Moonbirds Music
Featuring Prabha Pacey, David Rhodes,
and Barry Phillips
New Versions of Yogananda's Chants
and other Sacred Songs.
Door of My Heart
Digital download available now. Physical CD release coming Summer of 2022.
Prabha Pacey began singing Kirtan at 10 years old with the encouragement of her teacher, Baba Hari Dass. A yoga practitioner and lifelong student, she explores how mantra, music, and sound can support and deepen our spiritual practice.
David Rhodes is a composer, arranger, and performer who draws inspiration from his classical piano training, work with jazz, fusion and folk groups, study of world music traditions, the Bhakti of Kirtan and the ecstasy of Zhikr. David's recordings include the critically acclaimed Traces of Eden, Fluid Days, and Moonbirds. His acoustic paint brushes include piano, keyboards, harmonium, zithers, voice and percussion. He is also a composer for film production and theater.
David has collaborated with a number of musicians from different genres including vocalist Prabha Pacey, cellist Barry Phillips, harpist and oboist Shelley Phillips, violinist Stuart Wilson, cellist Elaine Kreston, percussionist John Malkin, percussionist Steve Robertson, mandolinist Joe Weed, reedman Rik Eiro Yamashiro, famed clarinetist Alvin Batiste, and others. He has collaborated with authors Coleman Barks, Alice Walker, Cheri Huber, Ellen Grace O’Brian, and others.
Moonbirds Music
David Rhodes
Santa Cruz, CA
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Composer/cellist Barry Phillips has been performing western classical, Northern European folk, and Indian classical/fusion for many years. He holds a Masters degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has performed for many years and with Anoushka Shankar, Martin Simpson, William Coulter, Coleman Barks, Marya Stark, and many others.
As a student of Ravi Shankar, he assisted Mr. Shankar and played in the ‘Concert for George” (Harrison). He received a Grammy for his engineering and producing Ravi Shankar's recording The Living Room Sessions Part 1.
