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About Me

I am based in Vesterbro, a part of Copenhagen.Educated at The Danish School of Journalism in 1997 and work for a number of magazines, newspapers and radio channels.Specialized in music, especially world music, with an emphasis on music of the arab world and West Africa. I review music and travel a lot around the world.Recent projects have been The Police in Vancouver, Canada, Tom Waits outside of Petaluma, California, Norah Jones in London, Festival d'Essaouira in Morocco, Bruce Springsteen at Asbury Park, New Jersey.Spiritually I work with the gnawa of Morocco, where I am an adept aligned with the spirit of the ancient sufi mystic, Sheikh Abd Al Qadir al-Jilani, or as he is called in Morocco: Moulay Abdelkhader Jilali. I work with the gnawa, mostly with the masters Mahmoud & Mokhtar Gania of Essaouira and Ahmed Baqbou of Marrakesh.I participate at the annual leela (nights of trance) with the moqadeema Zeyda Gania in Essaouira during the holy month of Chaban, just like I do the pilgrimage each year during Mouloud Nabaoui (birthday of the Prophet Mohamed) to sufi shrines like Tamesloht & Moulay Brahim near Marrakesh and Sidi Ali near Meknes. I believe in the spiritual power and blessing of these pilgrimages, and choose to believe, that the spirits have chosen me.I will go deeper into this subject in my upcoming book on the Gnawa Culture.My spiritual path has originally been initiated back in 1981, when I became a disciple of the great master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990), also known as Osho, who gave me the name Swami Anand Sanjaya. I feel that my current presence with the sufi's of Morocco is due to my relation with this great master.Lastly I run a record label together with my friend and brother, Peter Chilton, called Standard Records. Not surprisingly we release sufi music of Morocco...check us out on www.standardrecords.dk

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Sufi Summer

Okay guys, we try another round:It is lovely May in Copenhagen. Earlier this Spring we went to Morocco and the sufi pilgrimages at Sidi Ali and Hadi ben Aissa in and around Meknes. We were unfortunate...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 18:08:00 GMT

Fanatics

Today the danish embassy in Pakistan was attacked. All the politicians can't wait to comment and condemn. Fanatics condemning other fanatics. Traveling in Morocco I have many friends, who keep comment...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:27:00 GMT

New York

Long time since last entry. Sorry. I was in Morocco to record a new album with my friend the gnawa maâllem (master of a sufi brotherhood) Mokhtar Gania. It went very well and I have a lot of strong ma...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:49:00 GMT

Moroccan recording

It has been a while since the last blog. And I have been to Morocco doing a fantastic series of recordings with Maâllem Mokhtar Gania, which will be released sometime later this year. It will be produ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:47:00 GMT

Dead End December

So...nothing much to add. Busy as hell with articles on music. Just finished an aniversary article on Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention celebrating the legendary 1968 album We're Only In It For...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:51:00 GMT

Back from New York & Jersey Shore

Hi friends. Just returned from a week of pure bliss. Was given the opportunity to go and watch Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band for two warm up rehearsal shows back home in Asbury Park Conventi...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:20:00 GMT

Back from island paradise

Back from the isle of Bornholm, from the small town of Aarsdale to be exact. A wonderful place, where I each year rent the same house which is without electricity and with the view of the Baltic Sea. ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:17:00 GMT

The so far thing

I am not the brightest person around. Busy week and missed the Bill Laswell/Niels Petter Molvaer concert in Aarhus here in Denmark last night. Not too cool to say the least. Was in a time hole in 1967...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:55:00 GMT