Beautiful flowing vocals bring ancient sacred writings to life, making this excellent music for meditative listening and yoga. Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning songwriter, vocalist, composer,

Voice of the Esraj

Beautiful flowing vocals bring ancient sacred writings to life, making this excellent music for meditative listening and yoga.
Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning songwriter, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (playing tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar, and keyboards). Benjy has toured and recorded with such artists as Krishna Das, Deva Premal & Miten, Jai Uttal, Walter Becker (Steely Dan), and virtuoso guitarist Michael Mandrell. He has opened for such artists as Carlos Santana, Paul Winter, and Narada Michael Walden. A founding member of the internationally acclaimed Ancient Future world fusion music ensemble, Benjy toured the U.S., Canada, and Japan with renowned bamboo flute master GS Sachdev. He studied Indian classical music for over 25 years with some of the greatest masters of that tradition (including Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan and Z. M. Dagar). Benjy s CDs receive extensive airplay around the world, and his CD Circle of Fire went to #1 on the New Age radio charts in November 2002.
Country USA
Manufacturer CD Baby
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber AMZ677242032429_usf
Model 25673579
ReleaseDate 2006-02-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 677242032429
EANs 0677242032429

Voice of the Esraj