What can I say about Wah! that hasn’t been said already? Wah! was at the vanguard of the new yoga music/kirtan movement before magazine covers, yoga festivals, and yoga music record labels. Wah! was there to draw the blueprint and show us the path. It is her pioneering history and unwavering devotion that will always send me out to the nearest record store (or digital download source) to pick up her latest release.
Savasana #3 is laid back and ambient. Along with Wah!’s soothing voice and the melodic, rumbling bottom end of her bass, this album also has a lot of Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Paul Hollman that gives it a Zero 7 or Pink Floyd sound. The long delays on the track “Wind” also put me in that space bordering on the psychedelic.
The song “Prayer” is the only track whose title is not taken from the physical universe (e.g., “Moon”, “Flower”, “Sunlight”) which I found to be ironic since the music of devotion is by definition a prayer, and kirtan is a call to the gods that don’t live in the physical universe, but guide us through it.
The lineage of Wah!’s work and her integrity are undeniable. With this album, she delivers the message and the vibration of the universe, both physical and non-physical.
Daniel Overberger is a Los Angeles-based Yoga teacher, the author of Leaving Stress Behind, and founder of alt-kirtan group Dharma Gypsys. leavingstressbehind.com