NIRAV

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My name is Nirav (नीरव), a Sanskrit word that points to the stillness before sound. It’s a name that feels very much at home in the way I live.I live as a contemplative. My days are mostly quiet, and I spend a lot of time among the animals and the trees, where the sense of separation falls away.The handpan has found a natural place in my life. Its music speaks a beautiful, wordless language that carries a sense of connection to something deeper.

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FROM STILLNESS
TO SOUND

When I sit with the handpan, its music rises from stillness, speaks in a language beyond words, and settles back into the stillness that never left.Most of my playing happens where the audience is mostly birds and trees. Sometimes it's with people on blankets in the grass. Sometimes it's at a hospital, a nursing home, a shelter, or a prison. Wherever I play, the music asks nothing of anyone.If you happen to find me playing somewhere, please come over and say hi… you’re more than welcome to stay and enjoy the music for as long as you’d like.See you out there,
Nirav

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Ekānta (एकान्त) is a Sanskrit word that means solitude and seclusion. Sometimes being alone can feel peaceful and beautiful. Sometimes life gives us no choice, and that same aloneness can feel like isolation and loneliness.The music on this album comes from Ekānta, from that space of being alone.Like being adrift on an open sea with no control over where we’re going, there are times when we have no choice but to let go and allow ourselves to be carried by something much larger than ourselves.Ekānta is about finding peace in the uncertainty and surrendering to the journey without needing to know where it’s taking us.

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