This music was recorded in an old abandoned temple near the ocean in India. Gopal played this rare multi stringed bowed instrument in that temple at sunrise, without any intention of the music becoming a solo album. There was a beautiful empty silence in the temple and a feeling of letting go and disappearing into the music.

Through meditation, Gopal came to understand that the silent gaps between musical notes are significant: they can be a doorway to go beyond the busy mind. Music that gives space for silence can allow the listener to enter an inner, soundless place of peacefulness. This meditative quality of the dilruba is expressed in this album. The name dilruba means " beloved of the heart" and also "the thief of the heart". Gopal discovered that the dilruba has a wide range of "colors", from deep rich tones to higher sweet sounds, from playfulness to heartfelt emotions... music that can touch the heart and soul.

1. Dawn at the Temple
2. Morning Mist
3. Sun Shines Through
4. Dolphin's Play
5. Longing for the Divine
6. Prayer Meditation
7. Clouds Come and Go
8. Where Sky and Ocean Meet
9. Deep Blue
10. Whale Song
11. Deep Ocean
12. Mother Earth
13. Depth of My Heart

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 12/3/2010
Gopal lives in Tuchen City Taiwan

Tagged as: World, Indian, Indian Influenced

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