Budha Garden  Music - from Silence for Silence

Finally after three unsuccesful attemps, Cologne musician Parijat has produced his first CD: Buddha Garden. Parijat's music impresses through its soothing calmness and most beautiful melodies. In this music, the listener finds a simplicity and depth, which opens a space where the listener feels pleasant and can relax.

We wanted to know from Parijat, if there was a vision behind his CD project.
Parijat: Since many years I play satsang-music. This music creates a space for silence and meditation. This music comes out of the moment and passes, nothing to hold on to.
To bring this quality of the "Here and Now" on to a CD was my wish. To manifest the fleeting in a form of a recording was the most difficult. One of the qualities is to play the music out of the moment. When I started to record, I found it difficult to keep the innocence of the moment. I went into my mind and tried to control the outcome. I started playing too complicated, wanted that the listener likes the music. All this thoughts were standing against simply to play music. It got tense. And because nothing is more valuable than a relaxed state of being, it was the time to sell my recording equipment.

Why did you buy the recording equipment and tried it again?
Parijat: It didn't let go of me. I felt that listening to my own music was joyful for myself. I liked to listen to my recordings, I had the feeling that it supports me to come home and go in.
It is not about virtuosity or that people adore me, but simply that a space of joy and quietness arises. When I play in the moment, I have the feeling that everything is good. Everything is all right. Everything what is real is only in the moment, this is very much connected with Osho. The same is true for playing without ambitions, without performing, to play just out of the moment. Still, when I started to record again the doubts came back.

What kind of doubts?
Parijat: The "for what"? Why making a CD? To earn money with it can't be enough motivation. This would be too much of an illusion. That people give me feedback how great it is, and that my ego gets nourished wasn't motivation either.
The actual recording was easy. The voices in me made it difficult. "You are not a real musician." "Your playing is quite simply not brilliant enough..."
To leave this all behind and to let go of it and to say "It is beautiful as it is" was healing.

Doubts towards the own musical abilities sit usually very deep. How was your musical background - how did you come to music?
Parijat: From an early age, listening to music was like entering a new world, which was separate from the world I was born in. It was connected with positive emotions. Music stands for hope and light, for lightness and joy, for color in life.
There was no support for creativity and music in my family. The opposite. "With music you can't earn money, so. ..forget it!" (See where I got these voices from!) I kept on whining till my parents (I was ten) went with me to a music school. I wanted to learn guitar. But there they told me that my fingers were too small, and I am better of with learning to play mandolin. So for a couple of years I learned to play the mandolin. Only later I got to know that the orchestra of the school needed mandolin players. That's why my fingers were considered too small.

When I was 14 and had my first money to spend, I bought myself a guitar.
Later I was playing in a guitar-duo with a friend. We played our own songs with German lyrics. But at a certain point it didn't work anymore. I couldn't sing anymore. Everything what I expressed in the songs was not fitting anymore. After it was over with the songs I thought: OK, now I play only guitar and in order to perform I wanted to become faster, more sophisticated and complicated. I took lessons, which had the result that I stopped playing completely. (This lasted ten years).

Was it that frustrating?
Parijat: The most frustrating was, that technically I was able to play better and faster, but I was repeating only the same things. Nothing new happened anymore. I had the impression that I lost my natural approach to the instrument. My creativity was gone. The joy of playing was lost. Only in Poona-2 I started playing music again. And it was only possible with a new instrument: keyboards. With playing keyboards I found back my innocence, and a little later I found a new approach to the acoustic guitar.

German Osho Times 

Buddha Garden
Music for meditation and celebration alike, Buddha Garden features guitar, keyboards, and percussion. Uplifting melodies and easy grooves create a light-hearted setting of rejuvenation and leisure. This music creates an enriching and affirming ambience.  CD euro 17.80 - order here