Tony Levin and Michael Manring appear on Shambhu’s new CD, “Sacred Love”

Shambhu’s debut CD, Sacred Love, has been receiving stellar reviews since its release in October 2010. The 12-track disc, on which Shambhu collaborated with Grammy award-winning producer Will Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records and Grammy award-winning engineer Corin Nelsen, has just been nominated for CD of the Year, Best New Artist, Best World Music CD and Best Acoustic Instrumental CDby Zone Music Reporter.

These prestigious nominations, voted by radio broadcasters worldwide, are high honors for the Bay Area resident, which came soon after Sacred Love hit #1 on the ZMR World/New Age/Ambient radio charts, and Common Ground Magazine called Sacred Love “One of the best of the year (or any year!)”

With the economy faltering in 2010, Shambhu decided to embark on a journey that many would have considered unthinkable. Putting his public relations business on the side for a year, he assembled the creative team and all-star artists behind Sacred Love, thereby finally realizing his life’s passion of creating a CD of his own music, and dedicated this effort to his 87-year-old mother who did not expect to live through the making of the CD due to health issues. Thankfully she is still alive enjoying this music, the realization of her dream, too.

Shambhu is one person who is proof that it’s never to late to pursue and realize your dreams by following your heart.

Tony Levin appears on tracks:
1 – Together – hear it here
4 – Natural Moment – here it hear
5 – Revelation
7 – Maui Breeze – hear it here
9 – Hide and Seek

Videos of both Tony Levin and Michael Manring recording and performing with Shambhu, including a few stellar live bass solos from Michael, are on Shambhu’s YouTube channel.

Michael Manring lays down the beautiful, ethereal bass on his fretless using an EBow.

Recording “Sacred Love” with Tony Levin