My new release Guru Brahma is out now!
I’m really grateful to be able to share this new piece of mantra music with you all.
About Guru Brahma
This is my first release as a mantra artist, and it’s a new (as in scary) and exciting step for me personally, moving into new territory as a singer and songwriter. The inspiration for this song came from my listening to Krishna Das.
Guru Brahma started out as a simple piano piece, but as I began writing the melody, it naturally grew into a production that slowly kept building up, mixing both the acoustic elements of the harmonium, cello and piano with more electronic parts and beats, bringing in my own eclectic sound and experience as a producer.
For me, this chant is about dissolving back into the Love that lives within and into the field of pure being and inner guiding light that is always present. All of which can also be described as the Guru within; our own true Self.
I had an image coming to my mind when making the music, of a wave slowly rising from the ocean of oneness, washing over me, washing away my sense of separateness, until totally immersed in the ocean that holds everything in the sweetest love. Turning within, I surrender to the waves of Love washing over me, I surrender to the most intimate space, which is the One, the Beloved.
I hope you will enjoy Guru Brahma as much as I have enjoyed the journey of making it. The proces has been vey healing and joyful for me and my humble wish is that the music can shine a little light in these difficult times of uncertainty.
Guru Brahma is dedicated to Krishna Das, whom I am forvever grateful to for guiding me back to the Heart and to the great Himalayan saint Neem Karoli Baba.
Photo by Kim Wendt
Jakob Weise
Bio
Musician by Heart.
Jakob is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based mantra artist, producer, and songwriter. Currently he is working on new recordings in the genre of mantra music and devotional chanting and is releasing his first single Guru Brahma October 9th, 2020.
Jakob’s entire life has revolved around music. Ranging from recording with music legend Carl Lee Perkins in Memphis in his pre-teens, to releasing several albums, touring intensively and reaching the top of the charts within the pop industry in Scandinavia with his band The Loft and more recently, 80s synth wave project Neon Capital.
Parallel to Jakob’s music, yoga, meditation and spirituality has been an integral part of his life. For the last four years he has been studying meditation, Indian philosophy, mantra music and traditional kirtan intensely with different teachers in both India, USA and Denmark and has been leading kirtan in Copenhagen on a regular basis.
As a producer and songwriter Jakob is signed to international publishing company Reservoir Media in New York.
New playlist on Spotify - Chanting: ‘Back to the Source’
To celebrate the release of Guru Brahma I have made a playlist on Spotify called Chanting: ‘Back to the Source’ featuring some of my favourite devotional artists including Krishna Das, Shantala, Tina Malia, Nina Rao, Brenda McMorrow, Jai Uttal, Saul David Raye, The Hanumen, Deva Premal and many more.
The playlist offers a calm and meditative musical journey, that I hope will help you reconnect to the inner presence of peace, bringing you Back to the Source.
May it bring you joy, compassion and equanimity, in the these challenging times right now.
