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richie the rishi

cover your ears and listen with your heart

About Me


I guess you could say, I am...not a real Rishi, but I think can teach something through my music. I don’t want followers, just fans:)
Rock on people.
"follow me he said, but he walked behind" -Leonard Cohen...
MY BANDS:
Furthest Point North
The Shiva Zoo:
Richie the Rishi:
I: understanding not the great mystery of life, feeling alone and separated from others,
II: the pain of mother earth (birth moans and death groans)
III: the great trinity: self/other/god trying to express itself,
picked up my guitar and walked round the himalayas...came back with a sitar too...
sang down desert dunes, drank mountains, and cloud men shined above the radioactive spawn of rainbows...the swimming through trees i breathed.
Inspiration is not a commodity, it comes from the highest parts of your soul, which mingle with the Godhead in etheric dna spirals of eternal bliss. I will die singing the song.
(i think people get a glimpse of truth through religion, otherwise they wouldn’t even exist) despite what is bad about them (the dogmatic deserata), which keep them from experiencing divine reality, and locked into patterns of ego-reinforcement, racial exclusivity, judgmentalism, and hate (in other words, they take the baby along with all the filthy bath water)
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here are links to download some hour long interviews with me from www.Artistfirst.com , they are hilarious! Just right-click the links and select "save target as" to download them to your computer!
Nov. 21 Show
Dec. 12 Show Part 1
Dec. 12 Show Part 2
Jan 9 2007
A LOT OF MY SONGSARE NOW AVAILABLE HERE AT SOUNDCLICK:
richie the rishi music
HERE’S IMPORTANT INFO FROM ALEX JONES ON TERRORISM THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND HOW GOVERNMENTS HAVE USED IT TO MANIPULATE PUBLIC OPINION...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/10/2005
Band Website: cdbaby.com/richietherishi
Band Members:THE SHIVA ZOO:
Richie the Rishi: Electric Sitar

Randy Roberts: Tabla

"Rainy" Matthew Coate: Laptop and guitar

Dan Eastman: saz, bongos, kalimba, djembe, drumset

SOLO WORKS: I play everything on my albums mostly, although I'd like to thank the other contributors, Dan Eastman (percussion, accordion, kalimba) Randy Roberts (tabla, drums), Kevin K-2 Audio man (drums), Theo Kerr (lyrics, djembe), Carl Palmer (Udu and video work), Micki Cain (vocals), Devendra Kaushik (tabla), and Karmi (cello), for their help on "Sacrifice", "Immerse Yourself", "Udu Nights", "Divine Countenance", "Kalimba Dance", and the various versions of "Heart of Creation".

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one more thing... here are links to download some hour long interviews with me from www.Artistfirst.com , they are hilarious! Just right-click the links and select "save target as" to download them to your computer!
Nov. 21 Show
Dec. 12 Show Part 1
Dec. 12 Show Part 2
Jan 9 2007
also check out the archives at Artistfirst to hear other artists' interviews:
ArtistFirst Archives Page

PHOTOS!

Thank you to Carl Palmer (The UDU GURU) for playing UDU and producing the sweet video below. You Rock dude!

UDU NIGHTS

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Influences: The Most High Jah , Ravi Shankar , George Harrison, Beck, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix , Richie Havens,The Flaming Lips, Fiona Apple, Ani Defranco, Bob Marley, John Cage, John Zorn, Dj Krush, Dose One, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Twinhooker, John Mclaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Baaba Maal, Djembe playing madmen in athens ohio, Midnite, Theodore Kerr, The Rememberings, My mom, Greg Brown, Leonard Cohen, My wonderful music teachers: Michael Vahila, Ali Akbar Khan, Shekhar Bhorkar, and Dr. Mark Phillips, Nick Vandenburg, Mary Jane, Mary Magdalen, Kafka, Jesus , Buddha, Krishna, Allah, Ras Tafari, Shiva, Vishnu, Kali , Ghandi , Dr. Martin Luther King , Nietzsche , Kirkegaard , Aldous Huxley, The prophets, Meera Bharat, Ben julie nele mateus fabiola and alberto, i love you forever, all my friends on this crazy journey through life, they've taught me so much, my father, artistfirst.com, yoko and steph, hearts get broken everyday, i guess jewel is now officially one too, Nirvana, paranirvana Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Metallica, Tricky, The 90s, Yoga, addiction, passion, love, Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Cream, madness, devotion, John Lennon, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan , The White Album, Muse, Faris Azem, Johnny Cash, rebels, iconoclasts, lovers, poets, musicians and addicts i have known. "It's hard Not to Give when you got it, your gifts will always weigh upon your soul"
Sounds Like: THIS
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My Blog

Albums available for $5

Official 2007 Release: Angels in the Night Sky, featuring "I Refuse", "Weeping Willow", and "Of a Dream Had About an Insect", available here: ONLY FIVE BUCKS"> Last year’s Album, Immerse Yoursel...
Posted by richie the rishi on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:38:00 PST

we're all narcissists!

i'm begging you to knock your collar off. i mean your dragging around my feet like toenails nine feet long. i mean i cant write with these boobs in my face. sex sold me. thats fo sho. i'm speechless. ...
Posted by richie the rishi on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:48:00 PST

"well,democracy is not theocracy that's fo sho."

some numerology for nerds: well not really. but its cool to note. that when you add up the letters of JESUS and ABRAHAM they equal 18. of course hebrew is a very mathematical language. it gets weirder...
Posted by richie the rishi on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

beautiful but crazy

why is it always beautiful but crazy?! is crazy beautiful or is it just an unfortunate side effect of real beauty? why do i have to be the one who asks these questions? am i crazy? does that make me b...
Posted by richie the rishi on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:57:00 PST

FRAGICANIBALISTIC

why sigh so fragile like autumn dust in a porcelain vile the way we wheel and while under a tortured cancerous sun?   to feel and heal the massive miles of roadsoaked earth and vernal piles ev...
Posted by richie the rishi on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST

i am just another new age hippy dufus

This is a letter I wrote in response to a very thoughtful email I received, which accused me of being a new age hippy, and pretty much one of many:  if you think there are a ton of richie th...
Posted by richie the rishi on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:25:00 PST

reeds of molecular harmony

Chasin entrancing rhythm down pathways unknown. the languid glance convinces all that all is well. inside of ambulancitrance. manylights and sirens shining. intelligible of deaths slow dance: the umbi...
Posted by richie the rishi on Thu, 04 May 2006 09:28:00 PST

disparities

past and present. me and you. different places. spaces between. uncounted distances. cancelled action. thought distraction. codified coin drops. arch of cove. mental blocks. stocks n bonds double o se...
Posted by richie the rishi on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:30:00 PST