of the ups and downs of everything. These would be the deep contemplation while driving distances in silence. Bells and Bass ending...

Track Three: It's all an Interlude - an interlude... Life, death, rebirth, new cars, new lovers, new jobs, new illness, life, death, rebirth... It's all interlude.

Track Four: Coming into Love from Love - This is who you are. This song is the story of that. Coming from Love, into this life just to learn to find out what love really is. Over and over again we move through lifetimes of samsara seeking happiness and longing Gods graces and Divine Love. Finally, one day, we awaken to what Love's true nature really is as Self. One Self as in Spiritual Self-Realization. A sixty string orchestra, bass and drums rule bringing this to a climax... or another level? Or to start over again?

Track Five: Endlessly Starting Over... I thought of naming this song, 'Ah, Crap!' Does this sound similar? What is starting over for you right now? Did I mention the lifetime after time lifetime thing yet? Did I? Oh... It has a happy ending! Indian Tablas with Harps, bass, drums, guitars... oh my, another musical saga!

Track Six: The Subtle Reams between Subtle Realms - Close your eyes...

Track Seven: My Longing Guitar - Here I stack up a divine bass guitar and hot drum beat with endless layers of acoustic guitars, and strings for a vehicle to ride my fuzz-tone slide guitar into expressive bliss.

Art by Stephanie-Lostimolo

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