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Live in Central Park on June 22 for 10,000 people

I’ll be performing my solo music contouring a yoga class led by Elena Brower at the Great Lawn in Central Park for 10 000 people. My collaboration with Elena started last July in California and has been evolving in her classes in SOHO. She is a deep soul, fantastic improvisor, powerful speaker, and master yogi…truly an inspiring person to be around. Also joining us will be the wonderful musician named Wah from LA who will be singing Sanskrit mantras. The event is organized by a really cool group of people from flavorpill.com who also organized the class Elena and I gave at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Alpine Reviewed in Yoga Journal

Alpine

Alpine, by  Garth Stevenson. Self-published; garthstevenson.com

Garth Stevenson’s Alpine is an extraordinary example of nada yoga, the yoga of sound.

By Jeremy Lehrer

Stevenson, an accomplished double-bass player and a principal figure in the ex-perimental and improvised music scene, has gained a large yogi following for his live “soundtracks” performed during yoga classes in New York City and Boston. On this, his debut solo CD,  Stevenson demonstrates  the power of sound to open the heart. “Grandfather,” a rich track that hits high and low registers, is full of melancholy and ardent yearning. “My Secret Place,” one of two songs to feature vocals, evokes a magical wonderland of trees covered in crystals after an ice storm.

Nature is  a consistent theme throughout, with song titles such as “Bear Swamp Pond,” “Wind Speaks,” and “Sunrise” de-scribing the thematic terrain that Stevenson explores. The CD package includes a DVD of solo videos that he filmed himself, taking his 150-year-old bass and recording equipment into remote areas of state parks in New York. And the CD sleeve is handmade by Stevenson using materials such as birch bark collected during outings into the wild. Alpine is particularly suitable for yogis seeking music to accompany meditative reflection or Savasana. The album offers a refuge, as it evokes that still, calm space we seek to create, and remain in, through our practice.