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The two-CD collection is one of the most handsomely packaged sets I’ve seen. Another great & unusual addition (for this type of music) is that it comes with a complete translation booklet. Strangely it doesn’t list the performers, but I’m pretty sure they are singers & musicians who are often associated with Ravi Shankar productions.Mantra enthusiasts will recognize many of the songs, but they are newly interpreted here. The style is almost completely traditional, but there is a very subtle & agreeable “wall of sound” in the background of many chants. This is particularly effective with the OMmmmmmm…There is a beautiful interplay bewteen the male & female lead vocalists, conveying a lovely sense of Shiva & Shakti. In fact the vocals are outstanding in both performance & composition. The arrangements/production values are excellent A+++. There are 51–yes, 51! mantras & each one is perfection.This is more a meditational collection than rock out, fusion mantra–but many of the chants really work on physical energy too.The mantras are vibrant & conducive to visualization as well.What I mean by this, for example, is that the listener can visualize kundalini at the base of the spine, and visualize its’ rising through all the chakras. The music resonates even more deeply within the spiritual body than rock out mantras. Rock mantras are great for muscular stimulation, these etheric mantras penetrate to the more subtle hormonal essence of the nerve centers known as the chakras, the very foundation of physical/personality existence.HARI OM (Disc 1, #23, over 7 minutes) is really stunning in its subtle, yet ever higher range of intensity. If you’d like a good example why Hindu mantra has been described as the ultimate music of the mind, this is it.                                                                                              -AMAZON REVIEWER ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!